Hey all. I am considering getting that 12 inch tube of MHS material for my current saber, once I have the main body constructed.

I am planning on getting it powder coated copper jacket metallic, and it will be cut extensively.. Not only will it have multiple windows for the PCing below it to get some attention, it will also be cut into two parts to keep the choke profile.

also I plan to engrave the Jedi emblem onto the sleeve around the activation button, and I plan to color it a sort of rust red color. I think it will look good with the copper jacket color.

The question is in regards to the PC cracking. I am trying to figure out the most cost effective way to do this as far as shipping and such goes.

The safest, and most expensive way is to:

A) buy the tube, get it home. sand it, cut it, engrave it.
B) ship it back to Tim, PC it copper, clearcoat PC it.
C) pay for shipping back to me.
D) um...figure out the jedi emblem coloring later >.>

OR

buy it, get it PCed copper, ship it home.

cut it, engrave it, clearcoat it...probably from an airbrush.

then there is of course:

Cut it, engrave it, spraypaint it, spraypaint the symbol myself, clearcoat the whole thing.

I sort of want to stay away from spraypaint, because the main hilt is being powdercoated right now. I don't want the two not to match and the outer shroud to look obviously worse than the rings on the main hilt.