I've seen other people on this site making lightsabers and they look pretty cool, I dont like the toy ones u see in the shops, they are either too short or just plain look like sh*t in my opinion.
So I thought I'd have a go.
The first thing I decided to do was start with the hardest part of the weapon to make first, the blade. I didnt want a dumb torch/hilt setup , I knew that to achieve that full total light effect I would need to go either neon or fluro ( or are they the same thing? i dunno) .
So I scanned the net and found a local person selling a couple of fluro lights that were 1.5m long, perfect.
So I got the two fluro lights ( Green and Blue) and preceeded to make up a shitty mockup hilt.
I decided to start with green, I cut the power cord ( you plugged them into the wall) and found ( using a car battery) that 12volts powered them direct with ease so now it was a case of finding a smaller 12volt battery.
I ended up ripping apart 2 12volt rechargable torches and got the batteries out of them and wired them inline to the fluro terminals via a simple switch( for now). I intend to wire in a plug so I can use the old battery rechager bases to rechrage the sabers batteries.
Basically now I have this much setup I can now visualize what the hilt will look like as much of its design will be determined by how much on-board crap its gonna need to run.
Here are the pics thus far, yes I know the hilt looks like shite but like I said I reckon its best to start with the hardest part ( the blade) first and on this part I think the results speak for themselves.
cheers
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I'm designing the hilt now, it will be made of polished alloy,rubber and any other junk lying around I might need . I will also add extra detail like a red LED on the hilt for effect ( maybe ON switch)
Once I have the hilt complete I'll post pics.
Cheers
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...well, at least its not a fake lightsaber that landon "made", it looks good when its on, but does it always make that glow? could u get some shots of you holding it in the air, so that i know it looks good.
You ever seen them ones from the shops, jesus christ, its like your waving a giant lollypop around, it doesnt spread fear at all, but, a red one of spekdah's would be awesome...
well I have begun building the handle, I've ended up using a vacume cleaner handle and polished alloy piping.
I have wired an LED to a swith which I will now install.
I have been thinking about sound effects , I've brought one of those toy lightsabers with soundeffects like power up , clash etc... and I'l gonna swap over the sound gear to my handle, the motion sensors should work the same if installed correctly
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