(Wow, I went to sleep and woke up to this.)
That's exactly what I'm aiming for Cire Yeldarb. I'm just making it for me. No plans on selling, no plans on mass production, no plans on competing with the saber community. But to make it be worthless for mass producers (to a degree). I just came here to learn how to make a light up sword, improve upon the old toy design of the retractable ones with interlocking stacking cups. And I want to make safe guards that would make my version of a light saber/beam katana/laser sword... Something that improves upon the one cool thing that most sabers don't have, a completely retractable blade that lights up, is strong enough for combat while not subtracting from anything of the custom saber experience.
Maybe patent was the wrong word. What I should be looking at is making sure this goes directly into public domain with instructions and cost lists. I just want to make sure that anyone attempts this can buy the parts they need from whatever store they choose and make it not easy to mass produce the parts with conventional methods (I.E. make sure the retractable blade has so many necessary working parts while being able to handle dueling strikes that making these things in masse would be a loss). Soundboards, Lights, and some internal fittings and spacers can still be bought from saber stores, because hey! It's still a custom saber.
I mean no disrespect if there was any implied to the community of this forum. I just want to make sure that my ideas for this... light-up limb-assisted attempted replica of science fiction with the current constraints of technology, will be available for the general public to build as they seem fit, choosing parts from any source they choose, instead of furthering a rise of a "dark empire" that wishes to restrict that creativity and research for personal gain.
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