What's on your workbench? (no Star Wars, Marvel or DC stuff)

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There are the projects on my workbench right now. All Star Wars projects. From the left:
1. I'm making a wall rack to display my lightsaber collection. These are two of fourteen acrylic hooks, cut from a store display I found in a ditch. :lol
2. A Plantronics M114 headset I am converting to Obi-Wan's piloting headset from Revenge of the Sith. One of seven headsets I am making - all with headphone and microphone intact and functioning. The M114's boom is not 100% accurate, but you can accurize it a great deal by only filing away plastic. Next I will add some bulk to the boom.
3. I found a small MP3 player in a dumpster with a broken headphone connector. I transplanted this into a Gillette razor to make it into a Jedi communicator (Visual Dictionary version). I figured I could use it to have fake conversations with it whilst in costume, role-playing at conventions. The holes in the grip are for the built-in speaker. The two metal/black things are connectors for headphones and line-in.
However, once I had done all the work of inserting the player into the cramped space of the razor and soldered on the headphone connectors, I found out that sound output was busted also in the circuits.. It can record with its built-in microphone, manage songs, even record songs from the radio.. but not playback. :cry
4. A couple of years ago, I sculpted and cast Jedi pouches out of latex. I found out recently that I could use the same plaster mold for wetforming leather. The lighter portions of it are bleached. However, I need to make a new mold for the lid.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(badger @ Jan 17 2007, 11:06 PM) [snapback]1399641[/snapback]</div>
Still have some more bondo work and shaping, but I'm going to do a test pull soon to see what it looks like.

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I can't wait to see what your test pulls look like...Be sure to post them.
 
My wife is doing a senate gown from EpI. The headress is now complete

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Now for the rest of it :confused

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6 MINUTES??? :eek

im no top expert but that seems like alot more time than ive ever seen a top spin.

pretty cool lookin too...

and that amidala head dress on the TOP of the page is awesome.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(oldken @ Jan 30 2007, 01:35 PM) [snapback]1407998[/snapback]</div>
6 MINUTES??? :eek

im no top expert but that seems like alot more time than ive ever seen a top spin.

pretty cool lookin too...

and that amidala head dress on the TOP of the page is awesome.
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Yeah, I was surprised too. The last one I made only spun for 2 minutes
 
This week on my workbench is about $1500 worth of canned goods:
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Of course, as always, I've got a lot of stuff going. I've been painting these guys:
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I'm also making custom lenses for these and some of my other helmets that have needed them for a while. Notably this one:
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Progress continues on my movie theater project:
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I'm getting closer to being able to mold up the bolter:
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And a couple of backburner projects are getting pushed further back:
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So that's that. For now...
 
I don't have a workbench but I would love to see what's on Steve Sherman's. It must be the largest workbench on the planet...
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kurtyboy @ Feb 1 2007, 02:00 PM) [snapback]1409495[/snapback]</div>
I don't have a workbench but I would love to see what's on Steve Sherman's. It must be the largest workbench on the planet...
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:lol

Can't help it, that was funny.
 
And there you go. :D

Nice work, fella.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(clonesix @ Feb 5 2007, 04:18 AM) [snapback]1412082[/snapback]</div>
I have been able to make some headway on this:

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thanks wackychimp for hosting
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(slothfurnace @ Jan 30 2007, 12:02 PM) [snapback]1407942[/snapback]</div>
Starting a run of these,, not props, but tops.

So far it spins for about 6 minutes on glass.

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Oh Man... if youdecide to make more of these lemme know.... :thumbsup B)
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SithLord @ Sep 4 2006, 01:26 AM) [snapback]1312487[/snapback]</div>
My first ever....EVER....WIP :)

Keeping it under wraps for now, but here's a clue... :love

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BTW terrific R2D2. :thumbsup
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That wouldn't be a queen alien by any chace woudl it :)P:)
 
Still slogging away at R2.

Here's me checking the angle of R2's recline:
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Also just wrapped up the sound system the other day:
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Of course, tons more pics and write ups on The Blog
 
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