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DarthKomar  848 posts
Registered: Nov '07
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Date Posted: 7/7/08 5:28pm Subject: My new sabre staff, crits please.
I've built a new sabre staff to use in my upcoming fan film.



The hilt.




The sabre with rod, it's 2.5 meters long!




And of course, rotoscoped. I'm trying to make my sabres look more like ILM's for the fan film.

 

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DaMaher  118 posts
Registered: Jul '08
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Date Posted: 7/7/08 5:42pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Not bad, but I think this is in the wrong forum.

 

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Boter  1868 posts
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 7/7/08 8:40pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Maybe? There's some crossover. Certainly you'll get some good feedback in props, but here we can ask, "What are you using for the blades? It looks a bit heavy to be swinging around."

 

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DarthKomar  848 posts
Registered: Nov '07
42053_Red Lightsaber
Date Posted: 7/7/08 8:55pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Its a really light steel I found at our hardware store, but the hilt is galvanized steel and is heavy. But it's still light enough to swing about, I just don't plan on winning the next LCC with it :P

 

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BenMcEwan  742 posts
Registered: Jul '08
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Date Posted: 7/8/08 4:57am Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
You'll have to use mine =/
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Master_Comyn  1731 posts
Registered: Nov '00
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Date Posted: 7/8/08 8:51am Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Is this a joke?

Isn't that just a piece of galvanized pipe with couplers on the end?

DaMaher posted:
Not bad, but I think this is in the wrong forum.


Heh, coming from a July of '08 member. DaMaher, we post stuff like this all the time. Costuming and Props forum is a whole 'nother world, one we generally stay away from. not_talking The people there can be a bit.... odd.

 

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DaFireMedic  507 posts
Registered: Sep '06
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Date Posted: 7/8/08 11:38am Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Master_Comyn posted:
Is this a joke?

Isn't that just a piece of galvanized pipe with couplers on the end?


Lol, you beat me to it.

Seriously though Darth Komar, there are many things you can add to it to customize it. It will look just fine the way it is for rapid fighting sequences, but for close ups and such people will see it as just a galvanized pipe. Go to the plumbing section again and look through the chrome fittings and you'll find gobs of stuff to use. You can also add switches and O-Rings to kind of break up the plain pipe appearance. People have made some very nice ones for less than $16.

There was a lightsaber hilt thread around here a while back, but good luck finding it with this forum's "search" feature. There are several sites out there where people display their custom lightsaber hilts, such as this guys here:

http://www.kincharbamin.com/Lightsabers--and--Props.html

You can find some good ideas out there.

 

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Evil-Henchman  2379 posts
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Date Posted: 7/8/08 12:11pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
DaFireMedic posted:
There was a lightsaber hilt thread around here a while back, but good luck finding it with this forum's "search" feature.


Hear ya go.

http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/22988333/p1/?97

 

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DarthKomar  848 posts
Registered: Nov '07
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Date Posted: 7/8/08 1:43pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Master_Comyn posted:
Is this a joke?

Isn't that just a piece of galvanized pipe with couplers on the end?


Lol, yep :P

 

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Master_Comyn  1731 posts
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 5:05am Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
So is this a sequel to Hardware Wars? tongue

 

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DarthKomar  848 posts
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 10:09pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Master_Comyn posted:
So is this a sequel to Hardware Wars? tongue


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*hits head*

 

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Robi-Wan  1429 posts
Registered: Oct '06
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 10:14pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
DarthKomar posted:


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*hits head*



You mean: doh!


That saber-staff could be even cooler if you add some o-rings, as stated above by the fire doctor, and some black tape here and there for some minor details. Maybe even some PVC to slip on, on which you can do different cutouts. The possibilities are endless mischief

 

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VaporTrail  9951 posts
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 10:23pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Black electrical tape is great for doing some designs just to get that added detail in a fight. It might not be the best for close-ups, but it does make a lot of difference.

I really wouldn't use steel for a hilt, though. That is unnecessarily heavy. The hollow 1-1/4" brass pipes I (and others around here) use for a regular saber would be perfect if they came in a 18-20" length. I haven't really found a good way to connect two of them, but I haven't really needed to look either. Perhaps it's working checking out.
They're a lot easier to saw or drill through if you have some specific custom bits you want to add on. Doing that to steel would be pretty difficult.

-Vaportrail

 

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Jedi-Washington  3145 posts
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 10:41pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
It's a bit minimalist... Perhaps there was a minimalist art phase a long time ago...

 

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DarthKomar  848 posts
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Date Posted: 7/9/08 11:18pm Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
I'll probably end up building a new/better one for the next LCC

 

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SilentBat  1544 posts
Registered: Aug '06
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Date Posted: 7/10/08 8:24am Subject: RE: My new sabre staff, crits please.
Um ... this isn't much of a hilt, to be honest. It's extremely simple and there is no effort of design. You didn't do much with it.

 

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