Jay-gon Jinn's Chrome Saber 9 (MR sound w/ III green)

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I have some time on my hands and wanted to check out the new parts in the store, so I placed an order so I can build another saber with some chrome accents. I started with this stuff:

What you see there is the new style 13 blade holder, a 2" choke, a fluted hilt section, and an MPS style 7. The electronics are an MR Anakin Skywalker ROTS soundboard, a metal push button switch, a 4-AAA battery holder, an MPS speaker mount v2, and a standard 1" .5 watt 8 ohm speaker. The led is going to be a green Seoul P4.


The led could esily be changed to either a blue P4, or a bin 1 Cyan Lux III.

The chrome tube you see there is going to be used to create some chrome accent pieces.
I cut the chrome tube into a few pieces on my mitre saw using the metal cut-off wheel. Here's where the first piece is going to go:

That looks good....now to cut one for the switch area.....

I marked it and drilled for the switch hole:




I plan on making a hole large enough to also allow the recessed area around the switch hole visible, and started with the 3/8" bit, then moved up to a 3/4":


I de-burred everything, first with the rotary tool, then by hand with some 400 grit sandpaper:



I test fit it:

Okay, that looks good....

[wadeh13]

Nice looking saber Jay-Gon.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Yeah, I'm liking these new parts! I especially like the blade holder and pommel....

I got everything deburred, and did a test fit of the hilt pieces:


The chrome piece near the pommel will have to be held in place by some epoxy adhesive because of the pommel threads in that section of the hilt.

I wired up the electronics:

And test fired it:

Cool....now I can start assembly:

I drilled and tapped a hole for an 8-32 button-head screw directly opposite the switch to help hold the chrome piece in place....I didn't want to make a mess with the epoxy here with having some of the hilt exposed. It wasn't a problem on the pommel end because of the chrome piece being right at the end of the hilt.

I installed the rest of the hilt components:

And made sure it still worked:

Wow, that's bright! I like the shade, too....it's a bin 4. Now to decide if I want to use a thumbscrew or the set-screw:


It's drilled and tapped for 10-32 threads, so it can use either one....I think i like the looks of the set screw....

[wadeh13]

Have you tried an aluminum thumb screw to see how it would look?

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I don't have an aluminum thumbscrew to try it...I do have a brass one though....anyway, I drilled an tapped for the CT wheel:

It's kind of offset on the side of the hilt there, because there isn't much material inside the fluted grooves to drill and tap. This might make it easier to cross-draw or even right-hand draw the saber from a belt.

I also went over itwith my polishing cloth, and shined it up a bit:

I just need to hone out the blade socket and assemble the UltraEdge blade then I'll take some "beauty" shots of it tomorrow, and maybe make a short video, too.

[mmafighter]

Hey, nice Jay! I really like what you did with the chrome tube. It makes the saber look newly constructed. Good work!

[sekrogue1985]

nice i love it great use of the new parts

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Thanks guys! I had intended the look of this one to be of an older, almost KOTOR-Era look to it....I think it works for that!

I got the blade socket all honed-out and popped in my UltraEdge test blade:



Overall, I think it turned out pretty well....I'll take some better pics of it tomorrow!

[strengthofrage]

Very sharp Jay, I do like the look of the new parts you used.

The blade is really nice and evenly lit, what is an UltraEdge blade? I'm not familiar with it...

*Scratch that, just saw a discussion about them in another thread

[ArkaiHalon]

that is awesome Jay,great use of the new parts.
Totally diggin on the crome accents. I say stick with the set screw it keeps the lines clean.