I was chatting with a few others the other day in the chat room but unfortunately I can't remember everything. Sorry. I'm still trying to collect my thoughts, and I need a little help.
I drew up my own designs for a lightsaber using a system similar to the MHS that would be held together by a locking system that uses set screws, but unfortunately I've run into a problem.
I have never designed a lightsaber before and I don't have all the parts yet. I'd like to wire in a Luxeon V with all the trimmings, acrylic crystal, sound board, battery life indicator, lockup/blaster deflection switch, all that. The problem is I don't know how long to make my saber.
The body tube is made from 6061-T6 Aluminum Schedule 80 pipe, so that means I've got slightly over 1.25" I.D to work with. It's the length that matters now.
Here are the AutoCAD drawings:
http://daveluck.deviantart.com/gallery/#Lightsaber-I
I drew them from scratch myself and modelled them with computer assisted design.
The pipe that forms the body is 12" long, but that's only for reference (note the break line in the pipe). The problem is that I intend to make a matched pair of these and put them together at the pommels to form a saberstaff, and if I did that with both of the body pipes being 12" long or more, the end result would be a saberstaff hilt the length of a baseball bat, and I can't have that.
So about one inch for the crystal, a couple more for the batteries, about three or so for the saber core, and more, all squeezed into the space of one and a quarter inches of pipe. How short can I safely make the body pipe? I need to leave a little room in there for the resonating chambers (there are special vents bored into the pommel for this) and also for assembly, but I'd like to make the two sabers as short as I comfortably can. (The body pipe does not feature a blade mount)
Anyone got some advice?
Thanks!
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