Blade strength showdown!!

[Strydur]

Here are some videos of me stress testing my blades and a MR blade. Ok I had to convert them and it tweaked them a bit but oh well. It made the audio sound really wierd lol.

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sabers/scripts/myblade.wmv
My 11 year old son putting all of his weight on one of my blades and he cant make it touch the floor.

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sabers/scripts/bounce.wmv
Here he is again bouncing with both feet on the blade.

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sabers/scripts/mrblade.wmv
This is how the MR blade did.

Tim
The Custom Saber Shop

uh convert to .wmv or .avi .mov or readabl efile?>

[Jedi Ranger]

Hearing the snap bare seconds into the test was hilarious. Obviously BIG difference between 1/8" and 1/16" walls.

Thanks for testing and posting this for us, Tim.

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[scaarmor]

I cant seem to view them even after they got switched to wmv format-I must have computer problems.

Cain

***It is now that we battle.When you die, await my arrival in the afterlife where we will battle again.Perhaps there you may have the ability to defeat me,but not here,not now,not this day.So let us part with words and embrace the blade.***

[UltraSWG]

The MR blade is not 1/16" walled, it's thinner. There's a big difference between an MR blade and a 1/16" walled polyC tube.

[Strydur]

I am not sure how the test would turn out with the 1/16" walled PolyC as I dont have any to test.


Tim
The Custom Saber Shop

[UltraSWG]

Either way, your videos are impressive and make for some good marketing. So I'll be using your tubes in my sabers from now on. I just placed the order.

[Jedi Ranger]

MR aren't even 1/16"??!?!!! Yikes! No wonder it snapped so easily.

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[UltraSWG]

MR are a bunch of cheap bastards, man, they scrimp everywhere.

[GFORCE13]

Yeah MR looks pretty, nice hanging on the wall and thats it.[:D]

May the Force
Be with You

Marc E.

[zack]

so what is the best blade to use and best thickness and size? also what is the standard blade langth, like the langth they use in the movies? how long should it be?

[xwingband]

Make your choice on thickness. Many people don't care. Tim only has 1/8 though.

Read this for blade length:
http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/sabers/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=205

Read a liitle before posting please.

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[tetmatek]

Yea Ultra I shake my head at some of the materials they use everytime i take one apart. Their poly even though it is thinner is way too hard like acrylic so it snaps leaving a nasty looking edge. I beleve with another 1/8 X 3/4 slid inside(I've Done this but only successful on 24" blades)they'd deflect some bullets. problem is you wouldn't know which way rhey'd go LOL I got my kids to hang from a 36" blade while me and a bud picked him up by the ends of the blade. no problemo. they are only 5 so they are not that heavy but it was cool!

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[UltraSWG]

I got my shipment of thick-ass blades and diffusers. Those damn blades are quite a bit heavier than I had thought they would be, but I bet it would take a train to break one.

http://www.ultrasabers.com
Corbin|Strydur|Ultra
The Holy Luxeon Trinity

[Mi Gin Gonn]

mad props (no pun intended) as usual to Strydur.

yes, weird compression on the video. Yul Brenner from Westworld called...[:D]

"Chaka, call off Dawson, will ya?!"

[scaarmor]

I had a few of my friends over yesterday, gave them my x-tra blades and said "go outide and break them" then threw in a "bet you cant" just to get them to try hard. Keep in mind these are some of my SCA friends that I fight with and they do not hit light. We have had lots of things broken over the years fighting SCA. I personally have had my left hand shattered and my left wrist broken- Dont woory I give as much as I take[:D]HeHeHeHe!!! Anyway, beating the living crap out of each other, my HOUSE, concrete, boulders, and just plain bending them over knees and other various objects, all they managed to do was SHATTER on of my acrylic tips! These things are really starting to prove indestructable arent they? At least now all of my friends want one of thier own to beat on![:D][:D][:D]

Cain

***It is now that we battle.When you die, await my arrival in the afterlife where we will battle again.Perhaps there you may have the ability to defeat me,but not here,not now,not this day.So let us part with words and embrace the blade.***

[Mi Gin Gonn]

yeah sca, i did the same thing on new years eve...dared some buddies to try and break my blades. plus they were drunk, which helped throw any "holding back" right out the window. no luck breaking them, and i use 1/16". i can't even imagine how much more rugged the 1/8" stuff is. ultra said it'd take a train wreck to break one...i'll feel sorry for the train in that case.

"Chaka, call off Dawson, will ya?!"

[scaarmor]

Anyone live near some train tracks to really test this theory?[:D][:D][:D] I think Ultra was right, I think thats about what its gonna take!

Cain

***It is now that we battle.When you die, await my arrival in the afterlife where we will battle again.Perhaps there you may have the ability to defeat me,but not here,not now,not this day.So let us part with words and embrace the blade.***

[CrudeSword]

what a waste for a experiment (i meant the fx saber).
not unless the saber doesn't work anymore, then waste it, is nothing.

[nmfiredawg]

makes me want to throw out the MR blades and swith them all over.

[Kyp Durron]

LOL! MR's sabers were never ment to have anyone stand on their blades, hehe.

That having been said, it DOES make me want to convert every freaking one that I have though....[:p]

[The Beast]

What does "MR" mean...?[:p]

Yo, i´m a newbee so please be patient.

[xwingband]

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[The Beast]

ahh, thanks man...

Yo, i´m a newbee so please be patient.

[Kyp Durron]

*Sigh* Now if Fortuna Enterprises will hurry up and send me my two used, working Vader ESB's, I can see which one is the worse of the two and send it to Tim to have it converted. I e-mailed them and they said that several orders were delayed and that they were looking into it and would let me know when my orders have shipped. [:(]