Yoda Saber - real praco build - DONE!

Re: Yoda Saber WIP - real praco build

DONE! Completed the build up today. I am still going to weather it up just a bit, planning to add some MIG pigments for some dust FX and that should just about do it. This has been a really fun and reletively easy build but one that has taken me over two years. I attached the activator switch and actually had to add a bit of filler because there were some gaps, then i painted the clamp and switch with tamiya semi-gloss out of the rattle can. the grips were attached using double stick tape just as on the original.

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My yoda saber has just been hanging out on my desk and i decided to do a quick base for it similar in idea to my other sabers in a vertical presentation. I used a 5/4" thick piece of walnut and added a MR style plaque by my man @Pastorjedi who has done the plaques for all my star wars props, they are perfect. i used a piece of 3/16" wood dowel and threaded it up into the praco saber body by about 3/4", it was a very tight fit and twisting it in actually threaded the dowel so it is a very sturdy connection. I then drilled into the walnut by 1" for the dowle to sit in and added a thin piece of rubber as a spacer so that there is a small reveal at the bottom of the saber which floats off the wood by about a 1/16". The nice thing is because the dowel is not glued in, i can turn the saber and remove it if anyone wants to handle it. Thats it, yoda project officially done.


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I've had over 20 sabers in my collection at point and never had a Yoda (Believe it or not) but if and "when" I do I will try to go this route good info on here
 
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