Author Topic: Building your own lightsabre.
BibFortuna  128 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 4/25/02 7:45pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
just out of interest... has anyone actually attempted to make any of the above lightsabres??????

 

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FaLLeN-AnGeL  2747 posts
Registered: Dec '01
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Date Posted: 4/25/02 11:14pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
Well, we made the broomstick/electrical tape ones...

 

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Teknobabel  6148 posts
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Date Posted: 4/26/02 1:21am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
I've started making dooku's one, slowly but surely

 

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Registered: Mar '02
Date Posted: 4/26/02 4:02am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
Thanks for your suggestions guys, i went with the broomstick idea and put in the effects on my comp.

 

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Ki-Bara-Mundi  11119 posts
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Date Posted: 4/26/02 5:53am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
I've made nerf sabres. Good for if you've got kids who love Star Wars and want to duel. I'm also in the middle of making a prop hilt out of PVC pipe and attatchments, a mobile phone belt clip, a pen, windscreen wiper blades, and some silver and black paint. grin

 

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Darth-Tom  1044 posts
Registered: Apr '01
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Date Posted: 4/27/02 11:52pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre. - Date Edited: 4/27/02 11:55pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Darth-Tom
bah, stuff it.

 

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BibFortuna  128 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 5/15/02 5:03pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
for any1 and evry1 who went 2 the midnight premiere, did u take a "home-made" lightsabre or store bought. just wondering...
(im trying not to imagine a bunch of people with multi-coloured broomsticks tongue )

 

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Kehleyr  3710 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/02 6:25pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
I bought Count Dooku's and a normal one...

 

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Teknobabel  6148 posts
Registered: Jun '00
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Date Posted: 5/15/02 6:39pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
I took my hand made Dooku saber, and i'm right annoyed cos in the poster's and in the film, it lookd about half the size i made mine

Back to the bloody drawing board

 

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BibFortuna  128 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 5/16/02 5:55pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
so i am to gather that everyone likes dooku's lightsabre best?
i personally like mace's, purple.
wats withthe colours? all the "bad guys" have red sabres and blaster lasers and the "good guys" have blue or green?
is that a pre-requisite of being sith or jedi?
sorry for changing original topic.
(i went on thursday so didnt get to see all the lightsabre weilding fans, wink )

 

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BibFortuna  128 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 5/16/02 6:00pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
well kenn, u could try any of our previous suggestions, on page 1
my only suggestion is my bug zappers one, lol
nah, honestly i think that you should go for teknobabel's suggestion or if you have access to computer graphics, fallen angel's.

 

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Dingbat  216 posts
Registered: Nov '01
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Date Posted: 5/21/02 9:46am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
If you're going to make your own sabre, please use caution! I recently had a friend cut through part of his finger (yep through the bone and everything) trying to make his own lightsabre.

lightsabre = cool

cutting finger off = not cool

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Deagle_Raa  324 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 5/22/02 11:11pm Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
Dingbah, you friend is just clumsy!
Yes when sawing and cutting make sure you cut AWAY from you and don't cut yourself! :P

Anyway for the premiere, my friends and i made our own- pvc pipe with odds and ends we found from hardware house painted chrome and black.
Then we took a florescent tube, wraped in contact paper to give it colour, powered with a 9V battery and there you have it:
a saber for UNDER $20 that glows 10 times brighter than the toys.
the only negative was the fluro is really delicate so u cant fight with them (next time i think we will put some kind of clear pastic pipe over to give them more strength)

 

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Jedi_Master_Damir  1940 posts
Registered: Jan '02
Date Posted: 5/23/02 2:21am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
Well, I'm planning to build my own lightsabre soon and this is a good site to get you going:
Lightsabers form Big Yellow Box

 

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Teknobabel  6148 posts
Registered: Jun '00
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Date Posted: 5/23/02 3:21am Subject: RE: Building your own lightsabre.
They are good

but they have no Dooku saber yet, so i'm still basically striking out on my own.

I've found the right piece of metal, found the right way to complete the rear handgrip, filed down the piece of metal for the front handgrip

All i have to figure out is the thumb switch, and the pommel. Then i'm done

 

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