First let me say that I didn't really do anything fancy and had I not purchased a number of the real things Dat2Zip's Sandwich Shoppe I wouldn't have had a clue... I would still recommend Dat2Zip's modules over these because they are more efficient and offer better output (plus they are built very well).
Anyway, I made it all by hand with a file and sandpaper, handheld drill, bench vise, a dremel tool with aliminum-oxide(?) grinding stone and a soldering iron.
Materials: R2H emitter, NIBCO 1" Copper Coupling, Micropuck, thermal adhesive, regular adhesive, solder
This is what I did:
1) Cut the coupling length-wise and flattened it to a sheet in a bench vise. (I'm too cheep to buy a whole sheet of copper!!!)
2) Cut, file and sand a copper disc from the sheet such that it just barely fits into a mini-mag. Cut a smaller 1/4" round disc from the same sheet.
3) Cut the MP's -in wire to about 5/8" and very carefully solder it to the heatsink.
4) Glue the top of the Micropuck (where the label is) to the bottom of the copper heatsink.
5) Cut the MP's +in wire to about 3/8", solder it to the very small copper slug and then glue it copper-side-out to the bottom of the MP.
6) Attach the emitter to the top of the heatsink with Arctic Alumina Adhesive.
7) Guide the MP's LED- and LED+ wires through pre-drilled holes in the heatsink (oops, forgot to mention those), trim them to length and solder them to the emitter.
The final product looks very crude (I made mine in a very cold garage with a limited set of tools) but seems to work just fine. It's really not in the same league as the work done by the master modders on this forum and its Japanese counterpart, but it was a fun project.
Yes, 1w stars are spec'ed at around 350ma, maybe a bit higher. As far as driving a 1w at 700ma, it's possible and it's been done many, many times. Dat2Zip offers a couple of sandwiches that will easily hit that number.
If you were going to use MicroPucks to achieve 700ma you'd need two in parallel. But, for a minimag module it's not feasible because there isn't enough room to fit everything in there...
Finally, the heatsink on my module should be more than adequate. Good heatsinking for a 1w (or Lux3) at 700+ma is a lot more important...
Jon