Hello.
I am pretty new to saber building, so new in fact I don't have any parts yet (which is a good thing for me right now), and I have run into my first technical hitch and I would like your opinions on my theoretical solution!
I wanted to cast aside tradition and build a saber with a mid-mounted 28mm bass speaker oriented towards the blade, with an MHS choke (ventilated of course) as the sound path (using a partial shroud as a resonance chamber). However, using the MHS speaker mount conventionally would basically end the wiring continuity from that point on, meaning the LED board would be cut off from literally everything else inside. As well as this, it would collide with the 16mm AV main switch. I did think about routing out areas of handle and pushing the cabling outside under the shroud, but given the number of threaded sections that would have to line up through the cuts, I deemed this method no good. My second idea was to revert to tradition and put the speaker into the hilt, sacrificing all my genious!!! This would be the top solution but the pommel plate I'm gunning for is a mount for both a recharge port and RICE port, so there needs to be space again for wires this way too. I considered swapping the middle hilt section around to have the buttons at the very end of the saber, but it felt weird and un-ergonomic.
I was at the end of the line, about to leave the crystal cave and give up my jedi training when I thought of this glorious solution; what about an angled speaker mount? Of course it'd be a horrible Frankenstein piece of chassis, with a partially butchered V5 speaker mount holding the rig in place, a v4 speaker mount trimmed down as far as it can go, or a fully custom moulded speaker holder hotglued to the v5 mount and then backed by a chassis disc to keep it from being torn apart by it's own weight. But by my estimation, there is plenty of 'wiggle' in the speaker's dimensions (to the point that it is possible to have it mounted fully perpendicularly!).
But enough of what I think, do you think I'm mad? do you think there's an even easier way? can you save me some time and money :>?
[EDIT]
What about a slotted PVC pipe?!
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