help ID this half-Maul sabre

[jediscout]

Just picked this up from Wuher--and now that I have it, it's a mystery to me. Wuher thought it was an old RE, but Roman's work was always 'crisp' for lack of a better word--this one has obvious machine marks all over, a rounded emitter plate, oversized rectangles next to red LEDs, black hex screws--just odd--and not up to RE's sharp work.

Is this an early Pienta? There are tons of tells that should be easy for someone here to ID:

plastic insert in emitter neck:

 

[wuher da brewer]

I wish I knew more about it. I always liked the cut end. It think it's far more interesting than the red plastic crystal Master Replicas used.

 

[jediscout]

Although it looks a little like a Zenkai I have--mine's much cleaner/crisper. It does have black hex screws--but other details are so much more loose on the half maul I'm trying to ID. I'm confident it's NOT a Zenkai.

 

[Bowelrock]

im thinking jedi135 or Romans

 

[jediscout]

im thinking jedi135 or Romans

Tim: that's a real possibility. Actually, the 'guts' of the thing is what's making me think Jedi 135. I remember seeing something like this years ago--before the MR battle damaged Maul. And I think it was back when Tim was still part of the old RPF. And he was the 1st guy to do a battle damaged Maul, wasn't he? I wish my old images weren't stuck in my ancient, dead computer.

 

[jediscout]

The more I think about it, the more details I'm remembering about either this sabre, or one very similar to it. I had pictures at one time, years ago, of a very similar build to this one--if not this one itself. But I never had one of the earliest half-Mauls, so anyone from back in the day who did--I could really use your help here. I'd love to think it's one of Tim's--but what I'd like more is the certainty of knowing.

 

[Romans Empire]

Definitely not mine, but it looks as though they may have upgraded the red knob with one of mine.

On the other hand, I'm tempted to say it's a Jedi135 because of the silver knob. Those are the same kind he used around the time I met Hez at a sci-fi convention in Dallas. Other than that this version does not look familiar in any way.

 

[CeSquared]

I've never seen an emitter like that before.

Lemme look through some old photos. I'm pretty sure I have pictures of Tim's.

Though also tempted to say Tim since the emitter is clearly made to hold a blade and he was one of the first to do that.

 

[wuher da brewer]

I was kind of hoping the mystery would be resolved.