How to Wear Your Lightsaber: D-Ring vs Covertec Wheel

Wearing Your Lightsaber

The Covertec wheel and D-ring are the two primary methods you would use to wear your lightsaber hilt on your belt. Which method is better? That depends on what you’re looking for. A little backstory, the D-ring is what was used during the filming of the Original Trilogy. The actor would attach the lightsaber’s D-ring … Read more

How to Install a Covertec Wheel Using a Lightsaber Blade Retention Screw Hole

Covertec wheel in a blade retention screw hole

Let’s say one day you decide you want to wear your lightsaber hilt, but unfortunately the model that you purchased doesn’t have the hole near the bottom of the hilt for you to install a Covertec wheel. You do have at least one alternative if you either don’t have the tools to drill and tap … Read more

Covertec Clip Introduction: Wearing Your Lightsaber Hilt

The covertec clip is a simple, inexpensive and popular device for wearing a lightsaber hilt. Let’s take look at how a covertec clip and covertec wheel work and how they allow you to wear your lightsaber. A covertec wheel–which is also sometimes called covertec knob, is a small, flat cylindrical disc that attaches to your … Read more