Lightsaber - Original Graflex coated stunt bade (Episodes 4-6
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Sym-Cha
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Are you aware that the stuntblades in ANH were mostly wooden sticks before they switched to other materials in ESB and ROTJ? Kurtyboy has made some of those wooden poles in the past ... others are working on the other variants though nobody has done a 'run' of them .... yet 
Chaïm
Chaïm
Sym-Cha
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Contact James Kenobi 1138 https://www.therpf.com/member.php?u=959 or kurtyboy ... they can tell you exactly what reflective material was used back then ... and perhaps have a lead where to get it?
Chaïm
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The originals used movie screen material made by 3M and it was glued to the wooden dowels. The same material was also original on the ESB metal blades but the dueling scenes were not filmed using light through the same plane as the camera lense so it didn't really matter in ESB.
Just be sure that you don't ask about "graflex coating," as you've been calling it, or your friend won't know what the hell you're talking about. Graflex was the manufacturer of the camera flash. What you're looking for is Scotchlite.
