I think the canon answer is that between Empire and Jedi, Luke retired to Ben's hut on Tatooine and was instructed in the necessary skills by Ben's space-ghost thingy. He got the parts from the Mos Eisley branch of Radio Shack.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that a Jedi is expected to assemble the entire thing through the use of the force rather than messing around with screwdrivers and what not. That sounds pretty cool but must be a b*tch if you've got a hangover.

Well the things have been around for like 4000 years in the starwars universe. I would think the info would be online or in a libary some where. They are not top secret or anything.

The Will of the Force showed him the way.

What about the crystal, that's a rare part that he had to know where to go to get one...

Ebay.....

That was something else Ben had, a little specialized oven-thing that could bake a crystal.



The Jedi Master

I wonder if they had an easy bake oven version for the young padawan training?