Okay-- I'm going to solicit opinions BEFORE I finish some builds...
Here's my line up of upcoming sabers:
Starting on the left--
1. This is an Ikon I've been sitting on forever. Busch shroud and clamp, and
Scott D style grips. Edge card, I'll likely go with an Odyssey cartridge. I keep avoiding this one because I am terrified to drill and tap all the holes for the grips, cause I've yet to do that and be even. This is my favorite one and I don't want to screw it up.
2. This is a Busch body, a neck designed by
AnubisGuard for a minicam, a Heiand stubby shroud, and the control box from my Anakin Starkiller Luke TFA saber that I didn't use since I made it into a V2. The one grip is a test. It's a strip of brass very similar to what Scott uses for his grips. I soaked it in AB and accidentally left it out in the rain and now it has this cool aged look. Still seems bare though.
3. King Sol body, Parks unfinished MPP clamp, emitter is made from a small canon camera lens, shroud from a Canon Y. The Sol is pretty beat up and scratched, not sure what I should do for grips or mismatched metal tones.
3. Heiland 2 cell, a home-made wanna be graflex clamp with one of Roy's clamp covers, emitter and pommel are TCSS parts, and a shapeways-made grip I will likely use to cover some DEEP gouges in the body that t-track wouldn't be able to hide. Again, mismatched metal tones, will likely age and weather the TCSS bits.
4. Another Ikon. I've added a Graflex repro button into where it's glass (plastic) eye was, and added a small control box. Otherwise, no bright ideas for it yet.
5. Body is some off-brand Heiland knock off I found at a swap meet, Heiland box, a Canon X/Y slave for the upper part, a TCSS emitter. I like the ports down low, there's some holes to fill with greeblies. Not sure about grips.
6. A DMB. It's a 2 cell, so I'm having a friend lathe up an emitter section to give it some length. Grips-- not sure. I could do t-track in the short lower section, below the clamp, booster style. I could also use the rounded grip in #4. Really can't decide.
7. A Canon Y, full length, still unassembled. No ideas yet...
Anyone have better ideas with what you se here?