Show off your Al-Bronze and Bronzes!

Thetasigma

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Share your Al-Bronze lights and other items, other bronze alloys also welcome!!

My personal favorite creation, my Al-Bronze Regulus.
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The wonderful TIR optic.
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and the stock from whence it came
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Re: Show off your Al-Bronze!

Very nice looking light. And very silvery looking in the photo for alumibronze.

I'll round up my several examples (a Muyshondt Ion, a Mac, and I think there's one more my aging memory can't place right now, but it might be a BeCu (beryllium copper), and post a photo later today. And I have one pure bronze light I'll include too since those are pretty rare also.

Great idea for a thread as these are somewhat rare lights.
 
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Re: Show off your Al-Bronze!

Very nice looking light. And very silvery looking in the photo for alumibronze.

I'll round up my several examples (a Muyshondt Ion, a Mac, and I think there's one more my aging memory can't place right now, but it might be a BeCu (beryllium copper), and post a photo later today. And I have one pure bronze light I'll include too since those are pretty rare also.

Great idea for a thread as these are somewhat rare lights.

Thanks, it is C954 which is a very light gold color when freshly cut, and turns sort of brownish/gray with handling.
I look forward to seeing the others, and I think that Mac is made out of a different alloy of Al-Bronze than I use if I remember the pictures I've seen of it.

I'm not sure why Al-Bronze isn't more popular, it is an excellent material to work with and it makes really nice lights, and it is biostatic.
 

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Re: Show off your Al-Bronze!

Thanks, I corrected the link just before you posted.

There's another photo to the right of this one on Photobucket.
 
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Re: Show off your Al-Bronze!

Now they should both show up. That Captain Nemo light is very neat. I'm going to have to look into that one.

Thanks!

The Captain Nemo light really is unique. It takes AA batteries and I didn't realize until a few months ago it will take 14500 lithium ion also.
 

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Re: Show off your Al-Bronze!

Wow, you've got quite the unique bunch of lights there sir!

Thanks, and I have to give credit to moshow9 who was nice enough to sell me the rare Al-bronze Ion when I was still relatively new to collecting Muyshondts, and to mcbrat from whom I got the Al-bronze Mac as well as a one of a kind Mac brass Knurly. The BeCu Ottavino I believe I bought from someone in Europe, I just don't recall who at this point. But I got it cheap as the light no longer turns on (I suspect it just needs an emitter swap), but I was very pleased to get it regardless due to its rarity.
 
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Hope OP doesn't mind if I link up a relevant vintage thread here ...

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?275743-SOLD-Aluminum-Bronze-and-S-S-with-SST-50

... since it includes some great work-in-progress photos

Very cool link, Arch, thanks for posting that. This paragraph nicely summarizes the qualities of aluminum bronze, which is pretty much what my old metallurgy text had to say from 35 years ago:

"Aluminum bronzes are most valued for their higher strength and corrosion resistance as compared to other bronze alloys. These alloys are tarnish-resistant and show low rates of corrosion in atmospheric conditions, low oxidation rates at high temperatures, and low reactivity with sulfurous compounds and other exhaust products of combustion. They are also resistant to corrosion in sea water."

To add just one more tidbit of information, aluminum-bronze, and brass and bronze alloys in general, are very mechanical wear resistant. For example, to mention just one application, early hard drives had brass bushings rather than bearings. (They eventually did wear out, though, resulting in the occasional "stiction problem" in the old Seagate and other similar hard drives).
 

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Some patina progress for Al-Bronze, and in particular, Mn-Bronze.

Mn-Bronze (handling only for 2 weeks, no carry), Al-Bronze (4 months of pocket carry)
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Different Mn-Bronze, Handling only (1 week, grain pattern and the start of marbling)
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Mn-Bronze from above after 1 week pocket carry, polished areas revealing copper tones
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Thanks for posting those. Nice to see some action on this thread, given that these lights aren't that common. I'll be reposting my lights soon since my old link doesn't work and I have a new hosting service.
 
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Here it is. This is a slightly different photo from the original, as it's missing the Tain BeCu but has the knife just for fun:

http://imgbox.com/z8qi79f8

From left to right, a Mac alumi-bronze, a Photon Fanatic one of a kind etched mokume gane CR2 just for variety, a Muyshondt alumi-bronze Aeon CR2, and the Steigerwald "The Sphere" bronze 14500/AA light.
 
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