ESB Vader MPP grip placement?

[jason1976]

I used the template on TPOSW and it worked beautifully. (spacing wize that is.) I got my grips on my saber, and was pretty happy to have it just about done.

Then I saw some other replicas of that saber, and the grips are rotated from where I have them.

All the pics I can find, are of the side of the saber, I need pics of Vader's whole ESB saber that point straight at the calc strip, and/or the bulb release. (for placement purposes.) I don't care if it's a replica or the real deal, I just need to see if I need to move my grips.

Thanks.
Jason

 

[Sporak]

If you were looking at mine, I just placed them where I thought they looked good...I didn't use a reference really.
If I was to do them again, I'd use the guides on POSW.

I used the template on TPOSW and it worked beautifully. (spacing wize that is.) I got my grips on my saber, and was pretty happy to have it just about done.

Then I saw some other replicas of that saber, and the grips are rotated from where I have them.

All the pics I can find, are of the side of the saber, I need pics of Vader's whole ESB saber that point straight at the calc strip, and/or the bulb release. (for placement purposes.) I don't care if it's a replica or the real deal, I just need to see if I need to move my grips.

Thanks.
Jason

 

[jason1976]

The one I based mine on (I think) was the same person that did the hardware ROTJ Vader saber tutorial.(It's been a wile, so I could be wrong about who the pics, I have, belong to.) Which, his (and now mine) has one grip lined up with the calc strip, and then spaced equally around the saber from there. (If that makes since.) However, a number of the replicas I've seen pics of since I did mine, look like the grips fall on either side of the calc strip. (if that makes any since.) Though, all the pics I can find are of the side, and at weird angles, so I can't really tell for sure.

I actually think I like it best the way I already have it, but if it's way off, I would like to fix it.