Have we confirmed the mystery screw hole on the emitter side
I don't want to post the photo because it belongs to Chaïm, however this being the same emitter as the hero, the mystery hole looks to be in the spot.i have been told by someone who's handled the prop it isn't a screw and is a chunk of metal jammed into the hole
totally wrong answer for the question LOL, BUT yes, the same guy who's handled it told me there is a hole under the emitter.
i like to call it the famous papa Japan Hole
Those aren't the words I'd use to describe him. Then again, I don't know him personally, so I avoid saying much about it at all.
I think it would be interesting to put SH's and AS's replicas next to the real deal - I feel there would be a lot of surprises. I have the SH replica, and I don't think it's especially accurate compared to AS's 2nd run, but a great effort based on the reference material at the time.
Going back a little bit in the thread, here's a potential little exercise... How many layers (winds) of gaffer's tape do people think are currently on the neck of the saber?
I don't want to post the photo because it belongs to Chaïm, however this being the same emitter as the hero, the mystery hole looks to be in the spot.
famous papa Japan Hole
the WHOLE top moves together. Those parts aren't separate, or rather... cannot be separated.
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There's no GOLD, but it's not just black
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Nope... it's gaffer tape. 100%
Correct. the 2nd screw IS there...
I know this girl who will do that, but she charges a lot
I don't want to post the photo because it belongs to Chaïm, however this being the same emitter as the hero, the mystery hole looks to be in the spot.
I'm sorry, do you mean the mystery chunk being the square set screw? Or is there another?
Do you agree the hole looks to be in the same spot?All pictures I have posted sofar are free to be used whenever appropriate because most of them are just collected from the interwebs by me ... even those photographs of details and usually accompanied by my name and © credited as my own are still available to all of being re-used as well
Chaïm
Here is my hero based off Chaim's photos.
Notice the hole is in the same area as the one in question.
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Do you agree the hole looks to be in the same spot?
It could just be the angle/quality of the photo, but I had always heard the top of the emitter was a steel washer and the emitter is hollow as it was milled out to add bearings. The washer on top of the hollow emitter head is why you don't see that outer-most flange on the wooden master buck or the metal copies from that mold.
This is why people think there is a recessed inner area on the face of the emitter. The entire face (the washer) was painted black for ANH but the washer is ever so slightly concave and the paint has worn away due to blade strikes in a circular pattern giving the illusion of a recess when it's really just slightly concave.
No idea if this is true, just something I heard many years ago.
http://media.fotki.com/1_p,rttfkbbs...tgdrkk/9/976173/4001324/27506298927936-vi.png
It could just be the angle/quality of the photo, but I had always heard the top of the emitter was a steel washer and the emitter is hollow as it was milled out to add bearings. The washer on top of the hollow emitter head is why you don't see that outer-most flange on the wooden master buck or the metal copies from that mold.
This is why people think there is a recessed inner area on the face of the emitter. The entire face (the washer) was painted black for ANH but the washer is ever so slightly concave and the paint has worn away due to blade strikes in a circular pattern giving the illusion of a recess when it's really just slightly concave.
No idea if this is true, just something I heard many years ago.
http://media.fotki.com/1_p,rttfkbbs...tgdrkk/9/976173/4001324/27506298927936-vi.png
It could just be the angle/quality of the photo, but I had always heard the top of the emitter was a steel washer and the emitter is hollow as it was milled out to add bearings. The washer on top of the hollow emitter head is why you don't see that outer-most flange on the wooden master buck or the metal copies from that mold.
This is why people think there is a recessed inner area on the face of the emitter. The entire face (the washer) was painted black for ANH but the washer is ever so slightly concave and the paint has worn away due to blade strikes in a circular pattern giving the illusion of a recess when it's really just slightly concave.
No idea if this is true, just something I heard many years ago.
http://media.fotki.com/1_p,rttfkbbs...tgdrkk/9/976173/4001324/27506298927936-vi.png
Looks like I was right about it being a square set screw in the pommel.
Do you mean that the width of the rectangle tapers down as the chunk goes into the hole?To add to this, it definitely looks is if the top of the chunk isn't the same diameter as the square, meaning it has been filed down or pushed farther in, if the theory is correct of just being a plug