I don't think it's a color photo, I think it's a high-res version of the same B&W photo that was put into one of those new AI programs/filters that updates B&W photos into color. They're all the rage right now.
The Ultimate Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi Real Vintage Parts Lightsaber Group
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onderon ... contact Jediseth ... he might provide you with some good vintage washers ... I still need those myself and will contact him soon too.
coolhanluked ... I have about 50 members filed in my index ... some of which have still a booster or balance pipe to finalise their build but most are finished ... only a few members have 2 or more complete sabers or spare parts to complete another ... and some members have sold theirs in the meantime. There are several members who have mentioned they are still collecting parts for theirs but have not posted any lightsaber pictures in this thread.
corliss1 ... my remark regarding the tape was made to aid members in avoiding additional scratches ... I believe it was James Kenobi 1138 or Edraven (?) who showed us how to do this ... yet I can't seem to find the thread in which a picture with blue tape was posted. And no I personally don't think the propmakers back in 1976 would care that much
Now I just noticed that DaveP posted a colour picture in his interest thread ... which I had never seen before ... so without further ado I archive it here in my thread :
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Courtesy Lucasfilm Ltd.
Chaïm
Hi there.
Just since it's being discussed, that image isn't colour. It's the same B&W Chronicles one that gets shared on here.
I colourised this myself the good old fashioned way, in photoshop using references of people's vintage parts for guidance on the colours.
I wouldn't use AI myself. Each to their own obviously, but it's not for me.
onderon
Sr Member
I am pretty sure they did not use any tapes, but I am also pretty sure an Exactra wasn't cost around 750 USD back then
(I seen one on Ebay yesterday for that price). I was so afraid I am going to mess up the whole thing, break it half, chip it, that it felt good to protect it at least somehow.
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Totally had me fooled dave, thought it was real
I remember bitching spending 175…
And thats still pretty crazy. I remember picking them up left and right for 10-20 bucks. Ahh the good old days! I had no problem cutting 2 of them down for my vader sabers cuz they were so cheap and easy to get.
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Long story.. are you sitting down?
I use to be a child mentor. I worked with 12 kids, They are all grown up now, some having kids of their own. My youngest is 20 now, and going to school for video production
She has taught me all I know with video editing.. She borrowed some wicked expensive camera from her college to film me assembling the saber in 4k.. we had shot it with infinity back grounds.. dry ice.. super zoomed in shots.. spinning display table, with reflective acrylic to mirror shots..
She did an amazing job editing it, the video wasn’t done, we had very little left to do. She would sign out the equipment every weekend, brining more and more stuff into the shed.
And showing pictures of the parts to her professor
Her computer then crashed.. “bricked” what ever that means, so she bought a new one, all that footage is on her old computer. I’m hoping one day she can recover it, the saber is back apart and in my display case
She being on a college student salary, bought a cheap computer to finish the semester.. which can’t edit 4k.. I am in the process of saving to buy a computer that can handle 4k.. a few months ago I had all the money for a wicked powerful Mac but the damn thing was out of stock for months.. then I let my brother borrow my computer money.. and the same week I did that, I got the email the damn computer was in stock… ******* brother still owes me the money..
As of right now, once I get my hands on a new computer, she will borrow the equipment again, and we’ll re shoot it
She had all sorts of lights and back drops in the shed.. I should have taken pictures of just the equipment she had.. insane..
So, this is back to the bubble strip - the props that we can see that altered their bubble strips this way leaves the surface of the bubble strip almost flush with the clamp edges, but a little below.
The rails will “cover” parts of the strip either way, it’s important to look at the edge of the top surface. There will be a difference the thickness of the clamp edge if the bottom were sanded. I haven’t seen that in any saber yet
The rails will “cover” parts of the strip either way, it’s important to look at the edge of the top surface. There will be a difference the thickness of the clamp edge if the bottom were sanded. I haven’t seen that in any saber yet
Random question for this thread that I've been thinking about for a while. If Obi Wan's ANH saber prop was probably dismantled and the parts returned into a parts bin or back to the rental company they got them from. Does that mean there's a chance someone out there or even in here has say the original balance pipe? Given there are so few in existence, wouldn't it make sense that whoever ended up with the original one sold it on, and it may now be in our hands?
Haha, the chances of coming up with a theory that hasn't been mentioned before on this subject are slim!Yup, that theory has been mentioned before
Still, a fun thought though. Has anyone thought to do a database of known balance pipes so we can try and screen match one? Or was the theory discounted.
Also (I’m assuming) the majority of balance pipes on the sabers would have been from a Derwent engine, and a few NOS ones.
True, but It's unlikely the engine was reassembled with the pipe, given how few aircraft used a Derwent.
It'd be worth a go to try though, surely? Wouldn't that be a fantastic thing to find and learn the history of.
No, my point was that the Obi builds that most people have on the forum, the BP would have come from an engine. So it’s highly improbable that the screen used BP would be on one of the builds on here
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Ah, that's a very good point. But I'm sure there's a few out there who got their balance pipe from someone who got it from someone and it's origin is questionable.
Sym-Cha
Master Member
Actually between 1942 and 1954 a total of 3.947 Gloster Meteors were build with Rolls Royce Derwent engines most of which the F8 ... some of those got the upgraded balance pipe Mk9 which was used for Obi-Wan's lightsaber ... given the fact that many burner cans were used in the cantina scene ... the propmakers must have had an abundance of complete male/female balance pipes in their greeblie bins. Whether some of those ended up on the lightsaber props composed by the members here remains a question, let alone the original BP that was on Sir Alec Guinness his belt-hanger lightsaber. Personally I hope that the original prop is still intact and in either George Lucas's own private collection or perhaps even in the possession of the heirs of the late Sir Alec.
A picture, I have posted before, of the many engines that were at the propmaker's and set designer's disposal :
Picture courtesy Lucasfilm Ltd.
Chaïm
A picture, I have posted before, of the many engines that were at the propmaker's and set designer's disposal :
Picture courtesy Lucasfilm Ltd.
Chaïm
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