FAQs

I’m new to sabers and don’t know where to begin. Where can I get help?

Everyone has to start somewhere in this wonderful hobby. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with a beginners guide
video series, located right here!

What blade colours do you offer?

All of our sabers have the ability to change the LED/Blade colours on the fly. This means you can literally change your
saber blade colour from the saber function button. Please refer to the instruction cards, or our instruction guide here
https://aussabers.com.au/instructions/ to learn how!

Do your sabers have sound?

All of our sabers have sound, and can be muted if required.

In addition, all of the sabers have MULTIPLE sound sets, or “soundfonts” – meaning that you can alter how the saber
sounds. In the Proffieboard and XenoPixel based sabers, you can even add to the soundfonts built in.

What are “Sound Fonts”?

Sound fonts are maybe best thought of as “sets” of sounds.

Each font has a unique ignition, hum, swing, clash and lockup sound.

So when you hear someone refer to a saber having 9 fonts, you have 9 unique sets, each with their own individual traits.

What sound fonts do your sabers come with?

Please note these sound fonts are subject to change at any time

ECOSWING V2:

Serenity, The Second, Dark Ages, The DarkSword, The Dark Lord, The Fallen, The Count, The High Ground, Rage Knight, Princess, Scavenger, Emperor

XENOPIXEL:

Kylo, Rey, DarkSword, The Cunning Warrior, Darth Maul, Taron, Ben, Dark Rey, Tyranus, The Bold One, Darkness, The Return, Cal, Royalty, Rev, Star Killer, Acension, Rey 3, Rey 2, The Last, Luke, Codex of Light, Cyber Terror, Dark Ages, Hatred, Idyll, Serenity, The Champion, The Dark Lord Revisited, The Learner, The Second, The Teacher, Whispers of Power, Sailor

GOLDEN HARVEST V3:

The list of soundfonts on GH is: Balance, Psy-Borg, Daddy Issues Complete, Guardian, Cryo Carbon, Peace, Violence, Son of Darkness, The Eternal Prince, The Phantom, The Shadow, Shadows, Dark Harvest, The Classic Villain, Energy Pike, Knighthood, KRossguard, Final Steps, Darksaber, Ascension, Crimson Menace, Traveler, Young Solo, Empress, Duke, The Bold One, Rogue Commander, Darkness, Graflex, Fallen Order, General, Dark Revan, Starkiller, Defiance, Rainbow, Codex of Light, Cyber Terror, Dark Ages, Hatred, Idyll, Serenity, The Champion, The Dark Lord Revisited, The Learner, The Second, The Teacher, Whispers of Power

PROFFIE:

KRossguardv3, Final Steps, DarkSword, Ascension, Maul, Taron, Ben, Empress, Count, The Bold One, Rogue Commander, Darkness, Graflex, Fallen, General, Rev, Star Killer, Spectrum, Defiance

What’s the difference between Eco/EcoSwing, XenoPixel and
Proffie in your sabers and saber kits/boards?

New to sabers? Check out our handy tips and info videos here!

Eco (no longer available as of August 2021) and EcoSwing are very similar to one another: Both have 9 sound fonts, both
have colour changing LED modules in the hilt to select your blade colour. Both are rechargeable. Both respond to motion
and clash.

The biggest difference is HOW they respond to motion.

In the older Eco electronics, the saber will play a “swing” sound when you move the hilt. Regardless of whether you move it
quickly or slowly, long or short, it will play the same sound.

In EcoSwing, the swing sound will vary depending on how you swing it. If you swing the saber sharp and short, it will play a
short swing sound. Swing it in a long arc, it will make a long swing sound.

In short, EcoSwing is the far more accurate and authentic sounding version.

Eco and EcoSwing electronics both feature a “base lit LED” configuration; that meaning, the LED that lights the blade is
located inside the hilt and shines up into a hollow blade, and diffused by the film on the inner walls of the blade.

XenoPixel is a newly designed, entirely unique board from LGT (our wholesale partner).

The best way to think of these electronics is, imagine and EcoSwing install but with a ‘pixel blade. That’s essentially what it
was designed to be. You’ve still got “smoothswing”, colour changing, lots of fonts to choose from and all of those amazing
things that we have in all of our sabers.

One key difference to EcosSwing is that you can add new fonts to Xeno – something you can’t do with the EcoSwing setup.
What’s more, unlike Proffie where it’s a much more complicated system, adding fonts is a matter of just putting them on
the SD card and naming the files in the right way. There’s a video here explaining how here

Proffie is an entirely different level.

Unlike Eco and EcoSwing, which come preconfigured and cannot be altered (beyond selecting one of the built in sound
fonts or changing your blade colour), Proffieboards are fully customisable – so long as you have the programming
knowledge to do it. The options are nearly limitless.

In addition, the proffieboard based sabers we sell are all ‘pixel blade compatible which means the LEDs lighting the blade
are inside the blade (in eco/ecoswing the blade is hollow and lit by a single LED inside the hilt)

All of our Proffieboard sabers (and Proffie kits and standalone Proffie boards) come with a heap of extra sound fonts and
blade effects built in, but if that’s not enough for you, you can alter those and add to them. Sound fonts can be found for
purchase via various soundfont sellers, and there is a heap of support online for learning how to program a Proffieboard.

Be aware that programming a board is not for the feint-hearted, and we would strongly suggest starting on the open source
Proffieboard groups on Facebook, as well as looking up Proffieboard videos on YouTube.

What’s EcoSwing?

Ecoswing is the entry level electronics installation option for sabers in our shop. Featuring an RGB colour changing LED inside the hilt, this electronics option has 9 (ecoswing v1) or 12 (ecoswing v2) soundfonts built in. You can select from three built in volume levels (loud, soft, mute), three blade effects (stable, unstable, pulse) and, in the V2 Ecoswing, you even have motion controls for ignition and cycling through soundfonts.

Unlike the Xeno, Proffie and GH options, you cannot add more sounds or bladestyles to EcoSwing hilts – everything that’s built into them is stock standard from the factory, and cannot be altered.

In addition, the LED is located inside the hilt, not the blade – so you won’t get that cool scrolling up/down effect when igniting the blade.

So why Ecoswing? Well it’s the simplest electronics install we offer, which makes it a lot more suitable for a budget option. It’s also the only duel ready installation option we offer (though this does depend greatly on the hilt as well). Because the LED is inside the hilt and not a series of strips inside the blade, the blade is hollow -this makes it a much lighter option for spinning around.

If you’re looking for something that is visually and audibly better, check out the XenoPixel, Proffie or GHV3 installed options.

What’s Golden Harvest (GHV3)?

Golden Harvest V3 (GHV3) is one of the top end sound boards available in the market today.

Like Xeno, you can easily add more soundfonts to the already extensive list of them built in, and you can even configure the saber to set a default blade colour, blade effect, blade style and ignition/retraction times to each specific sound font.

GHV3 installed sabers have the LEDs inside the blade as well – two strips of them back to back. These blades are referred to as ‘pixel blades, and feature in Xeno, GHV3 and Proffie installed products in our shop. This means you can get some very fancy blade effects happening, and you will get that awesome scrolling effect for ignition and retraction of the blade.

The blades can change colour, so you can pick almost any colour shade you want. Blade effects are far more extensive on the GHv3, with thousands of potential combinations possible. You can pre configure these in the config files on the SD card, or by using the built in saber editor and colour/blade effect change modes on the fly.

GHV3 features gesture controls, which can be enabled or disabled via the config file. It can even play music tracks.

So why GHV3 instead of Xeno?

There are a few differences. Firstly, GHV3 and Proffie both feature something called “accent swings”. These kick in when you swing the blade in a particular way, and are a special sound that plays over the regular swing to really enhance the immersion. Swing the saber harder or faster than usual, and you’ll hear the regular swing sound but also the accent swing underneath that.

The other main thing with GHV3 is how customisable it is. You have a lot more control over blade effects and styles in GHV3, and it’s reasonably simple to learn how to do it.

Pixel blade compatible sabers (Xeno, GH and Proffie) are not duelling capable however. If you want to duel, stick with simple, basic hilts, with EcoSwing installation only.

What’s XenoPixel

Xenopixel (commonly called “Xeno”) is the mid level installation option in our shop; a really good option for the non dueller who wants something that looks and sounds great, but doesn’t necessarily want the absolute bleeding edge of technology in their saber.

You can easily add more soundfonts to the already extensive list of them built in, and you can even configure the saber to set a default blade colour, blade effect, blade style and ignition/retraction times to each specific sound font – all from the config file located in the SET folder on the included SD card!

Unlike the Ecoswing option, Xeno installed sabers have the LEDs inside the blade – two strips of them back to back. These blades are referred to as ‘pixel blades, and feature in Xeno, GHV3 and Proffie installed products in our shop. This means you can get some very fancy blade effects happening, and you will get that awesome scrolling effect for ignition and retraction of the blade.

The blades can change colour, so you can pick almost any colour shade you want on the fly. In addition to colour changing, you have several blade effects and styles built in, which includes some special ignition effects, flickering blades, pulsing blades, fire blades and more.

There’s even a candystripe/rainbow blade effect (kids love it – don’t blame me when they follow you around at Halloween!)

Xeno features gesture controls, which can be enabled or disabled via the config file. It can even play music tracks, which you can load up on each individual sound font in their respective folders on the SD.

Pixel blade compatible sabers (Xeno, GH and Proffie) are not duelling capable however. If you want to duel, stick with simple, basic hilts, with EcoSwing installation only.

What’s Profie?

Proffie is probably the most powerful, most customisable soundboard for sabers ever made.

Like Xeno and GH, you can add more soundfonts to your saber, as well as customise the blade style to go with them – but there is a significant learning curve to editing a Proffie board.

Proffie installed sabers have the LEDs inside the blade as well – two strips of them back to back. These blades are referred to as ‘pixel blades, and feature in Xeno, GHV3 and Proffie installed products in our shop. This means you can get some very fancy blade effects happening, and you will get that awesome scrolling effect for ignition and retraction of the blade.

The blades can change colour, so you can pick almost any colour shade you want. Blade effects are almost limitless in their scope with customisation, though once again they are not a simple board to configure. Once you have learned the ropes though, you’ll be limited only by your imagination, programming skills (and RAM on the board!!)

Proffie features gesture controls, which can be enabled or disabled via the config. It can even play music tracks.

So why Proffie?

Like GHV3, Proffie features something called “accent swings”. These kick in when you swing the blade in a particular way, and are a special sound that plays over the regular swing to really enhance the immersion. Swing the saber harder or faster than usual, and you’ll hear the regular swing sound but also the accent swing underneath that.

The main reason to choose Proffie though, is the incredible amount of customisation you can do with it. Unlike GH and Xeno, which have particular constraints on blade styles and effects, you are really only limited by your imagination and programming ability with Proffie. There are plenty of resources online to help you develop blade styles though, so you don’t need to code them all from scratch yourself.

Pixel blade compatible sabers (Xeno, GH and Proffie) are not duelling capable however. If you want to duel, stick with simple, basic hilts, with EcoSwing installation only.

What installation option should I choose?

New to sabers? Check out our handy tips and info videos here!

Choosing the installation version in your saber really comes down to what your intending to use your saber for, and your budget

Think of the installation options on a sliding scale. The lower the cost, the simpler the electronics. The higher the cost, the more advanced, customisable and complex the installations are.

At the lower end, we have EcoSwing. Base lit (LED is inside the hilt and shines up into a hollow blade), pre set sound fonts, and no customisation beyond the presets available on the hilt. These are cheap, simple and durable.

At the top end we have Proffie and Golden Harvest. Fully customisable, more soundfonts (and the ability to add more), better blade effects and so much more. These are much more expensive, and absolutely should not be duelled with at all.

And in the middle of this scale, we have XenoPixel. Still reasonably cheap, but featuring the same type of pixel blade you find in the higher end boards. You can customise Xeno, but not quite as much as GH or Proffie. Again, you can’t duel with these ones as pixel blades shouldn’t be used for duelling. If you’re looking for a more immersive experience that looks and sounds the part without breaking the bank, Xeno is probably the way to go.

It’s really the “one size fits most” option in our shop.

What is the difference between “standard” and “heavy” grade for blades?

A standard grade blade is one with 2mm thick walls. These are the most common type we sell, and are well suited to
swinging, spinning and moderately tough dueling.

Heavy grade blades have 3mm thick walls. These are VERY solid and can withstand a lot of force. They are also capable
of inflicting serious damage if mishandled, and it is strongly recommended that you take care when using. Heavy grade
blades do have slightly less light transference.

Can I duel with your sabers?

Many of the hilts are duel worthy, but it pays to be aware of the differences between EcoSwing and Proffieboard based sabers.

Proffieboard is an incredibly advanced control system which can give you an amazingly accurate looking and sounding saber, but we do not suggest dueling with Proffieboard based sabers. Nor do we suggest dueling with XenoPixel installed sabers.

Why is that?

Simply, because we feel that these boards and the ‘pixel blades are not suited to a heavy impact situation. There are more things that can break on them (256 LEDs in the blade creates a lot of potential points for impact breakage)

On the other hand, the EcoSwing (or older Eco) based sabers are generally much better suited to repeated and heavy
impacts. The blades do not contain LEDs like the ‘Pixel style blades do (the LED is inside the hilt), and the electronics are far simpler – although they do still make your saber look and sound awesome.

One final note on dueling.

DO NOT duel with thin neck sabers. EVER.

We really can’t stress this enough. Thin neck sabers are not strong enough to take the impacts we see with heavy
dueling. This can mean at best your saber can break, and at worst someone may get injured.

In addition, although the Incendius Steel version is tough as nails, it is not a dueling hilt. The thing weighs over 1.2kg
empty. By the time you install electronics and a blade onto it, you’re looking at well over 1.5kg of impact force being
swung around. DO. NOT. DUEL. WITH. THE. STEEL. INCENDIUS.

Please see our link on SABER SAFETY here

Do your products have a warranty?

Absolutely. We offer a full year warranty on electronic components – including those built into a saber, as well as PCBs, neopixel connectors, electronic kits and neopixel blades.

Please reach out to us if you have any issues or concerns about a product you’ve purchased from us.

What are the sabers made from?

This depends on the hilt, but generally they are made almost entirely from aircraft grade aluminium.

We also have a steel hilt, our very own design – The Incendius Steel Edition. VERY heavy, and tough beyond words. If it’s too heavy for you, we do have an aluminium version as well!

In addition, all of our sabers use polycarbonate for the blades. A wonderfully tough plastic compound, which is able to take a beating and diffuse light for that authentic blade effect.

Some small parts of our sabers are made from various other elements.

Where are you based?

We are based in Rosewood QLD, and stock all of our sabers and other products here. We do not drop ship from the factory.

The reason we do this, is so we can generally catch any potential quality control issues before they go out to you, our
customers. We also make sure that the saber is packaged securely before sending it to you, and all of our products ship
by Australia Post – insured and tracked.

Of course nothing is perfect, so we offer a one year warranty on electronic components with all of our sabers, just in case
something fails.

Should something go wrong, simply message our Facebook page or email us at sales@aussabers.com.au

Do you make the sabers yourselves?

We partner with LGT in China, who manufacture the majority of the products we sell.

In addition to their range of products, we are also working on our own unique models of saber, several of which have already been launched – the AusSabers Incendius, Wanderer, Apprentice V2, Trainflex, Electris and Republic.

Recently, we have started to sell miscellaneous add ons and accessories for sabers from various other manufacturers.

We are proud to work closely with some other saber companies around the world – including Custom Darkwolf Sabers and VireSabers in the USA, and Argo Sabers in Canada.

We have also partnered with Ripper Blades in the USA, and have started to offer their unique products locally.

Finally, we are now also working with GreyScale Fonts in order to create a unique set of sounds for our own AusSabers hilt designs. These soundfonts will only be available preinstalled on our own unique saber models in Australia!

Do you make custom sabers?

We do not make custom sabers or do saber conversions at this time.