It’s only taken 5? Years, but it’s finally time for a new Featherweight Shrekt. With DRG this year running a full combat featherweight championship, and an itch to do an international event for the first time, it almost seems rude not to. I have learned a lot running the beetle Shrekt this year, and want to transfer some of those learnings to the new feather, without fundamentally changing a working design.
The CAD came together fairly quickly, I just took all my measurements from the old frame and drew this up in a few evenings. The main difference between new and old is that this one is all CNC machined, whereas the old version was made in ye olde bandsaw days.
The fat stack, freshly machined. The bulkheads and bum are 20mm thick and the front and sides are 30mm, it’s a Thiccc frame. We’ll ignore the fact that I ordered the wrong thickness material at first and had to sacrifice a set of heavyweight bulkheads.
I’m just recycling
Frame went together very quickly, this was an evenings work. It’s amazing how when stuff fits it just fits, crazy!
Seen here with the old, very sad frame
The work cnc can pretty competently machine Aluminium, so I’ve taken full advantage of that. That’s a dual support mount for the Scorpion motor that runs the weapon (4025 630kv if anyone is interested), and a nut to lock the weapon shaft and stop it spinning in the bulkheads. Blank was cnc’d and then faced and chamfered on a manual lathe.
Weapon disc in (I always forget how massive the weapon is) and a little weight check. That’s not including the armour and some fixings, looking good for weight so far.
Casper obviously had to inspect the quality of my build
The armour going on, bending this is always a big job so I tried something different to help. Used a bullnose cutter to machine a groove to hopefully help with the bending, worked pretty well!
Build is ongoing, will add more over the next week or so.
Cheers for reading, Sam