At first glance the stunt lightsaber looks like a Graflex 3-cell camera flash. However only the clamp and red button from a Graflex flash were used. The main body of the lightsaber is a metal tube with a curved cut top made to look like the flash. The red button was not the more common style seen on all the other Skywalker lightsabers, but a variation with only a thin band of straight knurling seen on earlier Graflexes. The glass eye of a Graflex also appears to have been used though the limited reference available is not completely clear.

In the middle of the saber hilt is the mounting clamp that attached the Graflex flashgun to a camera. Slid into this clamp is a Light Emitting Diode display bubble type lens from a vintage calculator. These lenses are 2 inch long clear strips with a row of convex lenses referred to as "bubbles" to magnify the glowing red LED numbers. The lenses used on the lightsaber props had seven bubbles. Very few calculators have 7 bubble lenses so far only two models are known, the Exactra 19 and the Exactra 20. These were introduced by Texas Instruments in 1974 and are referred to as 6 digit displays (only six of the spaces are used for numbers, the leftmost is for modifiers like a negative sign).

Seven 3 5/8" long black rubber handgrips were added to the bottom half of the lightsaber. Obviously from the photo at top one grip fell off at some point. The photo is pre-production so the missing grip was likely replaced for filming. The exact identity of the grip material has yet to be determined, but recent revelations suggest stamped metal T-track from old cupboards with sliding doors. The grips in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are rubber or plastic and could be newer style T-track or reproductions of the original ANH grips.

There is apparently no D-ring bracket since it never had to hang from a belt.