Source for textured metalic tape (like luke esb)

[Dustin Crops Boy]

I need a pretty fair amount of textured metalic tape like used on Luke's ESB saber... I don't need it for sabers, but rather for a different (totally unrelated) prop I'm making... Anyone know a good inexpensive source?

 

[DemonSeed]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dustin Crops Boy @ Dec 29 2006, 06:50 PM) [snapback]1386566[/snapback]</div>

I need a pretty fair amount of textured metalic tape like used on Luke's ESB saber... I don't need it for sabers, but rather for a different (totally unrelated) prop I'm making... Anyone know a good inexpensive source?
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Check HVAC supply houses. They sell a foil tape used on duct work....Ive seen textured before, but its been awhile. Ill check my supply house for you on teusday when I go back to work.

 

[bcstanding]

Blast-Tech has some.

 

[Dustin Crops Boy]

I know he does - but I need a LOT of it... not just 6" strips.

 

[exoray]

You can make your own texture in foil tape...

Get some aluminum duct tape (most hardware stores carry it) and then simply place it over a textured surface and roll it with a soft rubber roller (a paint roller might work well), or press it against the patterned surface with your hands...

Check on the scrap booking section of a hobby store they also have embossing machines...

 

[Dustin Crops Boy]

Sounds like a last resort option... since the tape exists and all. The prop I'm attempting to make uses the EXACT same stuff as the saber tape blasttech sells - so i'd like to just find the actual stuff.

 

[Dustin Crops Boy]

So w/ all the saber dorks here - meticulously recreating and discussing sabers - ad nauseum  - no one here can tell me what that tape is and where to get it? Curious :unsure

(ps - I'm not trying to undercut Blasttech at all...he offers a fine product (I've bought from him a couple of times), it just doesn't suit my needs)

 

[Hecubus114]

I've done long and hard searches for this material, and basttech's was all I could ever find.

 

[androidandy]

I've bought similar tape at a auto supply store for repairing mufflers. They have different kinds and I think several were textured in different ways.

 

[roboprop]

Try this DCB...

http://www3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/utilit...ler/output_html

Darrin

 

[Dustin Crops Boy]

That's the stuff - THANKS Now my dream prop is THAT much closer

 

[lonepigeon]

FYI - BlasTech had the tape specially made. That's why no one can find a source for the stuff.
The real tape is still unknown.

I've seen the 3M stuff above before. It's not really a raised textured tape. It's a reinforced metallic tape - those lines are thin wires or string.

 

[roboprop]

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That's the stuff - THANKS Now my dream prop is THAT much closer
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Hope it works out for you. :thumbsup

Darrin

 

[Dustin Crops Boy]

well crap... and here I thought I was one step closer.... well, here's a couple caps of the item I'm making... Upon further inspection - I think the 3M tape is close but the Blasttech stuff looks better. It has 14 bumps and they go horz/vert instead of diagonal like the 3M stuff...

 

[roboprop]

What are you using it for, if I may ask?

Darrin