It’s late July, early August, so it is time for the annual Light&Saber Listicle. To clarify language here is my article about the price brackets. The goal of this article is to recommend to you a knife and a light that
This year represents a huge shift for two reasons. First, a lot of my favorite gear is no longer in production. Second, inflation has destroyed the market. I feel like those two things might be related. It might be that the old stuff I liked is too expensive now to make at a profit and so those things have been discontinued in favor of cheaper-to-make products. Or, they have been priced out of the bracket they were in.
This impacted the flashlight in the High End quite a bit. I still have and love my Oveready BOSS 35, but it is out of production. I also still have and love my Dawson Machinecraft Hoku Clicky, but it is also OOP and it has been replaced by lights that are almost a half inch longer. Frelux has a message about moving to Texas (please don’t quit the game Ben). I still haven’t managed to snag a CWF Peanut, so that is still a possible pick. I am not necessarily disappointed where the High End landed, the VME is an all time great and McGizmo still makes lights, but the number of pure function lights in this price range has dropped considerably. There is a bunch of machining feats with mediocre guts now. It is sad to see this part of the market dying out.
He does a good job with these. I am still just rocking my ThruNite single AAA model. I have 5 of them I think.
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