My version of the NicoStik Tribal...

[tdstrike]

Start with big chunk of aluminum, don't stop until you have a small chunk of aluminum. Takes CR2's, 14500, and when I make my spacer, an 18650.
Thanks go out to nicowolf, warp, and any other crazy bastage that dreams the dream.

 

[SmokinScott]

This is a work of art. Nice mod!

 

[doots]

Wow. Ive never seen anything like it. Nice work! Are they for sale?

 

[warp1900]

I absolutely LOVE it.

It is not only an amazing PV design, but also artwork.
Doubles as a sculpture for the living room

I hate you because of your tools and your unbelievable skill. (joke)

Double WOW.





Is the gold plug a choice or just what you were able to find?
I kind of like how it looks actually.

Anyhow, this is my favorite place to get RCA parts:

Parts-Express.com:RCA Plug Metal | Rca connector solder connector rca audio connector rca plug plug



Thank you for posting your pics td, if there was a modders hall of fame, this one should be there.



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[tdstrike]

Thanks everyone, only chance I'd be selling these would be to pay for the divorce lawyer if my wife ever got tired of me dinkin around with this stuff.
Warp, don't hate the playa, hate the game, only tools I used was a drill press, some sanding wheels and a grinder, oh yeah, and some bits and a chop saw, and there was that time on the table saw, and I might have used the belt sander a bit, but other than that...

 

[jeffakamax]

What keeps the cover on? By the looks of it the spring pressure binding against the alignment pin?

Just curious.

Nice job! I bet your hands were black after that huh?

 

[warp1900]

Thanks everyone, only chance I'd be selling these would be to pay for the divorce lawyer if my wife ever got tired of me dinkin around with this stuff.
Warp, don't hate the playa, hate the game, only tools I used was a drill press, some sanding wheels and a grinder, oh yeah, and some bits and a chop saw, and there was that time on the table saw, and I might have used the belt sander a bit, but other than that...

And a lot of time.


You basically hand carved it didn't you?

Amazing



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[tdstrike]

the body's held together by a 10-32 tapped hole in the body with a ss cap head screw from the bottom.
Hand carved is one way to put it, I started out trying to make something else but the spirit of the aluminum guided me to this...bwaaahaaaahaaaa!
I try and always wear gloves when I'm working with metals so the hands weren't an issue.
thanks again everyone-tom

 

[Mary Kay]

You know if you did a bit more tooling, you'd have a T Rex skull! Wow! What an attention getter that would be!

 

[Thyestean]

Ok when I was looking for that other thread of yours I noticed this one for the first time.

Very cool work. Did you ever end up making the spacer to use the 18650?

 

[tdstrike]

wow, way to resurrect an old thread, this one started getting finicky after a couple weeks, lost interest in it and was banished to the island of misfit mods. Maybe one day
I'll revisit it, it really felt nice in your hand.

 

[Thyestean]

Yeah when I saw it I was surprised it had gotten so little attention. Not to put anything else down but this is, unless there's another from before my time, definitely a one of a kind.

It does look like it would be pretty comfortable to hold/use.

 

[debook]

Very nice work, really interesting design.