OT Star Wars ESB and ROTJ stunt saber question
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Marcus is right, those threads and maybe a couple more explain it all when it comes to material. Carbon rods, graphite rods, etc.
The only thing I'm still baffled over is how they were anchored into flassh guns and tubes. if there was a screw where? and that surely couldn't have been enough of an anchor to fence with - still not much info on that.
The only thing I'm still baffled over is how they were anchored into flassh guns and tubes. if there was a screw where? and that surely couldn't have been enough of an anchor to fence with - still not much info on that.
well i was looking at a front pic of the vader ROTJ saber you know that pic looking down in the emitter looks like maybe the flash tubes were gutted out then epoxied the blade or the tube that holds the blade in there. cant find the pic but please feel free to post if anyone finds it.
what do you guys think?
what do you guys think?
Come to think of it maybe the blade stub coming out of the rotj vader saber was part of the blade rigging system? Maybe blades were slipped onto a metal rod and secured TPM and AOTC style. the stub in the vader saber is metal (you can see the rusting on the end where it was cut off ) it would make some sense even on some of the luke ROTJ sabers with the nipple possibly being used in that same manor. even the V2... if you see that photo of mark hamil resting his head on the pommel of one of the bladed sail barge stunts it looks possible. it even looks like theres even some tape on the base of the blade
thoughts??
thoughts??
My thoughts are that the rotj Luke blades slid into that nipple. There was probably a screw in the nipple that ran through the stunt blade
Interesting thought on the flash guns though. The ROTJ vader had no threading, so I'm not sure how a rod would slide on and stay mechanically.
You're right though, most likely there was some kind of system in which the prop dept. converted the flash guns, that was useable with all stunt blades (whether or not the blades went in, or over an embedded threaded rod)
