Sure, here are a few more pics of the wiring setup. I just cut the adhesive-backed strips to length (just a bit less than 1 meter, determined by the assigned cut point every third LED) and attached 4 to the sides of a dowel that I epoxied into the hilt. Then just solder small wire leads to connect them back together. Two A23 batteries power everything from a holder packed into the bottom of the hilt (the A23s are just the right size to fit in that hollow in the hilt). The central interior assembly is then covered over in a florescent light tube cover that I frosted a bit to help diffuse the light from the LEDs a bit.
All in all, a good enough solution for the VFX I was wanting them for. I probably spent almost as much money on these as I would have if I had just bought nice commercial products, but I wanted something 'quick and dirty' and never intended them to be used for 'carrying around' or display. Just a fun tinkering project to generate an appropriate ambient light source for some twilight time sabers in some video.
Dan
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