Nerd Bird 101: How to build a lightsaber

I'm just gonna come out with it--I love Star Wars, and any paraphernalia related to the films. I have 2 toy lightsabers [1 Anakin; 1 Obi-won] and have gifted a Yoda, Dooku, and another Obi-won to my closest friends...so technically, I have bought them all! I also have an old cardboard lightsaber that a good friend of mine painted--but none were nothing compared to this Master Replicas Force FX Saber.

As you can see, that item is beautiful but really expensive. Plus, a big part of Jedi training is learning how to do things by yourself. So, there was only one solution left: I had to build my own.

I read a lot of websites, but wasn't quite sure where to start. I enlisted the help of someone known on the forums as Novastar...and was glad to find out that he was relatively local. Matthew Carrauddo from The Cutting Edge was kind enough to stop by popSiren and show me how it was done. Then, I spent some time building one on my own. Want to see how it turned out? Check this out, padawans (and stick around for the bloopers at the end, pretty funny)!



If you want to know how exactly to build it and get a list of materials, see the show notes here. Now for some pointers:

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