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The plan:

Turn this

(https://i.imgur.com/kD6zuFI.png)


Into this

(https://i.imgur.com/Tmr5d2B.png)


Why? Because I wanted a silver Reaper. Because I wanted to see if I could. And because no one else had done it and I'm a smug a-hole  ;)

So I bought my very first Reaper.

(https://i.imgur.com/XYwfmmK.jpg)

Just as a bit of a side note: Before I bought this hilt, I honestly thought it was stupid and goofy looking. Once I took it out of the box though, it shot up high on my favorites list. I fell in love with this hilt when I started wielding it and spinning it. Also once I started gutting it and looking at it from so many angles I started to see the myriad of modifications and builds you could do with a Reaper. I honestly have about 10 more Reaper ideas and am probably going to go stupid next time there is a flash sale on this hilt.


First I had to remove the anodizing. This was the quick part. 20-30 minutes all told. The hard work and the hand cramps were yet to come!

(https://i.imgur.com/oZOYMCZ.jpg)


Then paint the entire hilt, emitter and emitter shroud, pommel ring, claws and collar black and then get to sanding so all the high spots were sanded back to silver, and the black stayed in the engravings.

There are no progress pictures of this because it was many, many hours of sanding. I lost count but it was somewhere between 8-10 hours of hand sanding working my way up from 600 grit, to 3000 grit to get this mirror finish.

(https://i.imgur.com/IMQ0knW.jpg)

I made the switch silver about halfway through the build instead of black so I could do a silver switch/black bezel and a black covertec/silver screw just to keep the black and silver jumping out on top of each other through the whole build.

(https://i.imgur.com/asU9oVM.jpg)


And for those curious, I consider this a "light side" hilt and had it built with the finished colors I had planned for it. So this hilt has V4 sound, Guardian Blue blade and Violet Amethyst Flash on Clash.

(https://i.imgur.com/Gf9RKOm.jpg)


It is hard to see in these pictures, but the windows of the emitter are black just like in my "plan" picture. The objective was to make anything silver, black, and anything black into silver. With one exception. On a standard Reaper the crown shaped machining on the emitter shroud is black on black, but I wanted mine to stand out more, so I left it contrasting in the same way as the rest of the low spots on the hilt.


And the end result?

(https://i.imgur.com/qkF8dTI.jpg)

This turned out to be my favorite saber mod that I've done to date and because of that, it became a shelf queen so I didn't drop it and destroy the hours and hours of work. I plan on buying another standard Reaper to replace it as an "active" saber so I have one for dueling.

That is really really lovely Isola! Point

well done, Isola. Your mods are fantastic! another +1 for you

Damn that is a lot of sanding, and great job!! I like the reverted colors.

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Point to you for the Bad @ss mod!  :o :o Now that is the kind of mod I like to see, very clean and slick!

Impressive... most impressive... makes me wish US actually offered that

Very nice results there, Isola. Very nice indeed

This...this is just a thing of beauty...

(https://media.giphy.com/media/xT77XWum9yH7zNkFW0/giphy.gif)

DAYAM. :o :o :o Great job, Isola. I wish US offered this, then I might pick up a Reaper. Point.

So creative, such determination, such patience, such skill!  Dude, you poured a lot of work into this and it shows brilliantly. Nice work. I had no idea of the work you poured into this project. You never cease to amaze me with your diligence and finesse for quality in your mods. Nice job, truly!

Point for this awesomeness! ;)

Once again, I saw this one when you first showed it off, but I never get tired of looking at it. Such a beauty.

Points to you

Thanks to everyone for the feedback  :D


As cool as it would be if US actually did this it would suck for this to no longer be unique. I contemplated doing it with a curved Reaper as well, but I just couldn't bring myself to steal this hilt's thunder!

BEAUTIFUL ... one of a kind show piece!

Great thread and share, Isola.  Points to you!

Isola, you deserve about a million points for this. Unfortunately, I can only give you one. But I'll come back in an hour's time ;)