My first build!! I proudly present the lightsaber of zahc zi phan!!

GOOD DAY AND MANY WELCOMES!! whoop, caps lock! after staring at parts for a week, I decided to put it all together last night and fire the badboy up. Holy schmoly this thing is sweet. I was going for a KOTOR kind of style, but slightly more advanced than would be commonly found back then. Couldn't be happier with how it turned out, hope you guys/gals like as much as I do! Oh and she needs a name, I was thinking about HARBINGER or JUGGERNAUT. Please feel free to suggest a name!
Here are some build specs:

Deep Red Rebel (single die)
Graflex style emitter
7" fluted body (milled for box 14)
MHS gear
Pommel style 3 v2
Petit crouton 2.0
2w bass speaker
Various chassis parts
2x illuminated anti-vandals (complete with 1ohm 2w resistors)

Enough talk, time to SEEEE!!!



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still have to pull it back apart and wire up the R.I.C.E. port and second accent led, but close enough to go play with it for now!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Here's a few more pics


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Congrats on your first saber! It's a really great feeling when you fire it up for the first time, isn't it? It never gets old. :)

Thanks SS! It really is! I couldn't have imagined it turning out like it did, I'm stunned. Everyone else in the house is annoyed with it already, sounded like I was taking on the clone army at midnight I'm sure!
BTW: NOONE TOLD ME THE PC DID THE FORCE PUSH SOUND!!!! WHOAAAA! That was a very pleasant surprise!!

Looks really good Zahc!

Turned out great! :D You planning on any paint or shroud? So much potential with a build like that.

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Originally Posted by Zahc Zi Phan

BTW: NOONE TOLD ME THE PC DID THE FORCE PUSH SOUND!!!! WHOAAAA! That was a very pleasant surprise!!

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LOL, I had the same reaction. It wasn't listed in the manual... I didn't find out until I saw someone do it on a sound font Youtube video. Took me forever to figure out the combo to trigger it!

Nice nice. I like how you let some of the light shine through the blade holder. Makes it more Sith looking. So you're a Sith then. I'm getting a Jedi saber done. :P Original render can be seen in the Parts thread if you want to check it out. I really like your design by the way.

Thanks trypwyr! Not planning any paint or shrouding as of now, I really like the elegant simplicity of this hilt, I figure it's probably going to get a couple of mild enhancements, but nothing too crazy ;) As for the future however, I do have a VERY entailed project that I will be going crazy on. I have an old gutted lightech vt-900 that's going to get a wicked crystal chamber and a led engin (or whatever is better) sometime soon ;)

Garcia: Thanks man! That's exactly what I was going for, I thought the light peeking through the top hole went quite well with the red dot vandal switch ;)
As for the Jedi/Sith thing, I think I would sit somewhere between them, perhaps grey? My choice of lightsaber color (IMO) reflects that I have a slightly more aggressive mentality than the average wielder. It's not common, but there are documented cases of red lightsabers used in light-side applications even.

Update: finished everything today, when I took those pictures, I still had to wire up the rice port and second accent led. Well, it's all done now and works like a charm. Probably entirely too much wire running around wild inside, but I'm not looking inside of it again anytime soon (hopefully), so I'm not worried about it.

PS: Wired up the rice port, with port ground pin going to battery negative pin on the recharge port (left board ground spot un-soldered). Rice works like a charm. Just thought I'd share for anyone curious about that method.