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Drewbacca
08-04-2006, 01:02 AM
As some of you may know, I received and completed my first MHS saber today. I called up my Star Wars fanatic friend (the one who I've asked all the conversion questions for) and he came right over. Mind you this was at 12am on the dot. For the next hour, he stared in awe at my royal blue 3watt luxeon Hellsaber. He then reaches into his truck and retrieves a fully functional stock Vader ESB...and says "Man, I wanna see if yours breaks". I laugh of course, and tell him to go all out. Might I mention that we're both big boys. I'm 6'2" 370lbs and he's 6'3" 330lbs. So we start off light, doin the inro of the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight in RoTS. Then it turns into just straight wacking the holy bejesus out of our sabers.

After all that, his cherry Vader ESB was now sporting about 9 black LEDs, and I was brandishing ONE scratch.

We switch sabers, and I hold out the Vader ESB and say "Baseball swing, all you've got."

Ten swings later, I'm holding a hilt, and he's holding my saber with a few scratches and a missing an end cap. He completely obliterated his saber....and yea, we took pictures. I'll post them when I can get around to it.

Needless to say...it's 4am, and you're gonna be getting some new business Tim. [:D]

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"That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."

xwingband
08-04-2006, 04:07 AM
As soon as the shouldered tips come in you won't even have that problem.[:)]

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Protein5000
08-04-2006, 05:14 AM
When are these tips coming in?

Less talk, more action........

WeirdoTransvestite
08-04-2006, 08:54 AM
I never get tired of hearing those stories.

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Mi Gin Gonn
08-04-2006, 09:42 AM
me neither

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Drewbacca
08-04-2006, 10:22 AM
OOOOOO...what's a shouldered tip?

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987654321a
08-04-2006, 12:59 PM
its a tip where there is a extendtion. you can get them from corbin until tim gets them in

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xwingband
08-04-2006, 01:45 PM
Here's a pic:

http://www.corbinscomponents.com/BladeTip2.jpg

I have some and there is a nice vid of me in a topic in Misc. of me beating a pole and the tip doesn't come off. The slowdown shows the blade bend 90 degrees... the tip still stayed on.[:)] That little bit inside the blade helps SO much.

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nakirush
08-04-2006, 01:48 PM
How much do those cost about?

xwingband
08-04-2006, 02:11 PM
Corbin sells his for $4... I expect Tim's to be similar.

Tim's will be better as it will be one piece and PolyC. Corbin's work quite well though too.

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Do-Clo
08-04-2006, 02:23 PM
Corbin ia away until Aug 20th so no orders shipped until after that

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HiddenMooCow
08-04-2006, 02:48 PM
Man, then I hope tim get's these shouldered tips soon cause I'm getting my saber soon and I will order my blade from Tim and I really like the durablility of these. Will these tips come on the complete blades?

Drewbacca
08-04-2006, 07:39 PM
I'll buy 10, guaranteed.

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"That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."

Drewbacca
08-06-2006, 12:57 AM
Here are the MR vs. PolyC pics.

http://www.corpsefire.com/mrsaber.html

Here's a link to the damage machine!

http://www.corpsefire.com/mysaber.html

It's a long load if you're not on high speed!


EDIT: By the way, the hits ripped the blade...that wasn't us tearing it off.
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"That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."

Lord Maul
08-06-2006, 09:44 AM
holy sh!t [:0] you guys beat the crap out of that vader [:D][:p]

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virus692
08-06-2006, 11:42 AM
That is just funny. I love seeing a MR get beat down like that![:D][:0]

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Lord Maul
08-06-2006, 04:58 PM
true enlightenment [:D]

At last we will reveal ourselves to the jedi, at last we will have revenge.

What
08-06-2006, 05:08 PM
That'll teach him for not buying a blade from Tim, and converting it lol.

Ignorance is not tolerated [:D] [:p] [:o)]

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(The dude wont stop attacking until the sig is destroyed!) Vader is a pimp in every shape in form.

Lord Maul
08-06-2006, 05:23 PM
dude! you put the girly vader in your signature [:0] that is just wrong [:(!]

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What
08-06-2006, 06:06 PM
(I apologize for going Off topic in your thread)
Yeah, in the misc thread they are having a flame fest in honor of my new sig. [^]

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(The dude wont stop attacking until the sig is destroyed!) Vader is a pimp in every shape in form.

Lord Maul
08-06-2006, 07:13 PM
you need to have the lightsaber swinging guy be chopping off girly vaders head [:D][xx(]

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GFORCE13
08-07-2006, 11:23 PM
Isn't that the Truth, eventhough I am a Jedi(Light Side) I still get the willies everytime I see that Pink Vader, I say it is time for an Imperial Execution.[:D][8D]
Yes MR I only one one( didn't know how to build yet) and will only buy another if it is to be converted. If you can't play with it what good is it.[8D]

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Lord Maul
08-07-2006, 11:33 PM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I am a Jedi(Light Side)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

then why is your avatar grievous [?]

At last we will reveal ourselves to the jedi, at last we will have revenge.

Drewbacca
08-08-2006, 12:19 AM
I'll most likely do another durability test going all out with TWO of Tim's polyc blades. I'm curious how they hold up to really intense dueling against each other. Obviously in the Tim vs MR fight, Tim literally destroys the competition.

EDIT: Also, I might get a video of it so you can actually SEE how hard we're going. Pictures can only tell 1,000 words...Video tells 10,000 [:D]

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"That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."

Lord Maul
08-08-2006, 09:51 AM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Pictures can only tell 1,000 words...Video tells 10,000<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

never heard that before but i like it [:D]

At last we will reveal ourselves to the jedi, at last we will have revenge.