Avolow
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Figure it was about time I add my pics in. I had to dig them out of the garage and crawlspace so they aren't the best pics. They have been in storage for quite some time and some are in a state of disrepair, I need to get them restored and find a good place to display them again now that I am getting back into the hobby.
By far the favorite at this time is my Obi Wan.
The emitter is one I made on my little lathe, the grenade is a Russ Rep, the center clip a perfect original, and the rest I got off of eBay over a decade ago so I have no idea who did them. Hoping to slowly get the rest of the parts from Russ Rep over the next few runs he does and maybe build a lighted crystal chamber inside it.
Next are a few of my other favorites. The top I made with a Graflex extension flash and a Hieland Extension flash. The bottom of it is from my 3-cell and gets moved back and forth as I fell like it till I can get something else made.
Below that is another custom I was doing for my wife's Halloween costume. Again a Graflex extension flash that the plating was all buffed off to expose the brass followed by a piece I made on the late inside a piece of brass plumbing tube with the chrome buffed off the top half. I still have a lot to do as the wife wants girly designed etched into it. She just needs to decide on the designs.
The last one was one the wife and I made for one of her costumes over a decade ago. The bottom is a sprinkler head, the top a sink tube, and the parts around the emitter are reflector dish holders for the Graflex flashes.
Next are my Luke's Holiday Special Lightsaber that I never finished yet. Started this one about ten years ago too. :unsure Hope to get it finished now that I am back into the prop scene.
Then there is my ROTJ Luke that I traded for probably 25 or so years ago. It was being passed off at the time as a screen used hero prop. I wasn't that stupid when I was young but wanted it anyway so I traded two 3-cells, that I payed $20 each for, without their bottoms for it. I'd say a good deal even today. Ah for the day when you could find a Graflex in the camera shops for $20.00. :unsure
The one in the center was my first attempt at a Luke ROTJ whil in my high school metal shop class. Not bad for a first go, but it really kicked off my love of the lathe.
The two on the ends I did over a decade ago using washers and plumbing tubes, and threaded rod. The one on the right has the gears out of my VW Bug's old oil pump on it. I love that look and would probably go find more.
Here are a couple ROTJ Vader Sabers that I made using extension flashes. One done, one in progress.
This is another of my favorites. The bottom is a leather wrapped sprinkler head. The ring on the bottom along with the emitter and the two silver parts in between are the spindles that the disks are mounted to in the old MFM hard drives. For those not familiar with these things they were the boat anchor sized hard drives that were in 8088's all the way to 286 computers. The first to hit the commercial market in the early 80's. LOTS of great lightsaber parts in these things.
This is an MFM next to a laptop hard drive. I love busting into those things, they always had great parts for models and other projects.
Various other flash based lightsabers I had made, another hardware store one and some lathed ones I did in high school, one wood the other aluminum.
A couple more works in progress that got shoved aside many years ago and another flash based saber with a vacuum attachment for a emitter that I made in high school.
So that is it for my collection at the moment. I am going to be weeding out some of the more crude looking ones and try to get a display put together for the better ones when time allows. Ton of the toy lightsabers around, a Luke ESB FX saber and all the new Hasbro FX toy versions to, but I didn't make them so no point in taking their pictures.
Avolow.
By far the favorite at this time is my Obi Wan.
The emitter is one I made on my little lathe, the grenade is a Russ Rep, the center clip a perfect original, and the rest I got off of eBay over a decade ago so I have no idea who did them. Hoping to slowly get the rest of the parts from Russ Rep over the next few runs he does and maybe build a lighted crystal chamber inside it.
Next are a few of my other favorites. The top I made with a Graflex extension flash and a Hieland Extension flash. The bottom of it is from my 3-cell and gets moved back and forth as I fell like it till I can get something else made.
Below that is another custom I was doing for my wife's Halloween costume. Again a Graflex extension flash that the plating was all buffed off to expose the brass followed by a piece I made on the late inside a piece of brass plumbing tube with the chrome buffed off the top half. I still have a lot to do as the wife wants girly designed etched into it. She just needs to decide on the designs.
The last one was one the wife and I made for one of her costumes over a decade ago. The bottom is a sprinkler head, the top a sink tube, and the parts around the emitter are reflector dish holders for the Graflex flashes.
Next are my Luke's Holiday Special Lightsaber that I never finished yet. Started this one about ten years ago too. :unsure Hope to get it finished now that I am back into the prop scene.
Then there is my ROTJ Luke that I traded for probably 25 or so years ago. It was being passed off at the time as a screen used hero prop. I wasn't that stupid when I was young but wanted it anyway so I traded two 3-cells, that I payed $20 each for, without their bottoms for it. I'd say a good deal even today. Ah for the day when you could find a Graflex in the camera shops for $20.00. :unsure
The one in the center was my first attempt at a Luke ROTJ whil in my high school metal shop class. Not bad for a first go, but it really kicked off my love of the lathe.
The two on the ends I did over a decade ago using washers and plumbing tubes, and threaded rod. The one on the right has the gears out of my VW Bug's old oil pump on it. I love that look and would probably go find more.
Here are a couple ROTJ Vader Sabers that I made using extension flashes. One done, one in progress.
This is another of my favorites. The bottom is a leather wrapped sprinkler head. The ring on the bottom along with the emitter and the two silver parts in between are the spindles that the disks are mounted to in the old MFM hard drives. For those not familiar with these things they were the boat anchor sized hard drives that were in 8088's all the way to 286 computers. The first to hit the commercial market in the early 80's. LOTS of great lightsaber parts in these things.
This is an MFM next to a laptop hard drive. I love busting into those things, they always had great parts for models and other projects.
Various other flash based lightsabers I had made, another hardware store one and some lathed ones I did in high school, one wood the other aluminum.
A couple more works in progress that got shoved aside many years ago and another flash based saber with a vacuum attachment for a emitter that I made in high school.
So that is it for my collection at the moment. I am going to be weeding out some of the more crude looking ones and try to get a display put together for the better ones when time allows. Ton of the toy lightsabers around, a Luke ESB FX saber and all the new Hasbro FX toy versions to, but I didn't make them so no point in taking their pictures.
Avolow.
It's worth it! Doing my 2nd Obi this year.
