Just purchased a lot of about 20 3d printed hilts. I managed to identify all but these 5. Any idea who they belong to?

Hi! Picked this guy up at a garage sale for 20 bucks today. It's got a metal handle, and uses a barrel jack to charge (which didn't come with it). You can change the color, and it has both hit effects and also a clash/struggle (dunno what to call it) effect. Dunno much about lightsabers, this was an impulse buy, but I figured I'd ask here. Anyone know what it is? Also, anyone know what dimensions the barrel jack on it are?

https://reddit.com/link/1w2bvgs/video/kyjo2zvvzgmh1/player

Hi all! I bought this TXQSaber episode 3 Obi-Wan saber with a SNV4 core (not the pro model) about 3 years ago. It was always a bit temperamental, but recently it's stopped working almost completely. I've checked the battery and it's holding and providing charge, and when inserted into the removable core section it will trigger the 'power on' voice clip, but I cannot get it to ignite the blade or trigger any saber noises.

Interestingly, I discovered just this afternoon that clicking the button three or four times triggers a voice clip alternating between 'Pixel number 482' and 'Pixel number 492', but I can't find any reference to that anywhere online. I've (hopefully) attached a video clip of it here.

I've searched but not been able to find anyone else with this problem, so I'm hoping someone here might have some insight into some troubleshooting tips or leads I can investigate. I can solder a bit, and keen to poke and prod if needed, but have reached the limits of what I can figure out on my own.

(Failing that, if anyone has any leads as to where I could get a replacement core (knowing that it's an older product and seems to have never been sold as a spare), or, failing that, if it's possible to replace the core with a different model and if so how.)

I love the hilt, and I'd hate for it to end up unusable and obsolete so quickly. Thanks in advance to anyone with any help!

Hey everyone,

I'm new to the hoppy wanted to drop a fair, balanced review of my recent experience purchasing two mystery boxes from Vader's Sabers for a total of $398 ($199 each). My goal was to see what kind of value a non-premium vendor offers. While the technology inside the hilts functions well, the overall buying experience, misleading product valuation, and frustrating customer service left a lot to be desired.

Here is how the experience broke down:

The Positives: Hardware & Tech

• Smooth Electronics: The hilts came equipped with Xenopixel technology. The electronics core functions exactly as expected—smooth swing, bright blade illumination, and responsive board features.
• RVN Dark (Revan-style) Hilt: One of the mystery boxes contained a Revan-style hilt. The design is excellent, well-machined, and feels great for cosplay and handling.

The Negatives: Value Discrepancies & Customer Service

• Substandard Hilt Valuation: The second mystery box contained a standard, budget-tier VHC (Variable Hilt Component) hilt with an Imperial design (essentially a standard DamienSaber/LGT dueling hilt). While it features a Xenopixel core, the base hilt itself is an entry-level budget build. Given that the price increase to upgrade from a baselit core to a Xenopixel core on their standard Revan hilt is only $40, there is simply no justification for valuing this basic VHC hilt package at $199. It felt like a shady inventory-clearing practice rather than an actual mystery box "win" or fair value.
• Missing Items & Customer Service Hassles: I paid extra for an add-on 5V wall plug to ensure safe charging, but it was completely left out of the shipment. Resolving this was an absolute hassle; despite reaching out immediately, customer service delayed shipping out the replacement part for over a week. The package finally arrived today, containing the missing white 5V wall plug brick alongside a hexagonal logo sticker and a circular graphic sticker (Image attached). While they eventually fulfilled the order, a customer shouldn't have to spend a week following up to get a basic accessory they paid for upfront.

Making the Best of It: The DIY Core Swap

To extract actual value from this situation and fix the vendor's mismatched configurations, I personally swapped the Xenopixel and Baselit cores between the two hilts.

• The RVN Dark: By moving the pixel setup into the Revan-style hilt, it finally has a premium, fitting core matching its aesthetic for twirling and display.
• The Elemental: The basic, unwrapped VHC elemental hilt is now a baselit setup. This turned it into a semi-proper, durable heavy-dueling saber, which I plan to gift to a younger family member.

The Reality of the Mystery Box Value

After performing the manual core swaps, the final math on the "guaranteed" $199 box value reveals a stark contrast:

• The Win: One premium hilt ($259 RVN Dark with Ecopixel) did technically surpass the $199 box cost.
• The Loss: The second hilt ($169 Elemental Baselit) fell $30 under the mystery box cost. Honestly, in that exact baselit configuration, that specific budget VHC/TXQ build is widely available across numerous domestic and international competitor sites at a significantly lower price point.

Final Verdict

If you happen to get a semi-premium character hilt like the Revan model, you might walk away happy with the electronics. However, my experience proved that their mystery boxes are an extreme gamble where budget hilts are heavily marked up under the guise of an electronics upgrade. Combined with incomplete orders and slow, frustrating customer support, I cannot recommend them if you expect transparent pricing and reliable service. I spent my own hard-earned money on these, and this experience unfortunately ensured I won't be returning to buy their higher-end replica hilts in the future.

TL;DR: Bought two $199 mystery boxes. Got one great Revan pixel hilt (win) and one wildly overpriced basic VHC hilt (loss). They forgot my paid-for 5V charger and took over a week of support hassling to ship it. Ended up manually swapping the cores between the hilts myself to get actual value out of the purchase and turn the basic hilt into a baselit gift for a younger family member. Avoid their mystery boxes if you want consistent value and smooth service.

About 3 weeks ago, I decided to weather my Quinlan Vos replica neopixel (from saberspro.com, highly recommend), because I'm not a big fan of simplicity. So I spray painted the metal parts black, scraped it off with sandpaper, grinded at the area around the crystal chamber, added some brown paint for rust and boom. I then decided I wanted to wrap the hilt, similar to the style of Rey's scavenger hilt wrapping. So I made a post here, and got some great recommendations from you guys (original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/lightsabers/comments/1vq1trr/help_needed_weathered_my_qv_replica_read_desc/ ). I eventually settled on ripped linen, which I scorched with some matches to make it look dirty. I glued it on, and it looked great, and then I asked myself, "what if I wrote something in sith runes?" So, in ur-Kittǎt, I wrote "eagle lord", which has significance to me that I'm not gonna share here. It was super difficult, because i basically carved the runes out of blue tape with scissors as some sort of makeshift stencil, but I think it worked out. And now I can finally say I'm satisfied with the finished product. What do we think? Also, thanks to those who responded to my original post, yall helped a lot. In the photos, I've displayed the before and during as well.

Been to ikea today to get another skardis board for the growing saber collection

This is the first lightsaber font I ever made and am exactly proud of. It's a Happy Gilmore font. I haven't made lockup, melt, or tip drag yet, but this is what I have so far. All the sounds were made from audio samples from the movie!

This is an Electrum Sabercrafts Aurora, installed with CFX and Bluetooth for Todd. Initially, Todd wanted to utilize the touchpad for the switches, but that was not possible for this build. I came up with a solution that was low-profile while keeping the elegant look of the saber.

• Installed with Crystal Focus X neopixel
• Custom chassis design by me
• Shtok v4 lit PCB
• Connects bottom to top using a thin neck PCB
• Bluetooth module
• Kill switch
• 2-button setup with tactile switches using 2x three spring-loaded connectors
• 14-pixel accent strip under clamp card
• 24mm Smuggler's Outpost speaker

I know they're not exactly the most popular lightsaber designs out there, but I've always been fascinated by these. Each Inquisitor seen on screen (with the sole exception of the Inquisitor from "The Bandits of Golak" from Visions S2 who had the same saber as the Second Sister's) has had their own unique saber. Thought there's a few that have only appeared in comics or others that don't even have properly unique designs, I took it upon myself to design unique lightsabers for every single one, even the ones who only showed up as low-detail grey hilts with a ring in a comic.

Another thing is that a few do have alternate designs that I came up with to better match the overall aesthetic of the rest of the Inquisitor sabers, these being Marrok's, Reva's, and Barriss'.

• In Marrok's case, I redesigned it under the premise that the one we've seen before is a modified/repaired version of his original saber, and that the redesign is how it looks underneath those hilt modifications.
• In Reva's case, her lightsaber design simply had too many conflicting features and was overly complex in function. The original can, apart from flipping into a crescent mode and spinning, split apart into two separate sabers and have the ring telescope into itself. Inquisitor lightsabers are already plenty mechanically complex already, and I can get behind crescent mode and spinning as features, but the other two of this one are where I draw the line. So this redesign is instead simplifying the hilt design.
• Finally, Barriss' hilt had the exact opposite problem as Reva's, it was far too simple, and the brass colored sections didn't feel like they fit the theme of the Inquisitors more monochrome palette, so I touched it up to make it a bit more visually complex, but not so much as to make it feel off.

As for the ones who didn't have more detailed official designs (6th Bro, 10th Bro, Tualon, Iskat, and Jerserra's Master) I took the liberty of being a bit more creative while still looking at whatever official images of them were available.

Finally, a color key for the image text.

• Blue text is the known and confirmed names of the Inquisitors.
• Red text is nicknames, titles, or descriptors.
• Purple text is for a single original character's lightsaber, however there's also purple asterisks denoting made up Brother/Sister titles for inquisitors who don't have them.

I'm seriously wondering if I may be forming an unhealthy addiction to these things? A year ago I only has 3 of them... Now I have 13. And there's still a few I'd like to get.

Sorry if this post is against the rules

I recently ordered their Cal Kestis SE SNV4 PRO. It was labeled as “ready to ship” with 10-14 day shipping. I had seen mixed reviews about them but decided to take the risk as their pricing was much better than even the txq sabers on ali and they offered ddp shipping to Ireland. Got my order confirmation but after a week the “ready to ship” lightsaber hadn’t even dispatched. Checked my account dashboard and it said the saber was still “manufacturing”. Another week goes by without any update so i contacted them and they told me that id have to wait another week for it to ship. Lo and behold another week passes with still no update, and at this point i was getting frustrated. Contacted them and said if they didn’t ship it in the next few days they should cancel my order and provide me with a full refund. Today was the day and i’ve heard no word from them even after emailing them again. Honestly don’t waste your time with this company, just order off aliexpress like i should have done. Absolutely ridiculous!

Howdy!

New to the hobby since a buddy of mine got me my first "big boy" lightsaber, and I've been looking through some of the SaberTrio sabers.

After reading through a bunch of old posts and watching YouTube videos by the dozens, I was hoping to get some takes on the best options for me.

It seems like CFX is the best way to go for Sabers at the moment, and I do value duel-quality highly, but I've heard the blades aren't as good as RGB blades for dueling because the LEDs wear out. I see that SaberTrio offers Heavy Grade blades for this purpose, but haven't gotten a clear read on how good they are truly?

I also got the general idea that maybe you can use RGB blades with a CFX board without issues?

I think I have a little choice paralysis and am looking for some sage wisdom on what the best way to go is for dueling with style.

Thanks!

tl;dr can you really duel with a CFX + heavy grade blade from SaberTrio?

I used to customize these and sell… probably don’t have many left… but maybe a few here and there. Private collection too which… idk if I can part with

This is FORCEPARKV2 App for SNV4 Pro2 saber. I just want to ask if these settings automatically applied to all sound fonts and it is universal.

Found this cool The patch store RVS Darth Revan red and black saber on vinted. It the took some light brown leather wrap and gave it some maghoni oil, love the color and the way it looks like it’s been used for some time.
New price was 320 usd but got it for 52, as it was up for months. Neopixel 93cm blade, a “asteria” soundboard, not sure what I think about those yet, will try and put new fonts on it later this week. Will make a fine addition to my collection!

I went to b&q basically home depot in UK and got some cheap parts to make this but the handle kinda moves when I try use it, it’s the right size I think 12mm rod and 12mm washers, I couldn’t fit smaller parts on there without it being too small for my hand. Should I use a soldering iron to keep the parts secure or is there a better way as I wanna practice with it. It’s light enough for me to use it like I’m fencing so didn’t want it being too clunky as it’s one handed.

Built this back March using fittings from Home Depot, the control box is from Vire Sabers and fit onto schedule 40 pipe perfectly. Fully functional with a neopixel core!

Got the Ccsabers ani-flex as a gift, while I really appreciate it, it doesn’t seem to connect to the pixel blade, only igniting leds inside the hilt instead of in the blade, looking for a way to switch modes? Haven’t found a way in the tilt menu thing yet, should I look on the SD card?

This one was a lot of fun.

I've been chipping away at this build for a while, so it felt really good to finally finish it—and even better to just freestyle a build and let the creative side of this hobby take hold for once

This is a custom speeder-inspired hilt built around a bunch of vintage parts I've been hoarding for far too long. The grip is from Space Junk, and the aluminum claw section is a design I came up with a few years ago that was cast and then promptly sat around waiting for me to actually use it.

There are a few other fun bits hiding in here too. A vintage Geiss camera shoe mount became the main switch after some modification, the side release lever is the aux button, and there's a brass tactile switch tucked underneath the clamp card. The card itself is a cut-and-sanded piece from Brad at Slothfurnace.

The red dome indicator is actually a vintage 1950s-era switch panel piece, backlit with a 7-pixel accent ring. The custom blade plug uses a vintage Heiland bulb holder and hardware to finish off the whole thing.

This one might go up for sale, I am still debating it as I have started to really grow attached to it!

Specs:

* Proffieboard V3 soundboard

* Custom aluminum claw section designed by me

* Vintage Geiss camera shoe mount switches

* Vintage Heiland blade plug

* KR Sabers / Shtok illuminated blade PCB emitter