JaxAndTheMoon
Sr Member
Welcome to my build!
As per the norm these days, I am a proud owner of a Graflex flash gun. I picked this up off of Ebay around July of this past year for around 300, back before the price jumped up to the crazy amounts that it is now that the movie is released. My friend has been holding onto it for a long time now for me, since I was deployed for the majority of this past year.
Mine is the one on the far right. He has a few himself, including his fully finished one that he built back while we were in high school. I ordered the parts kit from Roy (Thank you Roy!) which arrived exactly on Christmas morning!
We took the parts over to his house where he has a work bench and a few tools left over in his garage. We looked at the blueprints for the grips and started working
Having steady hands, I used a dremel tool to cut the rough 30 degree angles and he took each one and hand finished them with fine needle files.
They turned out great.
I wish there was more progress photos for the outside, but since it's only a few grips and a bubble strip, there's not much to it.
HOWEVER! For Christmas, I got myself a fancy new DSLR. Ok, it's not that fancy, but I was super excited for myself to finally be able to take good quality photos of my work now. So with my super amateur photography skills, I went to work outside.
The box is my friends, who is a blacksmith and has all sorts of cool trinkets laying around, which includes plenty of boxes and chests. The skull was conveniently just sitting there in the mud as I walked outside, so it seemed like a cool idea to pose with it.
Once I get back to my place, I will be creating a crystal chamber that I have to design. The camera is amazing and I love how these photos came out! Now I'm going to have to photograph all of my work all over again... There will be more to come for this build once I start making some progress!
-Jax
As per the norm these days, I am a proud owner of a Graflex flash gun. I picked this up off of Ebay around July of this past year for around 300, back before the price jumped up to the crazy amounts that it is now that the movie is released. My friend has been holding onto it for a long time now for me, since I was deployed for the majority of this past year.
Mine is the one on the far right. He has a few himself, including his fully finished one that he built back while we were in high school. I ordered the parts kit from Roy (Thank you Roy!) which arrived exactly on Christmas morning!
We took the parts over to his house where he has a work bench and a few tools left over in his garage. We looked at the blueprints for the grips and started working
Having steady hands, I used a dremel tool to cut the rough 30 degree angles and he took each one and hand finished them with fine needle files.
They turned out great.
I wish there was more progress photos for the outside, but since it's only a few grips and a bubble strip, there's not much to it.
HOWEVER! For Christmas, I got myself a fancy new DSLR. Ok, it's not that fancy, but I was super excited for myself to finally be able to take good quality photos of my work now. So with my super amateur photography skills, I went to work outside.
The box is my friends, who is a blacksmith and has all sorts of cool trinkets laying around, which includes plenty of boxes and chests. The skull was conveniently just sitting there in the mud as I walked outside, so it seemed like a cool idea to pose with it.
Once I get back to my place, I will be creating a crystal chamber that I have to design. The camera is amazing and I love how these photos came out! Now I'm going to have to photograph all of my work all over again... There will be more to come for this build once I start making some progress!
-Jax
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