Obi-wan style Lightsaber

jake88

Sr Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #1

Just finished this up and thought id post a couple pics. All pieces and parts were bought at Lowe's.
thanks for looking

 

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Shipwrek

New Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #2

That's fantastic! Any chance you could do a simple list of what parts are what?

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #3

Thanks! I'm not sure what all the parts are called but I'll say that the front piece is a grey PVC hat shaped 1 inch tube adapter with a couple different washers on top. The adjoining pieces are junk from the smaller PVC isle. The ribbed section is vacuum hose streached over 1 1/4 inch PVC and the butt piece is a small bath room faucet handle from the plumbing section. I use this stuff called JB quick epoxy to put everything together and then a lot of painting with flat black, silver and a little gold.

 

p0sitr0nic

Well-Known Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #4

What is the clamp made of?

 

Flanman

Active Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #5

Thats pretty amazing! I love the nice weathered look on your paint job too.

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #6

p0sitr0nic said:

What is the clamp made of?

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Its a piece of plastic wrapped around and glued down. I made the rectangular piece out of balsa wood layered with very thin styrene. I put a very tiny T-track on each side and finished it off with some of those rubber bumper sticky's to simulate the bubble strip. Yesterday I found some smaller ones that look better that I will use on my next saber.

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Flanman said:

Thats pretty amazing! I love the nice weathered look on your paint job too.

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Thanks!

 

p0sitr0nic

Well-Known Member

• Jun 24, 2014

• #7

Thats pretty badass

 

thd9791

Master Member

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• Jun 24, 2014

• #8

Great hardware saber! I'm taking a few pages out of your book - This is where true creativity lies

Might I ask - what's the construction of the neck? I notice 1 1/4 pvc inside the ring section, and a wonderful neck/windvane section somehow held in place?

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Jun 25, 2014

• #9

thd9791 said:

Great hardware saber! I'm taking a few pages out of your book - This is where true creativity lies

Might I ask - what's the construction of the neck? I notice 1 1/4 pvc inside the ring section, and a wonderful neck/windvane section somehow held in place?

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The neck is made up of: (from left to right):
2 layered washers
grey hat style PVC/ inside the hat I epoxied a copper ribbed plumbing adapter piece
The disk like piece in the middle is a wheel from one of those plastic chest of drawers.
A random 3/8 inch tube I found
A section of 1/2 PVC
and on top of the ribbed piece I glued a same sized washer on top to give it a "shroud".

Hope this helps. When Im building them up I don't follow a set plan. I just shoot for the most accurate look and make it up as I go along.

 

Sym-Cha

Master Member

• Jun 25, 2014

• #10

Hi there,

that's a mighty fine vintage looking lightsaber ... can't wait to see what you would do with a custom Luke or even Darth Vader version

Chaim

 

Beard

Member

• Jun 26, 2014

• #11

Looks awesome! Might have to give it a go