The Broken Butterfly: A steampunk aethersaber

 Not much to say on this. I'm into steampunk, my friend is into sci-fi. Loves Star Wars and Firefly. Well one time she brought me a nice brassy headpiece of a blowtorch. I have yet to make something interesting out of that but I wanted to do something for her to say thanks. Saw some of the sprinkler system stuff in the hardware store and thought it would make a great saber, but of course I had to take my own twist on it. At first it just started with the handle but any respectable saber will light up. She requested yellow, and I decided Plexiglas may light up in an interesting way. Still thinking of etching the blade, but I may leave some of the customization up to her. Cheers

Comments

[BlackScorpion1910]

I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Tell Us How To Make One?!!!

[nerd12]

if you sand the blade a little to make it frosted and ramp up the LED strength then it will glow better. you need to increase the strength quite a bit though. also by leaving parts of it unsanded or smoothing parts of it afterwards, you can make script for her name or whatever. also it looks like a kitchen knife than a saber because the blade is very short. you should make longer.

[Zebidiah Granger]

5 stars. Nuff said.

[yamon]

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. And I've seen Quantum Leap.

[Night910]

OMG, that is SEXY. I want one so bad!

[jason the red]

oh wow ive got to try to piece something like this together at some point

[Coranu]

Etching definitely would be a nice touch! It'll make it look like whatever design you etch into it is just floating.

[Danielfish]

 That is very cool.

[RelientOwl]

Sweet!

 

[ElusiveGreen]

 I should actually be making another one for a different friend before too terribly long. I'll be sure to do an instructable on it.

[Erik Lindemann]

Looks like a movie-quality prop. I'd love to see the build on this

[Kiteman]

Very nice - do you have pictures of the actual build?

[lemonie]

That's very good.

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