Light and Saber Pairs 2026

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 I also still have and love my Dawson Machinecraft Hoku Clicky, but it is also OOP and it has been replaced by lights that are almost a half inch longer.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…