TOPIC: Greebo's Greebles..

Heretic | NBv4 w/ PeX | Royal Blue/Deep Red/Lime
Another Story so far…. Entry.

Credit to Stark Sabers for the Install, you know who you are .

Got this primarily as a shoto of sorts to the larger counterpart, Reliant as it presented a scaled down yet similar aesthetic to the TFU2 Starkiller Saber Hilt. I was also enabled by an enabler..
It’s a cute little hilt - light as it is petite. Haven’t been a huge fan* of the Apprentice Line personally as I have favoured the Elite & Crystal Sabers more for their respective sizes. Whilst I have had some Apprentices pass through my hands, their respective appeal wasn’t strong enough for me to keep them in my Collection, interest was lost and they were since moved on to their now Owners. The New Apprentices offered some additional variety but none that really wowed me enough to get them let alone want them… well except two, this – Heretic and another.

Did my bit with customising it ie. Sanded the default brushed silver aluminium (was ordered as the standard dual tone finish) and gave it a shiny polish after it had its internals loaded. Wasn’t going for a high mirror flawless finish, more to heighten IMO the dull default silver finish it comes in. Added some (okay more than some, hence the Topic Title) greeblies to promote a dual toned Brass/Silver finish that accents against the Bronze Stingray chosen wrapped grip body also.

I imagine the hilt (in handling and aesthetic) to Acolyte (wrapped Disciple) from the SF Original Apprentice Line and what makes it more appealing to me is the absence of what makes the Acolyte/Disciple what they are, the forked pork-trotter of an emitter.

Didn’t really like the stock supplied Pommel as the raised edges and opposing directional accent niche’s created a contrast against the circular appearance of the upper part of the hilt. Went in with an extra Reliant/Juggs Pommel from ASP with the intention of swapping out but its size relativity to the size of the hilt just didn’t work either. So I used and added a non-SF Pommel to make it my own. This also added some extra length too. T’was a win in my book.

I’ll refrain from going into the detail as my previous writeups specific to the measurements (if you’d like to know, feel free to raise your questions) more so since hilt length and subsequent weight will reflect different to actual due to the customised changes made. Besides, accompanying text adds little value cos it’s the pictures that verify it happened..

Take my word for it that it’s loud, the emitter’s bright and blade illumination is full.
With the size of the hilt as it is, anything greater than a 32 inch Infinity V4 blade makes it too top heavy. The ideal pairing I find is using a 30 inch thin walled blade. Great with spins, swings and balance and general getting up to no good.

Plugged a Graflex-style brass Blade plug cos I can. .

What was a pleasant (unrelated, sort of) surprise is that my Photobucket Account is still active especially since I (like many others that also use it) started it for its free subscription for hosting images. There was (apparently) a corporate re-shuffle that saw subscriptions escalate in order for continued use and many stopped using it as a result. Don’t know how but mine still works. Anyway…

All in all, not much bad to say. Some sharp edges were present primarily around the accent switch box footprint however is a non-issue. Kinda gotten used to chamfering the edges now as it’s not my first Saber.

.. *Might be hanging onto to this one for a bit..