MR LE Count Dooku Conversion *finished*

[scottjua]

epic epicness is epic. Love it dude... good on you. I definitely have zero desire to tackle that... ahhahaha I did... but not now...

[Pinousse]

When talent, art and strong will are put together that gives your asome saber, plus all the details like covertech recharge port and trigger are there, a verry exceptionall saber!

When I will again mill custom parts and soldering little pads or some mad accid etching I will remeber the amazing guys will finely convert a MR LE dooku lightsaber and then bring some of my oldest dream it to light :)

That will help me to shut up and work ;)

Thank to share this amazing work with us all :)

[Greebles]

It turned out amazing. Awesome job, looks like the effort really paid off.

-Denzil

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

thanks guys.  I just downloaded Lord Blako's Count Dooku font and Darth Xusia's Dooku font (both sound amazing) so I'll be loading those up shortly.

photos are uploading now and should be posted within a few minutes, but just in case, I wanted to go over the tweaks I made yesterday.

I just messed with the sd card really but there was one mechanical improvement I made.  The pommel was held on by a single screw before that was very loosely threaded (from MR) into the pommel coupler.  It served no real purpose other than to hold the pommel loosely to a single point on the coupler.  It still was loose from there, so I knew I needed to make some kind of threaded joint that attached to the pommel itself, so when I screwed in the screw, it actually held the pommel rather than just serving as a loose pin.  I re-tapped the original threads to 6-32 and made a very short threaded brass standoff from a piece of 3/16" tubing.  I screwed that on to a modified 6-32 button head screw, and screwed the whole thing into the pommel.  It fit perfectly into the hole in the pommel, requiring no adhesive (which surprised me) and it is now a rock solid attachment that can't even move by force.

Unfortunately, my speaker is sounding raspy again (not sure what the problem is) so it either needs replaced AGAIN or there is possibly a small piece of swarf floating around in the pommel that I missed when I tapped the coupler for 6-32.  I'm going to open it back up shortly and figure out which it is.  I do have one theory if the speaker is blown again (peeled membrane) but I really hope I am wrong.  My theory is that when I have to hold the speaker in place to epoxy it, just me applying light pressure to the edge of the top of the speaker is too much for the membrane to handle.  Over time, the glue (that holds the membrane on the speaker) weakens, and then it blows.

I'm hoping it's just a small piece of swarf floating around that got caught in the rear of the speaker. 

[Clark Kent]

very nice man, very very nice.

i like how you actually made the trigger work. no one has done that before. i love it.

like you said, your Mona Lisa, congrats bud. you did it.

[Pinousse]

The last picture is stunning it feel like it was a real lightsaber ;) Again amazing work!

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

The last picture is stunning it feel like it was a real lightsaber ;) Again amazing work!

I really liked how that one turned out too.  I wanted to take more like that but I can't really move the saber around while it's in the light tent with the blade in, and I only have the one 3/4" blade (if I had some blade stock I could have made a short one just for the pictures). 

I also really need a low end dslr to start taking some real pictures of these sabers, but I just keep putting it off.  One of these days I'll grab one. 

[Malaki-Skywalker]

Very inspirational work!  8)

Is this a keeper?

Malaki

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

Very inspirational work!  8)

Is this a keeper?

Malaki

Thanks, and yep, definitely a keeper. 

[Pinousse]

Just an humble homage to your amazing work ;)

[CHEWBACCA]

Great job Alex!

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

Thanks for that!  Looks great!

Opened the pommel and the membrane was indeed peeled back from the speaker again.  Instead of replacing the speaker this time, I tried gluing the membrane back down.  It actually worked perfectly, so now i'm re-closing up the pommel.  Hopefully, it just works this time.  We'll see soon.  Again, the speaker has plenty of room so there is nothing causing this once it os closed up. 

[CHEWBACCA]

Thanks for that!  Looks great!

Opened the pommel and the membrane was indeed peeled back from the speaker again.  Instead of replacing the speaker this time, I tried gluing the membrane back down.  It actually worked perfectly, so now i'm re-closing up the pommel.  Hopefully, it just works this time.  We'll see soon.  Again, the speaker has plenty of room so there is nothing causing this once it os closed up. 

I have had that happen with several of the small speakers and have glued them like you mention. 

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

It's back together again and sounds perfect.  Hopefully the glue holds.  Now to glue the other 8 back together.   ;)

[Scorpion]

awesome alex well done mate, im glad as well as you are no doubt that it is finally complete,
so now you know how to do these is it something that you may offer as a service?

and whats next?