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Luke-SkyMarcher
04-26-2008, 08:42 PM
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/100_2406.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/100_2402.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/100_2409.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/100_2413.jpg

More to come later when I have time to take better quality pics.
General info -
3/4" blade
1000mah buckpuck
bin 5 lux V

-Luke

Lord Maul
04-26-2008, 11:04 PM
Hot damn. Someone FINALLY DID IT!!!!! Luke, that is awesome! The first ever thin neck LED Luke ROTJ!

TD-2272
04-26-2008, 11:08 PM
Very impressive nicely done Congrats to you!!!!

Hasid Lafre
04-27-2008, 01:41 AM
I seem to recal that its not the first, Its cool but deffinatly not the first lux thin necked.

xwingband
04-27-2008, 05:00 AM
Hot damn. Someone FINALLY DID IT!!!!! Luke, that is awesome! The first ever thin neck LED Luke ROTJ!

Luis Rojas??? He did it, granted he used a much extended blade holder.

Then if we count the 7/8" ones from 3/4" bladed sabers as "thin necked" that has also been done too.

Still a nice saber though. The working triangle LED is an awesome touch.

DarthFender
04-27-2008, 08:25 AM
That looks as cool as the original prop. And its functional, too. Awesome.

Lord Maul
04-27-2008, 12:16 PM
Luis Rojas??? He did it, granted he used a much extended blade holder.

Then if we count the 7/8" ones from 3/4" bladed sabers as "thin necked" that has also been done too.

Still a nice saber though. The working triangle LED is an awesome touch.

Luis Rojas's saber had the huge emitter, which you have even said is just as bad as the thick neck. This is the first accurate thin necked LED rotj.

Sethski
05-02-2008, 06:24 AM
That really is a thing of beauty. Fantastic!!

Much as I love "proper" custom sabers, there's something wonderful about seeing a working hilt that looks just like the "real" thing, especially when it's been built from the ground up...

...same seeing Madcow's Qui-Gon and Dark Navel's Dooku.

People just keep raising the bar. It's graaate!!! :-D

Luke-SkyMarcher
05-05-2008, 07:37 PM
Thanks guys!
I did not machine this myself; it's a little beyond my skill as of yet. I modified dimensions for this saber about two years ago for an EL saber... that was before I started doing LED. We gave it to a friend of ours who works at a machine shop. We pretty much forgot about it, until about a year ago when he surprised us with the finished machining. I painted it with model paint quite a while ago. Now I intend to remove the paint eventually and replace it with powder coating.
Here's more pics as promised. Since there was no room for the normal setup, I had to improvise; the lens is in the blade.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/Copyof100_2439.jpg

I machined up a heatsink to fit into the slot originally designed for the EL jack. Grinding the star down was a bit ticklish;didn't want to take that one too fast. :wink:
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/Copyof100_2414.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/Copyof100_2425.jpg

Here next to my saber.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u228/Luke_SkyMarcher/Copyof100_2448.jpg

-Luke

luis rojas
05-08-2008, 08:30 AM
That is an awesome work. Maybe I will change the emitter of my vertion of this saber just to see it like yours. Bravo my friend.

darthnerdold
05-16-2008, 07:52 PM
That's really sweet. The only thing wrong with it is that it has 8 silver "rings" for the grips and the prop had 9.

Hasid Lafre
05-16-2008, 08:37 PM
Actually it has 9 silver rings.

http://www.partsofsw.com/

darthnerdold
05-17-2008, 07:14 PM
Yeah. I know, and his had 8.