Real lightsaber, I made one

Originally posted by jollyjim311
you insult everyone, lightsaber, and we dislike you for it. you must be the idiot to think that we are stupid enough to belive you. but, then again, if i ever pick up smoking, i'll give you a call. you made a freakin lighter!

Thats what I was thinking!! I reckon it would be awesome as a lighter, or a fire starter of some sort. How long does the flame last??

Aside from all the abuse I think its cool you have had a bit of fun playin around with the idea, I agree though that it is still just a flame, but no-the-less you could market it as a cool looking lighter, well done.

Thanks, at least someone admits its cool.

It can last for quite a while. it just keeps burning on and on.

spekda,

actually it is not a lighter. It makes a hissing sound from the force of the gas flame that propells out. It is like a blow torch with that kind of power.

jollyjim311, it is 3100 f actually I was mistaken, that is "F" not "Celcious". show me anything even remotely closer to a actaul lightsaber that can burn things. Principally, a lightsaber has extreem heat, and what i made has great heat also. Just not as much. So really it is a lightdagger, or a real lightsaber. Only it is not nearly powerful enough. There are also gas lasers also. My lightsaber works with gas but not lasers.

Please, just stop... you're only making things worse.

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Originally posted by Lightsaber
jollyjim311, it is 3100 f actually I was mistaken, that is "F" not "Celcious". show me anything even remotely closer to a actaul lightsaber that can burn things. Principally, a lightsaber has extreem heat, and what i made has great heat also. Just not as much. So really it is a lightdagger, or a real lightsaber. Only it is not nearly powerful enough. There are also gas lasers also. My lightsaber works with gas but not lasers.

Uh, I hate to break this to you, but if you look at how a lightsaber reacts when cutting a blast door (As in TPM) it doesn't melt the door because it's hot; it melts it because it is full of excited energy. In short, same reason why the jedi and the sith don't have to wear insolated gloves to wield it. A lightsaber gives off no real heat and not much light. It's simply energy.

So your blowtorch, made with the same minireplica saber hilts they have at my local book store, doesn't come close.

Yeah, if it emitted heat to destroy stuff, it would melt right through the hilt.

Originally posted by Deus Ex
Uh, I hate to break this to you, but if you look at how a lightsaber reacts when cutting a blast door (As in TPM) it doesn't melt the door because it's hot; it melts it because it is full of excited energy. In short, same reason why the jedi and the sith don't have to wear insolated gloves to wield it. A lightsaber gives off no real heat and not much light. It's simply energy.

So your blowtorch, made with the same minireplica saber hilts they have at my local book store, doesn't come close.

Pwnage...

Yep.

Hey guys, here is a comment I recently got from a person that I showed the lightsaber I made to,

They saw the pics and video clips, this is what they wrote back to me,

"that...is...really, really, cool!
I dont suppose there is anyway i could by one off you?
Anyway, please give me some information on how you made that...and what does it run off.
That is sweet.

Thanks,
James"

I was hoping to find some more kindred spirits in here.

Some one posted that the lightsaber uses an energy not heat. How do they know, there exist no such thing. But even if it was energy that burns things . What do you think fire is, and what is fire made of?

I am waiting for your proof and scientific superiority to find a way of dominating over my understanding.

If you can't prove that they used energy , instead of some kind of laser heat etc, then what are you talking about?

Here is a interesting thing to consider,

"So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." (Genesis 3:24).

A flaming sword in the bible, hmmmm?

Someone said that what i made was not a light dagger or sword etc. but it is, it has a bright light and it is small like a dagger. It is as close as anyone here is ever going to come to seeing a real workable lightsaber. So what if it is like a blow torch. A blow torch, (especially the long flamed arc welding torch) is very similar in appearance to a lightsaber. i wonder if they patterned the lightsabers beam after a arc welding torch?

Any way here is another pic in case some did not see my light dagger that I made

Wow ... alrighty then.

First off, why not sell your blowtorch-saber to this James character? Maybe find more like him?

Second, your comments about energy were a little difficult to translate, but even after having done so, I'm unclear on your point. You seem to be basically pointing out that nobody knows of a way to generate that much energy without significant heat radiation and challenging someone to prove otherwise, but what you seem to be forgetting is that nobody else ever actually claimed to be ABLE to do it in the first place ... except for you. Yes, YOU are the only person here who ever claimed to be able to get around the myriad problems with lightsaber creation and actually make one. The rest of us are aware that it's just a movie. 😉

The bit about the flaming sword and the Bible isn't news, either. I've read some rather detailed philosophical explorations of Star Wars (positive and negative) for which that point was a mere footnote. 🙄

Anyway ...

Where you went wrong was in coming in here and declaring that you'd made an actual LIGHTSABER. Had you instead (accurately) claimed to have made a cute little blowtorch made to resemble a lightsaber, I imagine the overall reaction would have been much different. I know that I, at least, would have reacted much differently.

Like Tangible God said, what you have there is a blowtorch. Admittedly, it's a somewhat whimsical blowtorch. There might even be a market for it! But it. Is. A. Blowtorch. Not a lightsaber.

I can make a pretty snazzy paper airplane if I try, but that doesn't mean that what I've created is a fighter jet.

Wow! This is so neat!! But hey! What if your lightdagger touched another lightdagger beam?!

They would just go through one another! So calling it a saber or even a dagger is stupid, it will never cut! Not even through paper, it will only burn, your fire will never be anything near solid.
It will always be a lighter so please don't call it a dagger anymore as it is just plain idiocy. Sorry.

Originally posted by Lightsaber
jollyjim311, it is 3100 f actually I was mistaken, that is "F" not "Celcious". show me anything even remotely closer to a actaul lightsaber that can burn things. Principally, a lightsaber has extreem heat, and what i made has great heat also. Just not as much. So really it is a lightdagger, or a real lightsaber. Only it is not nearly powerful enough. There are also gas lasers also. My lightsaber works with gas but not lasers.

I meant to say 3000 and that temperature is in degrees F. It would melt the metal if it was actually that hot. You can't even lie right.

Originally posted by Lightsaber
Hello all,

I actually made a smaller scale lightsaber that works. Has anyone else done this here. the heat of it is about 3000 degrees. It is neat. I want to post video or pics, I hope to , but I only have a mac and my picture device works on a PC. I showed to some people at a comic convention this summer, they were amazed. i am trying to make a fullscale one. The internal device is giving me problems.

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Originally posted by Lightsaber
Some one posted that the lightsaber uses an energy not heat. How do they know, there exist no such thing. But even if it was energy that burns things . What do you think fire is, and what is fire made of?

I am waiting for your proof and scientific superiority to find a way of dominating over my understanding.

If you can't prove that they used energy , instead of some kind of laser heat etc, then what are you talking about?

Nice comeback