Sildrotha
New Member
My first prop and post 
My little girl's a big Doctor Who fan (who isn't?) and wanted her own Sonic Screwdriver- one of her own design. She came up with her design, and I built this for her. It's made of brass tubing, PVC, translucent acrylic pen blank for the 'emitter', styrene strip, acrylic 'gems', and neoprene O-rings. A few greeblies made from high-end DB-15 connector pins and such are on the end.
The PVC parts are quick-connects which I turned on the lathe, along with the pen-blank material to make the emitter end. The emitter is painted bronze, and appears metallic when unlit, but is bright orange when lit.
Inside is the tiny sound/light board from CO's Tenth Doctor SS toy, and the LED at the emitter is a bright amber. All the electronics fit inside well, and are powered by the battery pack from the CO toy- just Dremel'ed to fit inside and re-soldered to longer wires. The pommel end pops out for battery changing.
The paint is matte black primer with a light dusting of metallic and interference red, and the handle is orange appliance epoxy paint over which I sprayed black metallic enamel and then 'distressed' with a sponge to reveal the orange. The handle then got coated in clear marine epoxy to preserve the paint and also smooth out the rough texture for handling.
The switch mechanism was made from a micro snap-action lever switch, the lever of which was cut down to hold the acrylic 'gems'.
My daughter was very, very happy with it. Looks like I might have a new hobby
My little girl's a big Doctor Who fan (who isn't?) and wanted her own Sonic Screwdriver- one of her own design. She came up with her design, and I built this for her. It's made of brass tubing, PVC, translucent acrylic pen blank for the 'emitter', styrene strip, acrylic 'gems', and neoprene O-rings. A few greeblies made from high-end DB-15 connector pins and such are on the end.
The PVC parts are quick-connects which I turned on the lathe, along with the pen-blank material to make the emitter end. The emitter is painted bronze, and appears metallic when unlit, but is bright orange when lit.
Inside is the tiny sound/light board from CO's Tenth Doctor SS toy, and the LED at the emitter is a bright amber. All the electronics fit inside well, and are powered by the battery pack from the CO toy- just Dremel'ed to fit inside and re-soldered to longer wires. The pommel end pops out for battery changing.
The paint is matte black primer with a light dusting of metallic and interference red, and the handle is orange appliance epoxy paint over which I sprayed black metallic enamel and then 'distressed' with a sponge to reveal the orange. The handle then got coated in clear marine epoxy to preserve the paint and also smooth out the rough texture for handling.
The switch mechanism was made from a micro snap-action lever switch, the lever of which was cut down to hold the acrylic 'gems'.
My daughter was very, very happy with it. Looks like I might have a new hobby
