This was a project I asked to build myself as a summer design and build project. I did a good amount of research on what I wanted to use as the crystal diffuser part of the staff, and eventually found an inexpensive fused rubber ball accent light. I didn't like the light emitter that came as part of the accent light, so I cut it out of the shell, leaving a hollow hemisphere.

I had some spare high power 4-color LEDs left over from our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and mounted one of them and it's resistors to an aluminum plate, and mounted that on a exterior solar powered path light, and attached the rubber diffuser on top of that.

I then got a long 1.5" thick dowel rod and used a Dremel tool to carve symbols into the entire length of the staff, and painted it to pick out the symbols.

To house the light source and attach it to the staff, I got a length of plumbing PVC pipe and a pipe connector and attached some pipe and it's connector to the staff. The other end I used a bandsaw to cut one end into strips, and used a heat gun to soften them, and bend them open. I covered the crystal with plastic, to protect it from paint when I would get to that step, later, mounted it into the staff with epoxy, and after it cured, I used the heat gun to soften the plastic strips and bent them into a cage around the light source.

Once the plastic had hardened, I painted the plastic, and then removed the plastic film around the light source. I then used twine soaked in glue to wrap around sections of the PVC pipe to hide the join between the pipe connection and the pipe. Once those had set I connected a 2-channel RC4 Wireless micro dimmer to the wires from the light source and tucked it high up in the pipe of the staff head. I then attached an 8 AA battery holder to the dimmer, and placed it in the staff head. This allowed my to use batteries small enough to tuck into the small space, as well as having a safe chemistry to be used pretty roughly by the performers. When the batteries needed to be removed between shows the staff head could be removed, and the battery holder extracted.