Jay-gon Jinn builds a 1.25" saber (MR sound w/ III blue)

[Jay-gon Jinn]

I had some time to kill while waiting for parts for the last two brass sabers, so I threw this together using a TCSS 1.25" blade holder, a Darth Vader FX soundboard, a 4-AAA battery pack and a speakers I found online:



I let the padawans have a little input on this...I was going to have the blade holder in the tube all the way, but they said it looked better like this! From the mouths of babes....



I took some design elements from my daughter's 1.25" pink saber and applied them to this one as well. Those are TCSS grips cut down to fit on the end of the plumbing extension. I still have to get a strainer to cut up to make the speaker grille, too. I'll also need to get a few 8-32 nuts so I can attach the CT knobs I have for this one and my daughter's saber. The plumbing tube is too thin to take any threads, and the screws just strip in the hole.

Here's the electronics. About the same as I usually use in the other sabers, except I built a custom battery pack/speaker assembly for this one.




The heat sink and blade holder.....



I completed the wiring for this one and stuffed it in the hilt. You might be able to see in the first pic the one-piece electrical harness for the batteries and the speaker....it turned out nice, and keeps the wire mess to a minimum.


I didn't put a quick-disconnect on the led for this one, as there really would be no point...there isn't a quick-change process for these holders...it involves taking the holder out and loosening the 4 set screws that hold the heatsink in place to change the led.

I honed out the blade holder socket and put in one of my sanded "Dual-Core Diffusion" blades and took a few pics:


I took this last one using the camera's flash, just to see how it would look: