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    Hello Everyone!

    I have been lurking and commenting for a while, but never really introduced myself.

    My name is Jason, and I live on Vancouver Island , British Columbia. My occupation is "Forest Engineer", but I am currently recovering from a back injury/surgery. I am not exactly sure what has drawn me to making lightsabers, I assume it has something to do with boredom and painkillers. Videogames now bore me, as I prefer to waste my time on something I can make and hold.

    My pre-injury hobbies included: Gardening, woodworking (Bow-making), Archery, fishing ,skateboarding and snowboarding, rock-hounding/lapidary, Beer making and all sorts of artistic endeavours. Most of these hobbies are not great on the back. My father is an electrical engineer, and always had a bunch of doo-dads and stuff on his work bench. I remember playing with the soldering iron when he wasn't looking.

    There are so many inspirational builders on this site, it makes me strive for excellence. I never seem to be 100% happy with any of my builds, so I constantly make and upgrade new ones.

    Eventually, I hope to learn a bunch of new skills, I hope to use this hobby as a fun platform to eventually create technologies related to my occupation. For whatever reason, I am more determined and driven to learn new skills when making something fun, as opposed to utilitarian.

    This is a gateway hobby. "You have taken your first step into a much larger world".

    How many people can honestly say, "I would never want to own a lightsaber"?

    Yes, a real lightsaber would make my real job much easier!

    Cheers
    -Whosle?
    Last edited by Whosle; 09-26-2017 at 12:00 PM.

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    Hello Jason. I found my way to this place a few years back after googling everything Star Wars. Like you say, who doesn't want a lightsaber? At last, I could fulfil my childhood dream of owning the coolest weapon but boy are they more-ish .
    I'm an electrician but I hadn't really touched electronics since my apprenticeship so I've kinda re-learnt skills. What I really enjoy is the building/engineering and the metalwork and thanks to some unexpected generosity from my dad I have a lathe. I'm learning as I go and I'm never really 100% happy I just try to make the next one better.
    Hope your recovery goes well and look forward to more sabers
    MTFBWY

    Paul (Greenie)

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    110 posts in before an intro thread, wow.

    I found this site after my son bought an US saber at a local convention. I'm only 1 saber in, but that's a time/budget problem.

    Forest engineer sounds very interesting. As an outdoorsman and Scout leader, I've often thought that something like a park ranger might be a good second career after retirement.

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    A belated welcome
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    Thanks everyone!


    Yeah 110 posts in, most of them part of the learning curve.

    I have learned a bunch about electronics and circuits since I joined. This hobby takes a bunch of different skills and pushed them to the extreme.

    Usually, I am thinking on large scales , boardfeet , cubic meters, cuts and fills, large volumes. Usually in metric, but I have forced myself, to go between imperial and metric now.

    Now I am thinking on millimeter scales (1/32").

    Do you imperial minded folks find fractions and decimals too cumbersome?

    I feel like Cram-fu, space management and design will be a marketable skill in the upcoming robotics industry.

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    Welcome to TCSS Jason! I make beer too! Ha. I'm a stout guy. I despise the Imperial system of measurement we use in the USA; however, my grandfather was a carpenter and taught me a bunch of tricks to go between the fractions. While the metric system is much easier to understand and simplistic (not to mention more scientifically repeatable manner of measurement), I find that the Imperial system forces one to think, and to contemplate more. All those fractions are exercise for the brain. It helps keep my aging mind sharper. I never noticed how much I had aged lately until I started building lightsabers. My vision has gone Kaput. I find myself with my glasses on routing wires, then when it comes time to solder, glasses off (safety glasses on). I can see small closer with no glasses on, and my glasses make the PCBs blurry. When I put a accent LED on the NBIV deep sleep pad the other day, it was a huge victory for mine own eyes! This is a great fun, mind using, hobby. I wish my resources were unlimited, and that I had a lathe. The things I could make if I only had a lathe! I am very proud of my growing saber collection. I have lately grown fond of building the OT replicas, mainly due to my involvement in the 501st Legion; however, my favorite saber is my Mako MHS RGB. I love that saber. I designed it in MHS builder, drew it out on paper, designed the chassis from TCSS disks, and have gutted it and re-built it 3 times now. I'm moderately content with its current iteration, although I wish it had deep sleep on it. I hope your back heals soon, it stinks getting old. I'm a 24 year veteran of a municipal police force, I'm a Lieutenant (Watch Commander) on night shift. I have 6 years left on a 30 year sentence, and it cannot pass quickly enough. By trade I'm a boat mechanic, but also have apprenticed as an electrician/carpenter through my grandfather and father. I have many skill-sets. I would love to do more metal work: machining, milling, lathing, welding, etc. When I retire, I plan to try and dive deeply into learning those skills via the local community college vocational route. We have a lot of great classes here. I have a BS in psychology, but want to go back into vocational classes as I approach 50! Have fun building, and healing.

    Tom

    "Mistakes are our greatest teacher."

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