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Lastly, cut a thin strip of foam for a mic tip, add a small bead of hot glue, and wrap around boom. Be careful not to burn yourself like I did.

 
I used shoe goo to glue the felt pieces around my headset wire. Let dry and voila! Here is your completed headset! I left the clamp on the end of my wire to have a way to keep it in my jumpsuit pocket, I glued the wire end into the hole at the bottom of earpiece

 
Here are some selfies, better pics to come!

 

 

 
Hope this tutorial helps you to build your own! Good luck and have fun!

while that dries solid, I take a piece of black felt I had laying around (these are 99 cents a piece in craft stores) I measure and cut into two pieces


 
Next, I hot glue right earpiece to headset and let dry

I drilled my holes on right earpiece so that boom weaves behind headpiece. Don't be shy with hot glue!

 
Now is time to cut foam strip

cut a 1/2 inch square off end, then round corners

set in earpiece with plenty of hot glue

Hello Crewman! Want a headset for that ESB look and don't know where to start? It's easy if you have some basic tools, just many steps. However, got mine complete in an afternoon with mostly stuff around the house! Take a look...
 
First of all, find some caps that replicate the look of the original turntable knobs used oN ESB. I went to the 99 cent store and found these curel hand lotions. Caps should be bevelled at the top, no grooves or markings on side, and these were already silver, so that saves a painting step. I had a sturdy but rusty hanger sitting around which needs to be painted black, a broken wire tester for chord, and some foam stripping for airconditioning units ($2 home depot).

 
I used tape measure to measure my head over my hat, length of my main "loop" is 13 inches, about 8 inches for speaker boom. Use wire cutters or strong scissors to cut hanger, bend to the shape you want.

Spray paint both sides black

 
While drying, drill holes in your caps, 3 on right earpiece (headpiece, boom, wire) and one on top for left earpiece

 
Test your placement, make sure wire fits in snugly. My caps have this inner ring which I drilled through, which stabilize the wire nicely.

 
hot glue left earpiece together and boom to right earpiece seperately. Allow to firm up

I saw this pic on the IOC Facebook page and literally laughed out loud.  Its good to be out trooping again!  Take care!

Hello fellow Officers! I have been absent for some time between Covid and life, but I'm hoping to be on here more again in the near future. I am settled in to my new home and my son Jackson is now 2 months old and sleeping through the night. I'll have to make him a crew suit soon! I am on the facebook groups more often if anyone needs costume advice, just look for Benjamin Salisbury. Great t be back on the job again! Hope to see some of you in Anaheim next May! Long live the Empire!
 

That's a pretty good collection if Vader himself decided to muscle in on it 

Thanks mates, I’ve missed you all 

Interested but would like to know shipping to the US first.

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Good to see you Ben!

Hello fellow Officers! I have been absent for some time between Covid and life, but I'm hoping to be on here more again in the near future. I am settled in to my new home and my son Jackson is now 2 months old and sleeping through the night. I'll have to make him a crew suit soon! I am on the facebook groups more often if anyone needs costume advice, just look for Benjamin Salisbury. Great t be back on the job again! Hope to see some of you in Anaheim next May! Long live the Empire!
 

Hello fellow Officers! I have been absent for some time between Covid and life, but I'm hoping to be on here more again in the near future. I am settled in to my new home and my son Jackson is now 2 months old and sleeping through the night. I'll have to make him a crew suit soon! I am on the facebook groups more often if anyone needs costume advice, just look for Benjamin Salisbury. Great t be back on the job again! Hope to see some of you in Anaheim next May! Long live the Empire!
 

Hello fellow Officers! I have been absent for some time between Covid and life, but I'm hoping to be on here more again in the near future. I am settled in to my new home and my son Jackson is now 2 months old and sleeping through the night. I'll have to make him a crew suit soon! I am on the facebook groups more often if anyone needs costume advice, just look for Benjamin Salisbury. Great t be back on the job again! Hope to see some of you in Anaheim next May! Long live the Empire!
 

Hello fellow Officers! I have been absent for some time between Covid and life, but I'm hoping to be on here more again in the near future. I am settled in to my new home and my son Jackson is now 2 months old and sleeping through the night. I'll have to make him a crew suit soon! I am on the facebook groups more often if anyone needs costume advice, just look for Benjamin Salisbury. Great t be back on the job again! Hope to see some of you in Anaheim next May! Long live the Empire!
 

Okay, these are version 2.0, redone and much better fitting. Basically took them apart and made a much longer top piece with the same process of bending a wire hanger and painting it black. I took a closer look at ESB set photos and decided the head pads were definitely leather-like, and very rectangular, not tapered. So this time I cut 2 pieces of vinyl and glued them together instead of wonky looking felt:
 

 
Then I used a glover's needle and hand stitched the sides of the pad for a realistic look and to disguise the vinyl
 

 
Much happier with how these look and feel! Save yourself grief folks, measure with the hat on! Here is a closeup in one of my submission pics:

Oh thank the Maker for taxicabs lol. We need to do it again this year in Solo social officer uniforms and really paint the town red!

IOC Blender or Bender?? Hahahaha. J/k
The Stormtrooper Detachment Mixer was the bad one.  The IOC one was pretty classy, as befits the Officer Corps.  Although I do remember the three of us stumbling back to our respective hotels afterwards! 

I got my four day ticket!  My first Celebration!  I manged to get the Marriott for my whole trip- we'll be coming in Wednesday afternoon/evening and departing on Monday morning/early afternoon.  (Edit: I had been on the wait list for non-con days at the Marriott, but that came through thankfully!)

Lastly, cut a thin strip of foam for a mic tip, add a small bead of hot glue, and wrap around boom. Be careful not to burn yourself like I did.

 
I used shoe goo to glue the felt pieces around my headset wire. Let dry and voila! Here is your completed headset! I left the clamp on the end of my wire to have a way to keep it in my jumpsuit pocket, I glued the wire end into the hole at the bottom of earpiece

 
Here are some selfies, better pics to come!

 

 

 
Hope this tutorial helps you to build your own! Good luck and have fun!

well now that's odd. I can see all these pictures, thought I lost them with the bucket!

A Garrison member is in the same boat. She was referred here:
https://www.starwarscelebration.com/Buy/Lyte-Ticket-Exchange/

Castle and Candy Cane are the big ones for sure- about as close as not the Marriott or Hilton, reasonable prices, and will let you book this far out.  Castle was my backup, but I got the Marriott for all the days I wanted (coming in a day early, leaving the day after).  That hotel block system was wonky as all get out, though. Oof.  I waited in that queue for only five minutes, but it was already bass-ackwards, book for just the con dates, email to be put on a wait list for any additional days... Thankfully I did, but it was odd.  I waited 38 minutes in the ticket queue and just about had a nervous breakdown.