That is my belief
Halliwax's weird V3 theory
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That is my belief
I personally think it's the V2. If it was used as a hammer, the nail marks on the pommel's butt would be evidence of that.
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jorged123
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Tom, what gold paint brand did you use to get that warmer, redder gold tone to your V3 style stunt? I got a rattle-can gold from Krylon called gold leaf coming in and I'd like to get your thoughts on it once I do a test coat. Is that hilt a starkiller with a Roman clamp? I think I'm gonna keep my custom V3 emitter mostly shiny.I got the clamp on v3 style! Drilled out the sidebar amid other modifications.... and made a blade
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This is a small one time batch that vadermania did while making his own motorized stunt - so its a scan of the real metal buck
He told me he actually used a nail polish, not sure what kind but yea i agree its stunning!
My own eyes see something more inbetween rattle can antique gold and this so ive been thinking about changing the color
jorged123
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Wow! That's the one Halliwax put in a "casket"-clean. I'll PM you the color once I get a chance to try it out. Wish I could've gotten one-oh well.
Here's the Krylon sku:
To add to this one
Here are some screencaps off my macbook from the newest video. I want to now vote NO on the gaff taped booster question
Click on them to make them larger - the color does fluctuate but you can't make a dark color appear a different bright shade this easily, so I tend to take the brightest color as a closer baseline
Here are some screencaps off my macbook from the newest video. I want to now vote NO on the gaff taped booster question
Click on them to make them larger - the color does fluctuate but you can't make a dark color appear a different bright shade this easily, so I tend to take the brightest color as a closer baseline
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The last few screengrabs show the collar fairly well, I think. The bright sheen on the collar is definitely not the same as the battered grey fencing blade.
Mouse Vader
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thd9791 Good capture of the blades flexing that I was talking about on the other thread.
Hard for me to call the collar on Mark's blade, certainly looks to be a diff colour/texture in that area but it's still too grainy for me. But here's a good clear picture (at last) of a collar on the blade of the old ex-motor graffy stunt.
Hard for me to call the collar on Mark's blade, certainly looks to be a diff colour/texture in that area but it's still too grainy for me. But here's a good clear picture (at last) of a collar on the blade of the old ex-motor graffy stunt.
LOM
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cdyoung I felt I was getting quite a bit off topic from OT stunt blades as well.. Good call on suggesting a move to here as this is more about the V3 specifically and less so about blades ha.
Note: this is a redirection of the conversation in the past 2 pages here - The OT stunt lightsaber blades research thread
First - thd9791:
For sure the emitter today is real ugly!
This is all just a theory but,
I believe during ANH production the clamp section and booster got machined on the V3 mostly, but the exterior rings up are more or less left alone. I think we see paint stuck in the V3 seem line in the footage from ESB BTS - which I take as the rings have not been sanded flush together completely unlike today (maybe Bies did it?). The lower neck does not seem all that cleaned up to me either as you can see grain today too.
One possibility is that because the emitter was cast separately, maybe the machinist on the lathe at that time didn't bother to do anything besides boring it out?
Alternatively, it's possible that the gunk on it today is a mix of original aluminum flashing and some kind of attempted repair when it broke (spot weld, solder, or glue?) as some parts of it look like they are beading to me.
I also think the joint there is rather odd, it doesn't match any casting deformities on the other blanks we've seen (though our sample size is quite small lol)
*side note: I see even more black paint under the copper too!
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Regarding the actual emitter dimensions - thd put it well, the difference would be due to the the emitter of the V2 being turned down more than the V3 (or possibly machined from aluminum stock - I don't know). I'd like to think I have a pretty go idea of the V3 emitter dimensions from my modelling, but trying to apply that to those 2 pics is probably not going to work. There's just not enough pixels on them to get an accurate size.
But this pic is totally the V2 to me:
This one.. not sure what this is still.
Doh, I just realized it can't be the V3 at least looking at the pommel! If it was, the hole for the wire would be facing us based on the D-ring placement!
Note: this is a redirection of the conversation in the past 2 pages here - The OT stunt lightsaber blades research thread
First - thd9791:
For sure the emitter today is real ugly!
This is all just a theory but,
I believe during ANH production the clamp section and booster got machined on the V3 mostly, but the exterior rings up are more or less left alone. I think we see paint stuck in the V3 seem line in the footage from ESB BTS - which I take as the rings have not been sanded flush together completely unlike today (maybe Bies did it?). The lower neck does not seem all that cleaned up to me either as you can see grain today too.
One possibility is that because the emitter was cast separately, maybe the machinist on the lathe at that time didn't bother to do anything besides boring it out?
Alternatively, it's possible that the gunk on it today is a mix of original aluminum flashing and some kind of attempted repair when it broke (spot weld, solder, or glue?) as some parts of it look like they are beading to me.
I also think the joint there is rather odd, it doesn't match any casting deformities on the other blanks we've seen (though our sample size is quite small lol)
*side note: I see even more black paint under the copper too!
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Regarding the actual emitter dimensions - thd put it well, the difference would be due to the the emitter of the V2 being turned down more than the V3 (or possibly machined from aluminum stock - I don't know). I'd like to think I have a pretty go idea of the V3 emitter dimensions from my modelling, but trying to apply that to those 2 pics is probably not going to work. There's just not enough pixels on them to get an accurate size.
But this pic is totally the V2 to me:
This one.. not sure what this is still.
Doh, I just realized it can't be the V3 at least looking at the pommel! If it was, the hole for the wire would be facing us based on the D-ring placement!
In that last shot you can see Black and gold paint leftover on the windvane
Hey there are no exposed set screw holes in the emitter hole. So, there was no nipple to pinch in there, and the adapter must have been bigger... just sat in there snug, set screws attached to the tang.... wait that's not deep enough for a good durable blade I don't think?
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