Jay-gon's Chrome Saber "X"

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Chrome saber "X"? ??? What does the Force does that mean?!?!

Well, "X" as in "experimental", actually! I needed to have an MHS based saber for testing/prototyping, so I ordered a few parts and built this:


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The soundboard is a simple MR Anakin ROTS, powered by 4-AAA's. The led is the new white K2 w/TFFC technology, making it as bright as the Seoul P4. The filter is a Lee "Deep Straw" and makes for a very nice yellow blade. The blade is the UltraEdge from my personal Brass saber, BS-2.

This one is still a work in progress, really. I'll be changing the electronics to eventually include reversed sound and a "Jeweled Pommel" to light it up from both ends. I'll Also be adding a recessed recharge port as well.

[Sairon]

Very nice job, that yellow looks very nice (gona have to use that filter my self). Can't wait to see it totaly compleated.

[winger]

Very nice indeed.:cool:

[Blue Fox]

I love the shrouding around the grip and I want that pommel! beatiful saber there :D

[cardcollector]

Very nice experiement!

I like the lower grips a lot:cool:

[theJUDGE]

i really like that hilt, i sort of reminds me of obi-wan-kenobi's training saber from the jedi apprentice book series ( as seen on many of the covers). good work :cool:

[Rhyen Skytracker]

Awesome saber Jay-Gon. I love the pommel.

[ARKM]

Nice lookin' saber Jay.

[Misael]

Wow Jay-Gon. That is a beautiful lightsaber. I really like how you went with all silver and no brass parts. This is probably my favorite saber that you have made so far.

Thank you for sharing! I look forward to any future experiment you will have.

PS Great Obi-Wan pommel, Jay-Gon! Where can I get that attachment? Do you know of any floating around?

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May the Force be with you... always.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Wow Jay-Gon. That is a beautiful lightsaber. I really like how you went with all silver and no brass parts. This is probably my favorite saber that you have made so far.

Thank you for sharing! I look forward to any future experiment you will have.

PS Great Obi-Wan pommel, Jay-Gon! Where can I get that attachment? Do you know of any floating around?

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May the Force be with you... always.

sorry, those pommels are few and far between, I'm afraid. They were made in a limited run from a machinesmith I know.

[DJMoonbass]

man jaygon. this is my favorite by you by far... wonderfull. i really need to get a lee filter swatch booklet.

[MaverickJsmith]

Ooooo~!

Me likey 8)

Maverick 8)

[$tarkiller]

I like the use of that Blade holder with all of the chrome-y ness!

[Lawrs1]

Great work as always, Jay-gon. Looks great

[Chewy]

me likey the pommel....I assume that is custom, as I did not see it at the store.

[Jedi-Loreen]

You are correct, it's a custom pommel.

[dgdve]

very sweet saber once again!! perfect test bed, looks easy to "break down"
~dave

[Jay-gon Jinn]

very sweet saber once again!! perfect test bed, looks easy to "break down"
~dave

Yes, it's very easy to break down. Under that chrome piece is a 4" dbl. fem. extension, so everything simply screws together. The electronics were done with quick disconnects on the switch wires, so it's a snap to take apart and reassemble.

[Count Malik]

awsome saber Jay.!!!:D

[Darth Securis]

That is a nice looking saber... good design!

[dhorton01]

very sleek man..awesome, great piece of work!

[Lan-Ja Hamil]

Your test bed saber is looking better than what I want to do with my main saber. You da man!

[Rafalema]

The pommel is very nice, where did you get it?

[Jay-gon Jinn]

A machinist I know made it. He will not do more, so it would be pointless to ask. ;)

[B5813]

yeah, those were the days

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Necropost! ;D

I just finished off another modification to this saber and thought I'd share the results with the membership here! This saber is still my go to saber for trooping, so I thought it would be cool to add the new PC 1.6 with the FoC set up and a RICE port. Everything went fairly smoothly, except my one smd resistor I used for the switch led wasn't quite making contact so I had to go back and do that again. A few minutes later, I had it all assembled and was using the RICE interface to adjust the settings! I had to make some changes to the chrome sleeve, too so I'd actually be able to assemble this they way I needed to, and that also meant that I had to paint and bake on a satin black finish on the ribbed extension and the 4" double threaded connector that serves as the rear half of the hilt. Painting parts in sub-freezing temps is not something I'd recommend, but these turned out fairly well, since I put them directly into the toaster oven after getting the final coat on them. So without further ado, here is


CS-X-V3

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I changed the blue dot long AV switch that I added a couple of years ago when I initially added the Petit Crouton, to a green ring short SPST style with the intention of using a pair of 14650's in my original plan, but that changed when I made the decision to go with the mega bass speaker. Regardless, the 14650's would have been a very tight fit against the terminals on the short switch, rather than fitting underneath it like I had hoped.

So, I decided to go with a replaceable 14500 pack:
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You can see the RICE port right there between the speaker and the plug for the battery pack. It simply tucks in behind the speaker on top of the battery pack when not in use. Adding that feature makes it much easier to change the settings on the saber since the SD card is pretty much buried behind all the wires for the recharge port, aux switch and main blade led.

The main blade led is currently a LedEngin BBBB 10 watt running the main blade dice in parallel and the FoC pair in series.
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I'll try to shoot a video today sometime and add it to this post when it's finished.

[Manroon]

That is absolutely beautiful. It's like a cross between the Obi TPM and ANH, almost what I would have expected either the AOTC or ROTS hilts to look like. It's so pretty, I find it hard to stop staring. Very, very nice!

[Crystal Chambers]

This forum is connected to a store so mentioning where to buy things is not cool! Besides, the machinist who made Jay's pommel does amazing work.

Nice upgrades. I like the black ribs on this one.

[Jedi-Loreen]

Rash's post trying to steer people to another vendor has been deleted.

I'll leave Crystal's post up as a warning to others.

[Knighthammer]

Nice update Jay-gon. I like the "new" style of your shrouds lately (the cut out around the av switch) looks good.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Nice update Jay-gon. I like the "new" style of your shrouds lately (the cut out around the av switch) looks good.Yeah, that actually was a necessity on this one...I couldn't put the switch in, tighten the set screw for the chassis disc and install the sleeve with it only having a hole in it for the switch.

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