Do we know who built Obi-Wan's saber?
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I can see why the angled top lip of the grenade would be stuck in the clamp when assembled backwards, it gives a more cylindrical shape to the lightsaber to have the sharp edged circle top instead of a faded/angled grenade top.
No worries. I took it the way you meant it. Totally on the same page.
And that is probably what they were going for but the threads sticking out most likely bugged them and definitely AG just like scarf man brought up.
Agreed, I was just thinking about the aesthetics of the prop, and the flipped grenade works kind of well if it weren’t for the exposed threads.
I think we posted simultaneously, and pretty much the same thing. Lol
Ha! Great minds right
You know what's super cool? I just took apart my Romans Empire Obi-Wan saber and just now discovered he threaded both ends of the grenade so you can assemble his replica either way.
That is nice, russrep’s grenade is the same in that regard, albeit wrong in the frag dimensions. I think serafino designed the “big bottom” of the russrep grenade that way as a means to an end with the empty clamp theory in mind.
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Because all Stunt Obi Saber wooden master was made with the angled grenade top in the correct-for-the-grenade orientation and all the Obi stunt casts have the same chamfered top ring I do think that is/was supposed to be the 'correct' set-up. I (personally) think the Tunsia configuration was either an early set-up or a mistake.
That makes a heap of sense logically.
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I wonder if the real prop's frag body could have had a stem in each end: one outside and one inside the clamp.
The bottom one could then have worked as an adaptor for a bolt inserted through the sink knob, I think.
Would a wind vane fit inside, or even supported the clamp?
The bottom one could then have worked as an adaptor for a bolt inserted through the sink knob, I think.
Would a wind vane fit inside, or even supported the clamp?
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The real grenades have the same thread on both ends too.
Easier tooling that way. Don’t have to change any tools or speeds on the lathe, just flip it around and thread it
I don’t think there is any reason for flipping the grenade besides the prop team taking it apart and not noticing there’s two different styles on the ends.
Starkiller has a old thread I read awhile ago where he goes into detail on this
He did some research and some hales have a flat top to it..
It was a good read. I still don’t believe that grenade is the flat top variant because the flat top the thread is flush inside.. when you flip a Obi grenade when you thread the windvane in, it stills out alittle
Just a Halliwax theory...
I just flipped my real frag body and it threads perfectly on romans fx spacer.
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Even if they did have one of these on the Tunisia saber, I'm inclined to believe that they still had the neck screwed in to the wrong end of the frag body (the red end in this painted example) in Tunisia. As pointed out earlier, when the neck is screwed in to the wrong end of the frag body, the neck won't go in deep enough to hide all of the threads; and there is photographic evidence that seems to show the Tunisia saber had extra threads showing around the base of the neck. Perhaps the prop makers had a grenade with a frag body like the one in this photo, took that one fully apart, and then accidentally re-assembled it the wrong way around, without realizing. (Having a frag body with two square ends would make that accident more likely to happen.)
Either way, I'm inclined to believe that they built more than one OWK saber, but maybe only one of the ones that they built was accidentally assembled with the neck on the wrong end of the grenade frag body. Perhaps when a prop manager was packing up props to bring to Tunisia, they thought to themselves, "We won't need any close-up shots for the OWK saber outdoors on Tatooine. Which of these multiple sabers should we bring to Tunisia? I know. I'll bring this one here - the one with a more square end on the frag body compared to the other(s) - because it looks worse than the other one(s). It has a few threads sticking out. I don't know why, but who cares? I'm not going to try to figure out why it looks different than the other ones. No one will notice. I'll save the better-looking one(s) for the indoor close-up shooting, when we return to England."
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And there is this. I wanted to bring this back up. Thank you for the pic. I was looking for it. It's a possibility but i do see the chamfer end in the clamp. I think the frag body was just flipped. Does it make sense? Maybe. We do see that they did not put the hand wheel back together in its tight fitting state. (Cubes flipped) in the chronicles. Why they did that i dont know. Not paying attention to how the hand wheel goes back together? maybe. Were they on drugs? Probably. Who knows what they were thinking.
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