The hilt of the light-saber given to Luke Skywalker is a Graflex 3 Cell Camera flash tube with some rubber grips and a loop attached to the base. Darth Vader's is made in a similar fashion from a flashgun and windshield wipers for grips. Obi-Wan Kenobi's is more complicated, using part of a flash gun and part of a hand grenade. These flash tubes skyrocketed in value after the release of the movie. Ironically, Roger Christian selected the materials from a junk pile, and the supplies were considered worthless at the time. The design of all of the light-sabers later proved to be problematic, as Christian designed them for aesthetics, rather than heavy combat. Thus, in the Prequel Trilogy, the characters mostly use redesigned light-sabers, built for more comfortable duelling.

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