Limited Run Mission Impossible Rabbit's Foot

[probablyjarrett]

Taffy's Foot

 

[probablyjarrett]

It's been a busy paint week. Also, I created a jig and process for creating those cool little narrow spots in the acrylic rods. I think they are called tamper rods. ... I thought about trying to sand them into a rod, maybe using a drill. That sounded like a pain. So I tried using my acrylic strip heater, wrapping it arounf the rod. In a couple minutes I was able to pull the rid like taffy creating exactly the right look. Then it was building a jig so I can replicate exactly the same effect 40 time!

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Taffy's Foot!!!

 

[Valor]

So, if the authorities find out what’s in my basement, I’ll have some explaining to do.

 

[ScottW]

In the spirit of being curious what the original prop master (Robert M. Bouffard based on Google searches?) would have sourced/ found inspiration from for some elements of the Rabbit's Foot construction, I found two things:

1. The top counter digits maybe have been from something like an industrial feed counter. Or possibly even a hand counter with a white digit on the end. Maybe it was cut down to three from a longer row of other numbers to fit the top?

2. The screw caps on either end of the red cylinder of death have always felt like aluminum bottle caps to me. If you look at the top cap compared to the bottom on the original prop, they're slightly different!

The top cap has taller vertical knurling while the bottom one's knurling is about half as tall. I wonder if they used two physically different caps for this purpose? The doming of each one could have been done with some sort of press to punch out a rounder form to it without breaking it apart.