ANH - ben saber - new pic in "Insider" #94

[adamata]

Well, its a new one to me. Look on page 59 of the new SW insider and you see a blown up pic of the stunt saber and Sir Alec. (i dont have a scan of it yet) Look at the booster. Its smooth.

Is this known? I have never seen this before.

Just throwing it out there.

 

[Spirit of ob1]

Well, its a new one to me. Look on page 59 of the new SW insider and you see a blown up pic of the stunt saber and Sir Alec. (i dont have a scan of it yet) Look at the booster. Its smooth.

Is this known? I have never seen this before.

Just throwing it out there.

Isnt the smooth version the stunt saber they used?

 

[lonepigeon]

Is this known? I have never seen this before.

Yep, That's the V2 before it became Luke's ROTJ V2.
That is a new pic though.

 

[franz bolo]

Can anyone post a hi-res picture of it??

FB

 

[franz bolo]

Not sure if this has been asked but can anyone post a hi-res picture of it?? :love

thanks

FB

 

[Probe Droid]

It's not one of these, is it? THey're from Rinzler's Making of book.

 

[rhboyd]

Here's the shot from the mag... there are a few more, but this is the biggest one...

 

[franz bolo]

Thanks! That's a close up of another photo that was in a book that I have. I can't remember which one.

FB

 

[phase pistol]

Is that orange thing the toggle switch for the spinny?

 

[franz bolo]

I always thought it was a push in switch. It does look like a toggle switch.

Has anyone ever diagrammed what the motor switch and blade would have looked like?

FB

 

[Serafino]

You know, I think they had a black stripe purposefully put on those blades to create a flickering effect. It's too thick to be just some artifact of wrapping on the reflective material, and too dense to be just a shadow--and you can see it in the movie.

I also continue to have trouble reconciling the claim that the rods were square in cross-section with the cylinder-style shadow that usually appears on the blade when any detail can be seen.

 

[thd9791]

Was this modified before becoming the V2? The neck looks awfully thin and delicate - the Sand Skiff lightsaber stunt's neck looks thinner than the V2. Not sure, The V2 always looked a lot heftier to me.

 

[scarf man]

Holy necropost! 2007? Thats got to be some kind of record.
Anyway, kidding aside...

The only mods I'm aware of are covering the holes left by the wires for the motor, and the button.

Keep in mind, Mark's hands were smaller than Sir Alec's.

 

[thd9791]

Hahaha, for some reason this was on the first page of topics, never looked at the date.

And - good point. I never thought of that. Odd though, I never see the "shared Stunt" as it's called in any of these old photographs. Only the V2 and something that looks like the Yuma saber with a nipple...

 

[scarf man]

The V2 and the shared stunt are dimensionally identical, accept for the emitter "nipple" on the V2. Both sabers were cast from the same mould for ANH, and reused as Luke stunt sabers in ROTJ.
The "Yuma stunt" saber has an emitter nipple and has nothing to do with ANH, and has similar dimensions to the ROTJ hero saber.

Then again you may be referring to the saber shot out of R2-D2's head when you say Yuma saber, but that is not the proper name for that saber. The Yuma stunt was on Luke's belt as he climbed up the side of the sail barge, and is different from the R2 fired saber.

 

[thd9791]

Ah sorry, miscommunication!

I was talking about the Bladed prop Mark Hamil used out in the desert, it has a nipple and a clean flat emitter plate. So does one of Alec Guinness' bladed props (the close up of his face with their blades clashing) The V2 had a blackened emitter, so I assumed these were not the same. I never saw the shared stunt (with no nipple) on screen?

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

Here's the shot from the mag... there are a few more, but this is the biggest one...

This pic isn't showing up. Can someone re-post it?

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

The "Yuma stunt" saber has an emitter nipple and has nothing to do with ANH, and has similar dimensions to the ROTJ hero saber.

The Yuma Stunt IS the Hero saber, It just had not yet been re-painted and re-fitted with the control box we all know and love.

 

[scarf man]

Well, there ya go folks. I defer to Dan's knowledge on the Yuma stunt/proto hero saber.
By the way back on topic

Thanks to Sym-Cha for reposting the pic in another thread.

 

[Sym-Cha]

Hi there,

We seem to have a very eager 'young' padawan learner in thd9791 ... good for you and keep it up,
I too am learning more and more about lightsabers by the day.

-Chaim