Lightsabers & Blasters Machined sabers...

I had a question, I've been making hardware sabers for
about a month now,and I wanted to get into machining, but I don't want
to buy a lathe,could I use my dremel to make sabers?

 

ummm, you could use you dremel but you couldnt do machining with it. its machining because you use machines and dremels just arnt big or powerful enough to do that kind of work. but you can do things like carve up the hardware to make it look diffrent.

 

or, you could always ask your local machine shop...

 

Agreed, but I dont use a dremel.... I use somthing at my dads work that is basically the same thing sept my dad says it goes a whole lot faster, which make the price a whole lot. lol

 

i use an air cutter/grinder/any clip you put onto it... so it's nice. oh and did i mention it goes 2 times as fast

 

I wouldn't be using a cheap little wal-mart dremel, I mean a air compressed dremel

 

Aparently this thing cost over 700, closer to $1000 I think.

 

same deal. still not gonna give you the lathed look. you could do it with an air grinder. but... its gonna take a long time and you still wont be geting an acuall machined look.

 

u'll get a more haggard look with tools other than a lathe,cnc lathe, or a mill even...

 

whoo attached the pommel and the belt clip today. is looking like awsome in lightsaber form. just waiting for my customsabershop order to show up. and designing the rest of the thing... ill get more pics tomorrow probably

 

Well, I finally got the tubing for my machined saber. At this point it is chucked up in my lathe. Since I work weekends, and Im off through the week, It will be monday before I can do anything else with it. I've already turned the top portion, looks great so far. I will post progress pics as soon as I can sneak over to my house and take some.

 

I caleld the guy who is helping me get my piece that is getting machined and aparently the guy wont be able to get it to me for about a week, but it ok now I can make sure the bottum half of the saber is perfect. So I dont mind

 

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its almost done. just need to drill a few holes, do a lot of sanding/polishing/painting. make a little belt clip button insead of the cheep plasitc one. and somehow fit the electronics inside of it.

 

Nice! We'll look forward to seeing the finished product!

 

YAY! finished the outside. now i just need to find out how to get 2 9v batteries the inverter and the switch inside of it. hehe that will be fun, because both batteries wont fit on either side of the switch. off to radioshack for some battery tabs now.

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