Hi all. Visas Mar costume has been commissioned and while that's being made I'm looking at lightsabers.
I'm literally at the point of tears. OK, to be honest, I did cry already, but only because I spent too many hours at one time looking until I got confused and everything started to look the same.
Every time I think I find one that meets the CRL for the emitter area, I realize it's too Darth Revan-ish. Every time I find one with the bands just being towards the emitter and not all down the handle, the emitter is all wrong and it doesn't appear there's a way to change or add to the emitter. And some of them have pommels that are way off and it doesn't appear that there are options to change the pommel. For fully customizable sabers, I don't think Kyberlight offers much and what they offer doesn't seem to be what I need. These are the ones I've seen that I've considered:
The Ultra Sabers Shock
The Ultra Sabers Arbiter
The Ultra Sabers Savior With Black Accents
The Ultra Sabers Liberator V3
The Ultra Sabers Standard Issue Battle Saber V3
The Saber Forge Adamant
The Saber Forge Fallen
A Kyberlight saber with the silver shroud, plasmafier, and pulsar pommel accessories
The Vader's Vault REV-N Standard
I also found this on etsy, but I'm afraid to take a risk on something that isn't manufactured by a saber business that's been around for a while, and this saber is 3D printed but costs as much as one from the aforementioned businesses. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I can't afford a $300.00 mistake. Has anyone ever purchased a saber from this etsy shop? They said that they could make the hilt silver for me and not black.
I am absolutely in love with Ultra Sabers Savior with black accents, but I don't think the black replacing the gold is enough to make it stop screaming, "VISAS MARR STOLE DARTH REVAN'S LIGHTSABER! GET HER!" Or is it? If I could find a way to replace the pommel on that one, does it come close enough to the one in the CRL then?
Any and all opinions and comments are welcome. I've managed to take something that should be fun and make it painful by researching nonstop for a solid week and need to step back and occupy myself with something else for a while. I'm at the point where everything looks like it matches while at the same time everything looks wrong. I don't want a passable saber; I want the best one possible.