HeyRPF,
Edit: SOLVED, it's an early Jeff Parks saber. Looks like I was lied to directly. Still, a it was a fun story while it lasted. Thanks everyone
Here's a random thing I've had about 5 years now. This was sold to me as a Bob Anderson ROTJ Production made stunt lightsaber. I didn't believe it at the time, and I still don't but below is the story of why I bought it.
I met a chap online who was in the process of selling off his possessions and moving into a hospice, he had a load of old interesting collectables and prop replicas so I asked him what else he had that he wanted rid of and he told me he had a stunt saber from ROTJ. He told me his uncle worked on the production and gave him this lightsaber when he was a boy and which he'd had for 30 years at that point. I took one look at it and decided it was probably a load of rubbish, but I didn't want to ruin this mans memory of his cherished item so I asked him how much he wanted for it and pretended to be very excited. I bought it for an entirely inconsequential (to me at the time) amount and it's sat in my workshop ever since, along with a signed letter the guy wrote about it. It's my assumption that the real story is that his Uncle took a metal pipe and stuck some bits on the end to make him feel like he had a real prop lightsaber.
I spotted it the other day and thought lets all have a look and see if we can definitely prove his uncle lied to him. Obviously it's got a million things wrong with it, but what I'm aiming to find is a found part that didn't exist until the 90s or something like that, that proves definitively it could not have been made by the production. Any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks for reading!
Mike
Edit: SOLVED, it's an early Jeff Parks saber. Looks like I was lied to directly. Still, a it was a fun story while it lasted. Thanks everyone
Here's a random thing I've had about 5 years now. This was sold to me as a Bob Anderson ROTJ Production made stunt lightsaber. I didn't believe it at the time, and I still don't but below is the story of why I bought it.
I met a chap online who was in the process of selling off his possessions and moving into a hospice, he had a load of old interesting collectables and prop replicas so I asked him what else he had that he wanted rid of and he told me he had a stunt saber from ROTJ. He told me his uncle worked on the production and gave him this lightsaber when he was a boy and which he'd had for 30 years at that point. I took one look at it and decided it was probably a load of rubbish, but I didn't want to ruin this mans memory of his cherished item so I asked him how much he wanted for it and pretended to be very excited. I bought it for an entirely inconsequential (to me at the time) amount and it's sat in my workshop ever since, along with a signed letter the guy wrote about it. It's my assumption that the real story is that his Uncle took a metal pipe and stuck some bits on the end to make him feel like he had a real prop lightsaber.
I spotted it the other day and thought lets all have a look and see if we can definitely prove his uncle lied to him. Obviously it's got a million things wrong with it, but what I'm aiming to find is a found part that didn't exist until the 90s or something like that, that proves definitively it could not have been made by the production. Any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks for reading!
Mike
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