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TOPIC: Getting into lightsaber building (newbie)
Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72799
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Just purchased my first apprentice line lightsaber from saberforge and waiting on it to arrive.
I know that I'm going to want to get into building lightsabers in both customizing the one I have but mainly buying an empty hilt and adding in the DIY electronics and not the PnP ones. Not quite sure where to start and was hoping I could get some guidance. I have at least a basic solder skill set. How could I create my own "hero tier" saber than can alternate colors? What all do I need to build a saber (parts and equipment) Does and donts. I apologize if this has already been asked but I didn't exactly see it yet. |
Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72808
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My advice is to take it slow and start simple. Don't go for the full blown RGB, crystal chamber, etc. right off the bat.
Nano Biscotte is a fantastic board, and easy to work with. It will give you the ability to load your own sound fonts, and gives you pretty decent blade effects and FOC. It's also very small and will fit in anything. Pico crumble is a new board that's out. It's tiny, with no swappable fonts. But it has RBG support with 6 built in color profiles and also does FOC. Sabercore 2.0 is another great starter board. It's bigger than the NBv3 or crumble, but it fits in just about everything too. No swappable fonts, no FOC, but it will drive a SF X4 LED at full power. It has big pads to solder onto and is a very straightforward install. Once you pick a hilt you want to build, visualize what you want the blade to look like and what you would like it to do. That will help drive your choice of a soundcard. I'd stay with the three I listed for your first couple of builds before tackling something harder like a Spark2 or Prizm. |
Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72854
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I'd like to do something with he bane hilt or emerald knight. Maybe even just practice wth another apprentice line.
I'm going to need to purchase wires and everything to solder everything together right? Thanks for the guidance |
Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72864
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Check out the custom saber shop on YouTube, they have a bunch of walk through videos and instructional on assembling the different parts of your lightsaber. Really helped me figure out how switches and recharge ports are wired and though he is working with different parts his LED walk through really cleared up a lot of my questions.
https://youtube.com/user/TheCustomSaberShop For my build the list of extra parts that I got besides what saberforge sells was as follows: Helping hands Soldering iron Solder 26 awg wire (for tighter builds 28 could be recommended) Resistors for led Resistor for lighted switch Goth-3d chassis (this of course is optional) |
Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72890
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From what I'm seeing I will be primarily using saberforge hilts and sometimes other simpler cheaper ones for practice. Are all parts going to work regardless of hilt and would that saber customs site be a good place to buy my parts?
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Getting into lightsaber building (newbie) 10 months 1 week ago #72899
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TCSS is where a large portion of the things I use in builds come from:
You can get everything you need from there except for the 12mm offset recharge port that SF uses. A typical SF hilt build for me looks like this: Hilt, blade plug and kill key from SF LED and lens from Ledsupply Heatsink, switches, battery holders, Plector Labs boards, speakers,blade stock and misc parts from TCSS Batteries and recharge ports I'm buying wholesale. 3D printed chassis from Goth-3designs NEC boards direct from Naigon |