MHS #1/ Powdercoated!

[DACOTA]

Hey all, I finally got my first mhs powdercoated, so here she is. Feast your eyes on this gret p.c. job by Caps powdercoating of Fresno, California.

Before
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010065.jpg

After [Emty hilt right now]
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010057.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010056.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010061-1.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010067-1.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010069-2.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010070-1.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010072-1.jpg

And I'm sorry if you think i'm a hypocryte who has never built an mhs saber. I have built two for a friend but this is my first saber with some sound, and there will be more to come. But I just need a speaker and this thing is fin.

Oh and my neighbor is a machinist and so he took the solid chanfered pommel that Tim used to sell, bored it out, and made me a one of a kind custom mps insert made of 1/8" thick stainless steel.

Hopefuly you can see it.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010080-1.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/DACOTA007/P1010079-1.jpg

Thoughts? Questions?

[B5813]

Powder coating is a nice, clean look. Really don't see enough color on hilts here. That's blue is just nice and shiny... rather slick looking.

[TimeRender]

I was never sure about the powder coating until I saw that blue. I'd love to see a grenade with blue grooves and a polished aluminum surface.

[Enolmano]

Love the blue!

[DACOTA]

Well thank you. I am really proud to own this saber; for now; that is, its automatically going on ebay when its finished.

[Luke-SkyMarcher]

I like it. What "color" powder coating is the rest of the hilt? (besides the blue)

[DACOTA]

Its steel gray.The blue is called candy apple blue or candy blue.

[Obi-Dar Ke-Gnomie]

I'm loving that one of a kind speaker grill!

The color scheme is cool. I like the way the gray looks, and the blue really jumps out at you! I assume that you are going with a blue blade on this, right? I think that would look awesome!

[DACOTA]

Yeah it probably would look cool but I had all the guts finished way before I got it powdercoated. So the blade is a green lux lll. And the holes around the switch hole is for two leds,[decorative] the top one is white and the bottom one is blue, and they are set in a couple chrome holders from Radioshack.

So its a nice color combo of a green blade with the white and blue leds which contrast with the dark gray and the blue powdercoat.

[Darth_DevilGuy]

interesting, not my style but It looks good!

[37H4N]

Man I'm lucky to have seen it in person! The pics are awesome but they can never do things justice. The pommel just blew me away when I saw it.
Sorry Tim, I might be going to Dacota's neighbor for mps. :oops: