This may be the most important how-to you read all week -- more important than instructions on how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey, or repair a string of broken Christmas lights. It's how how create a pair of ludicrously large, and surprisingly durable, lightsabers, for holiday lawn ornaments or for equally ludicrous Jedi battles.

Bob Clagett walks through the relatively simple (and inexpensive) process in this step-by-step video, concluding, "Are they totally ridiculous? Yes! Are they unnecessary? Yes, but when I was making them in the shop, I was just giggling to myself the entire time. I felt like a little kid. It was great."

(via Neatorama)