Our Story
About the Company
Smuggler’s Den is your one stop shop for quality '“Do it yourself” cosplay and display props and accessories. We offer everything from Lightsabers, to Vibroknives, to armor parts, and eventually blasters and other great items! All of our products are printed with durable, high quality PLA 2 and are dialed in to provide fantastic print quality to help reduce a lot of your clean up and prep work that you would normally have with other 3D printed products. We focus on bringing you quality props and items, so that you can get what you want without breaking the bank by spending hundreds of dollars on a single item, such as a lightsaber! Customer service is also very important to us, so please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have, before, or after making a purchase with us! Feel free to use the email address listed in the contact us page, but for faster responses, we recommend you head over to our Facebook page and send us a message through messenger!
We are proud to be partnered with some amazing companies run by some truly wonderful people! Gary and Vee over at Ripper Blades have been influential in our start up and are kind of like the Mom and Dad of the Saber Community! They offer some amazing products like the Current Run of Neopixel Darksaber Blades!! And look out for some future collaborations with them on some Katana Hilt and blade combos, and medieval hilt and blade combos! Van and Chris over at Kyber Cave in California is our other partner that we are proud to work with, great guys that offer a place for you to learn and practice sparring for TSL at their storefront where they sell a lot of great products, including some of ours! And if you are in need of an electronics install, they are the place to go!
A Word From the Designers
Ben Tutera
Hello, I am the owner and lead designer at Smuggler’s Den. My passion for Star Wars started at a young age when the Prequel trilogy first came out. That passion grew more with watching the original trilogy and then the Clone Wars television show. Wanting to start a lightsaber collection of my own (much like General Grevious) I set out doing research into the prices for a sabers, especially a custom sabers. Finding that they are generally hundreds of dollars for an empty hilt, I decided to make my own, and Smuggler’s Den was born! I utilize 3-D modeling software to create lightsabers and other props to sell on the site, and everything you see was modeled by myself! My goal is to bring great looking props to people who don’t want to spend a small fortune on starting a collection and strive to make great looking designs that use interchangeable parts so that you can get exactly what you want!
One of my favorite characters from canon content is Darth Maul, which is why you can find all three variants of Darth Maul’s Lightsabers, that Maul has possessed throughout the Star Wars timeline. My favorite Non-canon character is Revan leading to the creation of three different Revan Hilts also offered in the shop! Branching off from force wielders I have always had a love for Mandalorians (starting with Boba and Jango) and I am working hard, to bring you items related to the most dangerous warriors in the Galaxy! THIS IS THE WAY!!
