So with my graduation from college coming up, a lot of changes are coming my way. New living spaces, a new career, etc. I figure that having reached this milestone in my life I should treat myself in some way, and since I no longer have the money to routinely invest in video game equipment. I might as well invest it in something that will keep me moving (hence why not a lightsaber). I originally thought of just buying a saberforge apprentice line as a stunt saber, but after hearing about the shoddy service I have since reconsidered. Instead I've thought to just design a saber of my own. My goals with the design were simple. First, keep it within the traditional dimensions of a standard lightsaber hilt. 2. make the hilt easy to wield in a one-handed or two handed fashion, with an emphasis on blade control, and grip. Third was to design a lightsaber that kept to the basic, traditional elements of the Prequel and Original hilt designs, but diverged enough to call the design my own (something that i could wield if i or my character was a jedi). My initial design, came out something like this.
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I played around with a few other designs...
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before returning to the original. after tweaking it with some feedback from r/lightsabers my final design (save for variations in the ribbing, and the covertec vs a d-ring pommel) came out to this:
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I'm still trying to figure out how i would install electronics into it. but I feel that at least have a base that i can build off of going into the future. What do you guys think? How might I improve this design? What blade color do you think would fit it? (I'm feeling torn between amber, white, and blue personally, but I'd love your thoughts)
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