Diary of My First Build

[Darth Nurse]

And so it begins...


All of my parts have arrived and its time to make what is in my head a reality.

I had originally planned to just do a stunt saber, but the NB became available again, and that changed my plans. Overall going for a Grey/Dark Jedi look with a orange blade and weathered hilt.

Here are the hilt parts:
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I have all of the internals as well and will be building a chassis system.

Internals will be:
3.7v battery
NBv2
PEX
Custom tri-CREE A/rO/G
Orange ring 16mm AV
Charge port
Bass speaker
Acrylic chassis discs, aluminum spacers and other wiring components

Goal is to have an orange blade (Amber and Red Orange mix) with Green FOC

I will be aging the brass and aluminum black weathering the hilt, and likely adding shatter and battle damage effects as well.

I will chronicle each step in the process here.

Thank you to all that answered my questions leading up to this point!

[Greenie]

Receiving those MHS parts and putting them together for the first time.......... Most exciting!
Let the fun begin
Good luck Darth Nurse and MTFBWY

[darth_chasm]

Good luck DN. Can't wait to see your customizations.

[Darth Nurse]

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Aging brass with ammonia vapors today. I'll post the results later.

[Darth Nurse]

Brass aged nicely.

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[CET]

Wow, the brass came out great! What was the exact process you used?

[Darth Nurse]

Wow, the brass came out great! What was the exact process you used?

Thank you.

I cleaned each piece in denatured alcohol then dried it. Then I ran wire through the parties and secured it through holes I drilled in the can lid.
Next, I prepared a small empty painters can with paper towels on the bottom soaked in ammonia. Keep this fairly shallow as you do not want liquid touching the brass.

I placed the lid on with the parts hanging inside and checked every 30 min till it was where I wanted it. This took about 2 hours.

[CET]

I learned something today!

[Darth Nurse]

Hilt done!

I practiced the shatter on a spare aluminum pipe, then went for it. I cleaned it all up, and hit the whole thing with aluminum black. Then I removed most if the AB, and sealed it all with flat clear.

Now to work on the innards!

[darth_chasm]

That looks great.

Dremel? If so, what attachment did you use? I'm sure people will be interested to know.