I recently purchased this Dominix LE V4 with specific intention to customize it. I ordered it will a Renegade LE Small Pommel and a Tri-cree GB LED with Li-ion setup. Here is what it looked like when I received it:
After seeing several designs online that used Krayt dragon bone on lightsaber hilts and thinking how awesome it was to combine a piece of something so unique and mystical with a Jedi's saber, as if forming a spiritual bond with the creature, I decided to attempt one of my own. Obi-Wan mimicked the sound of one to scare off the sand people in ANH. Krayt dragons are specifically known in canon for the "pearls" they produced, which were considered very valuable, as well as some legends regarding these creatures and their pearls. Here is an excerpt from Wookieepedia:
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They could be found in colors such as blue, green, red, white and black. Due to a refractive quality peculiar to the pearl, they could be used in a lightsaber if properly cleaned, prepared and installed, though it was a difficult task. The pearls were seen as exceptionally valuable by the public (easily worth upwards of a hundred thousand credits each), as well as proof a person had killed a krayt dragon (to Tusken Raiders, a sign of bravery)"
So I turned to the thing I knew best, 3D modeling, as a resource to create the pieces this customization would require. After several weeks of planning, modeling, and tweaking, I finished all the models and ordered them. Here are all the newly designed for this saber:
These include (from left to right) a krayt bone choke sleeve in two pieces, a new two-part blade plug to resemble a claw with a pearl insert, and the krayt bone emitter shroud. A few more pics of the individual pieces are below:
The bone pieces were printed in White Strong and Flexible Polished, the blade plug in Polished Metallic, and the pearl in Transparent Acrylic. The emitter shroud has windows that match those found in the saber's emitter, with a slight inward curvature.
So without further ado, I present you the Krayt Cerulean:
I painted the krayt bone pieces with Krylon Ivory Satin spray paint and lightly weathered them to give it a dirtier look. I also applied Stainless Steel contact paper to the smaller diameter points of the saber and the bottom of the pommel, since this saber doesn't have sound, and scratched it to make it look like weathered metal.
The emitter shroud is held on with a 8-32 1/4" socket screw and the choke point pieces are glued to the contact paper there. The blade plug is designed to allow the light from the saber to illuminate the pearl insert.
I used one of my Jedi symbol switch covers printed in Blue Strong and Flexible Polished on the latching switch and painted the symbol in silver to stand out. It is also fastened with glue to the switch.
This project was a lot of fun and I'm happy with how it turned out
Below is one last shot with the blade in. Thanks for stopping by!
