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Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Dec '02
Date Posted:
1/5/05 10:29am
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
What the heck are you talking about,
jabba974
?
If it's about the lightsaber hilt itself, please take your question over to the "Your Lightsaber" thread. This is a thread about lightsaber
blades.
If not, then I
still
don't know what you are talking about doing to your Parks Saber.
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Kaladin
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Date Posted:
2/5/05 10:16pm
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Thanks for writing this tutorial. It is about impossible to get the information you gave anywhere else. I have assembled almost all the parts required to make my blade now. However I have a couple of questions for you.
1. Before I found out which inverter you use, I ordered the pipsqueek driver from coolneon.com. Is this one going to be enough to make the blade look right?
2. When you are talking about making a "bend in the EL wire, that is because you are running a long strand up and down the blade right? And if this is the case how many times should it go up and down the blade? I only ordered enough wire to make it up and down, but not back up. If you think it would look better with "three strands" I will just order more wire.
3. Do you solder the two fine wires from the EL wire to a piece of that copper tape or just go straight to the speaker wire?
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Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Date Posted:
2/7/05 12:29pm
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
You're welcome,
Kaladin.
First of all, I don't use that silly piece of copper tape the wire comes with. I solder the EL wire right to the speaker wire. Just follow the instructions on that link I put in my tutorial.
That Pipsqueak inverter will be fine. Just not as bright at the Lightech inverters.
I usually run 10ft of EL wire for my own blades, because my inverter can handle it, but for the Pipsqueak, I would only recommend 7ft, which would be one "bend" in the wire for the look of two strands.
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BescinPrix
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Date Posted:
2/11/05 11:30am
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Jedi-Loreen, I know this thread is about the blades, and not the hilts, but could you share pics of a couple of your full sabers? I am interested in seing how you managed the "emitte" part of the sabers.
Thanks!
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Jedi-Loreen
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Date Posted:
2/12/05 2:13am
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
I've really only made one full sized saber for myself, and one smaller one I call a "lightdagger" that holds smaller diameter and length blades. Though I have helped other local Fan Force member make EL sabers.
You may mean how did I solve the problem of holding the blade in the hilt? I used a piece of PVC inside the hilt, held by screws from the outside and hidden by screw covers that look like black buttons. The female connector is glued and screwed into the bottom of that. I made my first EL saber back in '02, and might do it differently today.
Some of the people in my group whom I've helped make sabers have bought the aluminum adapters that Lightech sells, but they are about $40, I think.
If you'd like to check out my saber, go see my Yahoo Photo albums (in the "Lightsaber" album, of course!
) I don't have a picture that really shows the emitter end very well, though. If I had a digital camera
, I could snap a few and put them in my album, sorry, I don't have one.
Jedi Loreen's Photos
If you have any more questions about my saber, you can PM me.
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Spongerd82
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Date Posted:
2/12/05 12:01pm
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Jedi-Loteen, I just wanted to say thanks for the tutorial, it has been a great help. I acually used smaller OD but thicker walled polycarbonite and just got smaller polyethelyne and 5mm high-bright wire. The blade is much more stiff and the "diffuser" you thought of works great. I do have one question though..What is the differance between the original and the newer pipsqeek inverter? I know the older one is smaller but is it still 9-12 volts? Thanks again Jedi-Loreen!
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Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Date Posted:
2/12/05 1:01pm
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Yes, the voltage is still the same with the newer Pipsqueak inverter.
Where did you get that thicker walled polycarbonate tubing,
Spongerd82
? I've been looking for something like that, but haven't been able to find it. I would like to be able to make stiffer blades.
See? I don't know everything, you guys can help
me
out, too!
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Spongerd82
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2/12/05 8:30pm
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
I got it from McMaster also: Part # 8585k53. It is 1/8 inch thick instead of 1/16. I used 3/8 od, 1/4 ID for the diffuser. I did not use any bushing just really strong glue. I did have to get a smaller stereo connector though. I also used these cool little acrilic half balls from usplastics for the tip of the blade. They are under acrylic shapes. They fit perfect!
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asdasd
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Date Posted:
2/14/05 9:09am
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Whos blades are brighter ....Lighteck or Parks sabers?
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Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Date Posted:
2/15/05 11:25am
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
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Jedi-Loreen
Parks blades are brighter, but this is a discussion on
making
blades, not buying them. But I will continue in this vein temporarily.....
EDIT:
Now I see that you were redirected here, I guess this is the closest thread to ask your question.
Personally, I'm not all that impressed with Lightech's blades, even though they use double core EL wire, which, theorectically should be bright.
My
blades, using single core wire, are brighter ( I know, I have compared them side-by-side), maybe because the wire strands are closer together inside the diffuser tube, and not flopping around inside the larger space of the polycarbonate tube.
I didn't realize that McMaster had the thicker polycarbonate tubing. They are the first place I bought my first tubes from. I'll have to go check it out, thanks for the info,
Spongerd82
!
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surlygirlie
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Date Posted:
2/15/05 11:38am
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Yep, I redirected here because I felt it was at least tangentially related, and this would be the most likely place to get the clearest, most informed answers.
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asdasd
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Date Posted:
2/15/05 2:15pm
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
hey thanx for the reply! sorry im new to the boards
as for parks blades bing brighter ,GOOD hehe i just bought one was unclear on that point.
also im unclear on the wire versus the paper? i tought parks was the paper kind?
another thing was the red that lightech uses compaired to parks red blade , has anyone put those side by side, which one is closest to the movies?
thanx agine for all the input!!!
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Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Date Posted:
2/15/05 10:19pm
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Parks doesn't really have a
red
blade, it's more of a
pink
, which has always been sort of a sore point with Parks Saber enthusiasts.
And yes, Parks blades use the EL film, as opposed to wire, which Lightech uses.
Lightech makes a true red blade, but I don't think it will work too well in a Parks saber, if at all.
My local group has a lot of Sith and Darkside Jedi, so I make a lot of red blades, some of which go into Parks sabers. And
mine
do work in a Parks.
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darthtuttle
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Date Posted:
2/19/05 1:15pm
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RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
What type of store would have electroluminescent wire?
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Jedi-Loreen
Title:
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Date Posted:
2/19/05 6:30pm
Subject:
RE: Jedi-Loreen's EL Lightsaber Blade Tutorial
Some people have found lighting kits for cars that use EL wire, but I'm not sure how much wire you get with those.
Most people buy their EL wire online. I mention 2 websites in the parts list on the first page of this tutorial.
To make it easier for you, here are the 2 places I like to buy my EL wire from:
CooLight
CoolNeon
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