My Lightsaber Origins

[Ronin]

Well my little brother got into Star Wars about a year and a half ago, and in the process he got me back into it; him and I like to spar so I figured one day I'd try building a lightsaber out of materials I had laying around, all I could find was a wooden dowel. Anyways I had already planted the idea in his head so I had to build whatever I could, which resulted in these: http://www.truploader.com/uploads/581635IMGP4354.JPG, mine was the one on top, pvc as blades held with screws.

The quality was horrible, and the hole I tapped was off centered and skewed the blade, so I made my way to home depot, bought some pvc parts and built what I could, the blades were threaded to fit the emitter, mine's on top:http://www.truploader.com/uploads/663621IMGP4352.JPGhere it is with the blade out:http://www.truploader.com/uploads/649973IMGP4356.JPG

The lower one in the first pic was my brother's, it had a twin that connected, but that broke after some combat, and I had to rebuild his lightsabers, this time I used an adapter instead of a threaded pommel: http://www.truploader.com/uploads/438112IMGP4380.JPG and together: http://www.truploader.com/uploads/750292IMGP4381.JPG

Then I found Ultrasabers... specifically the metal hilts... amazing...  

[thejedimasternick]

Very nice attempts there buddy. Hey, we all have our beginnings. I still have the shards of the first bokken I ever had.

[Jammo]

The year was 1983. Young Jammo had just seen Return of the Jedi. Upon his arrival at home, he and his brother burned a couple markers completely out coloring a pair of wrapping paper tubes and faced off. The "sabers" both broke on the second clash. Forward to 2005 or so. Same guys, EL sabers, driveway. A whap on the hands and Jammo wins. Its kinda gone from there...

[Ronin]

My pvc version is still useable, it just doesn't light up, but that's why I'm against the Ultrasabers PVC hilts, I'm sure they're of a much higher caliber, I just thing a saber should be metal regardless of anything, pvc just can not compare.

@ Jammo: Lol, definitely had my share of smashed knuckles (and knuckle smashings as well)

[thejedimasternick]

I agree. PVC works, but the alluminum US hilts are just great. Granted, I still use the PVC hilts for saber training and when my group and I go out, but that is only because we have a lot of kids running around and if something breaks, not too expensive to fix.

[Ronin]

True, plus with kids if one of those broken things could be a toe pvc is ideal over metal.

It seems every saber type is a massive jump in quality to the next, wood & tape -> pvc & paint -> hasbro lights & sound -> ultrasabers -> real

whoops, got excited on that last one

[thejedimasternick]

Well, that was true for a bit I think, I think they got a little too excited with those things too...anyway! Yeah, we can dream of the next best thing, but US is all ready doing that for us Im sure.

[wasd999]

I was searching at the sci-fi section in google search when
I found lightsabers, guess who has his products upfront?

Then I got hooked on the idea of buying one, since I'm "studying"
Wu shu anyway.

So I bought my first saber, kinda in a hurry since I'm leaving Florida
back to my homeland. You can ask Harris that I panicked, that it might
not make it to me in time! (He called by the way, he's cool!)

When I got mine with next day shipping, I was blown away that
I immediately bought my second for my sister!

Thats my story, now I'm having one custom made...
Hope it doesn't brake my wallet...

[Manroon]

Nice sabers, given the materials I think you did great!

@jedimasternick: By coincidence... I too have the busted parts of my first bokken. Well, at least some of the parts... XD