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Title: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: EXAR KUN on April 24, 2019, 09:26:00 AM
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Behold the most beautiful Asajj Ventress hilts ever created. The Solo's Hold Force Witch set is the most well-crafted and accurate Asajj Ventress hilts available, so I hooked these up with the best electronics including 2 speakers for each hilt, a powerful 3.7 lithium ion battery pack (protected), the Plecter Labs Prizm 5.5 and military spec wiring. For the blades, Alberto wanted these fitted with 7/8 inch Neopixel builds. At about 33 inches long each, each blade can perform millions of colors. Of course, these should be kept at shades of red!

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Specs:

2x Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress hilts
2x Plecter Labs Prizm 5.5
2x Chassis from Shapeways
4x Speakers (2 per hilt, 3 watt bass plus 1.5w regal)
2x Accent Leds (purple for hilt #1, blue for hilt #2)
2x High Capacity 3.7 lithium ion battery packs
Military spec wiring throughout = 30 awg, 26 awg
2x 33 inch long blades with approx. 31 inches exposed includes parabolic blade tips and skinny strips inside 7/8 inch blades with MR foam/TCSS inserts
Plecter Pixel connectors for easy operation
Internal R.I.C.E. ports
External 2.1mm charge ports
Major amounts of elbow grease sanding and shining these up, getting rid of most of the machine marks.

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VIDEO: SOLO's HOLD FORCE WITCH Asajj Ventress Plecter Pixel Set for Alberto - (https://youtu.be/7Tq47J7xTKk)


Bringing the Force Witch to Life



The way the hilts came from Solo's Hold they had some machining marks on the aluminum and they weren't as shiny as I wanted, so I spent a lot of time and elbow grease just sanding and polishing by hand until the hilts were the way I wanted.

Before:

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In the process of polishing:

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After:

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I made a drawing of each hilt and when I wired the hilts I wrote down all the wires and colors and where they go just in case we need to back track later:

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First thing for the install was to work from the emitter on down. Here you can see the emitter wired and the wires pulled down through the holes provided by Solos's Hold:

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Ventress was instructed by Count Dooku in some ways of the Sith and also gifted her dual sabers by Darth Tyrannus himself. It was only fitting I install the Count's saber (an Ultimate Works hilt)  alongside his student's sabers:

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These were both getting the Plecter Labs Prizm V5.5. Here are the boards being installed:

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Each hilt has two speakers, one in the center of the hilt in its own pod, and one in the pommel. Eventually, I replaced the speaker shown here with a 3watt:

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The hanging bit below the hilt connected by the red and black wires is an LED. Each hilt has it's own interior LED to designate which hilt you are holding. One hilt has a purple LED, and one a blue LED visible by looking through the recharge port:

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Once it's all properly placed in there...

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The shapeways chassis half can be added to secure everything:

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And then on to the next hilt...

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Securing everything with small bits of 3M automotive double sided tape will hold everything securely:

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I have read good things about this type of battery, so I used them here:

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Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: Sandpeople are people too on April 24, 2019, 05:05:44 PM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: Link on April 24, 2019, 05:35:27 PM
Dear Lord!!! Those are amazing!
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: Brad1981 on April 24, 2019, 06:45:59 PM
Unreal and amazing.  Each time you post your work, the more excited I am about my Graflex!
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: EXAR KUN on April 26, 2019, 09:18:37 AM
Thanks guys!

The video is now up, and more pics added. Build shots coming over the weekend once I get them sorted,
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: bombarta on April 26, 2019, 10:03:17 AM
Nice bud, how did my chassis fit? as it wasn't designed for the SH sabers.
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: EXAR KUN on April 26, 2019, 05:08:07 PM
Nice bud, how did my chassis fit? as it wasn't designed for the SH sabers.

I think I meant to add that bit about your chassis to the Dooku post I’m making. Head is scrambled with saber stuff haha. I’m not sure who designed these, maybe Solos Hold. They worked great. Tried to fit 26650 batteries was my first idea, wasn’t gonna work.
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: Link on April 26, 2019, 09:04:28 PM
Video was Awesome!!   So glad that font #1 was my Ventress!! haha :)  That was one of my favorites of all time. And what better hilts to have them in! Great work!
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: Yoda on April 30, 2019, 04:49:15 PM
Those came out great Exar and I like that the blade adapter shim is still removable so He could swap to
a one inch blade if wanted correct?
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: EXAR KUN on May 08, 2019, 01:51:30 PM
Video was Awesome!!   So glad that font #1 was my Ventress!! haha :)  That was one of my favorites of all time. And what better hilts to have them in! Great work!

Thanks so much my friend. Your font is absolutely perfect in these hilts!

Those came out great Exar and I like that the blade adapter shim is still removable so He could swap to
a one inch blade if wanted correct?

Oh yes absolutely :) Thank you
Title: Re: Solo's Hold Force Witch Asajj Ventress Lightsabers with Plecter Pixel
Post by: EXAR KUN on May 31, 2019, 09:28:06 AM
Build pics have been added for anyone interested in how these went together :)