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kiltedmikey
02-04-2008, 09:22 PM
Hey guys, want to know how to piss off your pregnant wife? Spend all your birthday money on "an over-grown flashlight". (her quote, not mine) or refer to your unborn daughter as your little Padawan. NEWAYS here are beginnings of my 1st MHS saber.

Hasid Lafre
02-05-2008, 09:25 AM
I would deffinatly use a control box of sorts for that design. would look reallly good with it.

Malaki Skywalker
02-05-2008, 10:35 AM
Thats an awesome saber:D! And I'm with Hasid on the control box

Darth_DevilGuy
02-05-2008, 12:11 PM
I would only use a control box if you can place it in such a way as to not tear your hand up. also is the wife really pissed off by your starwars obbsession or is she just moody cause of the hormones? If she dislikes starwars your in for a ride.

Dark Navel
02-05-2008, 12:15 PM
My wife cringes everytime on on this site. She hates my hobby but I buy little by little. I think she's getting better with it or at least hiding her rage.

Everyone has a hobby but unfortunatly this one is expensive...

Ghostbat
02-05-2008, 02:27 PM
Fortunately for me, my wife has a hobby that makes mine look positively cheap in comparison. She just hates the mess.

strengthofrage
02-05-2008, 06:01 PM
My live-in girlfriend has a horse. Mucho expensive to keep a horse.

I do as I please lol

DarthFender
02-05-2008, 06:35 PM
Fortunately for me, my wife has a hobby that makes mine look positively cheap in comparison. She just hates the mess.

If your wife is like mine, she collects jewelry.

Darth_DevilGuy
02-05-2008, 07:14 PM
don't get me started on women, I had a girlfriend throw over 1500 dollars in hand painted miniatures into a river some years back, I can still feel the rage.

kiltedmikey
02-05-2008, 09:07 PM
I'll look into the control box idea. There is some room where the switch currently is located that I culd fit a small one. As for my wife, She doesn't understand the StarWars obsession or the fact I tend to be obsessive about most of my hobbies. Different personalities. However, with baby number 1 on the way, all extra money goes towards her (the baby, not the wife) rather than either of our hobbies, but a well timed trinket might let me get a thing or two.

kiltedmikey
02-05-2008, 09:18 PM
Alright, next step. Shroud design. Slightly modified from original design (with Wife's help, if you'll believe it). Cardboard, an under-utilized shroud material.

kiltedmikey
02-05-2008, 09:29 PM
hmm.. Is front part of shroud a little to wide/bulky compared to the back to anyone? If so, better to extend rear part forward or shorten front part?

kiltedmikey
02-05-2008, 09:42 PM
Guess pictures might help to visualized. Longer shroud at pommel end or shorted at emitter end?

Ghostbat
02-06-2008, 10:20 AM
I'm liking the longer shroud part in the front, it seems more dynamic to me that way.

Darth_DevilGuy
02-06-2008, 10:50 AM
definately go with the longer one I'd say

ArkaiHalon
02-06-2008, 11:51 AM
I agree, the longer shroud just looks much better.

strengthofrage
02-06-2008, 12:16 PM
Aye, the picture on the left looks better, more 'meat' on the shroud.

Dark Navel
02-06-2008, 12:16 PM
I like the shorter one. Just make it in between the 2 sizes and it'll be perfect

kiltedmikey
02-06-2008, 02:35 PM
I'm thinking shorten the front wrap a touch. The second picture is a little two short. I want the see the thin neck some but not completely. Then match the width on the wrap at the pommel to make it look balanced. Hmmm, Think I need more cardboard.

Treadingwolf
02-06-2008, 06:18 PM
I really like that shroud idea. I think i would shorten the front wrap a touch, if not for looks then at least to keep "some" of the meat on you fingers when you give it a twirl. :P Also keep the back end large. I think that would give a nice balance around the rear grip area. Just my coppers :)

kiltedmikey
02-06-2008, 09:34 PM
alright, i think I've got it this time. Longer the read area, slightly shorter front. better balance. agree?

ArkaiHalon
02-06-2008, 09:52 PM
by joe, I think that's it. Looks good.

kiltedmikey
02-06-2008, 10:01 PM
I think I'll spend some quality time with my Dremel this weekend and if I'm lucky, just one sink tube.

Hasid Lafre
02-06-2008, 10:14 PM
get 2 just incase. remember its the 1.5" sinktube.

Darth_DevilGuy
02-06-2008, 10:36 PM
get 2 just incase. remember its the 1.5" sinktube.

I'd buy 5 but thats just me.

Hasid Lafre
02-07-2008, 12:58 AM
I would buy 5 myself also, lol

ArkaiHalon
02-07-2008, 08:05 AM
Something that I've found works pretty well is to make the template out of PVC (especially if it's somthing you might make more than once, like a "graflex curve"). Then slide that over the sink tube, and bust out the sharpie.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 10:19 AM
yea but if I buy five, then we are back to where this started with me in more trouble with the wife. If I buy them one at a time, she might not realize how many i've bought, especially now that I saw a recent scientific study that showed pregnant women can remember as much as when not pregnant. *crossing fingures that its true*

Phiily Manyaan
02-07-2008, 12:19 PM
My GF knows I bought MHS Saber parts but I haven't told her how much. If I do, I won't hear the end of how it's valentines day and how I should buy her something (she's not that type that wants things bought for her, she would only be half-joking). That hurts to hear about the $1500 miniatures in the river, I have an extensive collection of anything and everything (mostly star wars of course) and if anything ever happened to it due to an uncomprehending girlfriend or other wise, she would know the ways of the force in an unbeneficial way.

goldsaberwarrior
02-07-2008, 12:42 PM
Hehehe I'm still on tube 1 and have yet to make a mistake in the design.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 05:24 PM
Hehehe I'm still on tube 1 and have yet to make a mistake in the design.

See now you just jinxed yourself. murphy's laws.

Darth_DevilGuy
02-07-2008, 07:11 PM
This (http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080206.html) is what I have to say about murphy's law.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 07:43 PM
I feel like a kid at christmas. The wife left me play in the garage tonight. some 3 cut-off wheels later.... TADA!!! Still haven't decided if I want to polish the shroud to copper or paint it black.

ArkaiHalon
02-07-2008, 08:06 PM
polish it to the brass. if you don't like it, then paint it black.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 08:20 PM
That was the basic plan. unless I get really sick and tired or polishing and take the short cut of painting.

Darth_DevilGuy
02-07-2008, 08:42 PM
I kinda like it like it is, the brass underside showing on the edges looks distinguished, and unique.

Obi-Dar Ke-Gnomie
02-07-2008, 08:49 PM
You could etch some sort of design it it so it showed brass through the black paint. Either a picture or some kind of geometric pattern that goes with the shape of the shroud.

That would look cool.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 08:50 PM
Funny reflections on the picture. The chrome of the sink tube and the color of the MHS parts are close, but not quite a match in person. It needs a little more contrast to look right. I think having it on a black surface cause the picture to look better then it really does.

kiltedmikey
02-07-2008, 08:54 PM
You could etch some sort of design it it so it showed brass through the black paint. Either a picture or some kind of geometric pattern that goes with the shape of the shroud.

That would look cool.

Any suggestions on how to do the etching?

B5813
02-12-2008, 12:06 AM
If you're still considering a control box I suggest looking at what Parksabers has. They say that a couple of the boxes mount flush on a 1.5" od tube but I found they mount like a glove on the stock MHS handles too. I used an R box to cover over my switch drilling the hole from the bottom side of the box with a unibit. You'll get the bottom hole large enough to fit over the switch nut on the surface of the tube and a smaller hole at the top of the box for the switch to be accessed for pressing.