Consider this "Part 2" to my
earlier post in this thread back in December where I set out to make some sabers for a story I'm working on. Following the same set of parameters I set up then, especially the last two, I decided to go ahead and follow up the trio of sabers I had made with another set.
The number "2" is going to be mighty prominent in this post.
To start, it's been
double the amount of pages since my original contribution to this thread, plus an extra
two pages, and all of the proceeding sabers were made with
two of everything.
Two of which belong to the
secondary characters of my story who are introduced in the
second part of the story.
This is also reflected with my main character. He doesn't wield two sabers but he does use two throughout the story, much like how Luke uses his father's saber before making his own. In my original post on this thread, the hilt detailed there was his second one; the one he built after this abomination specifically...
I call it the "Scheisse-Saber" because this forum won't let me post the English version. The short of the story is this: it's the main character's saber back when he really sucked. I mean, he still sucks but he just isn't as suck-y as the story progresses. Starting out, he doesn't have any real skill or know-how to do much of anything but the up-shot is that he's dedicated and clever. This is what he managed to build with whatever he had laying about: a ghetto-rigged hilt built by bashing two non-lethal training sabers together (I imagine a training saber would be like a normal one just without enough juice to be deadly), keeping one end away from the wielder.
From a construction point of view, this was inspired by the McQuarrie-esque saber @
Dr Talyn built out of a vintage flashlight back on
page 11. I wanted to do something similar and, seeing how we had jacked up flash prices at the time, vintage flashlights were definitely the way to go (especially considering that these were less then 10 bucks each). Piecing it together was extremely easy; it just had to look like crap. However, it also had to look dangerous, as I envisioned the hilt to be extremely unstable. Each time it was ignited, and the longer it was "on", the risk of blowing up in hand would increase. For reference on how to convey that shoddy-but-dangerous look, I went through the visual library in my head and remembered pictures of pipebombs, IED's, and a bunch of weapons built from toiletry I remember seeing on display at military museum ages ago. That's where the gaffer tape and riveted bars come from (also from the practical application of keeping the two flashlights together).
The body is made of two old Chinese flashlights/torches (for the overseas folk) screwed together, end to end, with a washer suck on top over an emitter piece made by turning a reflector piece from one of the flashlights/torches upside down. The "D-ring" was made with the ring that came with the bottom half of the saber, just bent into a "D" shape, and greebs are things I had around and, of course, rivets. A big write up for something that took me less than half an hour to make.
Then came these: the Canon sabers. The Twin Sabers (though not identical). This pair belongs to one of the acolytes that follow one of the main baddies around and he wields them in tandem. You'll notice in this, and the following write-up, that these sabers don't have anything to attach themselves to, like a D-ring or covertec wheel. At this point, I was wanting to experiment with different ways of carrying these hilts around. For this particular pair, I want to make clips for these in the future, riveting them to a belt or something, where I can clip these hilts into and they're carried around like (the?) daisho on samurais. The lightsaber in the following post, I'm thinking about having it slung across the back or just carried around lovingly like Boba Fett and his rifle.
To all you Canon fanatics out there: you're lucky I didn't take progress pictures.You all would've clutched your pearls and fainted had you have seen what I did to these things. They were the flash equivalent of the photos from the Ripper case. It was mayhem. Most of the carnage stemming from the lower halves of the flash handles because the aluminium pipe I bought online was just slightly larger in diameter than the clamp and didn't fit. So... I made it fit. You'll be surprised to find that most, if not all, of this is held together by pressure fitting pieces together, giving them a bit of superglue, or riveting them together.:lol
The write-up on this won't be all that long because, really, these Canon-based sabers build themselves. I feel like these sabers just look derivative of the other Canon sabers that came before on this thread. Feeling that, I thought I might as well just go the full mile and base them off of the Graflexes in the OT; ANH and ESB, respectively. Had the bubblestrip and an extra Slothfurnace card, and rather than just using t-tracks, I cut up some pvc piping for the grips. Painted them, sanded them down and beat them up, before finishing the grips with some clear coat. Done.