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PracticalHardware Lightsaber #1
Polaris 004199
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I made a series of these for Christmas, as gifts for various Jedi in my life. This is one of my favorites. It's made from a bunch of left over hardware I just had lying around.
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Was there any design to iit or did you just put it together one day because you were bored?
I was sorta thinking of Windu's hilt, as it's probably my favorite. Of course making it mostly gold accounts for much of the resemblance, but I also tried to match it's shape as best i could with the hardware I had.
Some of my hilts could be modified to take a basic doll-rod hilt. This one could, but I might have to take out the black thingy set inside the emitter. The main tube of the hilt is a 3/4 inch ceiling fan electrical extension pipe, so there's not much room for electronics, if ever I was interested in one of those fancy light-up blades you can buy on the internet. Personally, I'm old school and prefer to just pose in front of a mirror making "vvvvvummmm vvvvvvummmm" sounds with my mouth.
I made eight or nine of these hardware sabers, no two of them very much like any other. I got some ideas off the internet, and did make some plans, of a sort. But most of my success came from gathering my materials together and test fitting everything with everything else. I mixed and matched and fastened and screwed and unscrewed until in a series of "ah ha" moments the hilts took shape one after the other. This was over the course of weeks. My favorite thing about this hilt is the back collar thing the fits around the gold button. That was part of a very old microphone stand, and it looked so good when I slid it on it made me wish I could buy a dozen of them. But of course I can't buy any more like that,because it's a piece of hardware from, like 1969 or something. Too bad.
I loved it! I made a few out of PVC this last Christmas for my kids. They have some dowel rods they shove into them when they wanna use them for dueling. Otherwise, they hook them to their belts and have a blast pretending. Do you have photos of the other ones you created? I'd love to see them and possibly glean some ideas from yours!
CMills