Lightsabers & Blasters Custom made LED lightsaber

Greetings from Croatia!

Being the first lightsaber i built this little thing gave quite a scavenger hunt to find all the parts necessary... The blade is polycarb tube and the hilt is made from PVC/vacuum cleaner tube. It runs on 4 AAA batteries and the light source is a 5 LED 3,2v 10000 mcd clear thingy

Well, here's the pics...

View 1 [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/LS00138.jpg] View 2 [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/LS00139.jpg]

View 3 [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/LS00140.jpg] Lit up [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/LS00141.jpg]

Let me know what you think

 

Nice hilt design, I like it.

 

That is a sweet looking lightsaber, I'm impressed!

- Bill

 

I'm glad you guys like it. I thought you were gonna be all fire and brimstone at how n00bish it looks

 

Nice saber.

 

That would make me an elitist a**h**e.... something in which I pride myself in not being. I always try to give support to other costumers whenever I can.

It doesn't look nOObish to me. It looks like you invested some quality time into it and didn't just settle on a partial effort job on it. I think it has some pretty inventive features to it, some that I wouldn't have even thought to add. So kudos to you, my friend!

- Bill

 

That is really good. Just wondering but how much did it cost to come up with all the parts?

 

About 5$ for the hilt and 15$ for the PolyC tube Batteries not included.

Most parts for the hilt are scavanged from old junk like old-vacuum cleaner tube, a piece of PVC tube, old bottle opener (the emitter and horn like thing part) and the battery holder is custom made from a bit of aluminum and a 1/2 inch od PVC. The power switch is torn out from the old fax machine, and the bottom spike from and old windshield wiper.

I've made some modifications to the hilt as well as the blade color and I'll post a few new pics when I find time.

Also, here's a little teaser:
[image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/Lightsabers/LightsaberStab.jpg]

 

Awesome job! I think it looks great.

 

Ok, so here's a few pics of the disassembled blade, should give you an idea how it's done.

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[image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/P7103870.jpg] [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/P7103871.jpg] [image=http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu167/hento666/P7103872.jpg]
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The last two pics are taken in a room with sunlight coming on the blade and the other one in the dark room.

 

Awesome work... thanks for the pics! It just goes to show that it isn't as complicated as some might think, right?

- Bill

 

Nice design. I've been looking for the right blue and green LEDs to make a light-up saber like that. Radio Shack only seems to carry red superbright LEDs and the greens and blues they have are all a little too dim.

 

Hento,
Good job on your first saber. Are you a part of the FX-SABERs.com forum? You can get a lot of good input and help future saber projects.

opt1muspr1me

 

The same would be said true of the TCSS, as well....

-Bill

 

Very nice hilt! It almost looks Sith until you see the blade color. Great job!

Pac-El

 

Nice work for a first build.

I haven't been on TFN for about a year, but... I've done my best over the years to offer some help in the way of creating LED sabers--so if any of my vids help... great!

I do indeed realize that the post is from January 2010... but I think you would great benefit from mounting a Luxeon III or Seoul P4 LED (+ optics) upon a heatsink... and powering from a single Li-Ion 3.7v cell (or even Alkaline 3AA for ~4.5v).