Original ESB/ROTJ stunt Vader saber going up for auction...

[BAlinger15]

Hi everyone,

This piece surfaced for the first time a couple of months ago and it has been a lot of fun working with it.

I wanted to share this analysis booklet we assembled here, for the RPF lightsaber enthusiasts, before it goes out for public distribution:

https://content.propstore.com/auction/emlaus25-2/catalog/EMLA-US_SUMMER25_DVL_WEB.pdf

Appreciate all of the research done here over the years and how far the overall knowledge base has come up.

Enjoy...
Brandon

 

[eethan]

awesome! gosh, that Xray is going to make so many people happy!!!

 

[teecrooz]

Thank you for sharing this booklet Brandon. It’s very exciting to see the analysis and documentation.

 

[thd9791]

Hi everyone,

This piece surfaced for the first time a couple of months ago and it has been a lot of fun working with it.

I wanted to share this analysis booklet we assembled here, for the RPF lightsaber enthusiasts, before it goes out for public distribution:

https://content.propstore.com/auction/emlaus25-2/catalog/EMLA-US_SUMMER25_DVL_WEB.pdf

Appreciate all of the research done here over the years and how far the overall knowledge base has come up.

Enjoy...
Brandon

thank you dearly, I've been using these stunt sabers to teach myself machining and I'm only half done with the Luke one. Thank you! Do we know how far the lower core goes? My luke one I stopped at the clamp lol

 

[thd9791]

Wow, that dent in the end is visible in jedi, thats absolutely fantastic!

 

[Halliwax]

Thank you Brandon! This is legendary information!

 

[SCorteus]

Fascinating read !

 

[khal1993]

That was so great to read! Thanks for sharing Brandon! I'm looking forward to seeing it in person!

 

[guabe]

Thanks Brandon you are a Legend.

 

[Poikilotherm]

Thanks Brandon! That Xray makes my blood boil!

 

[Gregatron]

Amazing.

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

Tom, when I build my tube stunt I figured out that with some longer black bolts I was able not to just fix the core inside the tube, but to fix the tang inside the core, too.

Turns out you were right! The xray in the booklet shows that long bolt going into the core rod. The lower core seems to go past the clamp but stop short of the endcap seeing how dented and concave it is. I think some folks are gonna have to start experimenting with just how long of a lower core to add so that the center of balance to the hilt is somewhere along the clamp. I have a feeling the lower core may extend almost the length of the flash tube.

While there's nothing really concrete that this is the ANH Hero Vader hilt, it seems there's good enough reason to believe it may actually be it, or, in part, have parts that connect to the hero prop for Vader in the first movie. That is genuinely exciting.

Sitting on a shelf in his garage for 40 years?

WTF?!

That seems to be how it goes for these things. Trooper buckets in someone's attic, Vader's only hero mask from ANH in a box in storage, production made masks in a shed, the original Death Star was thrown away, nevermind all the unused cast metal pieces that were just thrown in a trash bin.

 

[Darthmax]

Newbie here but, if I understand this right, this is being sold as the only Vader lightsaber that can be linked directly to being screen used, but wasn't the ESB hero actual prop also privately own ?

 

[ConvergencePro]

Can anyone tell if there are differences between ESB period and ROTJ period (and possibly anything afterwards) with regards to the various screws or cracked button housing, etc. Looking at period pics in the thread, presumably the grip screws are from ROTJ era, where ESB would likely just be glued like the main hero was until ROTJ. I'm curious if we can track if, and when, other details possibly changed..

For instance, no shroud damage in the carbonite chamber set shot here, and also possibly an original flat cheese head screw on the button release?
I really like this thing, and its a struggle not to want to convert my extra narrow B port tube into this beauty... I honestly might...

 

[Halliwax]

Newbie here but, if I understand this right, this is being sold as the only Vader lightsaber that can be linked directly to being screen used, but wasn't the ESB hero actual prop also privately own ?

Correct, but I don’t believe lanes belt hanger went through prop store, he found it and bought it himself

I think Brandon means this is the first OT lightsaber prop store has had to auction off

That’s how I understood it

 

[Captain Dunsel]

The overall shape of the shroud appears to be deformed, beyond the large cutout…