I figured I should share the packaging as well. I wanted the saber to present nicely since it was a birthday gift. I started by aquiring a wine box on Amazon and doing some woodburning on it. The...
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I figured I should share the packaging as well. I wanted the saber to present nicely since it was a birthday gift. I started by aquiring a wine box on Amazon and doing some woodburning on it. The...
The pins are the brass ones offered at TCSS. When i took the first photo I hadn't installed them yet. I kind of like the glow thru without the pins, but the client paid for them as part of the saber,...
Hey again everybody, looks like I'll be posting on here about once a year or so. Back close to two years ago I posted THIS THREAD about my first attempt at building a lightsaber. I used some TCSS...
I'd like to use that part but it's not in stock right now and I need to get this done on a time table for a friend's husband's birthday. I'm trying to work with what I can source in the shop. I think...
So it sounds like the battery holder is wired in series, not parallel, if the two 14500s add up to 7.4v. Can I just rewire the holder to be in parallel so I have 3.7v output with double the 14500 run...
The title is really the point of the thread. I'm assuming not, since the forward voltage of all 3 of the LEDs are above 3v (3.47, 3.41, and 3.15), but I thought I'd check anyway, since my brain...
Hey, just as an FYI I found these litle guys at my local Lowes while rummaging through the hardware drawers. They were labeled as "brass dowels". But, when rung up, showed up in the computer as...
The parts came in from TCSS last week! I was inside most of the day watching the kids while my wife worked on some projects outside, so I took the opportunity to dive in, and after a few hours work,...
Made a little progress today. First, I found this sample of a metal ceiling tile in my office that's supposed to look like wood. Pretty sure it's steel. The bend and burned corner is from my...
Thanks guys!
Not too bad I guess - I've never held another saber, so I have no context. The emitter end is thick cast brass, so it has a little weight, but the body and tail end are all...
I also started to look at the pommel/rear grip area of the saber. The chrome looks awkward to me with the large rings on either end and the narrow middle, so I decided to add some vane grips similar...
... so now we have the matter of making it light up... and fitting a blade...
I ordered a lot of parts from TCSS, but they haven't come in yet, because I'm having a blade made. I won't be able to...
This is a first build for me. My introduction is over in the Welcome Forum. This saber started as a basic Lowes hardware prop build for my son to play with, but it's turning into more now, so I...
I've been trying to track these down, and from what I can tell the most common name for them is "Brass Spreading Inserts".
Thank Jlabruce, probably should have checked there first.
That might top the cake for nicest Luke build I've ever seen. I like it even more than slothfurnace's, and that's saying something.
Probably a basic question, but anyone have an idea which board...
With a good primer and paint, I'd assume one could make PVC look pretty good, or at least disappear. It's in an area that won't get dinged up much, so a paint finish should hold up.. Since the only...
Oh, sorry, I didn't really end with a question there. The questions are: Will this necking down idea work? Has this been done before? Is there a reason people don't use this method?
Ok, so I saw a thread on some forum where they raised a huge stink that Fin grabs Luke's saber in a high grip and turns it on by the upper "button" instead of the lower activator box, which is how...
My introduction is in another thread, found here.
I am attempting a drain pipe build for my first go, and I want to use the drain "emitter" as the blade holder. I'm trying to build this saber...
... but I do.
I'm in my 30s and have a 6 year old son. He's shown some mild interest in the star wars universe (mainly through Clone Wars), but he finds it a little to scary at this point. I want...