 George Lucas decided he wanted to add a clip to the handle, so that Luke could hang it on his belt.Once Lucas felt the handle was up to his standards, it went to John Stears to create the wooden dowel rod with front-projection paint so that the animators would have a glow of light to enhance later on in post production.Due to lack of preparation time, Christian's prototype and a second spare were used for the shooting in Tunisia, where filming on "Star Wars" began.