Question about my Graflex 2.0 setup with space on main button and blade space

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The aluminum inner structure is thick enough to remove some material and run the wires on the outside. See this thread:

Graflex lightsaber build

Hello all! I found this site while researching building a fancy lightsaber. I have always loved Star Wars, and I finally have a project I feel worthy of posting. I stumbled upon empty hilts after seeing awesome chassis in your tube videos over the years. I settled on a Graflax and start the process of lots of learning. I didn’t know what a chassis was, neopixel, cree led, sound boards, etc. After finding the Korbanth Graflex 2.0 for a good price, I decided this would be a good starter to learn saber building. I found Goth 3designs after that and found out he designed the awesome chassis I had been seeing over the years! While expensive thru shapeways, I decided to do it! I started planning a master build. Alright with the story out of the way, here is the start of the build. It will be a slow process. [image] Korbanth kit pared down to my build. I am going with TFA version. [image] [image] I 3d printed a guide and added the rails and rivets (not from the kit, they were screws) [image] Also riveted the kobold ring. [image] First shipment arrived from The Saber Armory. I am going to use a proffie board and neopixel blade/plug. Bottom item is a glass eye for the bottom. Not sure if I will illuminate it, but I am planning too so far. [image] [image] [image] Got my first batch of shapeways master chassis parts. the main frame so I can get started fitting it. [image] I found the battery holder is quite a bit different from the one in the videos and Goth instructions. it is a lot thinner and appears to be able to hold a proffie. I know it doesn’t go there (for me anyway) because there is a dedicated chassis part just for it. The black one in the first pic. I had to do a lot of sanding and fitting in order to get it into the korbanth aluminum frame. To the point I thought it wouldn’t fit, but I did get it. That’s all for now. While I am waiting on the rest of the shapeways parts, I plan on assembling the electronics on the bench for testing. Posted on the rpf as well.

I did this with a cnc machine because I have one, but it can be done with a dremel. This gets the wires down far enough to run into the chassis. You could place it where ever you want.

The aux will be harder because there is nothing inside to retain it. You could devise something, but this hilt is really intended to be a 1 button hilt.