The Ultimate Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi Real Vintage Parts Lightsaber Group

[Scruffylooking]

It’s beautiful. You’ve accomplished one of the, if not ultimate grails in Star Wars collecting.

 

[DannyP91]

Giving up is too easy my man, Glad you kept going, It looks stunning.

 

[cdyoung]

Congratulations, onderon! What a special prop to add to your collection. I love how these found parts Obi sabers are made of the same base founds parts, yet each assembled hilt is quite unique.

 

[schrodinger555]

Congratulations, onderon! What a special prop to add to your collection. I love how these found parts Obi sabers are made of the same base founds parts, yet each assembled hilt is quite unique.

I agree completely! It's funny to be able to recognize individual sabers that belong to members whose builds I was inspired by as I did my own. They're all so individual

 

[cwoodreplicas]

Lovely stuff.

I always have an issue with figuring out how to display it. Mine just sits on a table at the moment... should do better

 

[onderon]

Lovely stuff.

I always have an issue with figuring out how to display it. Mine just sits on a table at the moment... should do better

I keep thinking about it as well. Some days I would like to see it in a nice vintage wooden chest or box, the other day I think it would look cool in an awesome custom made plastic holder. But I think I will put it in a Detolf or Kallax with some other goodies.

 

[Diego86]

Cool find…

 

[RoyDeckard]

Five years ago I first "finished" this prop. And while it was a beautiful piece, I always wanted more. I tinkered with it, added and removed pieces, but figured out quickly that the two parts that would take this to the next level were the grenade and a proper female balance pipe. But after COVID hit I just had to accept that it was good enough.
Flash forward 6 months ago and after NickCline lit a fire under my ass by selling me the grenade I have now, I felt that nah, I could do better. I still need to get my transistors I got from Diego86 added on and I'm still waiting on a new chassis system from DaveP's run. But thanks to 3521Bimmer and MalakiSkywalker, I finally got the last "real" part that I have been half missing the past 5 years: A proper, fuel covered, and gorgeous female balance pipe!!

 

[RoyDeckard]

Though I still plan on using DaveP's chassis for this build, I wanted to build a new chassis to fit my Romans emitter for the time being, just to placate myself. This is what I came up with. This will do until I get the Daves in for sure.

 

[Fusion]

Whilst I don’t yet own a Balance Pipe myself, still nice to have been able to pick up some old documentation:


Rolls-Royce and MOD Manuals and course notes on the Derwent Engines.

That is SO cool!

 

[Romans Empire]

While Chaim & I were going over some ANH details... Chaim pointed out I don't have a pic of my Real Parts Obi-Wan in here.
First is a pic of my personal OB1.
The rest include my personal real parts OB1 & a partial real parts OB1 I sold a couple month ago:

 

[Sym-Cha]

Thanks Romans Empire ... I've now added your real vintage parts Obi-Wan lightsaber to my index files. Thus far I have 56 persons with an all real vintage parts completed Obi-Wan ANH lightsaber, either with a female or male Balance Pipe, accounted for with pictures. Some members have more vintage parts in their collection either assembled as a complete lightsaber or displayed separately. There are some completed sabers presented on facebook as well, alas I don't have each and everyone in my index just yet ... Halliwax did you ever complete your build yet?

Chaïm

 

[onderon]

While Chaim & I were going over some ANH details... Chaim pointed out I don't have a pic of my Real Parts Obi-Wan in here.
First is a pic of my personal OB1.
The rest include my personal real parts OB1 & a partial real parts OB1 I sold a couple month ago:


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Nice When was this finished? This is the one you used to model your parts?

 

[Romans Empire]

Nice When was this finished? This is the one you used to model your parts?

Thank you! Well, that's kind of a looooong story... This current version was used for most 'tweaks' when I would update materials to match the real parts... This version was finished maybe eight (8) years ago. At one point I had three (3) BP's in my collection and used those to model my current BP run.

However, everything else was modeled from my previous Real Parts version that I sold maybe... 15 years ago? Sadly. But like I said, this version was used for nearly all (most) the tweaks when I could afford to upgrade materials.

 

[thd9791]

I have everything but a balance pipe. I did decide to use Dave P transistors/washers too - my old Motorola ones just weren’t accurate enough for me lol

I was brave and ran a 3/8 16 t nut into my vintage sink knob and put a set screw through the inside of the rim. So now that threads on too

Shown I think is a Roman’s endcap

 

[thd9791]

Oh yeah so I cracked my bubble strip from clamp pressure - so yeah, I carved my own wannawanga strip by hand into the right angle upper corner cut pattern

 

[cwoodreplicas]

Had some time to apply DaveP ‘s silver vinyl to my vintage. Lovely stuff! Thankyou!

 

[Wells]

Hi folks, I recently picked up a converted male balance pipe. Can anyone share any techniques to weather that inner ring?

 

[v312]

Hi folks, I recently picked up a converted male balance pipe. Can anyone share any techniques to weather that inner ring?

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Anly gun blue solution should do it. I've used Birchwood Casey super blue.

 

[Sym-Cha]

So we have reached post# 3000 ... and to celebrate I made a composite of all the real parts lightsabers posted in this thread + some from facebook ... this is my index :

Chaïm