Luke ANH Stunt Saber

[TheRealMcFly]

As Halloween approaches and my ANH Luke costume nears completion, I am left with what to do about the saber. Since I don't want to have a heavy graflex hanging from the belt, I might as well grab my Anakin ROTS FX for the night. I realize now that I pretty much hate the design, so why not get those MR guts and blade into a custom ANH stunt?

Here are the only two photos I have ever seen of this saber, though I do recall a memeber here had a pretty nice looking one made.

Anyone have any tips or additional photos before I get out the dremel and embarass myself?

Thanks wackychimp.

 

[cayman shen]

For quick and dirty/hanging on your belt for haloween, I'd just take a sink tube and dremel the shape, then do the box and grips. It'll look on your belt in the dark, cost like 20 bucks, and will be featherweight.

 

[TheRealMcFly]

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I'd just take a sink tube and dremel the shape, then do the box and grips. It'll look on your belt in the dark, cost like 20 bucks, and will be featherweight.
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Thanks for the reply. Well thats kinda how I arrived at the idea of the stunt. The stunt is more or less a cut piece of aluminum tube right? I figured if I was going ot be dremeling anything I might as well try to make an accurate replica of something. Plus I always wanted to use an 'incorrect' Graflex red button.
The costume is pretty darn accurate, which basically means my belt is really good. Though, I'm not about to drop the dough for the motorcowboy shoes.

 

[cayman shen]

Makes sense. Just incase you missed it, I believe there's an incorrect button in the JY. Good luck.

 

[TheRealMcFly]

Thanks, I'm going to try and get it... though is it truly the one on there? Anyone have anymore reference photos of this thing?

 

[kurtyboy]

Chris Trevas' pic at POSW:

 

[cayman shen]

Now, do I understand that you HAVE an ANH graflex? Because, if weight's the issue, will the stunt be any less heavy? Is it just that you want a project? The Graflex is already the featherweight of sabers. Thank God you're not carrying an MR Anakin AOTC.

 

[kurtyboy]

Here's mine. I tried (and tried and tried) and gave up on the spinning blade :confused

 

[JunkSabers1138]

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Thank God you're not carrying an MR Anakin AOTC.
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That saber is tiny when compared to many many other sabers. How can it be heavier than an Obi ANH (which I thought was the heaviest single bladed saber) or a Darth Maul?

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Here's mine. I tried (and tried and tried) and gave up on the spinning blade :confused

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WOW. that looks pretty nice. How'd you try to do the spinning blade and how did it fail? Did you use a more durable blade than the flimsy blades used in ANH?

 

[TheRealMcFly]

Thats the one I was thinking, kurtyboy's.

What kind of tubing is that, or did you have it machined? I'd really like to give this a shot.

 

[TheRealMcFly]

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Now, do I understand that you HAVE an ANH graflex? Because, if weight's the issue, will the stunt be any less heavy? Is it just that you want a project? The Graflex is already the featherweight of sabers. Thank God you're not carrying an MR Anakin AOTC.[/b]

I'm just saying that the weight hanging on the belt is the issue; its dead weight. The stunt I build will have the MR technology inside for swinging around. It doesn't really matter how heavy the hilt is if its functional as long as the costume remains free of anything PT. I plain don't like it as much.

 

[kurtyboy]

Paul, I used a square wooden rod with two sides coated in scotchlite because I was led to believe that was acurate. The blade kept slowing down and stopping as it was banging off the sides of the emitter. Probably needs some kind of ballbearing fitting.

 

[TheRealMcFly]

Did you make the hilt yourself?

 

[SithLord]

The original spinning blade had three sides I believe....

 

[kurtyboy]

So the blade didn't have alternate sides coated with scotchlite.

Were two sides coated and one not? Or one coated and two not?

The tube was machined for me by a member

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The original spinning blade had three sides I believe....
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[DarthJRW]

i was told all the sides were covered in scotchlite

 

[TheRealMcFly]

I swear that when I was a kid the local library had a book about film or special effects and they had a shot of two guys dueling with scotchlite sabers. When I finally went back they no longer had the book... plus its a whole new library anyway.

 

[lonepigeon]

I did a LOT of research on the blade while writing an article for the SW Insider.
The blade was a four sided (square) wooden dowel, two sides were coated with Scotchlite.
I checked all my old 1977-78 books and magazines which included direct quotes from John Stears himself (head of the floor effects team responsible for the stint sabers).