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Jay-gon Jinn's Second MHS and Hardware Saber
Well, I had some extra saber parts lying around on the workbench and decided to put together another one. This is what I'll be using:
I have a style 1 blade holder, two of the 1.5 inch sink pipe adaptors, a 6" piece of 1.25 inch sink pipe, a 1.5 inch tailpiece extension, with nut and washer, a 1.5 inch sink pipe extension, 12 1.25 inch white poly washers, a 10deg lens, a blue Luxeon III led with a heatsink, and an MR Vader sound board with a speaker (the old $2 speaker), and a 4 AA battery holder from Radio Shack.
This particular board didn't have a clash sensor when I got it, so I "borrowed" one from and old Hasbro Qui-gon Jinn saber that I had lying on the bench and wired it in plac of the missing MR sensor. I then hot-glued it to the board:
The first thing I did was cut the two pieces of pipe, the 1.25 and 1.5 inch extensios to the desired length, and in the case of the 1.5 inch piece, to the dsired angle. I went with 30 degreres on this one. (Sorry, no pics of that this time!)
I then did a trial assembly:
This gave me an idea as to how long it will be and where the electronics will sit inside.
The angled hood/shroud turned out pretty nice!
The forward grips:
There are 12 of the poly washers on there, and it really has a nice feel to it. I slid those over the 1.25 inch pipe and sandwiched them with the two 1.5 inch sink tube adaptors.
Using the holes in the adaptors as guides, I drilled the mounting holes in the 1.25 sink tube.
This is the rpommel end of this saber:
This is where it sits now:
I drilled and tapped extra mounting screw holes in the top and bottom of both the rear grip and the emitter hood and assembled it. here's a close shot of the emitter end so far:
So now I just need to drill for the switch, the blade thumbscrew, and add some scoring lines for details. Stay tuned....! ;D
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Thanks, Loreen! I think I'll leave them for now...I kinda like the "pearlescent" look they get from the chrome pipe inside them.
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Thats looking pretty slick Jay Gonn. Are you going to be adding anything for grips, or are you going to score the tubing like on your brass hardware saber?
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Maybe do both. Instead of going length wise with the neoprene, cut it to a width of about a half an inch and go around the tube with score lines 1/16th" to 1/8th" from the edge of the neoprene. I'd do that with four or five grip sections, depending on how much spacing is needed.
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