How to make a lightsaber cake knife for your Star Wars wedding #Food DIY#cake#star wars#tutorial April 20 2011 | Megan Finley Horowitz meggyfin Luke, of Muppet wedding fame, did all of us (plus the entire internets?) a favor by giving us a tutorial on how he made his amazing lightsaber cake cutter. Here is the four-step hack for turning a Crate & Barrel cake knife into a lightsaber cake knife. (Many thanks to Laura from Rebel Belle Weddings, official Friend of the Empire, for hooking us up with the details on this one!) photo by Megan Finley The cake cutter was totally easy. (If it weren't I would not have been able to handle it.) Here's how: Step 1: Buy a Master Replicas .45 Scale Mini Lightsaber. I'm sure any would work, but I found that the diagonal lip of the Anakin or Episode IV Luke sabers worked particularly well for the gluing. Anakin lightsaber. Step 2: Buy a Crate and Barrel cake cutting set. Step 3: Hacksaw the handle off the cake cutter. This takes a little elbow grease. Step 4: Epoxy the blade to the tip of the saber. Again, the more recessed the saber tip style, the easier to glue, and more sturdy the final cutter. That's it! The cake knife in action on their Hoth wedding cake. Photo by Megan Finley Related Post 3 ways to hack your IKEA cake server I picked up this set of plain, white, plastic cake servers at IKEA for right.99. I cut my cake with these bad jacksons and all... Read more More nerdy Star Wars wedding fun: To see more from the wedding that birthed the lightsaber cake knife, head over here. Speaking of Star Wars-themed cakes: Han Solo frozen in (carbon)icing!? What do sentient fur-covered bipeds, native to the moon of Endor, have to do with weddings? These Ewok invitations! You can't deny that The Force is strong with this wedding. Or would you rather just see all our Star Wars weddings? Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Megan Finley Horowitz When Megan's not writing, traveling, and sleeping, she's eating like the fate of the world depends on it. (You're welcome, world!) You can snoop into her personal life over on her website The Dash and Dine! @meggyfin @thedashanddine @meggyfin PREVIOUS Bekka & Matt's über DIY wedding at home NEXT Bich & Justin's culture-mixing Mad Hatter wedding Show/Hide comments [ 20 ] This is Great. Stunning! Reply Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! I want one! Reply This is SO awesome. I was just thinking I want to see more Megan Finley weddings! and then I popped over to your blog and saw how many I had missed. How did that happen!?!? So many awesome weddings. Reply Why didn't I think of this. 🙂 Great idea!!! Love it! Reply Thinkgeek just linked to this post on their Facebook page! I'm always so happy when my ThinkGeek and Offbeat Bride worlds collide! Reply I saw this and immediately went and bought .45 scale lightsabers and am in the middle of making my own, but I'm changing the handle on both the cutter and server. Reply AWESOME! You MUST share photos when you're finished! Reply AHH!!! SO awesome!!! Reply If only there was a way to make it light up. Reply yeah, i'm stealing this for my wedding, haha super awesome!!! Reply Definitely want to do this! (but with both the knife AND server) but with the less-expensive Anakin ones. I think getting it to light up would be awesome, maybe some LED light work somehow? Reply It seems that the cake server set is no longer available… has anyone found an alternative that matches the dimensions closely enough? Reply I just made one with the mini Darth light saber from ep IV and a random cheap cake cutting set from Amazon. It had a clear "crystal" handle, and was around $8. I cut through the metal connector bit for the handle, and the part of the knife that extends off the blade into the handle was still intact. I was able to use metal snips to actually get it to the exact depth of the empty space at the top of the light saber. It looks great and is really stable. I did have to use some stuff to prop up the blade while the epoxy was drying, to make sure it stayed where I needed it too. Reply Do you have to use the Crate and Barrel cake cutting set? Reply Can this be any Crate and Barrel set? I have a set from Crate and Barrell and the lightsaber and I'm ready to put it all together but I'm just not sure if the knife part will be small or round enough. It seems like it might be pretty close though so maybe I'll just have to wait and see when I take the hacksaw to it! Reply Where did you guys buy the replicas?they are so expensive!!! Reply I got my lightsaber on ebay for a lot cheaper than on amazon. Amazon listed a cheap crystal handled serving set that they claim are frequently bought together but the knife handle seems to be a good bit bigger than the section you would attach it to on the lightsaber handle. Any ideas as I cannot seem to find to Crate & Barrel set that was originally linked to. Reply I purchased the lightsaber (Anakin) from Ebay for about $25, and then bought the "Darice 35745, Knife and Server Set, Faux Crystal" on Amazon for about $5. That knife was suggested by Amazon as being frequently purchased with the mini lightsaber replica, but it is too big! The diameter of the base of the knife is larger than the lightsaber notch. If anyone has found a knife set that works (the Crate and Barrel one is discontinued), I'd really appreciate suggestions! Reply I had the same problem Joleen. I ended up cutting the handle off like the guide says but then i cut off the chrome ring at the base of the blade, sanded down the plastic under that to the point at which it would fit and then painted it to match the saber hilt. Not sure why Amazon is recommending that cake set unless EVERY single person is modifying it like i did. Reply There has to be a way to rig a laser pointer in something like this so the beam of the laser reflects along the blade of the knife. Reply Join the conversation Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Sign me up for your offbeat awesomeness newsletter! No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy. 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This is SO awesome. I was just thinking I want to see more Megan Finley weddings! and then I popped over to your blog and saw how many I had missed. How did that happen!?!? So many awesome weddings. Reply
Thinkgeek just linked to this post on their Facebook page! I'm always so happy when my ThinkGeek and Offbeat Bride worlds collide! Reply
I saw this and immediately went and bought .45 scale lightsabers and am in the middle of making my own, but I'm changing the handle on both the cutter and server. Reply
Definitely want to do this! (but with both the knife AND server) but with the less-expensive Anakin ones. I think getting it to light up would be awesome, maybe some LED light work somehow? Reply
It seems that the cake server set is no longer available… has anyone found an alternative that matches the dimensions closely enough? Reply
I just made one with the mini Darth light saber from ep IV and a random cheap cake cutting set from Amazon. It had a clear "crystal" handle, and was around $8. I cut through the metal connector bit for the handle, and the part of the knife that extends off the blade into the handle was still intact. I was able to use metal snips to actually get it to the exact depth of the empty space at the top of the light saber. It looks great and is really stable. I did have to use some stuff to prop up the blade while the epoxy was drying, to make sure it stayed where I needed it too. Reply
Can this be any Crate and Barrel set? I have a set from Crate and Barrell and the lightsaber and I'm ready to put it all together but I'm just not sure if the knife part will be small or round enough. It seems like it might be pretty close though so maybe I'll just have to wait and see when I take the hacksaw to it! Reply
I got my lightsaber on ebay for a lot cheaper than on amazon. Amazon listed a cheap crystal handled serving set that they claim are frequently bought together but the knife handle seems to be a good bit bigger than the section you would attach it to on the lightsaber handle. Any ideas as I cannot seem to find to Crate & Barrel set that was originally linked to. Reply
I purchased the lightsaber (Anakin) from Ebay for about $25, and then bought the "Darice 35745, Knife and Server Set, Faux Crystal" on Amazon for about $5. That knife was suggested by Amazon as being frequently purchased with the mini lightsaber replica, but it is too big! The diameter of the base of the knife is larger than the lightsaber notch. If anyone has found a knife set that works (the Crate and Barrel one is discontinued), I'd really appreciate suggestions! Reply
I had the same problem Joleen. I ended up cutting the handle off like the guide says but then i cut off the chrome ring at the base of the blade, sanded down the plastic under that to the point at which it would fit and then painted it to match the saber hilt. Not sure why Amazon is recommending that cake set unless EVERY single person is modifying it like i did. Reply
There has to be a way to rig a laser pointer in something like this so the beam of the laser reflects along the blade of the knife. Reply