I've been looking through some old pictures and realised I do have other stuff to post in here.
What I consider the first build that I did was a wooden case for a pair of die cast metal cap guns. It was for a friend's son's 4th birthday and I went overboard. I made the case out of Tasmanian oak, came up with a back story about the origin of the guns and how they were supposedly possessed by the souls of two sons of gods that were warring with each other, how they came to be in my possession, and why I was giving them to him. I named them both and had the names engraved on brass plaques and placed them under each gun. The case was foam lined and all the hinges and fittings were also made of brass. Unfortunately I was not net or digital savvy at the time and took no pictures of it or the build at all.
Not too long after that I picked myself up a couple of Master Replicas awesome Force FX Lightsabers (which are no longer in production). Here they are in action (I'm wielding Vader's- if I need to tell you which colour that is then we don't need to talk to each other. Ever.
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The hilts-
Top- Anakin's (EP3). Bottom- Vader's (ESB)
I was living with some friends at the time who had three kids. We had a ball with the MR sabers but I wouldn't let them play with them without me (not at $250 Aust a pop). One day I walk outside to find them having imaginary lightsaber duels with brooms and mops. This gave me a cunning plan for Christmas presents.
I went off to my local hardware mega store and searched around for bits and pieces that would look good as lightsaber parts. I then went home with ideas and drew up some plans (excuse the picture quality, this was a long time ago on my first mobile phone with a VGA camera)-
I ended up build four all up. One for me and one for each of the kids (of course I was going to play with them!).
Living with a mate had allowed me to save up some cash so I went overboard (again) when buying tools for the project. Sure I had a drill, but a drill press was better! Why sand by hand when you can use a linisher? lol. This was the beginings of my workshop and my desire for tools and to build things with them.
I researched the colours and in Jedi history there had once been many more colours then just blue, green, purple and red. Yellow had been common amongst Jedis in certain roles and I even managed to find mention of a black one in a piece of fan fiction, that was enough for me to do one for one of the boys who was a bit of a goth fan in it. I even went so far as to repeat sayings said by Jedis and Sith as they built their first sabers.
The blades were broom sticks and the hilts were tubing used for curtain rods with various irrigation fittings and other nick knacks glued on.
Here's mine closer-
If only I'd known what a centre punch was back in those days lol, the holes I drilled would have lined up so much better.
And that was the second build I did. It was only four years ago but jeez it seems like so much longer. And the workshop has come so far.
I've still got other stuff to post here yet. I'll try not to leave it so long next time.
