So if a blade is dull, that's not as bad as the balance being off? Plus considering a lightsaber is just a handle (the "blade" isn't real), how would that be impossible to handle (pun intended)?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In swordplay the weight of the blade allows the wielder to feel where the blade will go. A lightsaber will easily just chop the inexperienced to bits due to this, thus Padawans learn using foils, vibroswords, or training sabers that don't cut. Jedi and Sith use the Force to tell them where to properly swing so that they don't kill themselves. Very few non-Force sensitives have learned to use the lightsaber due to this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the handling would just be very different. If the lightsaber's blade isn't even made of a solid material, then it's fundamentally distinct from a sword, no matter how much one may visually resemble the other.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

As far as the balance goes, were you to increase the weight of the light sabre at the end that the blade emits from to about 2/3rds the total weight it would give the same feeling as if there were an actual ballanced blade.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I forgot to mention, the reason for balancing swords is for ease of movement, it is much more difficult to move a sword that weighs less but is heavy toward the blade than to move one that has extra weight at the handle. So you wouldn't have to worry about weighting a light sabre but if you needed to it could be done.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But the blade doesn't weigh anything, so I figure it'd be pretty easy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago