Black blades?

[vorian89]

Has anyone ever thought of making a black blade like the unlockable one from the force unleashed. I was thinking about trying to put a black object of some kind into the blade to get the out white glow around the blade using a white LED. I know it wont look good in the light but i hope it will look good in the dark. It will be just for show. Ideas? Thoughts?

[FenderBender]

It has been discussed ad nauseam before. Not possible, not practical, and would be a waste of time.

[Jedi-Loreen]

Dude, that was a game, not real life.

Black is the absence of light.

Get one of the Transparent Smoke polyc tubes and make a blade with it, use a white LED in your hilt and pretend you have a black blade.

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Co...tube-P430.aspx

[grayven]

Just don't cut your arm off with that thing. You won't beable to see it in a drak place.

[psab keel]

I honestly don't understand people's fascination with Black Bladed Lightsabers. As Loreen and many others have pointed out as well, black is the absence of light. It's simply not doable and frankly is a really lame concept. In all reality it's counter productive to building lightsabers.

[$tarkiller]

I honestly don't understand people's fascination with Black Bladed Lightsabers. As Loreen and many others have pointed out as well, black is the absence of light. It's simply not doable and frankly is a really lame concept. In all reality it's counter productive to building lightsabers.

Obviously some people dont think itslame, because they asked about it.

[Danz409]

Dude, that was a game, not real life.

Black is the absence of light.

Get one of the Transparent Smoke polyc tubes and make a blade with it, use a white LED in your hilt and pretend you have a black blade.

http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Co...tube-P430.aspx

isn't the whole reason we make our light sabers is so we wont have to get a broom stick and wave it around and make light sabers with our mouth and pretend its a light saber?

[Novastar]

Although I have zero interest in this kind of thing... and also although many people are skeptical about this sort of thing... I suppose there ARE some things you could do:

* Some kind 3/4" OD spongey, black-colored inner core that slides into the blade. It'd have to be secured in some way that doesn't interrupt light flow on the sides, leading up the 1" OD polycarb blade

* It'd be helpful if the 3/4" black inner core was not really "solid", but... sort of--like I said--spongey, and full of enough holes to allow SOME light to pass through and around it

* Definitely sand the outside of the 1" blade a bit--to help the blade material's thickness pick up the light

* White main LED... preferably a VERY bright one (P7???)

* Don't bother with a mirrored tip, lol!!!!

* I wouldn't use any diffusion film initially... and if at all.

* Good luck at the franken-saber thing being evenly lit along the edges from the white light

* If you were LUCKY, you'd try to obtain SOME material for the inner core that at least reacted to light in SOME way... but I don't know... since the goal is to have it black... ugh... it would be killin' the light, lol.

This whole thing would probably be a fairly miserable result... but... it would certainly reveal SOME kind of "black blade" style that would be different than the norm.

Still... it'd be a "whole lotta nothin'" as a result... in trade for a whole lotta WORK.

[vorian89]

If i had been given a simple test instead of being told flat out that it wasn't possible than this whole topic would have been solved a really long time ago. TimeRenders test was exactly what i needed and it answered all of questions for me. I have had some time to do his test and I understand now why you guys are saying it is not possible and i FULLY agree.

[TimeRender]

A grateful newb!? Santa Claus got my letter!!!