Customizable crossguard lightsaber, from The Force Awakens
by LeFabShop, published
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On Friday, November 20th, we were part of the 30 million people to keep their breath while watching the trailer for the next Star Wars movie.
As designers, we were surprised to discover a new configuration of the lightsaber revealed in the now epic (and polemic) scene showing an unknown Sith Lord walking in a snowy forest.
As Makers, we couldn’t help but try to find out by ourselves if this “crossguard” design was a good configuration or not... So we decided to build one, with our army of 3D printers.
Of course, the "darkness" of the movie sequence and the lack of details on the weapon itself left a lot of place for imagination and interpretation.
A dozen of 3D printable lightsabers being already available for download on internet, we decided to make one that would be completely customizable. The modular system we invented makes hundreds of configurations possible. From Yoda’s lightsaber to Darth Maul’s.
Here's complete video of the crossguard saber's assembly, and in action : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RrAKZHkwc
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I think the cross hilt would be extremely dangerous to the wielder... I have fought using such a crossguard and it can be very useful for trapping another blade however, with the nature of the lightsaber, any close combat would likely get you injured by your own cross blades, especially if they are more than a couple inches from the hilt. Cool looking but highly impractical to wield. The 45° angled idea would be only marginally better unless it were made of a lightsaber resistant material.
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Find a video and a complete tutorial on our instructables page :
http://www.instructables.com/id/Customizable-crossguard-lightsaber-from-The-Force-/
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What fill did you use for all of the parts? (body... and the laser)
This design is AMAZING!
Also, do you have a medium size laser? My print bed can't handle sticking for 10 hours and I think the tiny laser is only for the cross hilts.
I think the cross hilt would be extremely dangerous to the wielder... I have fought using such a crossguard and it can be very useful for trapping another blade however, with the nature of the lightsaber, any close combat would likely get you injured by your own cross blades, especially if they are more than a couple inches from the hilt. Cool looking but highly impractical to wield. The 45° angled idea would be only marginally better unless it were made of a lightsaber resistant material.
So I'm trying to print this out on a Flashforge but I'm having issues with the laser portion. I use ReplicatorG for my .stl files but cannot convert them to a .x3g file. Does anyone have a working .x3g file or some advise how to make this work. Please I really want to make one ( or more ) or these.
Only issues I am having is trying to make the different light sabers like yoda or Vader. Knowing what parts are what colors for the different hilt parts. so many parts gets a little crazy.
anyone ran into issues when printing the laser? the shell seem to stick together...
any advice?
I'm guessing that you've got some support material being added. Try turning that off in your slicer?
I printed it without support material. I needed some narrow tip tweezers to work them loose once finished (a couple of mins of wiggling total)
i have no supports on...im guessing its oozing. im playing around w/ the retraction setting to see if that will do the trick
Oh, yeah you really want to solve any oozing issues before printing the laser or you'll never get it to come out nor fully extend.
I used 0.6mm retraction on my printer (1.75mm E3D v6 extruder)
Any chance you could upload the "single_control_button.stl" again, currently it's the same as double_control_button.stl
Thanks and awesome design, will post photos of my printed one tomorrow.
How do you get the blade to extend? The blade segments are stuck to the bottom cap, and I can't free them
Your first layer might be too tight. Try using raft. Le FabShop logo should be on top.
I tried with a raft, but my max print height is 150mm and the laser is 149mm I believe. No raft room :(
OK I was printing the lefab logo on the bottom. I'll try another one and seee how it turns out. Thanks!
Fantastic design! Having fun deciding how I want mine to be.
One thing I noticed in the files, the single control button file seems to actually be the double button one.
I was wondering how long it would be till I saw one...then I saw this! WOW O_o Nicely done.
The picture on the stairs was worth the price of admission. Nicely done. :-)
What fill did you use for all of the parts? (body... and the laser)
This design is AMAZING!
Also, do you have a medium size laser? My print bed can't handle sticking for 10 hours and I think the tiny laser is only for the cross hilts.