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@@PikaveeT You could achieve this by cutting the blade in half painting the inside black, till it lets no light through and then removing the paint only where you want the light to show through, test it, and glue it back together, would be a lot of effort and you would likely only get the desired affect from one side/angle, but nothing is impossible :) i think an Ultraviolet blade would be cooler though hahahah
“I see you have constructed a new light saber, your training is now complete!” Can’t wait to see round 2 testing. Does the tip light up, was a little hard to tell in the video.
Jose Bermudez haha thank you for that. The tip doesn’t light up. But it didn’t light up before either, with the beam of light instead of LEDs. I think there’s a reflective thing under the tip that is supposed to reflect light back downwards instead of letting it leak through the top.
@@technomax6868 i mean neopixel is obviously a lot better quality than Galaxies Edge. But the GE blades do have LEDs inside of them, not a single LED in the hilt.
Very cool. Something I think would be cool to see is modding the blade holder to have an led in it and so the saber can be activated without the full blade in it. I don’t always have my blade in the hilt to just enjoy the sound of igniting and the hum of the saber.
You are my new favourite TH-camr hands down because you do the one movie franchise I love and people might say what about star war theory but you bring Star Wars to life
let me know if that works at all.. ive heard the neo pixels may require a different battery, or the soundboard may not even deliver enough for the neo..
@@Jok3rsFaVor Power is my main concern as well. Worst case I have to switch out the battery pack or board entirely for a crystal focus X. Still much cheaper than buying a custom saber, it would still have the blade quick connect.
@@Knilaros The Luke legacy saber has 2 emitters. One for display and one for a blade. When you unscrew the hilt to change the emitters it has a Neopixel kind of ring adapter inside where the blade emitter will connect. When I saw that I got curious to know what happen if I put my Neopixel blade on it. It's not the pin connectors but the 3 ring connector like on blades so it was not easy to connect them together. I used little cables to connect the rings. The hilt did the sound it does when you connect a blade but all I could get was 1 pixel lighting up very dimly and it was white. My Neopixel blade has a resistor at the base so maybe that blocks power and doesn't allow it to light up all the way but most likely it has to do with the blade not receiving data for all the pixels so only the first one light up. I really think you would need to do a whole swap of the board and battery in order to have proper Neopixel work but I think it would be a cool concept.
Great video quality, you’re killing it man. I don’t own any saberforge blades but I want to make sure I’m understanding this mid correctly, are you swapping the Disney plastic for thicker plastic/polycarbonate blade? Are there other differences I missed? I understand that for combat a thicker grade/gauge(?) of material is going to be better but are there any other benefits or even cons to doing this mod?
The Dan-O Channel I think you’ve nailed it! The Saberforge is a stronger polycarbonate blade. The downside is that because this new blade is thicker, and light has to pass through more material, it doesn’t appear as bright as it did with its original Disney blade!
The Custom Saber Shop has clear blade components if you want to try that too. I think changing out the led might make things difficult with voltages and such. You got my sub. Thank you for doing these videos.
Parker Pattillo it’s really tricky to do that in a video because cameras are so sensitive to that kind of light, but I can tell you right now that I don’t think it’s as bright as it was in the Disney blade. That’s because The Disney blade is perfectly clear, while the saber forge blade is a “cloudy“ plastic. It’s not completely transparent. So some of the brightness might’ve been lost there. It could also mean that the batteries are running low on my Disney hilt. I haven’t charged that thing once since I’ve gotten it, so who knows! But others have suggested looking into a neo pixel blade which are supposed to be much brighter! So I might give that a shot!
I was relieved to see the hilt survived your tests. Blades are much more easily replaced then hilts, and say this much for Disney's design team, the "removable blade" feature is going to become mandatory in the next generation of Custom Sabers. Raising everybody's game! I guess the ultimate test will be when someone makes a saber from scratch that works with a Disney Kyber Crystal. You know that's coming! Question, are you in a Saber Dueling League?? Another question - we've got Peace and Justice, Security and Defense, Power and Control and Elemental Nature. If Disney asked YOU to suggest a fifth theme for a saber build, what would you suggest?
I've seen other videos where the reviewer has mentioned that Savi's Workshop blades aren't as bright as those of third-party Lightsaber manufacturers. So I'm wondering do better batteries make a difference to how bright the Savi's blades are? Or is it a case of considering switching out the LEDs? It would help if we knew exactly what these LEDs are.
Batteries shouldn’t make a difference in the brightness because LEDs require so little power. But I’m not sure what makes some LEDs brighter than others
@@StarWarsIRL It depends on the quality of LED, what they're made from, how well they're made, how efficient they are, the voltage and ampage they're rated for. More expensive ones could be more efficient, producing more light at the same power level as cheaper ones. Plus if they're well made they're usually more durable and able to take more power. Another thing is what power, voltage & ampage they're rated for, which you'll probably have to look up if you can find their product number. It is possible that for safety the Savi Lightsaber reduces the power so as not to burn out the LEDs, so changing them and any resistors connected to them could give you brighter blade. Though this is speculation on my part.
you should pick up a Neopixel RGB strip and wire it in place of those God awful L.E.D's that Disney uses, i bet you could do it bro! Also i think you taping the end of the foam stopped the light reaching the tip :) keep it up man
It’s weird how all the other saber companies are making neopixel blades now that are end-of-blade contact while Disney/Hasbro are still going with that long plug end
I love your channel so much, but next time when you use a vice on something delicate, put a cloth over the vice jaws or something to protect the blade 😍 Can't wait for more of the build your own lightsaber series
Try using a heavy grade ultrasabers blade. They're infinitely more durable, but I don't know if the heavy grade will be able to fit the LEDs. Give it a shot
Will Smith: Man I have got to get me one of these. Saber turns on Will Smith: AAAAWWWWW that’s hot. No but seriously have to get to Disney and either get the saber pike or ummm the darksaber if they have that, if not then I’ll see but yea awesome work
I've been thinking about getting an ultrasabers empty hilt so I can customize it to be my own. New soundboard with smooth swing, the best LEDs with flash on clash, and a great speaker.
Nice mod! You may have an easier time getting the edge square and a cleaner cut if you use a pipe cutter to trim your blade to length. I use one all the time to make custom length blades and it works great..
I was surprised to see the LEDs were not the 144/m ones. Those are the same style as the ones that came in the master replica series, which are notorious for having sections break and never light up again. I think you should make a video where you convert a Savi or Legacy to WS2812 144 LEDs per meter. I can help you with it if you like. I'm currently working on my third neopixel proffie build. I'm gonna build it into a TLJ throne room stunt prop. (Look at the scene where Kylo kills Snoke and pulls it to Rey. When Rey catches it, you can see the version I'm talking about.)
Isn’t the mod a bit pointless because I am aware that the saberforge is a stronger blade but you are using the same LEDs from the Disney blade which means what’s to stop the LEDs from breaking if you hit it hard unlike a saberforge where the light comes from the hilt it self 🤔
Somewhere, mickey Mouse is sitting behind a desk saying "haha yes money money, yes buy these lightsabers watch Star Wars Watch Avengers WATCH EVERYTHING SO I CAN GET MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!"
Right?! Lol. No it’s gotta be a black-colored blade with white light outlining the black because light can’t be black. The Darksaber is a perfect example of this.
Please educate me, what was the purpose? Looks like u just exchanged the plastic blade housings? Is the non-Disney one more durable or provide a better effect?
The non-disney (Saberforge) one is a way stronger plastic. I did another video about durability that showed what happens when you put Disney up against Saberforge!
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Please show how to reinforce like saber forges heavy sparring blade that thing is thicccc lots of love keep up the good work
why doesn't anybody do a dark saber mod for the blade
Because it’s literally impossible
@@PikaveeT You could achieve this by cutting the blade in half painting the inside black, till it lets no light through and then removing the paint only where you want the light to show through, test it, and glue it back together, would be a lot of effort and you would likely only get the desired affect from one side/angle, but nothing is impossible :) i think an Ultraviolet blade would be cooler though hahahah
In the animation, they used a process to light up the black in the darksaber. Painting the inside black would not glow, just make a useless blade.
This channel is so underrated
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“I see you have constructed a new light saber, your training is now complete!” Can’t wait to see round 2 testing. Does the tip light up, was a little hard to tell in the video.
Jose Bermudez haha thank you for that. The tip doesn’t light up. But it didn’t light up before either, with the beam of light instead of LEDs. I think there’s a reflective thing under the tip that is supposed to reflect light back downwards instead of letting it leak through the top.
StarWars IRL thanks for the heads up, I have read there are tip designs that have holes predrilled into them which let the tips light up.
Yup check out the saberforge V4 Infinity Blade, it has a tip that lights up.
Jose Bermudez will do!
@@StarWarsIRL if you can fit a V4 blade. It would. Be really cool
I almost died when you didnt protecc with a towel or something during the table vice part. Great channel. Totally underrated
Haha. Sorry. But thanks!
It can't rain all the time why a towel tho
@@bered4894 its soft
So now I can actually do some dueling with my custom hilt.
I belive you cloud always do that
Dude we need you to figure out how to make the Galaxies Edge sabers work with Neopixel blades
Well neopixel consists of the leds inside of the blade while galaxy’s edge(rgb) is made of basically a flashlight.
@@technomax6868 i mean neopixel is obviously a lot better quality than Galaxies Edge. But the GE blades do have LEDs inside of them, not a single LED in the hilt.
Dang, that’s amazing! Props to you for figuring this out
Atreus of the Brotherhood thanks!! I was surprised, it wasn’t as impossible as I thought it would be 😄
No problem. It’s truly pretty extraordinary, I may use this if I get a galaxy’s edge saber soon.
Very cool. Something I think would be cool to see is modding the blade holder to have an led in it and so the saber can be activated without the full blade in it. I don’t always have my blade in the hilt to just enjoy the sound of igniting and the hum of the saber.
It’s still very possible if not likely that you will still break led’s. Neopixel/string blades are just not made to duel.
You were right!
Makes me wonder if you could add an LED beam in place of the strip. Would also remove the dark spots the Disney blades can have too.
dude what you're doing is pretty legit!! keep it up!!
l0stw0lf thanks!!!
You should make these and sell on Etsy haha
Colegreenbay YESSSSS
Carlos Lopez has anyone done this yet?
Hes become more powerful than any other jedi
You are my new favourite TH-camr hands down because you do the one movie franchise I love and people might say what about star war theory but you bring Star Wars to life
Disney should have made blades like this from the start so you can purchase them later
This channel has a bright future and I’m happy to be part of it
Well done! The next step is switching out the LEDs for brighter neo pixel strips! That's the plan for my blade anyway :)
let me know if that works at all.. ive heard the neo pixels may require a different battery, or the soundboard may not even deliver enough for the neo..
@@Jok3rsFaVor Power is my main concern as well. Worst case I have to switch out the battery pack or board entirely for a crystal focus X. Still much cheaper than buying a custom saber, it would still have the blade quick connect.
Knilaros I’m going to look into that. Who sells the neo pixels? Or who sells the best ones??
@@StarWarsIRL thecustomsabershop.com is the best place I know of for supplies
@@Knilaros The Luke legacy saber has 2 emitters. One for display and one for a blade. When you unscrew the hilt to change the emitters it has a Neopixel kind of ring adapter inside where the blade emitter will connect. When I saw that I got curious to know what happen if I put my Neopixel blade on it. It's not the pin connectors but the 3 ring connector like on blades so it was not easy to connect them together. I used little cables to connect the rings. The hilt did the sound it does when you connect a blade but all I could get was 1 pixel lighting up very dimly and it was white. My Neopixel blade has a resistor at the base so maybe that blocks power and doesn't allow it to light up all the way but most likely it has to do with the blade not receiving data for all the pixels so only the first one light up. I really think you would need to do a whole swap of the board and battery in order to have proper Neopixel work but I think it would be a cool concept.
Yeah, the real trick would be changing the LEDs so they are as bright as the high end sabres
I would love this lightsaber too because I tried to find it on the EBay app on my iPhone
Very nice. I am new to lightsabers, so learning all I can.
Impressive....... most impressive.
Great video quality, you’re killing it man. I don’t own any saberforge blades but I want to make sure I’m understanding this mid correctly, are you swapping the Disney plastic for thicker plastic/polycarbonate blade? Are there other differences I missed? I understand that for combat a thicker grade/gauge(?) of material is going to be better but are there any other benefits or even cons to doing this mod?
The Dan-O Channel I think you’ve nailed it! The Saberforge is a stronger polycarbonate blade. The downside is that because this new blade is thicker, and light has to pass through more material, it doesn’t appear as bright as it did with its original Disney blade!
Thanks Dan, I was wondering the same thing.
Is this blade combat ready?
If not, can you make a combat ready blade for the legacy lightsabers?
yeeeeeeeeeeeeto
So you can a more durable blade on the legacy sabers too,that's so cool
Oh f*** yea. I cant wait to see the durability test and try this for myself.
The Custom Saber Shop has clear blade components if you want to try that too. I think changing out the led might make things difficult with voltages and such. You got my sub. Thank you for doing these videos.
This is great, nice work on doing things your own way. Keep being you, that’s how we like it...
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Nice! Looking forward to test #2!!
Loved it!! That’s very interesting. Love the Music.
you know if you replaced the white fome in there with black fome it might make a good looking black saber
Oh snap, my man, this is Rad to the Max.
Daniel Aguirre 👍🏻
Are you gonna do a light comparison? Like with the Saberforge blade, are you getting the same amount of brightness?
Parker Pattillo it’s really tricky to do that in a video because cameras are so sensitive to that kind of light, but I can tell you right now that I don’t think it’s as bright as it was in the Disney blade. That’s because The Disney blade is perfectly clear, while the saber forge blade is a “cloudy“ plastic. It’s not completely transparent. So some of the brightness might’ve been lost there. It could also mean that the batteries are running low on my Disney hilt. I haven’t charged that thing once since I’ve gotten it, so who knows! But others have suggested looking into a neo pixel blade which are supposed to be much brighter! So I might give that a shot!
This will work perfectly with my custom savi’s Ezra’s lightsaber
After seeing this when I get my own custom saber I might put my own twist on it. Depends on the internal wiring of the blade
Awesome Share
You should try installing a neopixel sound board for smooth swing and accurate response sounds.
I really want to see this done with 2 of these and you go full on duel battle with them for durability tests
Thank you for all the cool vids man! I think I'll try this after I go to Batuu for sure!
That's so impressive! 😱
I honestly did not think this could work, but you did a fantastic job 😍👍🏻
And I'm really looking forward to the test 🙈
Sofia Lionfire I know me neither haha 😆 Thanks!
Its the noodle blade (or a light whip if you want something that is actualy from star wars)
Dude congratulations you are officially incredible
Hahaha what an honor!! Thank you!!
Amazing work my friend!
I was relieved to see the hilt survived your tests. Blades are much more easily replaced then hilts, and say this much for Disney's design team, the "removable blade" feature is going to become mandatory in the next generation of Custom Sabers. Raising everybody's game! I guess the ultimate test will be when someone makes a saber from scratch that works with a Disney Kyber Crystal. You know that's coming!
Question, are you in a Saber Dueling League?? Another question - we've got Peace and Justice, Security and Defense, Power and Control and Elemental Nature. If Disney asked YOU to suggest a fifth theme for a saber build, what would you suggest?
Would like to see a similar video with the Disney Parks Exclusive Rey’s Lightsaber (Anakin’s)
I've seen other videos where the reviewer has mentioned that Savi's Workshop blades aren't as bright as those of third-party Lightsaber manufacturers.
So I'm wondering do better batteries make a difference to how bright the Savi's blades are?
Or is it a case of considering switching out the LEDs? It would help if we knew exactly what these LEDs are.
Batteries shouldn’t make a difference in the brightness because LEDs require so little power. But I’m not sure what makes some LEDs brighter than others
@@StarWarsIRL It depends on the quality of LED, what they're made from, how well they're made, how efficient they are, the voltage and ampage they're rated for.
More expensive ones could be more efficient, producing more light at the same power level as cheaper ones.
Plus if they're well made they're usually more durable and able to take more power.
Another thing is what power, voltage & ampage they're rated for, which you'll probably have to look up if you can find their product number.
It is possible that for safety the Savi Lightsaber reduces the power so as not to burn out the LEDs, so changing them and any resistors connected to them could give you brighter blade. Though this is speculation on my part.
Your training is complete.
you should pick up a Neopixel RGB strip and wire it in place of those God awful L.E.D's that Disney uses, i bet you could do it bro! Also i think you taping the end of the foam stopped the light reaching the tip :) keep it up man
Almost 100k!!! Keep it up!
$300 for a lightsaber is insane, I admire your work to upgrade the Disney blade.
Since you can do this. Can you get one of the new 'crackling saber' blades from kyberlight into a kylo ren legacy saber?
Voodoomancer probably!!
You are a genius
Max Rabaudi yes he is.
When i saw the pic i kinda knew this would be what you would do to use the blade
Would it be possible to replace the led strip? One of my led’s doesn’t show the correct color.
You can probably resolder a new led...I'm not sure though I have never opened my blade to see if I can
It’s weird how all the other saber companies are making neopixel blades now that are end-of-blade contact while Disney/Hasbro are still going with that long plug end
You actialy did it🤣🤘. Master /bow!
I love your channel so much, but next time when you use a vice on something delicate, put a cloth over the vice jaws or something to protect the blade 😍 Can't wait for more of the build your own lightsaber series
@annoyingmint100 I agree this channel is WAY too underrated.
Im glad u figured it out because thats what I was gonna do
Nice now replace the LEDs with neopixel LEDs for the absolute ultimate saber
I think I might have found your Kalikori
Try using a heavy grade ultrasabers blade. They're infinitely more durable, but I don't know if the heavy grade will be able to fit the LEDs. Give it a shot
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Me:wrapper
Will Smith: Man I have got to get me one of these. Saber turns on
Will Smith: AAAAWWWWW that’s hot. No but seriously have to get to Disney and either get the saber pike or ummm the darksaber if they have that, if not then I’ll see but yea awesome work
Games For Cykits I’m so confused lol
@@StarWarsIRL So am I, man. So am I.
I've been thinking about getting an ultrasabers empty hilt so I can customize it to be my own. New soundboard with smooth swing, the best LEDs with flash on clash, and a great speaker.
Thank you for the info. It’s fantastic, but the only question I have is why you didn’t drill the holes before you cut the end of the poly blade.
Maybe the pixel/baselit blade is not the same length as the Disney blade..?
AWESOME mate. maes you wonder why Disney cheaped out on the blade.
I've been looking for this
Nice mod! You may have an easier time getting the edge square and a cleaner cut if you use a pipe cutter to trim your blade to length. I use one all the time to make custom length blades and it works great..
I was surprised to see the LEDs were not the 144/m ones. Those are the same style as the ones that came in the master replica series, which are notorious for having sections break and never light up again. I think you should make a video where you convert a Savi or Legacy to WS2812 144 LEDs per meter. I can help you with it if you like. I'm currently working on my third neopixel proffie build. I'm gonna build it into a TLJ throne room stunt prop. (Look at the scene where Kylo kills Snoke and pulls it to Rey. When Rey catches it, you can see the version I'm talking about.)
Thats sick
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Well look at that, you can have as many of those instead of spending a lot of credits👏🏼
You did it... you crazy son of a bantha you did it...😝
I have been waiting for someone to do this for a long time😋
DRAGONWOOKIE 44 😆👍🏻
Can you make a Video to upgrade the brightness of the sabers?
Great video now i cant wait till the day i get to go to galxies edge
Isn’t the mod a bit pointless because I am aware that the saberforge is a stronger blade but you are using the same LEDs from the Disney blade which means what’s to stop the LEDs from breaking if you hit it hard unlike a saberforge where the light comes from the hilt it self 🤔
We have the exact same savi’s workshop hilt
I picked the purple kyber crystal
Very Fortunate for you to have a lightsaber your skills are almost complete.
So why exactly is a Saberforge blade superior to galaxies edge?
Somewhere, mickey Mouse is sitting behind a desk saying "haha yes money money, yes buy these lightsabers watch Star Wars Watch Avengers WATCH EVERYTHING SO I CAN GET MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!"
Witch do you think is better savisworkshop or ultrasabers I think savis
Great job, man :)
Caleb Custom Bricks thank you 🙏🏻
I may have to buy an extra blade next week just to try this out! :D
If you painted the clear piece inside black and used a white crystal I wonder if it would look like a dark saber?
Damn that’s helpful
Now make a black blade mod for us XD so when we get those black kayber Crystal's can actually show off a black blade
Right?! Lol. No it’s gotta be a black-colored blade with white light outlining the black because light can’t be black. The Darksaber is a perfect example of this.
It's impossible to have black light
Craftsmanship at work
I wonder if the Saberforge have the option of custom order for Disney hilt compatible.
You should do this with a crackle or lightning blade!!
Good job but what’s the point if you don’t upgrade the plastic inside of the saber? It’s good break with the first real good hit
Please educate me, what was the purpose? Looks like u just exchanged the plastic blade housings? Is the non-Disney one more durable or provide a better effect?
The non-disney (Saberforge) one is a way stronger plastic. I did another video about durability that showed what happens when you put Disney up against Saberforge!
Can you do a video showing how to make the light sleeper blade brighter
I got blades from Jaymoo's Playground
CANT WAIT!!!!
If you put a pice of cloth/leather in the vise grip you won’t have any risk of scratching your blade
It might just be the camera but it doesn’t look as bright to me
I'm too lazy to do any of this. Really cool though
Do another test
Can you demonstrate the strength of the new blade?
Yeah I said I was going to! Video will be up sometime this week 😉
5:05 I see the tip of the lightsaber isn't lit up, kind of important
Has anyone tried to shorten a legacy blade to Savi's length? Can the LEDs be simply cut off the end of the strip?
Great job u r a amazing underated chanel
Thank you so much 😊 👍🏻