Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill, 44, of Flint, Mich., spends his days carefully re-creating lightsabers using electrical equipment, metal parts, stones, crystals and other odds and ends scattered around a workshop he keeps crammed with boxes, tools and oddities. The lightsabers are in different styles, but most are metal cylinders cut in different styles with knobs, switches and other decorative additions.
Lightsaber maker
Handcrafted lightsabers sit on Adam Churchill's desk in the garage he calls his "lab" in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. Churchill, 44, spends his days carefully re-creating lightsabers using electrical equipment, metal parts, stones, crystals and other odds and ends scattered around a workshop he keeps crammed with boxes, tools and oddities. The lightsabers are in different styles, but most are metal cylinders cut in different styles with knobs, switches and other decorative additions. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill's paper model of the The Millennium Falcon hangs from the rearview mirror of his SUV in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill stands in the garage he calls his "lab" wearing a hand made mask and with a lightsaber he created hanging from his belt in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
X-ray scans hang in front of a window in Adam Churchill's garage he calls his "lab" where he makes a variety of creations ranging from lightsabers to masks and a glowing glass orb he calls "The Time Machine" in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill's creation he calls "The Time Machine" sits dismantled on a table in his garage in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill's creation he calls "The Time Machine" sits on a table in his garage in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill stands in the garage he calls his "lab" wearing a decorated pair of magnifying glasses he created for doing small-scale fixes on a variety of creations ranging from lightsabers to wood carvings and electrical devices in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill sits in the garage he calls his "lab" wearing a decorated pair of magnifying glasses he created for doing small-scale fixes on a variety of creations ranging from lightsabers to wood carvings and electrical devices in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Hand made glasses sit on a table in the garage that Adam Churchill calls his "lab" in Flint, Mich. on Friday July 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill holds a tiny metal sword that he made in the garage that he calls his "lab" in Flint, Mich. on June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
A tray full of building materials for lightsabers sits in Adam Churchill's garage which he calls his "lab" in Flint, Mich. on Friday June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
A fake human head hangs next to a guitar on the wall of Adam Churchill's garage which he calls his "lab" in Flint, Mich. on Friday July 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)
Lightsaber maker
Adam Churchill's garage, which he now calls his "lab", at one point served as a custom bike shop but has since morphed into the place where he hand crafts a variety of creations, mostly with found materials, from lightsabers and electronics to wood carvings and masks in Flint, Mich. on Friday July 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Flint Journal, Griffin Moores)