Lightsaber Craft

a d-ring is a fine option...my first ultrasaber has a d-ring mounted on the bottom of the pommel. they can also be mounted on the side with shorter screws that don't penetrate all the way through the hilt wall...and yes some hang their hilts inverted so that the emitter faces up instead of the pommel....

as a general rule you don't really want to go drilling holes through anything that"s threaded, it's not impossible or anything like that...just not recommended unless necessary....

another option is to make a holster kind of like how rahm kota mounted his on the back of his shoulder....

WarrenDeLevi wrote: what are your views on this?

My first lightsaber hilt was a piece of junk. I got instructions on how to build one back in the late 90's when there weren't resources like The Custom Saber Shop. The hilt was butt ugly, but I learned a lot from my mistakes.

If you don't feel like you have the faculties to build one from the ground up, you can always buy a plain saber from a place like Ultrasabers and customize it. I've done that twice. If at all interested, here are some pics:



I customized those two from a regular Initiate saber, one which had a silver finish, and another with a black finish that I painted gold.

I built a saber from parts and had a ball doing it. It took me about six months to gather all the parts and the wiring took days. But it was an incredible experience. I am already toying with a second build.....I didn't think I was.....I love my saber.....however.....

Its funny. The other day I was looking at some canes with my boyfriend to help my crappy leg out on the harder days and we couldn't find anything that I felt was A; attractive and B: could be used as a defensive tool. So instead I decided to simply make my own. Talking about this at work somehow led to me designing a light saber cane.

The result is a design I'll be building soon based upon Luke's original saber. The "blade" will be solid polycarbonate capped with clear silicone rubber. The hilt has a special locking mechanism that allows me to fold the very end "emitter" down so that it can be used as a cane(the handle thus forming a L shape with the blade.) The hilt will be made out of solid steel (save for some rubber grippy pieces ect) and in the end it should be near indestructible. I"m quite excited to get to work on it, though first I gotta make my other cane first . That's a simple cane with a solid steel .25 diameter (half inch across) rod polished and blued with a rubber cap on the bottom and a red oak handle carved into the shape of either a bird beak or a horse head depending on my mood when I get started on that lol.

Folks saber making shouldn't be beyond your reach. Honestly you need just a couple things. A drill, a punch set, a set of files including little jewlers files and big files. Make sure to have some rough double cut ones and get a fine single cut file to clean up. Also you will need a hacksaw (be sure to know where your blade teeth are facing and only push down when sawing in that direction. Ideally you'd situate them forward) With those tools you should be able to shape your materials. Though I will tell you if you work plastic you will probably want epoxy resin and paint as well.

CryojenX wrote: I'm playing with the CSS creator tool and have a really cool design, but I don't really have any place convenient to add a covertec wheel without drilling through some hilt threads. I'm assuming (correct me if I'm wrong) that drilling and tapping a hole through the threads on hilt parts is a bad idea right? I ask because I'd really have to make major modifications to the design just to get a covertec on there if the hilt piece threads are a no drill zone. :dry:

Drilling into the threaded areas where major components screw into each other is not a no go, it just requires a good deal of cleanup. The simplest solution, though requiring a great deal of patience is merely vicing down the hilt gently and carefully cleaning out the burrs and such with a needle file restoring the threading where you drilled.

WarrenDeLevi wrote: So obviously a hilt has no actual martial or defensive use, it is to me a visual expression on how dedicated i am with every aspect of my life.

what are your views on this?

Actually, I found hilts obviously had martial and defensive purposes, and has been well studied and demonstrated throughout history.