Crystal Suggestions?

[Lucianbloodwolf]

I'm not really sure where to have to post at, but this might be a good discussion unless others might've ask about it? But why not make a saber where the crystal is showing like I seen from most people making an actual crystal chamber that can be viewed from the outside? Would it be possible to ever make a custom blade with such a thing?

[Dauntless Seven]

There are some member photos of crystals placed mainly into windowed emitter blade plugs or inside a vented coupler.  The cost of having a saber with this type of hilt design is considerable.  Many of these sabers are more decorative and other saber smiths generally will not guarantee the sabers for dueling or spinning.  They do look really nice though.   

[Lucianbloodwolf]

There are some member photos of crystals placed mainly into windowed emitter blade plugs or inside a vented coupler.  The cost of having a saber with this type of hilt design is considerable.  Many of these sabers are more decorative and other saber smiths generally will not guarantee the sabers for dueling or spinning.  They do look really nice though.   

Ah ok then, I was wondering though cause it looked awesome seeing people making their blades from every different maker I have seen using a crystal chamber for most, or all their blade creations

[Thanamira]

My wild guess: it's easy-ish to drill a hole into the hilt and expand it into an oval.
It's then much harder to then fit some plastic housing inside the hilt, such that wires are hidden, but with the exposed crystal chamber having enough room.

I'm not familiar with other designs, but I'd think you'd also want some light to pass through the crystal, so now you're adding more LEDs (probably on both sides), and woompf, you've just upped the complexity.

So it's a bit like saying: why not add a lot of acceleration capability to a Toyota Camry?  You could...  but then it's not really a family sedan, it's a souped-up Audi.  Leave the lower-priced family sedans to Toyota, and if you need glamour and acceleration, go spend the big bucks on an Audi.

Note: I am (obviously) not a car person, so my car analogy may suck, but hopefully it sufficies.

Also, I'm not saying this is a bad idea.  On the contrary, I totally bet Ultrasabers is constantly thinking of ways to do this -- only inexpensively.