#onereplicas

A few years back, KR Sabers teamed up with OneReplicas to produce a series of “Clan Hilts”. As in, the hilts carried by some of the background characters in the Prequel films. 

(Because apparently a film with a budget of $50 million can only afford somewhere in the ballpark of 6 different lightsaber designs, and the prop department just said ‘fuck it’.)

Anyway, these hilts are exceedingly rare nowadays, mostly due to their initial limited availability and extremely high-quality.

This one in particular is the Shaak Ti/Adi Gallia/Barriss Offee (kind of) Clan Saber, with the others belonging to Ki-Adi Mundi, Plo Koon/Luminara Unduli & Kit Fisto. I was fortunate enough to come across one second hand and I knew I had to offer it up for sale on my shop. 

You guys might not realize this, but even though I’ve worked on dozens of sabers at this point, it can still be hard to let certain ones go. This hilt is beautiful up-close, and I highly doubt that I’ll ever have the opportunity to work on one of these ever again. 

Alright, I’ll admit it: I don’t hate everything about the prequels, just most things. There’s a difference. 

Case in point, the lightsabers. Sure, they’re not as visually interesting as the OT sabers, if only because they were machined from scratch instead of being real-world objects that were later coopted for the films. But there’s some charm to be found in the PT sabers. If nothing else it serves as a visual clue that there’s a distinct separation between the two trilogies. 

The Jedi Order of old essentially provided everything a young Jedi would need to build his first blade; blank shrouds, power converters, high-energy flux apertures, and above all a safe place to build it. After the fall of the Jedi, you gotta to work for that shit, son. Have fun putting together what is, if assembled incorrectly, a small bomb while ducking blaster fire in the back alley of a cantina. It amounts to one of the more interesting dichotomies between the two stories, in my opinion.