This has been some time in the planning and I’m excited to share this now, even though I’m not fully finished yet, lol . . .
My second entry in the First Spring Raffle 2016 was the Renegade LE, with Obsidian v4 and all LED’s in CG . . .
The Renegade is a massive hilt, and lots of fun, but I always intended to dismantle this and see what I could make of the parts . . . I’ve got to give a shout out to shade_1313 (
http://www.saberforum.com/index.php?topic=27607.msg408521#msg408521) for inspiring me to look deeper at the sum of the parts, and my oldest son for leading an idea with a previous project that I wired up for him . . . thank you
First up . . . Dismantle . . . here’s the parts that make up the Renegade (the only piece not shown is an additional part inside the Cross Guard setup required to align the hilt properly) . . .
For this and all these MHS mash-ups I have in mind, I’ll refer to these parts that you can see in the pic ;
Main Blade Emitter
Main Blade Extension
Side Blade Emitter
Side Blade Extension
Cross Guard Section
Hilt Body
Pommel
Just a note, the Main Blade Emitter is slightly longer than the Side Blade Emitters . . . which works well for what I have in mind, although they could be swapped around . . .
Before I continue, a little bit of backstory . . . Mid last year my son had an idea and purchased some hilt parts from TCSS, and some electronics from US, and asked me to wire them up for him . . . Others have built sabers like this, it’s not a new idea, essentially its a dual LED hilt with a main blade and a short blade (or blade plug) at the pommel end . . . We’ve used 2x US DVA LED modules and Obsidian v4 sound thats mounted mid hilt, and drilled some sound holes in the short pommel blade / blade plug to vent the sound . . . It’s a LOT of fun, and after playing with this, especially with a blade plug in the pommel end, my ideas came up using Renegade parts for something similar . . . here’s a pic of my son’s “Darklight". . .
Also . . . I’d experimented using a Dark Sentinel stunt, adding an LED module to the pommel end, using a standard vented pommel (the sound hole is the same 1" as US emitters), tapping a retention screw and putting a blade plug / short blade in . . . these are lots of fun for spinning especially, as the extra light from the pommel looks really cool . . .
Ok, moving on . . . The Renegade LE parts I'm using for this double LED saber are (from top to bottom) ; the Main Emitter > Side Blade Extension > Main Blade Extension > Hilt Body > and Side Blade Emitter (at what would be the pommel end) . . .
Put together, looks something like this . . .
With a blade in the top and blade plug in the bottom it's very well balanced, and I absolutely love how awesome it looks, I intend to mostly keep it setup like that . . . I really hope I can find the time to wire this up soon, both LEDs CG, the light shining thru these emitters will look stunning . . . First, I'll set it up as a stunt, and then later with sound (I have been working on this, and just have a few issues to sort out, but I can make it work using Obsidian v4
) . . .
And . . . because it will have LEDs and emitters at both ends it will take blades, and could take a short blade at the pommel end, or even a pair of 24" blades for a short hilt staff (ala’ Exar Kun), with only one switch . . . Once this is wired, I'll share pics with all those options . . .
Introducing the
"RenExar"This hilt measures 15.35" long . . . Here's a pic next to a Dark Sentinel LE with a Catalyst pommel as a comparison . . .
Another, shorter version, without the Main Blade Extension would look like this, but I like the slightly longer version more . . . (next to the Sentinel for comparison)
I’ll add some more pics of other MHS swap outs using the Renegade parts some time soon, but for now here’s a couple of sneak peeks of a couple ideas . . . cheers
Using a Dark War Glaive body . . . a “ReneGlaive” perhaps ?
Using a Dark Catalyst body . . . a "ReneCat" or “ReneLyst” perhaps ?