Thanks Luke, you and Yoda have been such HUGE helps in all this.
My parts list is shrinking, I still have a number of key components I still need to get but the big stuff is out of the way now.
(Chassis and soundboard)
The other parts are more reasonable prices for the wife to swallow. Hahaha! So I should be able to pick things up more regularly... My soldering finger is getting itchy!!! ;D (still need batts, adapter/holder, LuxV Blue LED, lens, momentary switch, glass eye retention screw and a blade.)
It was fun, at Halloween, my daughter dressed up as Ahsoka, she used one of Ultra's little initiate kits as her saber, had so much fun with it that she broke a connection to the switch. So I was able to do some basic practice on the soldering of the fine wires and such back onto the switch, put it back together and BAM! Success... great fun in practice for my real deal right here. (this happened before halloween, I got it fixed in time for Halloween thankfully!)