Welcome to Cheapsabers, your source for affordable costuming and fan film props. Most of this site will be a gallery of sabers I have made in the past, but there will be links to custom sabers currently being made and sold.
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New custom sabers
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These sabers are starting from when I started back up making sabers. Now that I have a better idea of what the hell I'm doing, these are better quality than my previous sabers. These are all ones that I've sold on ebay since I started up again.
Custom saber 7
This one and saber 8 were my first two experiments with using plasti-dip for grips. Plasti-dip is basically liquid rubber that you can dip or paint onto something, and it hardens into a rubber grip. Pretty nifty stuff. This saber didn't quite turn out right, I didn't realize how much the plasti-dip would shrink as it dried. So it moved some of the foam rubber pads I'd put underneath to make 'wiper' style grips. They're a bit uneven, and I tried to fix it manually, so it kind of shows. The rubber wasn't perfect. But the guy who bought it loved it, which is what really matters.
Custom saber 8
The rubber on this one came out a lot better than the rubber on number 7, mostly because the thick rubber band type things I used to make those ridges under the rubber wouldn't move. :) The emitter was pretty cool looking, but I don't have very good metal-carving materials, so you can see a few scratches, and the cuts where it rests aren't entirely even. Still, not a bad first try at what I was doing, especially since I made this after a few years of not making sabers.
Custom saber 9
This one was actually made from a half-made saber I had lying around, a type 4 metal saber that was unfinished. I repainted the gold, since it was fading a bit, and added a layer of see-through sealant to keep it from fading again, then I painted on black plasti-dip to make rubber grips. The top grip had O-rings there already, and I just spaced them out to give it a nice ridged grip. The bottom part was plain, so I used an exacto to carve out a pattern in the rubber.
Custom saber 10
This saber I made recently, and damned if it didn't turn out as good, if not better than I thought it would.
I was going for an Obi-Wan in the prequel style saber hilt, with the square parts sticking out, and I managed to find something that would work for that. I had to coat the whole thing in plasti-dip. (which was hard to do, since with the black things it wouldn't FIT inside the plasti-dip container. I had to paint it on.) Then I cut out parts of the rubber grip to let the chrome parts underneath shine through. I wanted to do a sort of dark-jedi color style, black and red, so I made all of the buttons and knobs red. It's fairly small, it can only really fit one hand. But it's good for a two-saber style, or a one-handed fencing style of saberplay.
Custom saber 11
This saber is a fairly simple design, with a black emitter and pommel. What makes it interesting is the suede leather grip, epoxied into place and secured with leather lacing. The symbol of the republic, along with a line of aurabesh writing is burned onto the leather.
Custom saber 12
This saber is also a fairly simple design, based off of the type 4 metal saber I used to make. But it has custom colored rubber grips, and a hand-carved metal emitter.
