My Brother's Luke ROTJ Saber

[Luke-SkyMarcher]

More to come later when I have time to take better quality pics.
General info -
3/4" blade
1000mah buckpuck
bin 5 lux V

-Luke

[Lord Maul]

Hot damn. Someone FINALLY DID IT!!!!! Luke, that is awesome! The first ever thin neck LED Luke ROTJ!

[TD-2272]

Very impressive nicely done Congrats to you!!!!

[Hasid Lafre]

I seem to recal that its not the first, Its cool but deffinatly not the first lux thin necked.

[xwingband]

Hot damn. Someone FINALLY DID IT!!!!! Luke, that is awesome! The first ever thin neck LED Luke ROTJ!

Luis Rojas??? He did it, granted he used a much extended blade holder.

Then if we count the 7/8" ones from 3/4" bladed sabers as "thin necked" that has also been done too.

Still a nice saber though. The working triangle LED is an awesome touch.

[DarthFender]

That looks as cool as the original prop. And its functional, too. Awesome.

[Lord Maul]

Luis Rojas??? He did it, granted he used a much extended blade holder.

Then if we count the 7/8" ones from 3/4" bladed sabers as "thin necked" that has also been done too.

Still a nice saber though. The working triangle LED is an awesome touch.

Luis Rojas's saber had the huge emitter, which you have even said is just as bad as the thick neck. This is the first accurate thin necked LED rotj.

[Sethski]

That really is a thing of beauty. Fantastic!!

Much as I love "proper" custom sabers, there's something wonderful about seeing a working hilt that looks just like the "real" thing, especially when it's been built from the ground up...

...same seeing Madcow's Qui-Gon and Dark Navel's Dooku.

People just keep raising the bar. It's graaate!!!

[Luke-SkyMarcher]

Thanks guys!
I did not machine this myself; it's a little beyond my skill as of yet. I modified dimensions for this saber about two years ago for an EL saber... that was before I started doing LED. We gave it to a friend of ours who works at a machine shop. We pretty much forgot about it, until about a year ago when he surprised us with the finished machining. I painted it with model paint quite a while ago. Now I intend to remove the paint eventually and replace it with powder coating.
Here's more pics as promised. Since there was no room for the normal setup, I had to improvise; the lens is in the blade.


I machined up a heatsink to fit into the slot originally designed for the EL jack. Grinding the star down was a bit ticklish;didn't want to take that one too fast.



Here next to my saber.


-Luke

[luis rojas]

That is an awesome work. Maybe I will change the emitter of my vertion of this saber just to see it like yours. Bravo my friend.