General hilt building

[xl97]

I need a way so when i activate the saber the anakin grip slides from the middle of the saber to the bottom.

and when i turn it off the grip slides the opisite way.

automated? or you wat to 'slide' it manually with yoru hands?

if the former.. you'd need some 'extras'..

such as an Arduino or RFX platform and some small motors/servos to accomplish this (along with a way to mount it to the sleeve/ilt sections and a 'track' for it to slide along.

also i want to make it so i can ajust the length of my blade by turning a nob. I have a 40in blade.

Any ideas????

a really long hilt? with a DEEP blade stop? hahaha..

seriously though.. how far do you want to be able to adjust the blade length to? to far out.. and it will not stay properly seated/secure.. to far down and its heavy..(and too much real estate wasted to hide alot of blade in the hilt ya know?)

[Jedi-Loreen]

Whatever you're smoking, it must be gooooooood.

[Danocrunch]

lol. yea.. im not high i just have a creative mind

[Danocrunch]

I want the blade to ajust from 40 in to a 30 in maybe.

and i want the grip to spring out from the center of the hilt to the bottom by a siple push of a button

also what parts do i need to do this???

You should use the 'Edit' button instead of continually posting new replies to your own posts. A lot of people will flame you for that.

[Jedi-Loreen]

Starting with me.

Stop double and triple posting, it's annoying and not allowed.


There are no parts in the Store to make a saber do what you want it to like you want.

You're going to have to come up with your own ideas on how to make it work.

There are probably reasons nobody has done that before. It's very impractical, and it would take and extremely long hilt. You can't make polycarbonate blades that telescope.

[FenderBender]

Wow. Well the moon is full soon...

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

Wow. Well the moon is full soon...

Haha...Well I know its making ME a bit 'loony'...ok, ok, loony-ER than usual

[Danocrunch]

or is it?

what is u had one polycarbanant blade and had another slitly thiner one inside it. and used some sort of pully sistem or a spring to be able to double the blade length to suprize ur oponent.

[Lord Maul]

Stop double posting. You just did it again, and it makes more work for me to clean up the thread.

[xl97]

forget your blade idea...

you've been old it wont work..easily (and its very impractical/silly to boot... you want that?.. go buy one of the telescoping toy sabers)....or looking into a motor or spring type system.. but to hide 10" of blade is alot of empty hilt to have.... not to mention 40" blade is a bit big by itself =)

that being said.. the hilt part could be doable.. but NOT with anything pre-made or bought to magically make this effect/hilt for you.

you'll have to devise/engineer a system that works as you want.. or hire someone to do it for you..