Great sabers, and I'm with you on the lack of hardware sabers these days.
I'm Finally getting back to work on some of the hardware sabers I've had started, but not finished, setting around here. And it is a lot of fun. It can be so much cheaper, and I like having to come up with what I need out of found parts, or making it myself. Even if you fallow someone else's tutorial , I find it can be quite rewording, and you can always put your own twist on it, that makes it yours, and yours alone. And you know when you lay your saber down next to another replica of that same prop, you will always no witch one is yours right off, and not have to say "Um, my saber looks just like yours, and I can't tell witch is mine. "
Plus, it's something I think you can get friends, and family in on more, because a lot of people get scared off by the supper obsessed folks, that have to have every detail just like that one that was on screen for 2 seconds. (not that I can't be like that myself at times.
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I'm working on a Kyle, Vader ROTJ, Yoda, and a Mara, to name a few. Most of them have a ways to go, but they are all coming along.
