Yo in da house wit da shizzed up sabers. Uh... err... or something.
The Windu FX I had on the shelf was taunting me every day. "Cut me!" it said. "Please, make me feel the Force through dremeling" it pleaded. So... after hearing it whine day after day I finally relented and got out the hacksaw. (Now's the time y'all run off and call me a shrink, unless talking lightsabers are the norm nowadays.) But seriously. I've been toiling away at these for a few weeks now. After building the Sidious I was dying for the luxury of not having to construct the outer shell of a cutaway and just get down to the guts. I also wanted to continue with a prequel saber since just about every OT saber has been done to death by now.
For this build, I've tried to follow a few ideas/rules:
1. The saber should look clean... like it was machined, even though I don't have any machines to machine with besides the Dremel. I wanted to minimize the clutter and make it look durable. Some of the last few sabers I've built were chock full of little greeblies that while cool looking, would probably never stand up to the punishment a saber would have to endure. (The Visual Dictionary Luke wasn't too intricate either.) Still, I didn't want to loose the "ancient tech" look that a lot of us cutaway builders have been employing lately.
2. The parts should not be instantly recognizable as ripped out of a VCR, CDRom, Clock or something. The use of plastic should also be kept to a minimum. This was particularly hard and I stayed away from a lot of otherwise useful parts because of it and in the end I had to relent, but I think I've found a suitable compromise.
3. The saber should in some way continue the "pimped" feeling that was started by having it purple in the first place and by engraving "BMF" on the hilt. (astute viewers will note that Mace even has BMF written on the inside of his saber...) For the lighting, I was going for kind of a "disco" feel so instead of using a quartz crystal in the middle, the light reflects of the gold plating inside the shell and reflects back through the glass of the fuses to create a kind of diffuse "black light" look.
Anyway... enough of the boring bits. On to the pics! (The saber on the bottom in the first pic was made specifically for another RPFer, the other one will be up for sale.)
The Windu FX I had on the shelf was taunting me every day. "Cut me!" it said. "Please, make me feel the Force through dremeling" it pleaded. So... after hearing it whine day after day I finally relented and got out the hacksaw. (Now's the time y'all run off and call me a shrink, unless talking lightsabers are the norm nowadays.) But seriously. I've been toiling away at these for a few weeks now. After building the Sidious I was dying for the luxury of not having to construct the outer shell of a cutaway and just get down to the guts. I also wanted to continue with a prequel saber since just about every OT saber has been done to death by now.
For this build, I've tried to follow a few ideas/rules:
1. The saber should look clean... like it was machined, even though I don't have any machines to machine with besides the Dremel. I wanted to minimize the clutter and make it look durable. Some of the last few sabers I've built were chock full of little greeblies that while cool looking, would probably never stand up to the punishment a saber would have to endure. (The Visual Dictionary Luke wasn't too intricate either.) Still, I didn't want to loose the "ancient tech" look that a lot of us cutaway builders have been employing lately.
2. The parts should not be instantly recognizable as ripped out of a VCR, CDRom, Clock or something. The use of plastic should also be kept to a minimum. This was particularly hard and I stayed away from a lot of otherwise useful parts because of it and in the end I had to relent, but I think I've found a suitable compromise.
3. The saber should in some way continue the "pimped" feeling that was started by having it purple in the first place and by engraving "BMF" on the hilt. (astute viewers will note that Mace even has BMF written on the inside of his saber...) For the lighting, I was going for kind of a "disco" feel so instead of using a quartz crystal in the middle, the light reflects of the gold plating inside the shell and reflects back through the glass of the fuses to create a kind of diffuse "black light" look.
Anyway... enough of the boring bits. On to the pics! (The saber on the bottom in the first pic was made specifically for another RPFer, the other one will be up for sale.)
