Contact Saber Kit
39 inches, rear-balanced, and it comes apart.
39 inches, rear-balanced, and it comes apart.
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Weighted at both ends, balanced where your hands actually are.
A 911 gram contact prop with its mass parked at both ends and its balance point 70.5 cm (27.8 in) from the tip, right at the buttons. That weighting slows the turn to a rate you can read and damps the wobble that makes a light prop twitchy, which is the difference between chasing a roll and riding one.
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39 inches assembled, 16 million colors, and it comes apart into parts we sell individually.
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Specs
- Total length: 99.5 cm / 39.2 in
- Total weight: 911 g
- Balance point: 70.5 cm / 27.8 in from the blade tip, measured by hand on the real saber
- Blade: Sol Saber Tube, 24 in (61 cm), impact-resistant polycarbonate
- Handle: RGB Critter BT silicone body plus 2x Saber Hilt Extension, aircraft-grade aluminum
- Ends: Flow Cap (Clear) at the blade tip, Flow Cap (Black) at the rear, both silicone
- Rear weight: Flow Cap Counterweight Kit, steel weight in a machined aluminum mount
- Light: RGB Critter BT over Bluetooth, 138 light modes plus 16 million colors in the free Ants on a Melon app
What is in the box
- RGB Critter BT Light Engine
- RGB Critter Tube Adapter - Long, black
- Sol Saber Tube, 24 inch (61 cm)
- Saber Twist-On Cap in White, included with the Sol Saber Tube at no extra cost
- Flow Cap (Clear), pushed on over the Twist-On Cap at the blade tip. The two caps stack, they are not an either/or
- Flow Cap (Black), on the rear
- Saber Hilt Extension x2
- Flow Cap Counterweight Kit
- Every hex key, shim and screw needed to assemble it (2 mm and 4 mm hex keys, PTFE shim, connecting screw, set screws)
Why the ends are heavy
A prop that carries its mass in the middle fights you. Every roll has to be driven, and any wobble you introduce stays. Moving mass out to both ends raises the prop's resistance to a change in rotation, so the turn slows to a rate you can read and the small errors damp out instead of building.
The balance point sits 29 cm (11.4 in) in front of the rear cap, right where the Critter's buttons are. Grip there and the saber turns around your hand instead of around some point out past your wrist. We balance each build by hand and measure it rather than calculating a number from part weights.
What it is made of
The lit section is a 24 inch (61 cm) impact-resistant polycarbonate Sol Saber Tube running over an RGB Critter BT. The handle is the Critter's silicone body plus two chained Saber Hilt Extensions in aircraft-grade aluminum, which is where the length and most of the handle mass come from. A clear silicone Flow Cap goes on the blade tip and a black one on the rear, so the parts that meet the floor are the parts designed to.
The rear weight is the Flow Cap Counterweight Kit: a steel weight that slides into a machined aluminum mount and locks with a set screw. It is the piece doing the actual balancing, and it comes back out if you want to re-tune the feel.
It comes apart, and every part is one we sell
Nothing here is bonded or specific to this build. Every component threads, clamps or press-fits onto the same RGB Critter modular system, so you can change the blade length, swap the pattern, drop a hilt to shorten it, or move the light into a staff later. This is a starting point, not a sealed product.
