The Skywalker Graflex

No introduction is needed for this iconic lightsaber. The first lightsaber to be lighted on screen in A New Hope, which paved the way for generations of lightsabers after. Sometimes mistakenly called Luke’s lightsaber, it was in fact handed to Luke by Obiwan Kenobi as the lightsaber belonging to Luke’s father.

The original Skywalker Graflex lightsaber prop was built using parts of a vintage 3-cell Graflex flashgun and Texas Instruments Exactra calculator, among other things. (For accuracy references, you may wish to refer to www.wannawanga.com)

In this Exhibit, the lightsaber is a replica from Roman Props built in the configuration seen in A New Hope. The internal chassis of the lightsaber is designed by Martin Beyer (https://www.mb-sabers.com) and was the first MB assembled by Shane Craig of Dagobah Swamp back in 2020. Made of brass, steel, copper and aluminium, it features a dual crystal chamber, Proffie board 2.2 for controlling sound, light and a pixel blade.