Count Dooku's Lightsaber Rubberized Grip by DonStick3l

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

Yet an other fantastic original model by CaseStudyno8!
Now from a visual point of view it doesn't get any better than this. You can tell a lot of research and modeling expertise went into optimizing every single detail.
There are some models of this exact lightsaber floating around the interwebs but most of them would even be an offense to Jar Jar Binks to say the least.
But when it comes to fan made prop replicas there is always room for improvement - My contribution comes in form of rubberized grip and chamber.
I really like the original knurled design of the InnerGrip and LowerChamber which are supposed to be printed in black PLA or ABS. But I cannot imagine them to be quite comfy (and I guess Christopher Lee would agree).
As chance would have it, I had some flexible filament laying around from previous experiments. So why not use it on something "reasonable"?!
So to make this Remix, of course you need some TPE or TPU filament which can be somewhat pricy. I used Recreus FilaFlex which is like insane 40 €/$ for 0,5 kg.
And your machine has to be capable of printing rubber filament, which many Bowden extruders are limited or NOT!
In any case, carefully read my advice in the section below to help with printing the rubber sleeves.
WARNING: This as a complete overhaul not an update! My remix is not guaranteed to combine with the original parts! All required files are included here.