First LED saber

With all the people posting photos of their lightsabers recently, I figured I'd throw my hat into the ring. This is the first LED lightsaber I have constructed after much research and planning via www.thecustomsabershop.com.

Good for you and nice job!

Given that it is an MHS saber, good work; turned out well indeed. I actually looked into the illuminated saber branch, too. But I'm afraid I'm rather going to order one entirely custom after a virtual model I made for I have too little skills to dare trying it myself and too great demands on quality and exclusivity...

nice work, oddly i just drew one that looks similar(i'm working on a portfolio of saber designs)

a few days ago i had some free time and my camera and photoshop, i took some pics of my current saber with most of the colors i can get from it(i haven't tried all the combinations yet) i used photoshop to combine the pics and make them a managable size...like yours my current saber is an mhs, but i did the leatherwork on the handle myself(thanks to a leather works kit my bro-in-law gave me)

Thanks for the compliments!

I actually had come up with the design shortly before Ryan at Random Sabers stopped taking orders almost 5 years ago. Tim was pretty easy to work with, and got the main hilt part custom machined at a relatively decent price for me. It's a 9" extension machined with the grooves from teh hilt style 4.

The part that took the most engineering was figuring out how to hide the wires between the battery pack and top of the crystal chamber. It's a pretty simple design and the LED is only one color, but not bad for a first attempt. I'd do the machining myself too, but I don't have the tools available to me.

Already working on a new design that's a bit more complex, and incorporates sound and possibly an exposed crystal chamber.

The Navy:

Your power level is showing .
Very nice, very simplistic, and to the point. All in all, not bad at all swabbo.
(I'm Army, I'm allowed to tease the navy guys )

Again, very well done, The simplicity of the hilt is kind of telling, I'm still trying to file out some of the more sharp edges on my hilt, but it is coming along just fine.

Wow, I had no idea something like this existed. I am going to have to get involved in the "saber scene". I'd love to build my own. Very nice.

These are awesome!
But that's coming from someone who gets excited about the $35 ones at Wal Mart so take that for what it's worth.

Nice work!

I actually bought a couple of cheap lightsabers just so I could clip them to my belt loop. /dork

I like it , how did you come up with your saber design? did you go upon how it felt to you or did you base it off of a design which you had a fondness of?

WHERE. CAN I. GET. ONE!!!

There's also ultraforcesabers.com for converted FX's.

@meatloaf: Look around at fx-sabers.com. Many manufacturers are listed and active there. If however you prefer reasonable prices you are probably better off building one yourself from scrap metal and/or parts such as from thecustomsabershop.com (for I've calculated the costs for self-made MHS sabers to the prices of e.g. JQ Sabers MHS sabers and the differences are inappropriate IMO).
For custom and original parts and shapes you'd be better with sabersmiths unless you are skilled with lathes and stuff.

Having just gone on the custom saber shop I really want to make my own now. Does anyone know of a guide etc or what each part is for?

Thanks a lot

the design parts are self-explanatory. however, the electronics depend on the design (in terms of space in the inside etc) and on what electronics you want it to have precisely. on the other hand, chassis installs depend on electronic parts you want to fix inside your hilt.

Jerriko wrote: I like it , how did you come up with your saber design? did you go upon how it felt to you or did you base it off of a design which you had a fondness of?

I went with a design that called out to me...coinidentally the name of the design is"arbiter" which means judge....ultrasabers.com is a good place to get good mhs hilts at decent prices... thecustomsabershop.com is good for getting the mhs parts for your own deisgn of sorts and the have a hilt design maker you can use to design your own hilt with a variety parts that are premade

I would love to order a custom one, or build one. If someone could pm me with details that would be great

Here is a link, Meatloaf :

http://www.ultrasabers.com/

I highly recommend not to order at ultrasabers. While their hilts are excellent in durability and design, their blades are not and electronic parts are sometimes bend together instead of soldered. There is more quality lacks, I just point out the most obvious and not getting into the specific stuff like parts fixation or LED optics.

Thank you, Gisteron. I only recently discovered that site while looking for a gift for a friend.

Do you know a better location ? I am interested too, as my friend's birthday is in May.

Alexandre