Hey @SirRawThunderMan ! One more question for you... Did your crystal crack in half or did you break it intentionally? I just saw the caliper photos of the crystal in one piece in your flickr album and I'm wondering how it became two pieces.
Yeah, I cut it in half. I was going to save one half, so I could have a before/after comparison in the same picture, but then I got distracted and put both halves in the oven
As for glow in the dark crystals, I've definitely seen that before here. I think someone did a radioactive-themed saber a while back with a glow in the dark crystal as a pseudo-uranium rod, and it looked pretty cool. sadly, I think that one went down with photobucket
one thing I have wondered about is making a crystal the glows under a UV light, and then adding a UV accent LED. I think it'd be an interesting thing, but given how little I get to reveal the CC on the sabers I've built so far, I kinda think it'd be a bit of a waste of effort.