Zuluninja
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I blame it on a combination of seeing hawkhead's beautiful 7 and strolling thru the infamous auction site. 58$ shipped, new in box. I had been looking at them for a while so I pulled the trigger.
The idea was to keep on with the Star Wars theme after doing Yoda's 10. First thing to do was off with the ramp, next was going to be strip and etch. But after leveling the spine, I decided that some jimping would look great. In the middle of this I realized how beautiful, at least to my eyes, did the blade look all black.
Seriously. The 7 is meant to be a combat blade, and with the spine all straight and an all black, neutral tone it shows off as a mean, sleek, lean fighting machine. I finished the jimping and said F*** it I'm not stripping this one. Instead, I carved, painted and covered the Imperial symbol on the right scale, glued kydex inside the factory insert (not a full kydex piece, it holds the top of scales and like 3 inches down the blade, absolutely no rattle) and sprayed black primer over the spine.
Mr. Vader just texted me to have it ready for Monday as his saber backup
Imperial seal carved...
and after that it was covered with a clear and hopefully tough loctite glue. The stock sheath is getting a bit more bling and then it's done
the lanyard is glow-in-the-dark paracord for that added lightsaber flavor
The idea was to keep on with the Star Wars theme after doing Yoda's 10. First thing to do was off with the ramp, next was going to be strip and etch. But after leveling the spine, I decided that some jimping would look great. In the middle of this I realized how beautiful, at least to my eyes, did the blade look all black.
Seriously. The 7 is meant to be a combat blade, and with the spine all straight and an all black, neutral tone it shows off as a mean, sleek, lean fighting machine. I finished the jimping and said F*** it I'm not stripping this one. Instead, I carved, painted and covered the Imperial symbol on the right scale, glued kydex inside the factory insert (not a full kydex piece, it holds the top of scales and like 3 inches down the blade, absolutely no rattle) and sprayed black primer over the spine.
Mr. Vader just texted me to have it ready for Monday as his saber backup
Imperial seal carved...
and after that it was covered with a clear and hopefully tough loctite glue. The stock sheath is getting a bit more bling and then it's done
the lanyard is glow-in-the-dark paracord for that added lightsaber flavor
