Well, since no one replied, I'm going to build all on my lonesome. Accurate or not. Come along for the ride, it's free.
ROTJ V2 Lightsaber project
So I wanted to make one of my all time favorite Lightsabers: The mysteriously majestic V2 stunt lightsaber wielded by both the late great Sir.Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi in ANH and master actor Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in ROTJ. Long time lovers of this saber will have known this already, but if you are coming into this cold, you’re welcome.
To begin I scoured the internet for info. My efforts were rewarded with some of the saber’s history, a better understanding of the components and how it was made and this incredible photo of the real deal:
While that is some significant info, the information I was truly seeking, hoping in vain for, were some decently close plans for the wretched thing. The only plans I found that were plain enough to work with were plans for the hero prop. Maybe they are some plans out there, somewhere, hidden from mortal eyes, but after searching in vain at 2:00 in the morning, through bloodshot eyes I deemed these plans “close enough” and crawled back to bed.
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I set out to use these plans which are supposedly taken from a resin copy of the ROTJ luke Hero saber (which would explain the slightly shrunken dimensions) and quickly found more than a few problems with them. Such as: missing dimensions, inaccurate dimensions and missing details. But they’re all I have to work with, so, here we go.
The first concrete step I took (after hours of researching) was to model the saber in Onshape 3D modelling program in attempt to adapt the plans for the V2 and not the Hero, to adjust dimensions and make a more suitable set of plans for turning. Notice the pommel groves are not modeled as this is for lathing operations only* A lot of this was educated guess work and is “pretty close” I think to the actual photo.
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I then converted my Onshape model into a drawing using the in software converter. If anyone wants to use my drawing bear in mind they are probably 70% screen accurate* other than that, all power to you.
Now, This is where the fun begins.