Impatience

**Orthus** · 08-30-2010, 10:54 PM

A new saber that was built for a Freshmen BBQ as a door prize. Each professor needed to bring a door prize that was unique to only us for the new freshmen to guess in a drawing. The first slip drawn with the correct professor attributed to the door prize won that prize.

I built Impatience in 16 days (about 25 hours total, hence the name) using a 1 1/2" sink tube, faucet handle, sheet aluminum, galvanized roof flashing, nylon bushings, a hasbro 2010 vader soundboard, and from TCSS: a green P4, heatsink, BuckPuck, double wrapped thick wall 1" blade, round tip, and grips. It runs on 4 AAA batteries and incorporates the bulb clamp as part of the blade retention system.

I modified the Reflex templates for the Graflex clamp (.032" sheet aluminum) and bulb clamp (galvanized roof flashing) to get the right sizes for my tubes.

Here's the hilt
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Lit with a camera flash
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Lit without a camera flash
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**xl97** · 08-30-2010, 11:24 PM

that turned out rather nice..

great job!..

**Jedi-Loreen** · 08-30-2010, 11:27 PM

Nice work.

**Onli-Won Kanomi** · 08-30-2010, 11:38 PM

Very nice indeed...that's a great door prize for sure!

**Crystal Chambers** · 08-31-2010, 04:21 AM

Nice! Looks like you did a great job. The button placement makes me wonder how it would handle. I love the PCB in the clamp. I'd would be nice to see other angles. With a name like Impatience I was expecting a sith saber.

**Jin Ke** · 08-31-2010, 10:36 AM

Nice job.... I like it alot....

**ARKM** · 08-31-2010, 11:37 AM

Very cool.

**Orthus** · 08-31-2010, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Crystal Chambers

Nice! Looks like you did a great job. The button placement makes me wonder how it would handle. I love the PCB in the clamp. I'd would be nice to see other angles. With a name like Impatience I was expecting a sith saber.

The PCB is a slice off of a RadioShack project board. It has a funky look that I like...