Obi-Wan Kenobi's EP4 Lightsaber

Description

This is Obi-Wan’s original hilt from Episode 4 - A New Hope.  Most of the props from the original trilogy were created from parts from the 40’s including military armament.  Obi-Wan’s saber was created from a Rolls Royce balance tube (from a jet engine, Mk1 Hales Rifle grenade, a Graflex flash clamp, the booster section of a Browning Aircraft Machine gun, and a ….sink knob. 

I created this based off of reference pics online and even referenced Axel Dreher’s Obi saber for some dimensions; I think Axel’s saber is the best model I’ve seen and it looks like his parts were modeled directly from the original pieces and can be found here. 

Like most of my models, this is designed to ‘Print and Play’ with minimal supports, zero post processing, and NO GLUE (I hate glue)!

Filament Used:

• ZIRO Silk PLA – Silver
• ZIRO Silk PLA – Black Silver
• Kingroon  PLA - Black
• ZIRO PLA - Transparent
• Sunlu Silk PLA - Copper

Notes:

• Smooth PEI Hot Plate Recommended for the Emitter shroud, and Activator bubble.
• No AMS is needed for this model
• For the activation plate (transparent PLA), I set the hotend to 230c, 0% fan, 100% infill (aligned rectilinear).  This gave me decent results - if someone has better settings for transparent PLA, please let me know.

Assembly Notes:

• Refer to the attached pics for assembly.
• The small ‘screws’ are designed to press fit into the Graflex clamp after the grenade grip has been screwed in.
• The wire clamps (between the Graflex clamp section and lower grip of the hilt) is just filament that has been heated on the print bed and bent/cut to size.  This is press fit into the Graflex tube – it is designed to lock into place; no glue required.
• There is also an optional pin in the neck of the hilt – again, this is filament pressed fit into the neck; no glue required.

 Enjoy!

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