WIP: Mostly Hardware Obi ANH

[thd9791]

It's six pairs of two rings stuck together with spacers inbewteen, mounted on the roller. Unforunately each ring is a little wide, so once assembled at the correct length there's only room for eight notched rings instead of nine. But that's okay, because I don't think I could separate the pairs into single rings.

yea nah that wouldn't be fun. Still though, it's awesome you've found something relevant. The closest I've seen are salt shakers with the same pattern, but scaled down. Or a real pineapple.

I like the Big Yellow Box's idea of those Poly Washers stacked, but I'm surprised no one has cut lengthwise down those. I also feel like with the right tools, making the frag body should be a piece of cake..like out of wood..the neck is still a combobulation to me :lol

 

[Tan Djarka]

I've decided to revisit the "resin grenade" Obi saber this thread was originally meant to document. All it needs now is a pommel (which I plan to fabricate) and some clamp details (transistors, washer(s), and the holes/slot). It's actually coming along nicely.

Will post pics... Eventually.

 

[Tan Djarka]

I've posted a couple of new pics, one of the nearly complete saber built around the resin grenade and one of a tenative assembly of another using the "massager" frag body. They can be found at the following page:

Sabre-Craft

Just scroll to the bottom of the page. Once again, sorry 'bout the limited size and resolution of the images.

 

[thd9791]

man, that one with the resin grenade looks fabuoulous. What size of T track do you buy? I can never find it online *facepalm

 

[Tan Djarka]

1/4" I think. It's the grey ABS stuff from Plastruct, not the white styrene from Evergreen. The only shop that had it in my area closed:cry I only have one "stick" left, enough for one more saber. Then I'll have to order it.

 

[thd9791]

:thumbsup

1/4" I think. It's the grey ABS stuff from Plastruct, not the white styrene from Evergreen. The only shop that had it in my area closed:cry I only have one "stick" left, enough for one more saber. Then I'll have to order it.

really good info - I know evergreen's website feels like a ghost town

Your Plastruct boosters look dead on, best scratchbuild obi wan part I've seen

 

[Tan Djarka]

:thumbsup Your Plastruct boosters look dead on, best scratchbuild obi wan part I've seen

While it's the best I've managed thus far, I'd have to say SPY007's in his "Obi ANH Emitter Build" thread is much better. Instead of Plastruct he cut strips with a triangular profile from a 1/4" sheet of plastic for the "fins". The result is almost dead on, and much better than mine. That's not to say I'm not happy with the results

 

[Tan Djarka]

No real progress to report. I've developed a method to fabricate the neck of the saber that looks almost dead on perfect (well, like the MR version, anyway). Sadly, my website is now permanently closed. WebTV/MSNtv officially shut down on Sept 30th, and the site went down with it. Oh well. Maybe someday in the future I'll set up something else using the pictures still on my digital camera's SD cards. Until then, thanks for looking and all the encouragement.

 

[Tan Djarka]

I've completed the saber... Sort of. Everything is done but the pommel. I've given up on cutting the holes and slot in the clamp, and the pommel needs to be replaced (again). For the first one, all the details were there, but the geometry was a little off. The second one I fudged the details a bit for one that would LOOK right (it still didn't). I think I've figured out a way to get both the details and the geometry right (fingers crossed).

Update: The pommel, and the saber, is done. I know you'd prefer pics, but here's a verbal account of the DIY pommel recipe (for those foolhardy enough to attempt it). Start with a short section of 1" PVC pipe about 1 1/4" long. Over that place a 1" section of 1 1/2" "weldable" PVC extension pipe (thin wall), leaving about a quarter inch exposed. The extension pipe will have to be cut to reduce the diameter so it will fit snugly around the 1" pipe. Now cut another piece of the extension pipe about 9/16" and a narrow ring of a 1/8". Glue them onto the pipe with the narrow ring on the end cap side, followed by a narrow gap, and then the wider section of extension pipe. Glue the "cubes" around the assembly and finish as desired.


For the end cap I used an actual, though inaccurate faucet cap. To finish it I used Bare Metal foil on the cube sections with metal HVAC tape on the cap end and the final step next to the booster. Hope that makes sense.

 

[Tan Djarka]

Resurrecting this old thread, for some pics. I have a bunch stored on SD cards from digital cameras I've used. You'll have to excuse the quality as the only way I can think of to load them is to display them via the video input on my TV and take a picture of that.

 

[Tan Djarka]

Here's a pic that should hopefully demonstrate a pommel's construction. Basically it's a piece of PVC pipe cut to length with the step cut into one end. The black is thin wall plastic pipe for the raised section under the "cubes". And finally, the cubes are cut from more PVC pipe.

 

[Tan Djarka]

Here it is painted silver. I don't know why, as it's just going to get covered in HVAC tape.

And here it is covered. Hopefully that gives you some idea how I construct my hardware pommels.

 

[Tan Djarka]

Here's a grenade fabricated from PVC and plastic. It's a little oversized in diameter. The neck is 1/2" PVC pipe. The frag body is 1" pipe covered with rings fashioned from 1 1/4" pipe. The wind vane is 1 1/2" think wall PVC with Evergreen polystyrene fins. The white bits on either end are just attachment points for the emitter and clamp section of the saber.

 

[Tan Djarka]

I'm working on rebuilding this saber. The pommel has already gone to another saber. I'll have to create a new one and an emitter as well. Here's the clamp I intend to use, fabricated from aluminum.

 

[thd9791]

such cool work! I remember that grenade from your old site, still could fool me thinking it was real at first

 

[TheClash]

wow that is really good that clamp looks really good it looks like a replica of the real deal!

 

[Tan Djarka]

Here's the current state of the saber, missing pommel, short clamp, and everything.

 

[Tan Djarka]

Here you can see the interior of the wind vane. When I got it, it was cast solid, so I dremeled out the interior and fabricated the fins with Evergreen styrene "L" channel.

 

[Tan Djarka]

This is the handmade booster. It's basically Plastruct T-track assembled around a thin plastic tube and slid over the 3/4" PVC core that the pommel mounts on.

 

[TheClash]

What is the emitter made of?