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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #540 on: December 08, 2011, 02:50:04 PM »
Use the Force! Itll help  8)

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #541 on: December 11, 2011, 03:12:06 PM »
Cant find the stinkin Members Photo thread..,

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #542 on: December 18, 2011, 03:29:15 PM »
I JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST GRAFLEX!!!!
It's a Luke ESB. Now all i need is a conversion kit, 2w speaker, pc-u, 5w ledengin and i'm set. So so so set :D

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #543 on: December 18, 2011, 03:35:04 PM »
Good stuff man! Vintage or replica?

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #544 on: December 18, 2011, 03:35:13 PM »
Cant find the stinkin Members Photo thread..,

Newest official member of The Dark Empire costume club as of this morning

Lady Ardor
TDE109
Thule Temple

CONGRATS Shaak Ti! Match that costume up with Malignant Fury (the saber in my sig) and you'd be dangerous.  ;)  :D :D


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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #545 on: December 18, 2011, 03:53:59 PM »
Good stuff man! Vintage or replica?

It is made from a real vintage 2-cell Graflex flash, with a 3-cell replica backend from Parks :D

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #546 on: December 18, 2011, 04:00:23 PM »
Nice, was that another eBay Sam bargain? :D

I noticed you said PC-U with a 5w...had you considered PC1.6 with 10w FoC? That would rock  8)

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #547 on: December 18, 2011, 04:06:41 PM »
Good stuff man! Vintage or replica?

It is made from a real vintage 2-cell Graflex flash, with a 3-cell replica backend from Parks :D


Noooooooo! By the time I saw that, it was already sold! Was that Alessandra's by any chance? That was such a bargain.
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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #548 on: December 18, 2011, 04:12:29 PM »
Nah not an Ebay bargain Dave. Over on the rpf. I've decided (Only just yesterday how god is that for timing!), that i'd watch the rpf like i do Ebay lol.
A pc-u 1.6 with 10w FoC could work :P I'll have to discuss it with Noyl to see what he thinks (He'll be doing the install for me).
Jerome yes good sir that's the one! A truly gorgeous piece if i may say so myself :D

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #549 on: December 18, 2011, 04:17:32 PM »
Sam - I've been watching the RPF junkyard for a while now! At least it's good to see it coming over to Oz. As you know I'm looking for a graflex back end. Well, if you decide you don't like it, you can contact me  :P

Alessandra is on fx as well, as Satele Shan I believe. I followed her Luke sabers project with interest over on the RPF.

Vintage Graflex Luke ANH
Vintage Graflex Luke ESB
Rylo limited run Luke ROTJ
MHS custom "Excelsior"
Russrep Luke ROTJ V2
Russrep/Romans Obi-Wan ANH
OR Qui-Gon TPM (WIP)
Parks Obi-Wan TPM (WIP)

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #550 on: December 18, 2011, 04:52:12 PM »
Jerome- It won't be coming here until it's had all it's sound and led installing done :D
I'll keep an eye out for a graflex back end for you. Do you care if it's a replica? The one on this is a replica and i think the guy i'm sending it to for the installs has a vintage back end. If that's in good nick i could always have it swapped over so i have a full vintage graflex and sell you the replica one :)

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #551 on: December 18, 2011, 08:30:15 PM »
I'm shocked Sam I would have thought you would enjoy doing this install yourself?

Congrats on the great bargain regardless
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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #552 on: December 18, 2011, 09:18:56 PM »
I'm shocked Sam I would have thought you would enjoy doing this install yourself?

Congrats on the great bargain regardless

xxx no mate. If there's anything i learnt in the workshop in QLD... It's that i strongly dislike elec installs of any variety.
I'm just going to stick to doing my darkside conversions and experimenting with weathering, that's what i enjoy best :D

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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #553 on: December 19, 2011, 01:38:34 PM »
So, I'm about to enter my last semester in my Master's degree program for Library and Information Science (yes you do need a Master's degree to be a librarian - most of the people working the circulation desk are volunteers or student workers :)). The good news is that I have an interview tomorrow for the DPLA Research Assistant internship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which I would do while in my last semester, in addition to my other part-time job which is recording and podcasting events and lectures for my grad program.

The DPLA is really, really cool. It's the Digital Public Library of America initiative, which is a project that is attempting to bring together all of the major institutions in the United States together to create a single, unified national digital library. In some ways, it may be like Google Books, but like a public library - though it's very much in its infancy and planning/development stages. I'm just insanely excited about the possibilities this holds. Let's face it, many people never use libraries, since the degree of Internet penetration into households has risen so dramatically. As information specialists, we know that not all information is available online, which is a common misconception, but we also know that it's time/convenience versus actually having the highest amount of precision and recall in a given search/query. I feel like the DPLA has a chance to make libraries really relevant again and I'm super excited for the chance to be involved in it. It also really fits my course of study, which has focused on information systems, metadata, the semantic web, databases and XML, and other related topics such as information architecture and usability.

Anyhow, that's my good news. I'll post again if I get the position. :)
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Re: The Good News Cafe
« Reply #554 on: December 19, 2011, 01:44:13 PM »
I JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST GRAFLEX!!!!
It's a Luke ESB. Now all i need is a conversion kit, 2w speaker, pc-u, 5w ledengin and i'm set. So so so set :D

I'm glad it's going to a good home and being upgraded with electronics! ;D

As I think I explained to you, I decided that having two variations of the same lightsaber was dangerous for me. In the Star Wars universe, the ANH and ESB Luke are the same saber. If I have two variations of the same lightsaber, why don't I also have the Chronicles and Tunisia versions of Obi-Wan's ANH lightsaber? Instead of just the ANH Vader lightsaber, why don't I have ESB and ROTJ versions of Darth Vader's lightsaber? The Hero Luke and the v2? It's just too much to collect, and my brain is deeply wired to liking things in extremely specific sets.

I decided to get rid of the ESB, since I like the ANH more, mostly because of how amazingly clear Exactra 20 bubbles are. They give almost a glass/metal feeling to the saber which really raises the perceived quality of the item as a whole, at least in person and IMHO. So my final static collection will be the ANH Luke, ANH Obi-Wan, ANH Vader, and the ROTJ Luke, which I think covers all of the major lightsabers in the original trilogy, without delving into multiple iterations and variations of each saber.
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