Guide to building your perfect, custom lightsaber

Making your own lightsaber is one of the best ways to show off your love of Star Wars. But, too many options leaving you with analysis paralysis? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. In this guide, we will walk you through all of the options to help you create your dream lightsaber, whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned Jedi Master.

Let’s start with some custom lightsaber vocabulary for those who may not know:

• Pommel: The lightsaber pommel is the “end cap” on the lightsaber that is removable so you can access the battery holder. These can either be solid for sabers without sound, or vented for sabers with sound.
• Emitter: The lightsaber emitter is the "top" of the saber, where the blade sits.
• Coupler: The coupler is an optional connector piece that allows two compatible lightsabers to attach together into a saberstaff or double-bladed lightsaber configuration.
• MHS: This stands for Modular Hilt System. The vast majority of our lightsabers have interchangeable MHS-compatible pommels, and many of our Premium lightsabers have interchangeable MHS-compatible emitters. The Specifications section of each lightsaber hilt will specify if it has MHS-compatible parts.
• Base Lit: This means that the light emitted into the blade comes from an LED inside the hilt.
• Neopixel: The LEDs that illuminate the blade are inside the blade itself, allowing for animation in the blade (those cool power-on and power-off effects). Neopixel sabers are often considered one of the more realistic lightsabers because of their advanced blade effects and movie-style ignition animations. Learn more by reading our guide, Static LED vs RGB vs Neopixel: What’s the Best Technology for Your Custom Lightsaber?

Your lightsaber hilt selection will dictate the general look of your lightsaber and what electronics selections are available. The default prices shown are based on it being built with our No Sound (Stunt) electronics option, with all the default customizations. The hilt is the foundation of your custom lightsaber build, so choosing the right style is one of the most important steps in the process. Some users prefer sleek Jedi-inspired hilts, while others gravitate toward aggressive Sith aesthetics or character-inspired replicas.

This is the part of our lightsaber build guide where you will choose whether you want lightsaber sounds or not, in-hilt LED, or Neopixel. You’ll be able to choose your blade color, blade length and type, battery setup, pick out different saber accessories, and different hilt ornamentation options where available. This is where your saber begins transforming from a basic hilt into a fully customized lightsaber tailored to your preferred combat style, display goals, or cosplay desires. Here is a quick breakdown of all the sound options:

Here is a breakdown of the lightsaber soundboard options you will find in our Saber with Premium Sound Setup:

• Obsidian V4: The Obsidian V4 has 10 sound banks that can all be programmed to different sound fonts to change on the fly. You can program different Obsidian sound fonts through our Obsidian Launcher on your computer. It also has onboard brightness and volume menus.
• UltraProffie Zero: Our UltraProffie lightsabers are fully customizable. The UltraProffie Zero sound setup has a single sound bank and 6 different blade effect presets. While the sound bank can be programmed on a computer with our UltraProffie Launcher on a Chrome browser, this is only recommended for experienced users since it requires the use of a DevPort. Has onboard menus for blade style, volume, brightness, and sensitivity.
• UltraProffie Lite: Has 99+ sound banks available, with 25 sound fonts preloaded. It comes with an RGBW in-hilt LED that will allow you to change the color of your blade on the fly with an onboard menu. Has onboard menus for sound font/blade style combos, color changing, volume, brightness, and sensitivity.

You can read more about the differences between our different soundboards in our Lightsaber Instructions & Custom Saber Manuals guide or Custom Lightsaber FAQ page.

These lightsaber builder options will only be present when you’ve selected a configuration with sound. What options are available will be completely dependent on the soundboard selected in the previous steps. Making your own saber using these upgrades can dramatically improve immersion, responsiveness, and visual presentation, depending on how you plan to use it.

Flash on Clash: This causes the blade to flash a different color when it is hit against something. All of our sound options will make a clash sound, but Flash on Clash is required to flash a different color. Flash on Clash comes default on all lightsabers with our Neopixel Saber with Sound setup. The color options available are based on compatibility with the blade color you selected. For example, we do not offer Blue Flash on Clash with a Red Blade because the two colors would mix, making a violet. Flash on Clash is not compatible with our TRI-Blade Colors.

Illuminated AV Switch: These AV Switches will have a ring of color around the button, illuminating in the selected color. Availability is based on compatibility with the hilt selected.

Now that you’ve chosen your electronics, you can go through the rest of the customization options to fine-tune your lightsaber to your exact specifications. This stage allows you to personalize the finer details of your build, helping transform your saber from a standard setup into a completely unique custom lightsaber. These options will be present on all custom lightsabers. What options are available will be completely dependent on the hilt and soundboard (or lack thereof) selected in previous steps:

Battery Configuration: Depending on the setup, you will have options for different saber electronics, chargers, and batteries.

• NC2 vs VC2 Charger: Both the NC2 and VC2 chargers have a 0V option that will allow you to potentially revive batteries with a dead cell. The VC2 charger has a readout screen that will inform you of the battery’s percent charge and mAh during the charging cycle.
• 2600 mAh 18650 Battery vs 3500 mAh 18650 Battery: A higher mAh effectively means that it will power your saber for longer.

Recharge Port: The Recharge Port allows you to plug a charger into the hilt to charge the saber without having to remove any of the electronics.

Blade Length: The standard blade lengths we offer are 16”, 24”, 32”, 36”, and 40”. Different blade lengths can dramatically affect handling, balance, spinning techniques, and dueling comfort. Many users prefer shorter blades for tighter control, while longer blades offer additional reach during combat.

The default will depend on the lightsaber and what is recommended, along with your height and needs. The length is based on the blade itself; it does not account for the emitter depth of the lightsaber. Most hilts have an emitter depth of 2”-3”, with some slight variance due to our saber smiths hand-fabricating every saber by hand. If you want to know the approximate emitter depth of a specific lightsaber, please contact our customer service team, and they would be happy to get you that information.

Blade Option: All of our blades have a 1” outer diameter, and include:

• Midgrade vs Heavy Grade: Our Midgrade Blades have a 1/16” wall thickness, while our Heavy Grade Blades have a 1/8” wall thickness. The thinner walls make the Midgrade Blades both slightly lighter and brighter, and the Heavy Grade Blades are widely considered some of the best lightsabers for dueling because of their increased durability during full-contact sparring.
• Regular vs UltraEdge: Our Regular Blades are completely clear, with the light from the LED only being diffused with blade film within the blade. This produces a truer version of the color and is slightly brighter. UltraEdge Blades are frosted white to offer double diffusion and maintain a more consistent color from emitter to blade tip, as well as eliminating that crisp edge of light that you see with a Regular Blade. Because the light is passing through white, UltraEdge Blades do somewhat pastelize the color of the blade and can wash out mixed colors (Arctic Blue, Sunrider’s Destiny, Bane’s Heart, Hot Pink, Violet Amethyst, Blue Violet Amethyst, Sentinel Yellow, and Pyrestone Orange).

Switch Type: We offer Guarded Switches and AV Switches, depending on the saber hilt you selected:

• Guarded switches have a raised, plastic wall around the switch that is meant to make it more difficult to turn the lightsaber on or off accidentally.
• AV Switches sit more flush to the hilt, making them far more comfortable. They are made completely of metal, so they are also more durable.

Blade Tip Type (Round vs Pointed): This boils down to a visual preference. We highly recommend choosing a rounded tip if you are going to be engaging in sparring. As described in the names, the round tip has a rounded surface and is shorter, while the pointed tips come to a point and are slightly longer.

Blade Retention Screw Wrench: This is a hex wrench that will be specifically sized for the blade retention screw holding the blade in your saber. While the standard is 5/64, we have several hilts and parts that use different sizes. These come standard with every saber purchase at no additional cost.

Blade Plug: Blade plugs are meant to be installed in your lightsaber whenever the blade is removed. This keeps the LED seated where it is meant to be, while also protecting any unsuspecting eyes from having a high-powered LED shone in them if the saber were to be turned on with the blade removed. Our standard blade plug has a simplistic look with a circle blocking the light from the center, only allowing a circle of illumination to come through. Our circle blade plug has a decorated plate on the top, illuminating a design in the center.

Day Blades: When using your saber in a brightly lit space or in broad daylight, the blade will wash out. To combat this, we offer Day Blades that feature clear plastic tinted with the most common lightsaber colors of red, green, blue, and purple, so your saber will still show its true colors. Different LED colors will change the color of the Day Blade, so it is recommended to select the same color of Day Blade as your LED’s color. These are all Heavy Grade Blades, so they are also great for sparring.

Saber Stand: This two-piece saber stand gives you a means of displaying your lightsaber when it is not in use. They require very basic assembly and are made of acrylic.

Belt Clip and Belt Clip Wheel: Our lightsaber build guide would not be complete without a way to keep your saber at your side. Found in our Lightsaber Accessories section, these Belt Clip Wheels allow you to wear your lightsaber on your belt. They require that your lightsaber have a Belt Clip Wheel installed.