Building two simple sabers, looking for names.

[Lord Dottore Matto]

PFC Stephens, how about Sarge and Grunt or Gunny or, well you get the idea!

[Kant Lavar]

Hmm, green blade for me, blue blade for him, I'm in the Army, he was in the Navy...

Grunt and Squid?

[Lord Dottore Matto]

Hmm, green blade for me, blue blade for him, I'm in the Army, he was in the Navy...

Grunt and Squid?

YES!!!!

[Kant Lavar]

Well, for now, I think I'm going to go with "Grunt" and "Squid" - though I reserve the right to come up with a more official one for mine, and Greg's... well, that's up to him. It'll be his gorram saber, after all.

All in all, though, I like these as "first-attempt" sabers. The more simple, less ornate ones that a Padawan would make when he does the first go-around, that he uses until he replaces them later, as a Jedi Knight. (Or somesuch - that's just what's going through my head.)

Though I do think I know what I want to do next - I just have to figure out what I can cram in there (CF3 vs US2) and where exactly it'll go. Likely it'll have a cyan blade in there, too - ordered the stuff to make a cyan K2 star from luxeonstar.com earlier. Ideally, I'd like to do the whole recharge-port-in-the-pommel thing, plus main power and low battery LEDs. We'll see, once I get my first one done.

[Sam Skirata]

forgot about this classic combo.... Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson

Fixed.

[Kant Lavar]

I was messing around with the MHS parts I have on-hand, and ended up making a minor change for Grunt: I decided to change the emitter from stye 9 to a style 5 I had doing nothing. I had played with the idea before on the MHS Builder, but for some reason, I decided I liked it more in real life than I did on-screen.



In other news, my package from luxeonstar.com arrived today - including PCBs and red, amber, and cyan K2s and the L2 all-in-one K2 optics I'm trying out. I'm not sure if they're as tall as the regular ones Tim sells - I doubt they're taller. It shouldn't be an issue as they've got adhesive pads with them so once I solder in the LEDs I slap the optics on and call it a day. I'll post up how well those work as soon as I get my US2s and other associated parts in for Squid. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Tim. )

[samurai_rob]

I've always been partial to Talon & fang for my sith sabers. If you're gonna be jedi scum, then go with something noble-sounding like foe-hammer and lightwing...just a thought.