Lightsabers & Blasters Your Lightsaber

Looks like it would be good to use in a fight. Not too many extra buttons or knobs (although I assume that you'll be adding some later on).

It looks to be based off of Obi-Wan Kenobi's, which is cool.

 

My actual inspiration was a saber mod that I downloaded for Jedi Academy. Its called the Mark I, and it strikes a cross between Obi-Wan's saber and the Luke RotJ. Im the type of person to never be satisfied, though, and It will change in minor details over the next few days.

 

I'm in Louisiana now, so I don't know, but I think my Randomsabers saber came a few days ago. I'll find out on the 9th ot 10th.

 

Does Randomsabers have a website?? I may want to check them out.

 

It's just randomsabers.com

 

Jedi_Outcast77- My grip is a tube from some sort of shop Vac. It was a little too wide to fit
in my pipe I used, so I split it vertically and rolled it tighter. The seam is hidden by the solid part of the hilt.

 

Hello everyone,

I've been a long time reader/lurker of these forums and I have learned so much about lightsaber-making from so many of you posters. So, I just wanted to show you all my lightsabers.

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My first lightsaber based on Obi-wan Kenobi's in Episode I. Major props to Project Naboo/Graflex on helping me build this saber back in 1999. I know the button placement is inacurate, but at that young age I was stubborn and wanted the activation button in the middle. I used a wooden drawer handle for the pummel.

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My second custom lightsaber built in 2002. The grips and pummel were inspired by the famous BYB style VIII. The little metal "greeblies" on the emitter and pummel are those studs that you can put on shirts (I think?) that have prongs on the backside, which I bent to fit flat against the sink tubing. For some reason I can't find these anymore, but I still have a box of various metal shapes and sizes for future lightsabers.

Both of these sabers hold a hollow blue acryllic blade lighted by a weak flashlight bulb.

I've been planning to build or purchase a EL blade for years, but have always put it off. I already have a design for a hilt that I've been working on for months. Currently, I'm considering sending off my design to RandomSabers because I want a sturdy alluminium hilt for my EL blade. On the other hand, I still think I could pull it off building it myself.

 

Those are cool. I especially like this one. What did you use for the bottom?

 

Hi everyone, ive made 2 reasonably good sabers, but one for effects only, below is a picture of them, tell me what you think, apart from the blades are too thick.

The yellow one is my effects one and the others are more for show:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5347/saberclash9wy.jpg

 

Here are lightsabers that I've made in a rendering program called Rhinceros 3D (or rhino for short):

my 3D lightsabers

I plan on having randomsabers make Katsujin-Ken, but make Water myself whenever I learn how to use a lathe. The others were just for fun. I espeically like how Kyle's saber came out. I made Kyle's by using dimensions I got from Sith Archives.

So, what do you think? I tittled 4 of them after the 4 elements, but i haven't done Wind yet. Katsujin-Ken means "The Life Giving Sword" and Satsujin-Ken mean "The Life Taking Sword"

 

Me and my dad built my saber. We started with a copper pipe then then 4 grip in-dents .Then we caped the bottom with thick circle piece of metal we welded it. We put this semi-ring on it so it hangs frome my belt. then we put 2 screws for buttons.For color we painted a 2" spiral down the shaft its black.then we put red bat grip tape in the 4 grip in-dents.the coolest part is I found this crystal at port A. weput it in the bottom. then for blade its black its a 3'foot slide in blade its pretty hard for plastic.sorry no pic.

 

I used a showerhead found at Lowes. It tells you the specific model at the BYB website. To modify it I just added the metal "greeblies" I described about in my previous post.

 

Date Posted: 6/23/02 1:02pm Subject: RE: Your Lightsaber
Thanks for the tip.
it's good to hear the blades won't break. I wonder what your kendo teachers thinkwhen they see you guys sparring with light sabres? And if it ahd sound Fx, whoa. LOL I see his face now. As for kendo, I don't know off any around here I could spar with. Too bad all of us on these lists couldn't meet somewhere at onbe of the conventions.

i used to do kendo but i think curuscant is to far away for me

 

You do know you're responding to a 3 year old message, right?

 

lol boba, but anyways... to declare my Rep as the Random Menace, I have decided to make a lightsaber staff(as Darth Maul(the phantom menace) did)

it will have red blades and will be done this or next week some time...

if anyone has a nice idea of what it could look like that would be cool

I AM NOT POSTING PICS TIL IM COMPLETELY DONE! (lol, i'll call it the phantom saber)

http://photobucket.com/albums/b103/TheRandomMenace/?action=view&current=3b3a72be.jpg&slideshow=paused&interval=3

that is my first design

send me pics of your design or wutnot

 

Are there sink pipes that aren't chrome? I'm thinking of the "generic" lightsabers from AOTC that Plo Koon, Luminara Unduli, and Mace Windu (in TPM puplicity stills). I was thinking about making one. Look at the picture of Mace Windu's in TPM Visual Dictionary. You can see the glue on the "fins" at the bottom. lol

 

Im building another one it should be done in the next week.

 

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Design Credit: Ryan Wieber

<Mae>

 

i like it mea... simple yet stylish lol

 

well umm im just sad cuz i e-mailed my blue prints to Random Sabers and its been over a month now..and no reply if i'd just like to know when is the "normal"estimated amount of time it take to get a reply

 

Randomsabers is usually very quick with their replies. They were having troubles with their e-mail server about a monts ago. E-mail them again & you'll get a response for sure.

 

well i know i said i was makin' a double bladed lightsaber, but ive made my mind up and i just want a single bladed lightsaber like anakin's... almost exactly like anakin's but different buttons and clamps i have the emitter done and the handle with the rubber grips...

all i need is my extruded acrylic blade and a few decors...

any suggestions is good enuff

 

lol ... nice one

but anyways... progress report (chuckles) my lightsaber is almost done... i am buying an extruded acrylic rod from some site whose name i forget... but my saber is going with a luke skywalker ESB feel... it is very nice and all i need is a red button(just for looks) a clamp for the box on the side and a d-clip for the bottom, all and all this will deffy be done as soon as i get all the parts

 

You can get polished brass sink pipes, but they are rather expensive... where the chrome runs ~2.00 for a 12" piece, the polished brass is about 7.00. It dosen't make sense to me, because all sink pipe is brass, so it seems there would be LESS work involved with the polished pipe, but hey, I don't make the stuff. Another option would be to remove the chrome plating and polish the brass for a gold look, but I've done this too, and its harder than it sounds...

 

you can always get pvc and spray paint it... lol

give it a weathered feel