LSUJedi
Knight Lance Corporal
Force Alignment: 8
Posts: 46
Strive for the light. Accept the dark.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2019, 04:05:15 PM » |
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Depends on what level of "from scratch" you're looking for. If you're talking about starting with metal pipe and sawing and drilling, etc, I can't help you, that's well beyond me.
But, if you're looking at buying the individual parts and assembling them, that's much simpler. US has empty hilts, which is basically the hilt body, pommel, and emitter with hole drilled in body for switch. You can customize the pommel and emitter, mostly, that comes with the hilt.
If you want to take it a step further, you can buy the body, pommel, and emitter separately.
For electronics, maybe begin with a stunt saber, or migrate the electronics from another saber like I did with my first build. If you already have a saber, unscrew the pommel and emitter and take a look inside. Once you understand what everything is, it's actually not that complicated. Even soldering is a cheap and easy skill to learn for the purposes of wiring the saber. Plenty of diagrams on here to help you out with that bit.
First step I think is to decide what exactly you want your saber to look (and maybe sound) like, and how much time and money you are willing to invest.
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