Hi All
I'm not up to speed completely but I have found my fair share on the stunt sabers tossed around the old trilogies. I understand there was a blackened stunt that Alec Guinness used, then Mark Hamil used, named the V2 (duh!)
There was also the shared stunt, with a flat emitter, that was used in ANH (photos of this are used in the debate over whether or not the early blades were square or triangular) without a nipple and it was then used for practice for ESB and the Death Star duel between luke and Vader. This is the one that was re-pained, and again, no nipple. (said to have been ground down?)
At the same time, Alec Guinness also used another stunt, with a nipple. A solid metal nipple. Has anyone IDed this?
I'm also curious as to why, I thought the early blades were wood that spun on a motor, so there was no need for a nipple to hold a metal rod like in later and current stunts?
Anyways, here is the pic, credit to whoever found them and posted them in the ANH obi which sabers when thread and the thread debating the shape of the spinning blades!
nipple:
no nipple:
EDIT: Photos corrupted. Photos removed. - RPF Staff
I'm not up to speed completely but I have found my fair share on the stunt sabers tossed around the old trilogies. I understand there was a blackened stunt that Alec Guinness used, then Mark Hamil used, named the V2 (duh!)
There was also the shared stunt, with a flat emitter, that was used in ANH (photos of this are used in the debate over whether or not the early blades were square or triangular) without a nipple and it was then used for practice for ESB and the Death Star duel between luke and Vader. This is the one that was re-pained, and again, no nipple. (said to have been ground down?)
At the same time, Alec Guinness also used another stunt, with a nipple. A solid metal nipple. Has anyone IDed this?
I'm also curious as to why, I thought the early blades were wood that spun on a motor, so there was no need for a nipple to hold a metal rod like in later and current stunts?
Anyways, here is the pic, credit to whoever found them and posted them in the ANH obi which sabers when thread and the thread debating the shape of the spinning blades!
nipple:
no nipple:
EDIT: Photos corrupted. Photos removed. - RPF Staff
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