Re-Bas Retsam
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Post by Re-Bas Retsam on May 12, 2003 15:13:00 GMT -5
I must confess, I bought mine. I was thinking about how to make one, then ran across Parks and Lightech. Once I saw the EL blades, Hasbro just could not cut it any longer. I hung up the Vader toy, and went with, in Watto's words, "Something more real". BUT, I did end up making my own EL saber a bit later, so NOW I can call myself a Jedi. ;D
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Schph Gochi
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Post by Schph Gochi on May 13, 2003 7:37:03 GMT -5
the mark of a true Jedi....a lightsaber made by your own hand!
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Post by Sionna Trekina on Jun 9, 2003 22:33:02 GMT -5
Okay okay, so the first uh..8 lightsabres that I own I bought. Heh..they're all the toy electronic/light-up ones (3 only light-up, one is supposed to light-up but doesn't it so I stole the blade for my sabre-in-progress, and the final 4 are fully electronic, including the Jedi Training Sabre). Yes, I tend to collect them. (Though I must acquire Orig. Tril. ones, Yoda, Mace Ep 1, and Count Dooku.) I only use two with costumes though- my Obi-Wan light-up and my electronic Darth Maul (cuz one of my friends broke the light-up...).
My ninth sabre is of my personal design and therefore I'm building it. The version currently in progress (still) will be very light-weight because it's of a cardboard tube, plastic O-rings, a rubber O-ring, a styrofoam ball as the pommel, a cell-phone belt clip (non-Covertec), a piece of wood nailed in to hold the pommel and the green blade from my non-working Qui-Gon Jinn sabre. (I wish I could paint the dumb thing to be purple/maroon like it's supposed to be, but..oh well. And there's no way I'm dismantling my Mace Ep 2 sabre.)
Of course, covering over everything will be paper maché pieces. However, I'm stuck on how to make the grip part. Anyways...lots of paint later and maybe some gold/silver leafing and I'll have it complete. Now..to put the paper maché on...
(I'd post a link to the pics of the design but Geocities is having issues...)
www.geocities.com/jedi_sionnatrekina/sabre2.html (Woo...linkage worked...hopefully it'll continue to work while other people might want to view it. Mind you, it is only a drawing of the design. I have taken many pics of the sabre as I've been making it, so I'm working on a page to post the progress on. Coming soon..)
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Schph Gochi
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Post by Schph Gochi on Jun 10, 2003 8:17:46 GMT -5
I like it! ....and put some gold touches on it...i think that would look cool....
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Post by Sionna Trekina on Jun 10, 2003 21:24:30 GMT -5
Yay, the pages which show the progress of my sabre are up! (Though I don't have any recent ones to show the complete base-coat paint job.. ) www.geocities.com/jedi_sionnatrekina/buildsabre.html
Schph- I know how badly you wanna see those pics, so I worked hard today to get all of the "how I made.." pages complete, including all the Jedi accessories. So..have fun!
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Post by ALDAN JII on Jun 12, 2003 0:36:26 GMT -5
finally, found my nitch, lol hilt construction......... last summer when i started making my saber hilts, i started with a closet dwoel rod, and from therewent to the pvc, and in that wek not only did i make several saber hilts, i also made a stormtrooper blaster(the pistol type), and a m-34 blaster rifle, all from wood and pvc, small blaster has a couple of aluminum parts, as does the larger one but from a distance you cant tell.......i guesstimate in the week in question i made a total of 9 hitls from two handed batte sabers, to an ewok saber for the ewok maniquine i am in progress of constructing, he started out to be a jawa, but i went the ewok way.......... and at present i am trying to cunstruct a quad bladed saber hilt, or just go to the quint saber , both are cool on paper, but as far as construction goes,finding the right peices takes time, and lately been working to hard to do much construction, just sewing my costume together, lol when i send my pix, you can see the saber hilts and the blasters, may finish the ewok, and post him in his jedi garb, i go the yoda look with that costume, or set decoration. well until completion may the force be with you and yours
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Toba Qaf
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Post by Toba Qaf on Jun 12, 2003 9:06:00 GMT -5
finally, found my nitch, lol hilt construction......... last summer when i started making my saber hilts, i started with a closet dwoel rod, and from therewent to the pvc, and in that wek not only did i make several saber hilts, i also made a stormtrooper blaster(the pistol type), and a m-34 blaster rifle, all from wood and pvc, small blaster has a couple of aluminum parts, as does the larger one but from a distance you cant tell.......i guesstimate in the week in question i made a total of 9 hitls from two handed batte sabers, to an ewok saber for the ewok maniquine i am in progress of constructing, he started out to be a jawa, but i went the ewok way.......... and at present i am trying to cunstruct a quad bladed saber hilt, or just go to the quint saber , both are cool on paper, but as far as construction goes,finding the right peices takes time, and lately been working to hard to do much construction, just sewing my costume together, lol when i send my pix, you can see the saber hilts and the blasters, may finish the ewok, and post him in his jedi garb, i go the yoda look with that costume, or set decoration. well until completion may the force be with you and yours Wow. Lol, you must be pretty busy...
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Post by ALDAN JII on Jun 13, 2003 23:11:17 GMT -5
nah, not busy at all, just loves making things, most of the saber hilts i have built i used no drawing schemes, or tecj blue prints, just visioned them in my mind's eye and went from there..............still working on the quad blad, but may scrub that one, and go to the wuint saber, i know, i have to be different, lol, i hope you like my efforts, and i enjoy all you guys thingies, way koooool...........
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Post by Noslen on Jul 8, 2003 14:55:57 GMT -5
I have made 2 sabers now. The first was from any old parts I could find laying around at home and at work (I work for a music store) and I ended up painting it all black with gold highlights. I looks ok.
My 2nd looks really nice. I have a friend who works for Yamaha (band instruments) who gave me some scrap parts from some drum stands. I got the LEDs and switches from Radio Shack, and made my emitter from hose and faucet parts from local hardware stores. For a finishing touch, I added o-rings on the main tube as a grip. Everything is held together with screws, so I can actually open it up and add on. I had originally intended to find junk electronic parts to use as "guts" for the saber to make it look really cool, but it was starting to feel like a real broadsword (which is fairly lousy for battle). I gutted it and now am in the process of making a 3rd with a matching double bladed saber.
How many of you use Covertec clips? I just bought the cheapest phone/pager clip I could at Radio Shack.
If/when I ever become a member of the technological age we live in, I may actually get photos of all this stuff...
Wow, was that long-winded or what?
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Post by ALDAN JII on Jul 8, 2003 21:30:03 GMT -5
koool , i found a cheap ohone clip at my local wal-mart,$5.00 for the whole set of phone clip and six varying clipees....and like you noslen, if i thought it it would look cool i used it as my emmiter, on two of my pvc hilts the emmiters are guts from a cordless screwdriver which didn't work any loonger, ad some of the knobs on my hilts were made from spare old spur gears i had from radio controled racing days.....and some are cheap little gears from the cordless s.d.,the rest of the saber hilts i super glued some rounded jewel applique from the craft store...........and on my best looking hilt the very end is nothing but a wooden dresser nob i had in my tool box,but for my mp-34 stormetrooper rifle, wood?paper product for butt stock,and body, pvc pipe, and some 2 inch wood screws, one heat sink from the r/c cars, and one spur gear, and styrene sheeting, looks great for my first attemp at the blaster rifle
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Post by Anaka Skywalker on Feb 2, 2005 20:58:49 GMT -5
Yep, I've made three so far, two for me and one for a friend. I may make a one more before Celebration III, I haven't decided yet. After I made the first one, I wasn't sure if it looked like a lightsaber, so I took it to work and left it out on my desk just to see if anyone noticed it. Well, several people did and those who have seen the Star Wars films actually knew what it was! Needless to say I was pleased. ;D
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Post by jaiven on Feb 6, 2005 16:11:02 GMT -5
Well, I now have 18 Sabers. I made them all myself. The very first one I made out of a combination of a Heiland flash tune and hardware store pieces. To include a now discontinued shower head. Which kind of bums me a bit cause it was a kind that made a really cool emitter. The rest I made out Heiland and Graflex flash tubes, and saber parts and pieces from Parksabers and Blast-Tech. But assmbled them all myself. I will have a new pic of all of them up soon on the Show and tell Thread. I have started using real leather and leather cord to wrap around the tubes for the grip.
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Post by Plo Strax-Avix on Feb 20, 2005 1:54:22 GMT -5
Well since I live in the backwaters and seem to be the only guy in the whole country who makes his own lightsabers(haven't yet met ANYONE either in perosn or online in my country who makes lightsabers till now) I have no choice but to go it alone.
I do get parts and bit and pieces on ebay or during my travels (found the real cool looking gear wheel which I'm using on the emitter end of one of my hardware sabers on the side of the road while I was in Thailand), and just stumbled upon some original Armitage Shanks faucet, complete witht eh Handwheel used for Obi-Wan's Anh saber in a local hardware store. Man this has been a good start of the year! ;D
By the way if anyone wants an Obi Pommel I may be able to spare one or two. PM me.
Currently trying to make Emperor Palpatin's saber with some PVC & rubber tubing.
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Post by jaiven on Feb 20, 2005 13:32:44 GMT -5
Saberfreak, what country are you in? There are alot of people here on the board that will give you plenty of advice on building sabers. Just ask, and there were will plenty of answers for you.
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Heckhouse
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Post by Heckhouse on Feb 20, 2005 19:17:07 GMT -5
I've made 3 sabers, two being based off of the Style 4 Big Yellow Box design. My last is a variation of Kyle Katarns Dark Forces saber. img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/partyatheckhouse/IMG_0209.jpgI did everything except drill the holes. That included sanding down that knob for the belt clip for hours. Rubbed my fingers raw, but it was worth it.
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