Show your custom Lightsabers!

Really?! I have two or three that I don’t plan on doing anything with...

I need one!

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Holy crap!!! I can't believe how much Canon Y's and X's are going for on eBay right now... it's insane!

Glad I got my X for $40... sheesh....

Speaking of which... need an opinion from the masses... should I paint my Ingersoll-Rand grips or leave them unpainted like @AnubisGuard like I was originally planning to do?

Unpainted, IMO.
 
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Love this thread!
So I decided to try a little change on a hardware saber I built last fall. Got out the old rattle cans and sprayed the grip section with satin black. Also added a "replica clamp" IMG_20180130_174324.jpgIMG_20180130_174504.jpgIMG_20180130_174214.jpgIMG_20180130_174628.jpg
The clamp is actually from a Hasbro Luke FX Saber which I bought in the junkyard here. There were no sidebars lever or section to hold the clamp card. Sooo I decided to make it work as a clamp. I folded the aluminum that would hold the card then used steel key material for my sidebars. Drilled and tapped them for the lever which was from a parks saber. Trimmed and cleaned it all up now the clamp holds a card and opens and closes! I really like this now and to me it looks like a mashup between the Luke V2 and obi wan saber. Here's pics of the work I did for the clamp. Enjoy!
 

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Hey propmainiac ! Glad to see the clamp turn out so well! Those bearings for windvane's sure are the cat's meow. I rediscovered mine yesterday, along with some springs, fork valves, heavy spacers, and a bunch of other odds and ends as I was cleaning up my floor looking for a nut that had fallen off the backside of my circuit prototyping board.

Your lightsaber looks so much different now that it's all gussied up in fresh paint and custom bits!
 
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The emitter is just a series of tubing telescoped together. Aluminum and copper peices that just happened to fit one inside of the other. I bought a shaft collar for the top of the saber that keeps it all tight. Built around a threaded rod.
 
So I got bored and decided to mod a Blade Builders Luke with things I just had lying around. I was originally going for a v2, but decided ten minutes in that there was no point in going accurate if I was just going to use random junk I had laying about. Excuse the poor picture quality, I used my phone and the lighting was iffy.


Original:
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After a couple days of bondo, plastidip, wooden dowels, paint, more plastidip, and more paint:


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Made this from parts found in the gutter, the trash or just left over bits from other projects...

It definitely has a scrounged but Star Wars feel to me. Like a Jedi was stuck on a planet with nothing but a crystal and had to make a lightsaber.
 

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