Home Depot/Corran Horn esque/ OT lightsaber. First custom lightsaber.

[Magni]

I was inspired by the story of a Jedi who built his lightsaber out of anything he could find and how the original trilogy lightsabers were made the same way. So I took the whole electronics kit out of my newly ordered ASP lightsaber from saberforge and went to home depot.

i may find a new emitter piece because it is a hair of a centimeter away from snuggly fitting the blade in.

Emitter: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Sioux-Chi...0201/202254989
Switch section: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-1-i...V-3C/205888735
Body: http://www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-6-...60HN/100200574
Pommel: http://www.homedepot.com/p/LDR-Indus...12-2/206840497[this one is 1/2 inch because I cannot find 1 inch on the website]

For the leather wrap I ordered it from this gentleman here.
http://imperialroyalarms.com/thread/...-wrapping-hilt

It was all very easy except the 5 hours of trying to figure out how to turn the ball valve knob into a hole for the switch, after many hours of hack sawing and hand sanding it turned out great.

I then tapped and threaded two retention holes and used two screw knobs from a telescope and It is done.

I love this lightsaber.
Also this weighs 2.8 lbs which I happily found out is the same weight range as most real swords. Much heftier than a saberforge hilt.

Thank you.
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very large picture: https://i.gyazo.com/fefcc17c354d722d...71e1ae47f3.png [couldn't figure out how to make picture large]

[Quixotic Jedi]

Ingenious use of hardware. Love the industrial look of this saber, which I'm sure will only get better as it ages naturally. Very well done!

[Magni]

Thank you for the nicely put compliment.

[Mineral]

Cool hardware saber! I like a heavier hilt too.

[Darth Leximus]

I aint mad at that. Im a huge fan of re purposed items. Nice work.

[eastern57]

Like! Plus one for #CorranHornLightsaber

[darth_chasm]

Sweet. My brother built something very similar years ago. If I can remember to nab a pic of it next time I visit I will.

[hapki]

I like it. The color is perfect.

[Whi-ja]

Hardware sabers ROCK!! Well done.

[.: SparrowHawk :.]

Definitely cool saber! And I like how you took the same approach as the original saber builders did, finding all sorts of different components and turning them into a weapon for a more civilized age!