Let’s Build A Lightsaber
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- In this video I show you step by step how I built this Obi-Wan Lightsaber. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I might respond or make a video out of it!
Here are all the parts for the build, you can find them at places like TheSaberArmory, Saberbay, SmugglersOutpost, and TheCustomSaberShop.
Hilt:
- Korbanth OWK4
Blade:
- 32.5” KR Pixelstick Installed Blade
Chassis:
- Goth3Designs OWK4 Padawan
Soundboard:
- CFX 9-Axis
Hilt Side NPXL Connectors:
- 2x Shtok V3 Short Pins
Blade Side NPXL Connector:
- Shtok ECO Blade Side PCB
Buttons:
- 2x Momentary Tactile Button
Battery:
- 18650 3.7V Li-ion
Kill Switch:
- High Amp Kill Switch
Speaker:
- S.O. Elite Dark Side
Bluetooth:
- BT909 Module
OLED:
- KR White OLED
Magnetic Ring:
- Any Magnetic Ring
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Music in this video is used with the permission of Closed On Sunday:
/ closedonsunday
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Not everything I use can be found or purchased anymore, so I researched good (and sometimes better) alternatives to substitute them with. These are all affiliate links, and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This just means that any purchases you make from my links will not only help you get started with building lightsabers, but will also be helping to support me and my content!
TO GET STARTED:
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Great video. I really want to do an install one of these days.
And love the Star Wars easy listening music.
Love watching these
So beautiful
You’re the greatest saber builder
Great build!
I like the design on this one
The obi hilt still looks so cool but I believe I'm sticking with the Classic Graflex
Just about to start my first build! Thanks for this video! (Saberforge DIY kit arrived today, just waiting for my hilt)
Great job
I didn't end up commenting yesterday due to being so worn out, so today I just wanted to say this was a great video and I found this build extremely entertaining! (Also if I ever build a lightsaber this will come in handy!)
Most impressive
Awesome video, I'm waiting on my OWK4 Weathered now. Using Saberbay chassis for Proffie, and did a BT630 since idh as much space but otherwise a pretty similar build. Doing this one simpler than my ANH Graflex build. That one I printed my own removable chassis that i also painted, did a recharge port, OLED and lit Crystal Chamber with 15 fonts. That build almost did me in. This one should be a lot easier. Also have a KR Desert Wanderer with Goth3d Master Chassis being built by Jon at Sabers Forever. Gonna use the same Config for both, just with Kyberphonics "The Rematch Ben" as it's first font vs "Old Ben" as the first on this saber. Now I just need a Ep 1 hilt and OWK3 and will have the complete Obi Wan set done.
Hello there!
Thank you so much, this is incredibly helpful. I'm an amateur builder and my first empty hilt is on the way from Korbanth. Doing a MasterQG/Proffie build like you've just done.
That’s awesome! That wasn’t too tricky of an install, I think it’s a really good first build :) And it’s a beautiful saber! Hopefully my short build series on it will help a bit
Loving watching your build here and tiktok man. Definitely gonna help me build my own eventually but I'll leave the fancy high end stuff the the Profesionals like you my 2 chase sabers are a master chassis Vader and a Starfall Starkiller.
Those are 2 absolutely gorgeous sabers 🥰
I love this build I would want a weathered obi wan when I buy a lightsaber
This is probably one of my favourite builds you have done it’s so cool watching these types of videos you do on tiktok there sick I might eventually make my own saber when the thrawn hunters restock there really cool hilts
Thank you! Can’t wait for you to give building a try! Those thrawn hunters are beautiful
One Idea I had for thin neck sabers to make them Suitable for Dueling is. So you see how the Neck can separate itself from the Grenade Grip, it'd be cool if the saber also came with a thicker neck made for very heavy contact dueling so it won't bend. Then you use a Pogo pin connector at the base where the neck meets the Grenade grip and the Thin neck would be for Neo-pixel display & Accuracy purposes, while the thick neck would be a base lit LED so you just use a hollow tube blade & don't damage an expensive Neo-pixel blade for heavy contact lightsaber dueling.
So relaxing to watch your videos. But it gets me impatient to build my one, tho I have to wait for the budget because I'm going all-in for a master elite chassis and it's gonna ruin my bank account sooo bad. T-T
Nice and informative. Well worth watching.
I prefer removable chassis like this (I have the Ultimate Works version of this). I just can't do proffie programing worth a damn.
Yeah, proffie can be tricky 😅 I had my friend give me a crash course when I got my first proffie saber made! I like CFX, but learning about the new things on there make it almost as complicated hahaha
Please tell me, how do you make the light on the blade disappear so smooooth?
Wow! Amazing work. I’m just jumping into the custom build market. If you would, can you give a newbie a “beginners”’shopping list? Obviously, soldering iron, solder, E6000 epoxy. But what else?
Hello thank you for the nice video! I have one very important question and I really hope you will see this. I have already ordered a soundboard to upgrade my cheap RGB lightsaber with 3 soundfonts to a lightsaber with Smooth Swing and better sound fonts. My plan was to switch the old soundboard with the new one. Now I realised that my lightsaber doesn't really have an extra soundboard. There is only one circuit board in the lightsaber which every calbe goes to and it also has the button and the charging port on it. What do I do now? Is this still possible?
Thank you for your help!
Sorry if my English is bad, I'm not a native speaker.
Which website did you get the chassis from?
bro i like how he make this lightsaber
damn where did you get that obiwan hilt
it looks so amazing
Where did you get a mall that stuff?
Is it possible to turn my RGB Luke ROTJ Saber into a neopixel?
NOOO IM GOING TO BE AT BAND CAMP! I'll make sure to watch the video afterwards
Oh god yall got camp for band?! In orchestra we just practice for and hour or two a day and call it quits
@@PhantomEditsOffical oh yeah its torture, for marching band were outside all day and it's 110 degrees out here. It's alot of fun when your with the band tho!
Have fun! You’ll have something to look forward to afterwards now :)
@avery castillo who won the obi wan lightsaber. I cant tell my account got deleted and i couldnt log back on
@@PhantomEditsOffical Mason did
Any idea if this type of thin neck setup is compatible with a xenopixel core? I mean it seems like it should work but I don’t want to fry anything
Unfortunately no. I had to bust out my micrometer for this one: the dimensions of typical RGBCW neopixel is: 13mm(contact to contact), 11mm, and 3.7mm(at LED assembly). It is too wide to fit through the opening. What you could do is use a “blade connector” and run only the wire through the skinny emitter neck. It’s going to make your blade feel a little bit “floppy” because you won’t have enough mass behind the fulcrum(the emitter) to provide counterbalance.
What are the parameters for force activation?
Hello all. What is an average cost for the total build. Congrats for the building.
Hey i use darkwolf PROFFIEBOARD NEOCORE V2.2 and it only has one button do you think theres a way to upgrade it to have two buttons?
That would depend on the hilt, if it has space for a second button. Or heavy modification to the hilt and chassis to give it a second button
How much do you charge for a Luke Skywalker ROTJ lightsaber
Just wondering, why do you use different awg wires? Do they work differently?
They allow for different levels of power, and some parts need very little power so it’s pointless and sometimes harmful to use larger awg on them. Same with using a smaller awg on something that needs more power, it won’t work efficiently or at all
Hey so I've been wondering for a good Anakin lightsaber. I've been looking at the legacy one for 220 bucks and I'm working my way up there. Do you have any advice or suggestions for a good or cheaper but still good Anakin ROTS lightsaber?
I highly recommend to save up for an empty hilt. You won’t regret it, because it’ll be significantly higher quality than the ones disney makes. Then save up enough to have someone install it for you, or you can install it yourself!
You’ll get the most out of your saber, have a incredibly high quality saber with an amazing hilt and electronics. It’ll be much more worth your time than getting a cheaper saber now.
For an Anakin ROTS saber, go to Korbanth, 7chambers lightsabers, or SaberBay
@@averycastillo noted, thank you very much 😁
I'm attempting my first build here in the near future. The part I'm having trouble with (at the moment) is finding chassis that I think would fit into my empties. Would you be able to point me in the right direction?
Good luck with the build! You could try checking out the lightsaber chassis index Facebook group?
Hey, thank you for your video, it's awesome, do you think we can use the Proffie V2.2 instead of the CFX ? Would it be compatible with the bluethooth.. ? Thanks
Definitely! You’d just need to choose the proffie version of the chassis. The bluetooth module can be added to proffie, but it doesn’t currently do as much as CFX with bluetooth. Right now you can only control the saber on the app, while CFX you can do that plus edit the entire saber on your phone or other apps
Bluetooth isn’t useful with a proffie. It’s not worth it for the headache of having to code it.
Hi new to your channel your video looks awesome it's something I would love to try to do but where did you get the hollow / empty lightsaber?
Welcome! I’d say the best places to get an empty hilt to install would first be TheSaberArmory, and then what you can’t find there head to Korbanth. They’re my favorite places to go, you can also try SaberBay too for some additional hilts. There are many places ti find different empty hilts to install, but those are my favorites outside of limited runs on therpf or specialty high accuracy hilts. If you want the most accurate replica, you’ll need to do some research since no 1 place makes all the most accurate replicas. RomanProps makes the most accurate Obi-Wan Ep 4 for example, and 7chambers makes the most accurate Luke ROTJ hero saber
Hypothetically speaking if I bought an empty RoTS anakin hilt and a prebuilt chassis and neopixel blade could I just slide in the chassis or would I need to get connectors?
If that existed you could just put it in and it’d work. But you won’t find any pre built chassis for an anakin lightsaber, unless you get one of those cheaper mass produced lightsabers with a universal chassis system. Which always screws up the hilt’s button placement and accuracy
@@averycastillo In general though how do those prebuilt neopixel core/chassis work? Can you just slide them into a hilt that supports them screw the blade in and your done or is there more to it than that?
I have the new Kr sabers desert wanderer, do you think this is a similar process?
Most lightsabers are super similar in how you wire things, and since these are both thin necks they are even more similar. Only differences would be the chassis, and maybe a couple minor things but it should be the same! I have KR’s desert wanderer on the way too, so excited!
Can this chasis be installed for an korbanth owk4 (elf owk4)?
I believe so, this hilt is a korbanth owk4 but it depends on what year because sometimes they change minor aspects making previous chassis unable to work
What is the point of the emitter side neopixel connector. Couldn’t you have just directly wired it from the hilt side connector to the power?
Not if you want the chassis to be removable
Dude the force activiation is magic to me. Like is it the ring he has, is it like an infared reflector or something to do with the bluetooth? Or is it a motion sensor?
Gotcha it's a magnetic ring. Read the description
Music Music Music!
It's a great rendition of all the movies.
Where can I get it? 😊
ClosedOnSunday! He makes great lofi music
The Jedi Order should make a budget for your craftsmanship
man how do you make your welding metal melt so easy and stick so nicely, every time I use it mine wont stick to the wires no matter how much paste I use.
Flux! Flux is the best thing ever for soldering. Makes the solder flow exactly how you want it. I have 60/40 rosin core solder, which has the flux built in the core of the solder. So when you melt it it also spreads the flux. I have a new build video out going over everything having to do with making a lightsaber if you want to check it out
How much would it cost for u to build my saber
Is building your own lightsaber cheaper than buying a pre-built ? I've wanted a neo pixel for a while and I'm scared to buy a pre built because of the price
It’ll always be cheaper to build your own than to buy the exact same thing pre-built 😁
For example, if you were to buy the saber from this video pre-built it would be a few hundred dollars more expensive than if you built this exact thing yourself. That’s because you don’t have to pay for the labor costs, only the parts costs.
The only thing to keep in mind is the added cost of getting the tools you need, but if you keep those to the bare minimum you can still be under the cost of a pre-built. Plus, if you ever want to make another lightsaber, since you have all the tools you can save even more on your next build
Where do you get the bluetooth module from
Thesaberarmory, saberbay, or thecustomsabershop
HI
HOW MUCH COST FOR OBI WAN AFBB LIGHTSABER ?
I WANT TO BUY MT OBI WAN AFBB LE LIGHTSABER , BUT TOO EXPENSIVE .
KURURU .
THANKS . 0:35 2:34
Would like to see a full guide to wire the CFX! Great build!
Good idea for a video! I’ll write that down as a video plan
@@averycastillo also, are the positive and negative tabs for the chassis sold separately from the batteries? Or do they come with them?
@@armandoreyes5307 they are separate from the batteries. Sometimes they are sold with the chassis you buy, but that depends on who you buy the chassis from. For this build ai bought the tabs separately
Electronics ordered! Chassis being built! So excited!
@@averycastillo what gages should I be using for the board? Power, speakers, OLED, Bluetooth, ect.... can I use the same gage for all or do they have to be different gages for each component?
Let’s Build A Lightsaber
Impressive ! Font name at 10:01 ?
What Soldering Iron do you use ?
Like a $7 iron from amazon 😂
More importantly, in my opinion, is getting a good soldering iron cleaner. I have a brass wool thing. Never use a sponge, like some things give you. Use the brass wool, it will extend your iron’s life significantly
I noticed you mentioned the most annoying part is splitting the 2 negs into four channels. I actually used to do this too but I recently discovered you don't need to wire to all the channels, two is fine if your wire is thick enough, ~24 AWG
Yeah? No drawbacks? I never figured out why it’s split into 4 channels to begin with, other than something to do with color channels since there’s RGBW capabilities. But I can’t wrap my brain around why or how that’d work 😂
I’ll have to give that a try, because that is my least favorite part of cfx hahaha
@@averycastillo apparently it's to do with the amount of power needed for the blade but two seems to be enough for most, I've heard of some people just using one. As long as you're not using a tristar blade you should be fine
@@averycastillo also for a neopixel the data line controls everything the negatives just supply power
@@JihoSSJ5 that’s what I figured, I just have been trying to come up with whatever possibilities I could to try to understand why there would need to be 4 negative pads 😂
@@JihoSSJ5 that makes a lot of sense! It makes me nervous after all this time to try something different hahaha, but I will definitely give it a go!
where could we find more detailed explanations to connect the wires to the soundboard
The soundboard manual
@@averycastillo where
@@shrek253 wherever the maker of the soundboard posts the manual. It depends on the soundboard you use. If you just google the name of your soundboard, and then the word manual after, it’ll pop up
@@averycastillo thank you so much
@@averycastillo i don't dond the CFX 9-Axis manual
Bro I want a neopixel light so bad dude 😫
Hi, nice saber, i was thinking to build my own lightsaber, but i need some help. Anyone want to help me where to weld up all the wires, how to install all parts correctly etc...?
I don't know how to do this, Is there any good Samaritan who would like to help me?
You can check out my video on how to build a neopixel lightsaber, I do my best to cover as much as possible to help people
How’d you get so knowledgeable with electronics?
Literally just lightsabers hahaha, I wanted the best lightsabers but didn’t have the money so I just learned how to do it myself over time. Read lots of forums like therpf, fxsabers, therebelarmory, and read the manuals for proffie and cfx soundboards, and watched youtube vids. But most came from just trying things
How much did it cost to make
I do not remember, but I know the chassis was more expensive than usual. So probably around $600 to make?
You can build one on the cheap for about $400, but you’ll get a prettier blade for $600, and for $1,000 you’ll have a one of a kind lightsaber that no one else on earth has.
The bottom peace looks out of place form the saber
Which part do you mean?
I would screw up if i make a lightsaber like that. 😅
Most likely, I’m not gonna lie 😂 I messed up my first build, and many… many builds after! But you learn and grow from it all, and make better and better sabers!
can u make me a luke skywalker hilt with all the electronics and stuff ready to go. bc i don’t have a lot of money and i can’t work bc of school. and i really want a lightsaber. and u seem like u know what your doing. it’s also ok if u say no i understand.
I can’t make you one for free, but I can recommend that if you really want one to find a way to save up for one. That’s what I did, and it’s benefited my life greatly learning how to set goals and reach them through creative means or hard work. If you really want something, find a way to make it happen.
I worked and did full time college to afford to live and pay for my hobbies. The whole reason I went into the work force was to fund my lightsaber hobby xD But if you really want a saber from me, the most beneficial way to go about it would be to come up with a way to afford one in a financially stable way
@@averycastillo thx. that’s exactly what i’m going to do. and maybe some day i can pay u for doing all my wiring and stuff?
@@countryboys3998 absolutely! Or maybe you can even make your own using my videos to help :) I’m planning to make a bunch of videos going over every little thing I can
@@averycastillo ok. that will will help a lot. but i don’t think i will be able to bc i don’t know what to get and i probably won’t be able to bc of my oarents
@@countryboys3998 You might be able to convince them to let you learn and build your own better than just buying one :) You gain valuable knowledge, experience, and skills. Who knows, might end up like me and make money off what was once a hobby!
You start a diy video in the middle 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah 😂 I originally made this lightsaber as a commission for a customer, and made this video as a video log of the build for tiktok. I decided to try making it into a full length video roughly showing how it all goes together, so it’s not the best tutorial at all. Just a rough look and general guide. I’m planning on doing completely in depth tutorials down the line when I have time and can afford good projects for the video
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Proffie > cfx. Also if anyone has any questions I’ve built over a dozen lightsabers from raw components. I’d be happy to help others on their journey.
Proffie is better?
Hey... Sent u a dm on insta... Awesome works