Black saber blades?

[Manroon]

Probably more LEDs, if I had to guess. A workable theory, if more expensive. Still... I feel compelled to state that though black lightsabers are AWESOME, we must consider that within the 'actual' Star Wars Galaxy, they most likely would not exist. Even with the twisted physics in Star Wars, they leave the physics of light very much alone. With the possible exception of lightspeed, but that's another subject entirely. And we all know, in the literal sense black light does not exist, as black the color is created by the absorbtion of all colors of light. Light cannot absorb itself, and so black light cannot literally exist. Not according to present known science in this galaxy at any rate. But hey! Fifty years ago, they said the same thing about 'communicators' and half a dozen other pieces of sci-fi tech. Who knows, in six months science fact may be rewritten yet again and we'll all be buying black lightsabers from Ultra. XD That would rock so hard....

[Darth Dau Kho]

Im no expert but it appears as if rather than trying to use a transparent black film, he used a solid black one. He then probably wrapped it tighter inside the blade, allowing the white light to bleed out around the blade, which gave it the solid black with white glow.  This makes me wonder what it would look like when using other colors such as red or orange >

[Iyce]

You people have the right idea, almost. If you are going for a clone wars style season 2 wielded by Pre Vizla darksaber, it is a black blade surrounded by a white glow. A normal saber is a white blade surrounded by a whatever color glow. So the light itself is not black, but white. I made a thread like this.

[infinitelives4ever@yahoo.]

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[darth tratus]

i have an idea that i have shared with someone before. i dont know how well it would work, but if u use a black polycarbonate blade with the adegan silver led in the hilt.

[Rafalema]

This is what would happen.

http://www.youtube.com/user/makototsai#p/u/5/GvB7sLCKid8

[darth tratus]

This is what would happen.

http://www.youtube.com/user/makototsai#p/u/5/GvB7sLCKid8

if the black showed just a little more than it could look like the one from tfu

[Shalateaus]

  i found two articules before that had to do with the va color one more red one more blue in customizations check it out

[Darth_Muny]

How about just using car window tinting material? Either rolled tightly and placed inside the blade like the Ultra Edge blades, or maybe use a mirrored tint? The center would still be dark if you used the silver LED.

[Lord Tron]

A LOT of people have tried to make a black saber. If you can figure it out feel free to let us all know haha!

I have no idea if it will work, but I'm sure it will, also not sure who else might have posted this before me, I didn't read all the posts.  Take a saber blade any, then take some Wood or long stick or tube that will fit on the inside of the other blade, put it onto your lightsaber with a white light or ultra saber case silver, and turn it on.  It should make the saber blade appear as a black laser like in the video games black on the inside and white on the outside.  In my mind it works, just gotta figure out best solid tung that's light and will fit good into the blade, I'm going to try it out.  If someone is reading this and already figured it out please send me a message and let me know, thank you.

[Qui-Tom Helms]

OK, you jump (or climb) into your Jedi/Sith starfighter, travel to the nearest Dark Hole, and enter inside long enough for your astromech droid to collect dark matter into a sub-atomic partical containment collector.   Returning back to home station you utilize the planets hyperbarrik matter crystalization matter inducer to form a black crystal which would obviously be put into the crystal chamber of your lightsaber.

[Big Boss]

OK, you jump (or climb) into your Jedi/Sith starfighter, travel to the nearest Dark Hole, and enter inside long enough for your astromech droid to collect dark matter into a sub-atomic partical containment collector.   Returning back to home station you utilize the planets hyperbarrik matter crystalization matter inducer to form a black crystal which would obviously be put into the crystal chamber of your lightsaber.

Well if that's all you need to do then we should have had black blades a long time ago.*sarcasm*

[navajas]

I have no idea if it will work, but I'm sure it will

I hereby nominate Lord Tron for President of the United States.

[Master Nero Attoru]

The idea of a black lightsaber makes me wanna pull my hair out.  I realize black is a sweet color, and a black lightsaber seems like a cool choice for darksiders or whatever, but come on.  It's a LIGHTsaber.  A saber... made of light.  In TFU it's a black core with a white aura... I'm sure you've all noticed that's not the case with LED sabers in person.  It's just pure colored light... red sabers are red, blue sabers are blue.  The aura only shows up in pictures.  Hence, there could not be a BLACK saber... because it would give off, erm, "black light".  I could be wrong, but in my experience from various physics classes black is the ABSENCE of light.

I don't mean to complain on your thread, just wanted to keep this realistic.  Black lightsaber would be super cool, sadly it's impossible.  Now a blacklight lightsaber... that could be a handy thing to have around for raves

[KenshinTrigger]

I think unless one is willing to actually work with a black film-covered lightsaber to create that darksaber style reversed glow, a lightsaber with a black blade is at its core kinda logically impossible, since in the spectrum of light, black is a lack of color/light rather than any combination of anything. if we were working with quasi matter energy particles like in an actual light saber, its theoretically possible, though the implications are staggering. but these are led based with regular boring photon emission, so film around the blade is one's best bet, though.

A blacklight saber is not impossible though, since they do make blacklight UV LEDs

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=black+light+led&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=15676558353580369981&sa=X&ei=7NuJTuGwEofQgAf6rKT5Cg&ved=0CHkQ8wIwAA

This would end up being some sort of purple variation methinks, though it'd probably look rather cool if it could be done right, probably better for the mid grade and heavy grade blades rather than any ultra edge due to the clear-quality. All I'll warn is, be careful where you use it, those black lights can illuminate so many stains here and there, so think twice about using a cloak with food splotches on it.
Also I'd probably also reccomend not staring at the blade, but then again there's alot about this concept I've not tested yet. I've never actually used a single black light LED for anything, so I'm not familiar with a single LED's intensity in this manner. this defintiely requires more experimentation.

Anyone know if the LEDs themselves are easy to remove/replace in the LED modules that Ultrasabers sells? It'd be easier to order and re appropriate one than to make my own from scratch and never have it fit just right.