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@sabers_forever_ Would Make Any Jedi Proud

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When he started building lightsabers two years ago, Jon Rossi (@sabers_forever_) knew one thing for sure: as his saber sliced through the air, it had to hum. “It’s the best part,” says the 28-year-old guitarist and sound engineering junkie. “On specific soundboards, there is both a gyroscope and an accelerometer. One reads twisting motions and the other reads sudden motion in any direction. In pairing those two, every time you swing, it makes that famous lightsaber sound.”

Crafting a lightsaber requires three sets of hands across the country. A Starfall Saber starts construction in California with a hilt (@starfall_sabers), then it’s shipped to North Carolina to be fitted with its polycarbonate blade (@vader.head) and finally it arrives in Philadelphia, where Jon installs LEDs, sound and other “greebles” to transform it into a weapon Luke Skywalker would be proud to wield. “We joke that we want to see somebody try and break one, because we haven’t yet,” Jon says. “And we’ve played real hard.”

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