Post by Martorius on Jul 5, 2005 0:53:18 GMT -5
Let me begin my long lost story of a pretty nice way to get a really cheap replica. So about two weeks ago my brother really got into Star Wars; he is 9, and he's into the massive toy lightsabers. His friend also got into Star Wars at about the same time, and they also began dueling with these massive toys. For any person like us, the massive ones just won't do. They're big and bulky, and they're plastic. About two days later, my brothers friend came over again and this time he brought a different saber. I stopped in to kill our family dog, and I noticed that the lightsaber was amazingly small for the ones he usually used.
Identical to Qui-Gon Jinn's in look and measurements aswell. It also had a threaded emitter hole. Feeling experimental, I asked how much he bought it for. He replied "ten bucks." Wow, I thought. He sold it to me for five bucks. My mom, having just finished installing a water softner had quite the bit of piping around. I snagged a bit of plastic pipe, and put it into the emitter. Too, big, and almost killed the saber when it put pressure on it. So I went to the hardware store, and picked up a bit of light, wooden dowel. I got it home and it was a perfect fit, but it wouldn't go past the threads. I asked my grandpa to try and thread it through for me (hey -- instead of doing it yourself, get the old-man to do it
) he threaded it through and it was perfect. I now have a relitively good saber for very, very cheap. Five dollars, infact.
www.mat.warp-factor.net/images/qgj/
Five images; one of me wielding it with the heavy, plastic piping. I put silver tape on it because I had it in mind that I would be rotoscoping it, the tape was for easier vision.
Thoughts?
Identical to Qui-Gon Jinn's in look and measurements aswell. It also had a threaded emitter hole. Feeling experimental, I asked how much he bought it for. He replied "ten bucks." Wow, I thought. He sold it to me for five bucks. My mom, having just finished installing a water softner had quite the bit of piping around. I snagged a bit of plastic pipe, and put it into the emitter. Too, big, and almost killed the saber when it put pressure on it. So I went to the hardware store, and picked up a bit of light, wooden dowel. I got it home and it was a perfect fit, but it wouldn't go past the threads. I asked my grandpa to try and thread it through for me (hey -- instead of doing it yourself, get the old-man to do it
) he threaded it through and it was perfect. I now have a relitively good saber for very, very cheap. Five dollars, infact.www.mat.warp-factor.net/images/qgj/
Five images; one of me wielding it with the heavy, plastic piping. I put silver tape on it because I had it in mind that I would be rotoscoping it, the tape was for easier vision.
Thoughts?
