Pommel Incert 12

[chicago.jedi]

Has anyone tried opening up the holes on this insert? Mine sounds just a bit muffled.

Should I open all of the holes a little bit? A few of the holes a lot? Anyone got any tips?

Thanks in advance.

[Silver Serpent]

Put holes on the other side of the speaker as well. Something closer to the emitter, if your design allows for it.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Another thing to do, depending on which speaker mount method you used, is to add holes ro vent the backside.of.the speaker mount. This works well on the v2 & v3 mounts.

[chicago.jedi]

Thanks for all of the replies. Silver Serpent's idea of holes near the emitter end is something I had never considered. I did an experiment and pulled the blade out with the saber on and can hear a huge difference. Unfortunately, my saber design does not lend itself well to putting holes anywhere on that end. I will keep that in mind for my next build.

So I went out on a limb....

I decided to go ahead and open up the holes. No guts, no glory, right? Well, it paid off well. I used the drill bit that came with my 8-32 tap set (don't know the size off the top of my head) and it worked great. I drilled out all of the holes except the two directly in line with the D-Ring. In case you are wondering, the D-Ring I used is from Home Depot, not the one with the kit.

The sound difference with the opened up holes is night and day. I realize that this did remove some of the metal that gives strength to the insert, but I will not be doing any heavy rigging off of my pommel so I think it will be fine. The sound results are well worth it and I think it looks quite nice, too.