While scrapping together hardware and a few found parts working on my Obi Wan ANH saber replica, I had a few thoughts and thought I'd see if anyone else was on the same page...
These might not be too related, so bear with me.
1) Has anyone found either a grenade prop from re-enacting places, or a toy with the same grooves, or rubber gaskets that size or something? Even something ribbed that could just cut vertically....This grenade piece seems like it shouldn't be this hard to ROUGHLY duplicate without building something from scratch with epoxy/pvc/etc. my searching has hit a dead end and I thought I'd see if there was any hope!
2) I like the old idea of an electronic power screwdriver as something for a turning dowel set into the handle, I'm surprised that died out so long ago. Anyone working on legit floor props with scotchlite and a spinning blade? ( I might)
3) Looking at the Chronicles saber and knowing that it was put back together for a re-shoot, The emitter on it has GOT to be fabricated (aka not an original Balance pipe) you can't mark up incontel like that and the metal itself seems very thin, the emitter plate even seems uneven though that could be part of an original looking at the rim of holes. I'm of the assumption they fabricated parts like this when they needed, and am wondering what else they could have done? If they didn't care about continuity (which obviously wasn't important) im assuming some mysteries could be explained quite simply this way...
~the clamp in this picture is also dented near the grenade, looking like they brutely tried to keep this thing together for the picture
4) The other thing that baffels me is, unlike the graflexes which were brass tubes or regular plumbing tubes, this thing looks so delicate, as there are no screws holding things together, why would the floor props people hand an actor something that was so fragile? Was there just a lot of really hard glue? What are people's thoughts...
Thanks - I know this topic has come up a lot but lately there hasn't been a lot of interest, however I am interested and am sticking my foot out there.
:lol
These might not be too related, so bear with me.
1) Has anyone found either a grenade prop from re-enacting places, or a toy with the same grooves, or rubber gaskets that size or something? Even something ribbed that could just cut vertically....This grenade piece seems like it shouldn't be this hard to ROUGHLY duplicate without building something from scratch with epoxy/pvc/etc. my searching has hit a dead end and I thought I'd see if there was any hope!
2) I like the old idea of an electronic power screwdriver as something for a turning dowel set into the handle, I'm surprised that died out so long ago. Anyone working on legit floor props with scotchlite and a spinning blade? ( I might)
3) Looking at the Chronicles saber and knowing that it was put back together for a re-shoot, The emitter on it has GOT to be fabricated (aka not an original Balance pipe) you can't mark up incontel like that and the metal itself seems very thin, the emitter plate even seems uneven though that could be part of an original looking at the rim of holes. I'm of the assumption they fabricated parts like this when they needed, and am wondering what else they could have done? If they didn't care about continuity (which obviously wasn't important) im assuming some mysteries could be explained quite simply this way...
~the clamp in this picture is also dented near the grenade, looking like they brutely tried to keep this thing together for the picture
4) The other thing that baffels me is, unlike the graflexes which were brass tubes or regular plumbing tubes, this thing looks so delicate, as there are no screws holding things together, why would the floor props people hand an actor something that was so fragile? Was there just a lot of really hard glue? What are people's thoughts...
Thanks - I know this topic has come up a lot but lately there hasn't been a lot of interest, however I am interested and am sticking my foot out there.
:lol