Mean Obiwan
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Y'know what? I just remembered this little saber I made a month or two back. Simple metal tube, black tape grips, red foam button.
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Now you may be thinking, "MeanObiwan, what is this? Tape grips? Foam button? You have two other awesome sabers and one in progress, what is this junk?"
Well, this is based off a very special saber. Rewind years back to an 11 or 10 year old MeanObiwan. Even back then I was capable of taking note of the screen used sabers details, aside from being metal, I noticed that the wielder could wrap their fingers completely around the hilt until their fingers touched, something that could not be achieved with the ginormous plastic fling-bladed toy sabers I had growing up with. So, I set out on my first ever custom lightsaber build.
I did what any skilled 10 or 11 year old prop maker does and commissioned my dads assistance with creating the hilt. The man worked his magic by taking a metal rod and cutting it at an angle so I'd have an angled "emitter" similar to a graflex. The rest was my call, my dad wasn't going to have all the fun. I set out to work finding any greeblies I could by scrounging around my moms craft room. After swiping a red foam circle, and secretly borrowingmy dads electrical tape (yeah, of course I was going to return it) I added my grips and buttons. Now I had to utilize my dads vital skills once more to create a blade. It was mesmerizing watching the man work this out. He traveled to the back yard, looked at some more metal rods, scratching his head and speaking strange, unfimilar four letter words as he tried to find one that would slide in tight to the hilt. He finally found one, cut it to shape and spray painted it blue for me. Wow. Was this awesome. My own custom lightsaber. It was amazing to me. Here all my friends had lousy huge Hasbro fling-blades and I'm wielding a real, metal thin hilted lightsaber. To me, the tape grips and foam button were as real as ever, the blade with paint runs was humming and ready to take on any adversary. It was the best saber in the world, made by me and my dad.
Well, I'm 22 now and its long since disappeared in my childhood, so for sentimental reasons I wanted to recreate it to remember making one with my dad, and all the many "battles" I fought with it.
Sorry for such a long winded, late night post, but I wanted to share that with you guys
upload gif from url
Now you may be thinking, "MeanObiwan, what is this? Tape grips? Foam button? You have two other awesome sabers and one in progress, what is this junk?"
Well, this is based off a very special saber. Rewind years back to an 11 or 10 year old MeanObiwan. Even back then I was capable of taking note of the screen used sabers details, aside from being metal, I noticed that the wielder could wrap their fingers completely around the hilt until their fingers touched, something that could not be achieved with the ginormous plastic fling-bladed toy sabers I had growing up with. So, I set out on my first ever custom lightsaber build.
I did what any skilled 10 or 11 year old prop maker does and commissioned my dads assistance with creating the hilt. The man worked his magic by taking a metal rod and cutting it at an angle so I'd have an angled "emitter" similar to a graflex. The rest was my call, my dad wasn't going to have all the fun. I set out to work finding any greeblies I could by scrounging around my moms craft room. After swiping a red foam circle, and secretly borrowingmy dads electrical tape (yeah, of course I was going to return it) I added my grips and buttons. Now I had to utilize my dads vital skills once more to create a blade. It was mesmerizing watching the man work this out. He traveled to the back yard, looked at some more metal rods, scratching his head and speaking strange, unfimilar four letter words as he tried to find one that would slide in tight to the hilt. He finally found one, cut it to shape and spray painted it blue for me. Wow. Was this awesome. My own custom lightsaber. It was amazing to me. Here all my friends had lousy huge Hasbro fling-blades and I'm wielding a real, metal thin hilted lightsaber. To me, the tape grips and foam button were as real as ever, the blade with paint runs was humming and ready to take on any adversary. It was the best saber in the world, made by me and my dad.
Well, I'm 22 now and its long since disappeared in my childhood, so for sentimental reasons I wanted to recreate it to remember making one with my dad, and all the many "battles" I fought with it.
Sorry for such a long winded, late night post, but I wanted to share that with you guys
