Jay-gon's Brass Saber 3-7 (MR Sound/Lux III's)

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I don't know how much interest there is in these anymore, but I did some more work to Brass Sabers 4 & 5 today. I started by cutting the angle for the emitter shrouds:

I thne used my tubing cutter to cut off the shrouds from what will become the rear half of the hilt:


After that was done, I polished the shrouds, because I had the same issue as last time with the saw leaving burned edges on the cut, and when that was done, I used the tubing cutter to make the rear grip marks:



Next, I measured for the screw holes to mount the MHS adaptors:

I transferred that measurement to the brass tube:

I marked it with my exacto knife, by leaving a small scratch, and took it to the drill press and set it up to drill the hole:

After drilling the first hole in the brass tube, I slipped in the MHS adaptor and using it's pre-drilled and tapped holes as a guide, drilled straight through to the other side of the brass tube:

Doing it klike this ensures that the hole on the other side of the hilt will match up perfectly with the hole in the adaptor, making everything symmetrical.

See what I mean? I did them both while I had the set-up in the drill press. Here's what these two (three actually, the chrome hilt piece seen above is being worked on along with these two) will basically look like when done:

And while I was drilling holes, I decided to drill these for the switches as well. Here's how they turned out:


Now I have to play the waiting game on some parts from the store before I can complete these.

I have some leds on order, but haven't decided what colors I'll use in these....I also don't have any sound boards, so it may be awhile before these are completed.