My pleasure...some time ago, a recaster and reseller that still hawks his wares today, thought he knew more than Brad did, and said the reason that Kirk made his phasers with three rear fins instead for four as Brad did, was because Brad's phaser had 3 fins originally..Even though all of us that were well versed in Brad's phaser told him that was untrue....He was still not convinced...So I had to call Brad even though I knew I was correct...Brad of course confirmed that his mold had 4 fins molded in from the wood master from day one, so there never was a 3 rear fin BN phaser....some people are so behind in the race, they think they are ahead....and that hawker still did not concede....LSD can make you think alot of things, I guess..lol
My BF and I saw and handled what we saw an handled.
Does anyone think that this Jim Kirk guy may have/might have mis-represented himself and stated his name was Brad?
I never got, nor ever remember hearing a last name.
Brad is a common name. He just introduced himself as Brad.
It was ONLY waaaay later in my life, that I put this Brad guy’s name together when I later found out that is was a Mr. Bradley Nelson, who created this particular PHASER pistol design.
I never got any info from him, but he took my BF and I home mailing address. He asked for a home phone number, I gave him my parents’ home phone number, but my BF didn’t.
I never got anything in the mail and never recieved any phone calls from this gentleman.
If this was Jim Kirk, he managed to put working electronics ( maybe gutted from one of Brad's own PHASERS? ) and everthing worked.
It turned on made sounds and had the front strobing light bulb in the front nozzle, had working middle light on the top of the small PHASER 1 and the power/battery meter was working, which I thought was juat waaaay cool!
I do not how or what this person did to get electronics to work in an aluminium body prop, but my BF and I both handled this PHASER for a little bit of time each and neither one of us got any type of electrical shock from the prop.
I have no idea how all of electronics worked, at that time, or how he got all of it to fit, so neatly into that small cavity inside of the PHASER pistol body.
There are plenty of ways to isolate electricity put into metal object, though.
Maybe he used some sort of insulating materials inside of his aluminium body PHASER.
The cavity inside of the small P1 PHASER area was certainly deep enough to accomodate putting in some electrical insulating material.
I just, recently, called my BF ( we are 60 years old, now ) and though he is a classic Trek fan, he never really had any interests in collecting any of the Star Trek’s toys or fan made props or anything else fan made.
He barely remembered this experience, today, and he doesn't remember much, today, but DID seem to recall the fact that he remembered holding this prop, in his hand, and it feeling fairly heavy to hold, feeling like what a “real” PHASER might actually feel like or real gun would feel like, being made of metal!
Obviously, with me collecting, Star Trek props, at an early age ( my first ST non-working props were from Star Fleet Command props and, a little later, an early Ed Miarecki non-working, PHASER II pistol with removable small hand PHASER, made of solid resin, this us how I got hooked on resin material made props ), this aluminium body PHASER had a much, MUCG bigger impact on me than it did for him.
My BF was more into collecting higher end spacecraft models, from Star Trek, Space:1999 and 2001:A Space Odyssey and, later, from Firefly.
I am, definitely, a Star Trek, Sci-fi, tech prop guy.
This is my story/experience and I am sticking with all of it!
I guess I have been the only one obssessed by this elusive prop item, for all these many years.
The aluminium PHASER II, I saw/experienced and handled, was just a super cool and awesome experience, for me, and one I have never forgotten.
I just wish I had some proof of this, elusive, item.
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