ROCK! First try, the charging circuit is happy, all my wiring fits, the new grounding scheme works with the crystal mount, and so far no smoke.
It's getting there!
Grips, D ring, main blade left to go.
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Slothfurnace's ANH Luke Graflex Saber chassis. PICS, Step by step.
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ROCK! First try, the charging circuit is happy, all my wiring fits, the new grounding scheme works with the crystal mount, and so far no smoke.
It's getting there!
Grips, D ring, main blade left to go.
almar bouwman
Sr Member
This looks truly amazing. Just one thing though. What's with the incorrect bubble strip. Yours has 8 bubbles, it should be 7 
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This looks truly amazing. Just one thing though. What's with the incorrect bubble strip. Yours has 8 bubbles, it should be 7
It's a stand in till I get the Rebelscum bubblestrip sanded down.
Here's some better pics in the morning light...
Haha, yes, it's the only soundboard that fit, scrolled LEDs for my blade, and was cheap and available.
But now we come to one of the final parts, and one more trick up my sleeve.
I had to just go ahead and decide to make the D ring clamp. I couldn't find any that worked, and harder still to find the right metal, then lo and behold on the floor of my garage was some thin aluminum. I cut a section out and bent it around this rod that had the same diameter of my D ring, and placed it in the vice so I could round it over to the front, and crimp it under the roll.
Here I have crimped it, and sanded on it a bit, and made sure the clamp has the amount of play in it I want for the D ring.
A little more metal removed and sanded to fit the shape of the inner bevel of the graflex endcap.
And here is the final contour and hole drilled for my stainless cap hex screw. This screw I had to shorten quite a bit so that when it's all mounted, my chassis still slides all the way to the back of the Graflex end.
After CAREFULLY drilling and tapping the Graflex endplate, this is it all put together. It's not 100% perfect, but I am very close, and satisfied for now. I am in a bit of a rush to finish this for Celebration V, and I hope to have it with me when I go.
Oh, that trick I had up my sleeve?
I drilled out the cap screw.
There's just enough purchase left for the hex wrench, and now this is my sound port. Without it, my sound is half as loud. I wanted to have a sound port back here, but I didn't want to impact the visual authenticity of the saber.
really impressive
Wow! I just found and read this and I am in awe! (also kicking myself a bit for discarding those old hard drives...:cry) Beautiful work.
(also kicking myself a bit for discarding those old hard drives...:cry) Beautiful work.
Congratulations on that D-Ring!!! Excellent job! Nice trick!!!
For your ESB version you could have 2 speaker holes :love
You did line up that D-Ring Clip with your Graflex Clamp ... yes?
-Chaim
Absolutely, as per your diagram. Thank so much for your excellent D ring info! Your contribution is where I got my direction.
firebladejedi
Well-Known Member
Beautiful
astrocreep_22re
New Member
This is awesome!
SankaraRaider
Well-Known Member
Awesome work.. The saber is coming along great!
Really cool idea to have the sound port in the cap
screw, that's how MR should have done their FX's.. :cool
In fact, the entire saber is a fine example on how
a saber should be put together..
:thumbsup
Really cool idea to have the sound port in the cap
screw, that's how MR should have done their FX's.. :cool
In fact, the entire saber is a fine example on how
a saber should be put together..
:thumbsup
simplyprops
Active Member
Man I'm inspired to do something like that...wowwwwwww.
almar bouwman
Sr Member
Yep, me too.
Darcaz
New Member
I just found this site/thread and read through it at work...and I registered an account just to post this:
absolutely best piece of work I have seen on a lightsaber...ever.
I wish I had all of those nice tools so that I could practice this stuff myself, I love building things but cant afford the 'toys' to custom form my own pieces to such high quality.
One thing I would do if this was my build: a cut-away on the body of the graflex to show off the inner work without taking it apart. Kind of like the Starkiller saber in TFU but maybe have it similar to the ejection port on a rifle (a small hinged door) that could be like a quick "field maintenance" access hatch.
again...Awesome work.
absolutely best piece of work I have seen on a lightsaber...ever.
I wish I had all of those nice tools so that I could practice this stuff myself, I love building things but cant afford the 'toys' to custom form my own pieces to such high quality.
One thing I would do if this was my build: a cut-away on the body of the graflex to show off the inner work without taking it apart. Kind of like the Starkiller saber in TFU but maybe have it similar to the ejection port on a rifle (a small hinged door) that could be like a quick "field maintenance" access hatch.
again...Awesome work.
Thanks! I probably won't do a window, as I am trying to keep to the authenticity as close as I can...
Ok, so I got my lights wired...
I do notice one problem, even when the unit is off, I get a small voltage coming through the board and out to the LEDs.
The kicker? when I plug my kill switch into the recharge port, all the LEDs come on hot.
What in the world could be causing that?
Well, While I wait to figure that out, here's a final update for the night...
I got my grips, and decided to put them on tonight as a break from looking at wires...
I made a template in photoshop and printed it out, wrapped it around the hilt, and pulled back the last half inch of tape from each grip, and secured them on one at a time. Once I got them evenly spaced, I slid my template down to the bottom, and gently raised each grip and pulled the adhesive protector down with needlenose pliers. Once I carefully aligned the grip, I moved on to the next one until I got all seven straight.
Next to it you see the correct bubblestrip, but I will shave that down a bit tomorrow and install it.
CelticWarrior
Well-Known Member
Stunning, i'm not a big fan of Star Wars [ducks for cover] but that really is a work of art.
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