Knighthammer
05-15-2011, 02:36 PM
One of my saber friends and I decided that for a fellow friend we should build him a saber for his upcoming wedding anniversary. We all play Star Wars RPG together and well he’d never build his own.
We decided on a couple things, it needed to have sound, rechargeable so it doesn’t need to ever come apart once its built, and decided on blue blade.
Yesterday we started in on it, my friend worked on the shroud for the saber and I took on the electronics portion of it. Here are a couple pics of the internals of the saber so far.
I built a chassis out of;
TCSS speaker holder
4-40 threaded rod
#6 pommel insert.
Sound is provided by an econo board, TCSS speaker and powered by a single 18650 Li-on battery.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCaM4vfDI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LD4f4DolD90/chasis_1.jpg
I had to modify the #6 pommel insert to accommodate the quick connectors because I didn't take that into account when I was soldering it up the first time - oops.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCalFMgcI/AAAAAAAAAK0/_QABfk9emHo/chasis_2.jpg
This last one is slid into the bottom of hilt, a 5" double female.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCaWXGePI/AAAAAAAAAKw/brLI8UqIL2w/chasis_hilt.jpg
More to follow in the next couple weeks - got about a month to finish it up.
We decided on a couple things, it needed to have sound, rechargeable so it doesn’t need to ever come apart once its built, and decided on blue blade.
Yesterday we started in on it, my friend worked on the shroud for the saber and I took on the electronics portion of it. Here are a couple pics of the internals of the saber so far.
I built a chassis out of;
TCSS speaker holder
4-40 threaded rod
#6 pommel insert.
Sound is provided by an econo board, TCSS speaker and powered by a single 18650 Li-on battery.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCaM4vfDI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LD4f4DolD90/chasis_1.jpg
I had to modify the #6 pommel insert to accommodate the quick connectors because I didn't take that into account when I was soldering it up the first time - oops.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCalFMgcI/AAAAAAAAAK0/_QABfk9emHo/chasis_2.jpg
This last one is slid into the bottom of hilt, a 5" double female.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_DSavccvkqd0/TdBCaWXGePI/AAAAAAAAAKw/brLI8UqIL2w/chasis_hilt.jpg
More to follow in the next couple weeks - got about a month to finish it up.