As always, I'll try to deny my natural urge to write long posts.
Having gotten into the awesomeness that is this hobby over the last two or three months, I've considered many different designs, features, and ambitions for my first lightsaber. I finally placed some orders with TCSS for a hilt parts.
My own aesthetic tends very much toward the plain and simple. However, friends convinced me to bling out my hilt with some power coating and such. The final shipment, the actual hilt pieces themselves, is set to arrive tomorrow. Looking back over what I eventually ordered, I'm nervous that it will be too over-the-top. I went with a technically simple hilt (not crystal chambers, no shrouds, etc) due to my very limited experience and abilities, but I still worry that my first product will seem ostentatious, over-the-top, and a hot mess.
So, to the purpose of this thread: what ruins a hilt aesthetically for you? What sorts of mistakes (or rather, things that you would consider mistakes) have you seen in terms of the aesthetics of hilt design? What are the dos and don'ts of hilt aesthetics for you?
It's too late for my first hilt (which I'll post as part of an intro thread once I get it together), but maybe I can learn something when I go to design my second... I'm already hungry for more lightsaber
tl;dr: What sorts of things make a lightsaber look bad to you? How much saberbling is too much? What makes a hilt a hot mess to you?
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