Hey everyone.
So for some time now. I've been one of those who contend that the OWK ANH lightsaber prop used in the Tunisia shoot was an entirely different prop then the one that was used in the Death Star scenes (often refereed to as the Chronicles Saber).
Here's a side by side comparison.
Chronicles/Death Star
Tunisia
Now first off we have the different assembly:
Chronicles v Tunisia Cubes flipped differently
Chronicles has cotter pin, Tunisia no cotter pin
Chronicles has screws in clamp, Tunisia has no screws in clamp
Chronicles has one transistor washer, Tunisia has no transistor washer
Chronicles windvaine sits high, close the the emitter; Tunisia windvaine sits low, close to the frag body
Chronicles brass stem is bright and gold near the emitter, Tunisia brass stem is dark consistently
So if they were the same prop, this would mean that the saber was completely disassembled and then reassembled at some point during filming.
But when I look look at the individual parts. I also see some major differences.
The most noticeable to me is the frag body. To me the frag bodies look completely different.
On the Chronicles saber, the top most ring on the frag body (towards the emitter) is entirely unseraded and has a very steep slope (so much so that when Serafino replicated this design for Russ's grenades the slope he came up with was more steep then any real grenade that has ever surfaced.
On the Tunisia saber. This top ring, to my eye almost has no slope. and it also looks like the bisecting groove of at lease one of the frag body grooves continues to the edge of the frag body.
Now almost all frag bodies that I have seen (and I've seen a lot and owned 5) have a steeper slope then what I see in the Tunisia pic.
But a while back, at the Imperial War Museum, I came across this weird version of the Hales Grenade. Which had me wondering if the Tunisia saber had a grenade that was something like this.
So, I'm throwing this out for discussion.
What do you guys see here. Two sabers or one. Normal grenade or weirdo slopeless frag body grenade
So for some time now. I've been one of those who contend that the OWK ANH lightsaber prop used in the Tunisia shoot was an entirely different prop then the one that was used in the Death Star scenes (often refereed to as the Chronicles Saber).
Here's a side by side comparison.
Chronicles/Death Star
Tunisia
Now first off we have the different assembly:
Chronicles v Tunisia Cubes flipped differently
Chronicles has cotter pin, Tunisia no cotter pin
Chronicles has screws in clamp, Tunisia has no screws in clamp
Chronicles has one transistor washer, Tunisia has no transistor washer
Chronicles windvaine sits high, close the the emitter; Tunisia windvaine sits low, close to the frag body
Chronicles brass stem is bright and gold near the emitter, Tunisia brass stem is dark consistently
So if they were the same prop, this would mean that the saber was completely disassembled and then reassembled at some point during filming.
But when I look look at the individual parts. I also see some major differences.
The most noticeable to me is the frag body. To me the frag bodies look completely different.
On the Chronicles saber, the top most ring on the frag body (towards the emitter) is entirely unseraded and has a very steep slope (so much so that when Serafino replicated this design for Russ's grenades the slope he came up with was more steep then any real grenade that has ever surfaced.
On the Tunisia saber. This top ring, to my eye almost has no slope. and it also looks like the bisecting groove of at lease one of the frag body grooves continues to the edge of the frag body.
Now almost all frag bodies that I have seen (and I've seen a lot and owned 5) have a steeper slope then what I see in the Tunisia pic.
But a while back, at the Imperial War Museum, I came across this weird version of the Hales Grenade. Which had me wondering if the Tunisia saber had a grenade that was something like this.
So, I'm throwing this out for discussion.
What do you guys see here. Two sabers or one. Normal grenade or weirdo slopeless frag body grenade
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