Could it have been a custom machined piece? What's to say that it was a found article? I'm not trying to dredge up old arguments again, but considering there aren't any good pics of it, it literally could be anything.
We all want it to be some obscure tchotchke, but as you say it could very well be a custom machined piece. By all means dredge away on the old debates, it’s kinda why I started this thread, to get the old debates in front of new eyes and have some picture links that might stick around for posterity.Could it have been a custom machined piece? What's to say that it was a found article? I'm not trying to dredge up old arguments again, but considering there aren't any good pics of it, it literally could be anything.
Glue?
Also, I want to add, it looks like something is wrong with the graflex sidebar. It's jutting out on the grenade side, and the lever hinge hole looks a little chewed up.
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Oh, yea sorry, the hole in the sidebar where the lever is inserted. It’s a little chewed up. We also see this on the V3. (And no, there are too many holes in this tarnished clamp for it to be the tarnished v3 clamp lol I ran to me image folders when I noticed the levers are damaged the same way)I never noticed that before about the sidebar not being properly seated on the end closest to the grenade, so thanks for pointing that out.
What are you calling the "lever hinge hole"? You can see that the end of the hinge pin is the "hammered" style that is commonly found on "early Folmer" models of Graflex flashes. I suspect that is what you are seeing.
One other small detail of note here is that the "square washer" that is normally found behind the lever on Graflex flashes is missing on this prop.
Quoted from @DaveP’s Obi parts run thread.So I’m a youngster compared to a lot of the people on here, and while I’ve read thousands of pages of threads to catch up on some of these props it’s impossible for me to always find the Genesis of some information.
Can someone point me toward where the info about the Ben hero coming from Bapty originated? I’ve never seen someone give concrete evidence that that is the case, but I might just be coming late to something that everyone else sees as set in stone and not worth rehashing.
Quoted from @DaveP’s Obi parts run thread.
The Bapty connection gained a bit of traction when a photo was published in a book about George Lucas which showed a rifle grenade with a tag bearing the letters BAP plus some numbers.
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This has been discussed in the Tunisia thread and I believe the ultimate guide to sabers thread.
Sorry for continuing to try to shift the discussion over to this thread, it’s not anything to do with vanity. I’d like to consolidate the info to make it easier to find, and make things easier on DaveP not having to sift through questions non specific to his run.
Honestly, I would tend to agree with you. At least that there seems to be an awful lot of modifying going on for all the parts to have come from Bapty.I think the Bapty theory also comes up when people begin to wonder why this saber apparently disappeared after production for ANH, never to be seen again. I don’t think people are saying that every part came from Bapty - just that some of the parts were rented from somewhere and needed to be returned after production, so the saber needed to be disassembled. Seems like a theory based on not a lot of hard evidence. Why would they (apparently) braze or glue parts together that needed to be disassembled later? Privately, I fantasize that this saber is still out there in someone’s private collection, but there is absolutely no evidence to support that fantasy.
There‘s also the fact that Bapty would have nothing to do with aircraft scrap (emitter) or tap handwheels (pommel). The booster comes from a variant of the machine gun flown on aircraft, possibly picked up at the same military scrap yard as the balance pipe interconnect (emitter). These are the directions that my logic leads.Honestly, I would tend to agree with you. At least that there seems to be an awful lot of modifying going on for all the parts to have come from Bapty.