official starwars standard blade length?

[alphamale]

Hi, I'm trying to make a lightsaber that is faithful to the movies. In that regard, I want the blade length from emitter to tip to be "standard length". Is there even such thing? I know yoda's blade is smaller and maces blade longer, but what about the average? I've heard that the prequel blades are longer than the original trilogy. I'm looking at settling on 32 inches, what do you guys think?

[Lord Maul]

i don't know. you should do some digging on google for the specs for the original filming props, then you could find out the blade lenght. all of the MRs are about the same length

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[987654321a]

i think 40" looks more like the movies or maybe 38"

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[LAN-ED-TUL]

most everyone goes with 36 for lux's with 2 inches more for the blade holder. so 38 total. my great saber has a 48 inch blade. its big.

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[Lord Maul]

you must be tall to weild that saber, my young apprentice. that thing must be HUGE lan[:0]

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[Jonitus]

For deuling and saber spins, I always settled for a length equal to this:

Standing upright with your dominant hand at your side, have someone measure the distance from your finger tip to the top of your ear. Take that measurement and subtract the length of your hilt. You now have the length of your blade.

It works for me, and that's all I'm sayin'

[james3]

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For deuling and saber spins, I always settled for a length equal to this:

Standing upright with your dominant hand at your side, have someone measure the distance from your finger tip to the top of your ear. Take that measurement and subtract the length of your hilt. You now have the length of your blade.

It works for me, and that's all I'm sayin'
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That is an awesome way to do it Jonitus. I am similar in that I make my blades so that when mounted in the hilt they are as tall as the persons chest.

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[xwingband]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Jonitus

For deuling and saber spins, I always settled for a length equal to this:

Standing upright with your dominant hand at your side, have someone measure the distance from your finger tip to the top of your ear. Take that measurement and subtract the length of your hilt. You now have the length of your blade.

It works for me, and that's all I'm sayin'
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Whoa... I checked and that works with my blades.

It needs to be long enough, yet not too long that you can't spin it without hitting the ceiling or floor.

Alphamale, if you want movie accurate 32" will be far from it. Movie accurate is about 40" (one meter). I think it's much better to make the blade work for you, Example 36" works well for me.

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[alphamale]

Thanx guys,

Jonitus: I did what you said and the blade was only 30 inches. I tried measuring the blade in the KOTOR videogames and they seemed about 32 or so assuming an 11 inch hilt.

xwingband: 40 inches, that long huh? Yeah, I've seen pictures and I tried to measure the best I can of Mace and it looks like your about right, but 36 inches seems more like Obi wan and anakin.

Overall, I don't know if there is really isn't any "official star wars canon Nick Gillard and George lucas approved standard blade length", and that it is a personal preference of the individual jedi.

I'll make two sabers, one will be a movie length saber (40') and the other will be a practical dueling saber that i'll actually use which will be much shorter (30') since I don't want to ruin my ceiling LOL.

[alphamale]

Or I can always just have 2 blades of different lengths handy.