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Back to Lez Cook this week for a look at the lightsaber's that he has been building. WE first looked at these a few weeks ago as construction began.
heres a bit more on the manufacture of my Graflex replica. This section details how I went about recreating my replica graflex button. Not having been able to find
anything suitable in
any of the local hardware or electrical outlets, I decided to have a go at making my own, this meant sacrificing one of my aluminium drifts, I would have liked to have made it out of stainless steel but I knew that the tool I would use to cut the splines would not be up to it.
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In order to cut the splines I clamped the drift in the lathe chuck and used the saddle to traverse the tool along it's length
rotating the workpiece about 2mm every cut.
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I then used a large reference photo from ebay and a paralell parting tool I ground up to coppy the profile of the button
guaging the measurements by eye.
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And a taper turning tool to form the internal convex.
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As our late has no screw cutting facility I used the coarsest feed to cut a semblance of a thread, which I then opened up
and deepened with a three cornered file.
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And here is the finished product.
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It just remains for me to find something with which to make the button, although I think I might end up colouring and
casting either some fibreglass resin or araldite to get the colour match for the dark red, (we'll see).
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Here are a few more images of turning the metal on a lathe to make the sabers.
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