The saber base is a bathroom pop-up drain assembly kit made by Under Sink Repair that I picked up for just under $10 at Wal-Mart. The first thing I did after taking it out of the package was take it all apart, then play with how pieces fit back together. The bolt from the side got dropped in one end upside-down so that you can see it through the square holes; the drain stopper got part of the plastic underneath bit trimmed away before getting wedged in what became the pommel end; other parts got inserted or unscrewed as desired.

The knob is just a black shank button with a diameter just the same size as the hole, dropped in upside-down and glued in place. The wraps are made out of a tan, faux leather trim I found in the crafts section. It's glued down at every point it crosses, both to the material and the saber base, to keep it from moving around.

After the lightsaber was assemebled, I painted the end of the emitter with silver acrylic paint left over from my water gun blaster. Everything got a coat of black acrylic paint sponged on, which was dabbed off with paper towels to give it the effect of weathering. (Otherwise, it looked like a piece of plumbing, too bright and "new" for my tastes.) Since Nomi Sunrider's lightsaber eventually gets passed on to Leia in the comic books, I wanted it to look as if it had gotten four-thousand years-worth of use.