Single 8-32 retention setscrews in each emitter.
**/***This is how I prefer to have them aligned and also how I perceived and expected them to align. The body faux switch panels/flats on the one side
(much like you would imagine the greeblies/knobs to appear on a Mauler).
In doing so however, it creates chaos with the fluidity of the etch pattern as it stretches from one side of the staff to the other.
The Coupler supplied wasn’t even timed for alignment rather what was supplied, was with it already attached to one hilt using a single timing shim that you would find from ASP. And just the one, without any additional spares.
When both hilts are attached and completely tightened, the one side that creates the opposite symmetry of the etch pattern doesn’t line up either.
Left Tit, right Tit; Big Tit, small Tit…
*The delivered execution of covertech delete, was to simply plug the holes with polished button head screws. Silver setscrews could also have worked, better still, same sized heads on the used screws could also have been forgiven.
From my perspective and in my opinion, what is a flawed demonstration of execution is the way the two hilt parts have been etched and the hilts configured. Granted that if you order and receive a single only, the flaw is non-existent and would only become so if ordinarily two halves were ordered and received separate to one another. BUT, when you order it as a Staff at the same time, the treatment applied
should be done differently. This is also through Customs, one that carries a different Lead Time to
normal production hilts.
When the mirrored symmetry of the etch pattern is lined up, focusing on the pattern only will see all sides (during a horizontal axis rotation) match and flow (as it should) from one end of the hilt to the other, more accurately representing a Staff.
What becomes an eyesore though is the placement and positioning of the switch holes, switches, recharge ports and the faux switch panels/flats that throws it all out.
Line up the flats/panels and the etched pattern is thrown into chaos, as too are the switch positions. With the dollars associated with a Legacy Purchase, attention to detail has fallen slightly short. What is essentially a Staff and should represent a Staff with body configuration of detailing included, what has resulted however is simply two singles joined by a Coupler and treated as independents- no different than taking two entirely different single Hilts and joining them with said coupler.
*sigh*
Back to the bigger picture…
I do like this Hilt, it’s aesthetic for what it is and who it represents and takes influence from. I’m not new to the brightness of SFs LEDs or the Light Blue colour and the volume output, brightness and blade illumination is more than satisfactory.