I've wanted to do a custom blade plug for a while now, but wanted to push it to a new level, try something new, even if it wasn't impressive. I had no luck finding something really neat, until today!
I was at work, mixing paint, and I hit an idea. Why not that bit that screws into the faucet on the sink that keeps the water flowing uniformly? Later I found out from a coworker that its called a sink aerator, and while most of the ones we carry have this blue plastic insert in them that really didn't jibe with my mental image of what the buisness end of a saber looks like, I found one that had an adjustable insert:
Lowe's Item No. 387146, if anyone wants to find one.
The second part was actually a fan pull from electrical, because I felt I needed something to diffuse the light so that the blade plug functioned as well as the US stock.
Item No. is on the packaging.
I basically cut the insert in half, chopped the metal bit off the pull, sanded it until it was evenly frosted, ground the threads off the metal aerator collar then hammered the into a bit of blade that I had also ground a bit on the inside. I pushed the plastic bits into the plug, then used one of the O-rings that came with the aerator to hold that steady inside the polycarb tube.
The end result looks like this:
I turned the lights off, took a low exposure photo head on. Doesn't it remind you of an eye?
