Sabre Saavy
Good morning,
When I first started this project, I contacted a man I met at
Dragon*Con with great interest about his new founded company's super-bright LED blades. (At the tyme electroluminescent wire blades were in favour--yes I am that olde.) I wanted to know if he could create a violet blade. He thought it possible and dove right into making a full hilt, based on visual references offered in comic
Jedi vs. Sith;
I had not intended on having someone else make my sabre, let alone after the comic version, but the vender's excitement won me over. At the very least my sense of self dictated that I supply a technical illustration;
He promised a well crafted prop, and nearly two years later, his team delivered;
Soon you will have to do a recreation of his lightsaber
Properly, I will have to design and construct my own sabre. A curved hilt. And I did design a curved hilt sabre--YEARS before Drew Karpyshyn's Darth Bane triology. I do my research. The first short short story to describe this character "Bane of the Sith", SW Gamer Issue 3, 2001, detailed a curved hilt sabre. From my continued reasearch, the design I came up with in 2006 is still unique amoungst all known lightsabre designs, canon or otherwise. For this reason, I continue to keep the design close to my chest until I have finished the prop.
My first sabre design (created in 2002) seems to have influenced a few others;
I will also be making a specific holocron for my Darth Bane, a planned in improvement on my first holocron of 2002;
I don't have a lot of money. But I do have tyme and will. Eventually this suit will be complete, and then (I hope) it will really shine.
(Might even submit it to the 501st--but hear their Legion Membership Officer is a tight-*** when comes to approving new Expanded Universe costumes.)
Be well,
Thomas