Anakin Skywalker's Lightsaber: His Two Blue Sabers and Where They Went
Anakin Skywalker built two blue lightsabers. The first was cut in half on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones. The second, built in the Clone Wars, is the Graflex-style saber Obi-Wan Kenobi took on Mustafar and gave to Luke. This reference follows both, the sources that disagree, canon and Legends, and the film props.
Short answer
Anakin Skywalker built two blue lightsabers. The first was cut in half on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones. The second, built in the Clone Wars, is the Graflex-style saber Obi-Wan Kenobi took on Mustafar and gave to Luke. This reference follows both, the sources that disagree, canon and Legends, and the film props.
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The Anakin Skywalker lightsaber is really two weapons, both with blue blades. In canon he built the first as a Padawan, and a mechanical cutting arm destroyed it in a droid foundry on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones (2002) [1]. He built a replacement during the Clone Wars, and that second saber is the one that later passes through Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke [2]. This page follows both, and says where the sources disagree. The Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi pages continue the story, and the red saber Anakin builds later has its own page on Darth Vader’s lightsaber.
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Quick answers
- First saber: blue, straight cylindrical hilt, built around 29 BBY, destroyed on Geonosis in 22 BBY [1].
- Second saber: blue, built after Geonosis, carried through the Clone Wars [2].
- Who got the second saber: Obi-Wan took it after Mustafar, then gave it to Luke, and it later reached Rey [2].
- Why it looks like Luke’s: in canon it is the same saber, and the film prop was machined to match [2].
- Third saber: the red one he builds as Darth Vader, covered on the Vader page [1].
Every Anakin Skywalker lightsaber in order
“BBY” and “ABY” mean before and after the Battle of Yavin, the calendar Star Wars stories use. The table lists canon sabers only.
| Saber | Blade | Built | What happened to it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First lightsaber | Blue | Around 29 BBY, on Ilum [1] | Cut in half by a mechanical arm on Geonosis, 22 BBY | [1] |
| Borrowed green saber, lent by Jedi Nicanas Tassu | Green | Not built by Anakin | Destroyed in his duel with Count Dooku on Geonosis | [2] |
| Second lightsaber (the Skywalker lightsaber) | Blue | After Geonosis, 22 BBY | Lost on Mustafar, then Obi-Wan, Luke, Maz Kanata, Rey; buried on Tatooine | [2] |
| Vader’s own saber | Red | 19 BBY | Fell down the Death Star II reactor shaft | [3] |
The green saber is easy to miss. Wookieepedia says Anakin used one during the First Battle of Geonosis after his own was destroyed [2]. It was a loan, so it does not count as one of his own sabers.
The first lightsaber
Wookieepedia describes the first saber as a single blade with a straight cylindrical hilt about 28 centimetres long, made of alloy metal and carbon composites, with chunky controls and thick ridges on the grip [1]. The blade was blue, and Anakin got his kyber crystal on Ilum [1].
The sources disagree on when. The Marvel comic mini-series Obi-Wan and Anakin shows him using the saber at age twelve, while Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know says he built it on Ilum at fourteen [1]. Wookieepedia puts a banner on the page that Lucasfilm has not set one timeline for this, so treat “around 29 BBY” as the wiki’s best fit and not a settled date [1].
Its on-screen moment is in Attack of the Clones. Anakin ignites it in Zam Wesell’s speeder during the chase and it flies out of his hand, Obi-Wan catches it and tells him to take better care of it, and later it is cut in half by a descending blade in a Geonosis droid factory [1]. Anakin finds out when he tries to ignite it. The handbook card for this saber says he lost it with his right hand in the duel with Dooku [6]. The card is marked unverified in its own header, and the wiki account is different: the saber was destroyed in the foundry, and the duel with Dooku is where he lost the arm [1][4]. I follow the wiki.
The second lightsaber
Wookieepedia dates the second saber to 22 BBY, right after Geonosis, and says Anakin built it some time before the mission to Benglor [2]. It also gives the hilt as 28 centimetres of alloy metal and carbon composites, with black rubberized grip ribbing, a mechanism for adjusting blade length and a blue kyber-crystal blade [2]. The page notes that the blue colour came from the crystal’s connection with its first owner, as with the first saber [2].
Anakin carried it as a Jedi General through the Clone Wars. Wookieepedia says he used it to behead Count Dooku aboard the Invisible Hand, alongside Dooku’s own saber, lost it to a battle droid there, and had it returned after Obi-Wan recovered it from General Grievous [2]. Dooku’s saber has its own page: Count Dooku’s lightsaber.
Mustafar, Obi-Wan and Luke
After Anakin turned and became Darth Vader, he used this saber in the Jedi Temple siege and on Mustafar [2]. Obi-Wan defeated him there and took the saber [2]. That is why Vader’s red saber is a new weapon, built later [3].
Wookieepedia says Obi-Wan buried it with his own saber in a chest in the Tatooine desert, then dug it up before returning to Tatooine and took it with him when he moved [2]. He kept it for nineteen years before giving it to Luke after a Tusken Raider attack [2]. The full Luke story, including Bespin, is on the Luke Skywalker lightsaber page, and Obi-Wan’s side is on the Obi-Wan Kenobi lightsaber page.
In short: Luke lost the saber with his hand on Cloud City, it surfaced decades later in Maz Kanata’s collection, Rey claimed it on Takodana, and Kylo Ren and Rey cracked its crystal in a Force tug of war aboard the Supremacy [2]. Rey repaired it with a leather strap and a Jedi healing technique, and she buried it on Tatooine beside Leia’s saber after the Battle of Exegol [2]. It appears again in flashbacks in the 2022 series Obi-Wan Kenobi [2].
Why Anakin’s saber looks like Luke’s
In A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, the hilt was built from a Graflex press camera flash attachment, which was a real object from the 1940s [2][5]. Wikipedia credits prop maker Roger Christian with those Graflex hilts [5].
For Revenge of the Sith, Wookieepedia says Anakin’s hilt was machined to look like Luke’s, because the stories make them the same saber [2]. The wiki calls the name “Skywalker lightsaber” a later invention, first used in the reference book Star Wars Lightsabers: A Guide to Weapons of the Force [2]. It also lists a blooper in which General Grievous holds Anakin’s saber in the Utapau duel scene, and Sidious sometimes holds it in the Palpatine office duel [2].
Canon and Legends
Canon is the continuity Lucasfilm treats as current. Legends is the label for the licensed stories that came before the April 2014 reset [5]. This page covers canon. I opened no Legends page for Anakin’s own sabers, so I make no claims about how Legends describes them beyond the Legends version of Vader’s saber, which the Vader page covers.
Which saber to look for in a replica
I could not find a licensed product that is sold as Anakin’s first saber, and the handbook card for it says no replica was verified [6]. The Graflex-style second saber is closer to what stores sell as a Skywalker saber, since it shares its look with Luke’s [2][7]. For collectibles, see Black Series Force FX lightsabers and the lightsaber replica guide. I did not check any product for this page, so there are no prices here.
Sources
- Wookieepedia, Anakin Skywalker’s first lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker%27s_first_lightsaber (read through the public API, accessed 2026-11-09); handbook file handbook/sabers/anakin-skywalker-blue-first.md
- Wookieepedia, Skywalker lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Skywalker_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09); handbook file handbook/sabers/anakin-skywalker-blue-graflex.md
- Wookieepedia, Darth Vader’s lightsaber (canon), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Vader%27s_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Wikipedia, Count Dooku, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dooku (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Wikipedia, Lightsaber, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Handbook card handbook/sabers/anakin-skywalker-blue-first.md (marked unverified in its own header; its claim about the Dooku duel is contradicted by [1] and [4])
- Handbook card handbook/sabers/anakin-skywalker-blue-graflex.md (marked unverified in its own header; used only for the replica note)
FAQ
What colour is Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber?
Blue. Both sabers he built as a Jedi had blue blades [1][2]. The blue lightsaber page covers the colour.
How many lightsabers did Anakin have?
Three that he built: two blue Jedi sabers and the red one as Vader [1][2][3]. He also used a borrowed green saber briefly on Geonosis [2].
What happened to Anakin’s first lightsaber?
A mechanical cutting arm destroyed it in a droid foundry on Geonosis in 22 BBY [1].
What happened to Anakin’s second lightsaber?
Obi-Wan took it on Mustafar and gave it to Luke. Luke lost it on Cloud City, and it later passed through Maz Kanata to Rey, who buried it on Tatooine [2].
Is Anakin’s lightsaber the same as Luke’s?
In canon, yes. Wookieepedia calls them canonically one and the same, and says the prop in Revenge of the Sith was machined to match [2].
Where does Anakin build his red lightsaber?
He builds it as Darth Vader. See the Darth Vader lightsaber page, and every lightsaber by film for a film by film list of blades.
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