Time Capsule: Faith of the Heart

I would probably be branded a nerd-for-life, for creating this post, but hack what the hell right.

Ever since I first started to watch Star Wars when I was a kid, I had wanted a light saber, thought the desire for it has weaken with me growing up, there is always this temptation, "to get one for yer self" feeling, whenever you walk pass toy-r-us shelves that have them on display. A light saber is right up there, next to a Dai-katana, when it comes to big boy’s toys for me.

Anyway if ya got the time why not make one for your self. The plans, especially the one used by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi is very simple to make. I can bet ya, any college student with a bit of experience with the lathe machine can make one for you in a week. Anyway, you can access this site for the plans:

http://www.jedi-academy.com/art/francisco_rotj_plans.jpg

Some of the other lightsabers parts are harder to come by. You will be surprise what is actually used to make lightsabers, old flash handles, wipers, old calculators… You can get the spare parts from this site:   

http://www.blast-tech.com/products_cameraParts.asp 

You can get more information from this site:    

http://www.jedi-academy.com/lightsabermain.html

http://members.aol.com/yodashous2/building.htm

If that is not enough just type "build lightsaber" in google and you be shown lots of site. Thank God for the internet. 

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