Luke ROTJ V2 lightsaber

Lichtbringer · Jan 20, 2017

kevin926 said:
I hate working with cast! You can't modify it. It will break on you so fast. Cast is great if you are only painting, I don't even like drilling it. Larger areas are fine to drill and tap, but small ones are poopers!

Also with this, there is not "that cast" - same here, it depends on the casting material.

Many casts break when hit hard enough, others can be beaten with a hammer without dying.

This vise is cast (i also have some forged steel ones, but this is my "allrounder"), and the flat part behind the grip area is a anvil.

kevin926 · Jan 20, 2017

I broke a vise once. Landed on my foot. I was trying to pop out some stubborn metal bits from a part. I was using the anvil part and missed.

I was referring to the smaller stuff we use for props. I would rather stay away from moding cast.

Halliwax · Jan 20, 2017

Pixelpiper said:
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I haven't touched it since early last year, but now that I have a clamp and some self-etching paint I'll finally build it out within the next couple of months. I don't plan to put any knocks into the alternate open emitter face (the one used with a blade).

very nice!!!!!

NeoRutty · Jan 20, 2017

I will do everything I can BUT that...

no bending for me! Just can't... heh. It would be different I suppose if I LIKED how the emitter looks bent.

Lichtbringer · Jan 20, 2017

kevin926 said:
I broke a vise once. Landed on my foot. I was trying to pop out some stubborn metal bits from a part. I was using the anvil part and missed.

I was referring to the smaller stuff we use for props. I would rather stay away from moding cast.

Probably not german made.

Off course you can manage to destroy anything, but for example .... look at car rims, they are cast alu. And i´ve seen some with big dents without breaking after hitting something.

It´s not the size, it´s the kind of cast that sets it´s limits.

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NeoRutty said:
I will do everything I can BUT that...

no bending for me! Just can't... heh. It would be different I suppose if I LIKED how the emitter looks bent.

No bending for me.

When it´s been made it didn´t had those, and they were not on purpose, just things that happened over time.

kevin926 · Jan 20, 2017

Lichtbringer said:
Probably not german made.

Off course you can manage to destroy anything, but for example .... look at car rims, they are cast alu. And i´ve seen some with big dents without breaking after hitting something.

It´s not the size, it´s the kind of cast that sets it´s limits.

Lol, my wife destroys all my wheels on the right side of the car. Still can't figure out how she does it! To be fair, I was working on my tuck (forgot what part it was) and it was a mini sledgehammer that broke the vise. Bounced off the part during a strike. My foot was bruised for a week and I was wearing work boots. My father wasn't too pleased because it was an expensive vise used in a semi truck shop. I was a teenager but that was well over 20 years ago.

kevin926 · Jan 20, 2017

NeoRutty said:
I will do everything I can BUT that...

no bending for me! Just can't... heh. It would be different I suppose if I LIKED how the emitter looks bent.

Aw, come on! No smashy smashy?:cry

PoopaPapaPalps · Jan 20, 2017

I'm in Camp "No-Smash", too. I've put it through the ringer but I think @Lichtbringer said it best: it wasn't put there originally, it just happened over time.

Of course, I'm saying this after having used mine as a hammer.

EDIT: Related to the V2 somewhat, I had a thought a couple nights ago about the original source of the clamp for the V3/Shared Stunt. I was wondering if the holes in the clamp lined up with the screws on the body of the RotJ Vader MOM Stunt. I was looking at some photos and comparing them and had the idea that it might had the clamp sat a little forward and opposite the "tire valve" button in the eye socket.

I made this very quickly and very sloppily, and by no means with any reference or accuracy, but it does showcase my idea. Can anyone or is anyone willing to try and test this?

kevin926 · Jan 20, 2017

Smashy smashy :devil

MCM · Jan 20, 2017

...holy smokes. That looks totally plausible to me.

Spyhunter2k · Jan 20, 2017

PoopaPapaPalps said:
I'm in Camp "No-Smash", too. I've put it through the ringer but I think @Lichtbringer said it best: it wasn't put there originally, it just happened over time.

Of course, I'm saying this after having used mine as a hammer.

Yes, but that reasoning would also preclude your saber having the beaten and chipped paintjob. The paint wasn't applied that way, but looked like that after many hours of use/abuse. Same with the beaten emitter face.

I think the difference is we've had years to know about, accept, and finally even come to like the beat up paintjob. The emitter looking beat to h-ll...it's new, unfamiliar, disconcerting even.

Give it time. Eventually the bent emitter will seem normal, and the thought of beating up our emitters won't be as distasteful as it seems now...

That's my prediction at least...

Pixelpiper · Jan 20, 2017

The V2 and Shared are the only two sabers to feature into all three movies (even if not on screen), so replicating the beaten paint and appearance is part of giving them the respect they deserve.

Flash one · Jan 21, 2017

Spyhunter2k said:
Yes, but that reasoning would also preclude your saber having the beaten and chipped paintjob. The paint wasn't applied that way, but looked like that after many hours of use/abuse. Same with the beaten emitter face.

I think the difference is we've had years to know about, accept, and finally even come to like the beat up paintjob. The emitter looking beat to h-ll...it's new, unfamiliar, disconcerting even.

Give it time. Eventually the bent emitter will seem normal, and the thought of beating up our emitters won't be as distasteful as it seems now...

That's my prediction at least...

Thats true.

Lichtbringer · Jan 21, 2017

Spyhunter2k said:
Yes, but that reasoning would also preclude your saber having the beaten and chipped paintjob. The paint wasn't applied that way, but looked like that after many hours of use/abuse. Same with the beaten emitter face.

I think the difference is we've had years to know about, accept, and finally even come to like the beat up paintjob. The emitter looking beat to h-ll...it's new, unfamiliar, disconcerting even.

Give it time. Eventually the bent emitter will seem normal, and the thought of beating up our emitters won't be as distasteful as it seems now...

That's my prediction at least...

Not interested in that paint job, too.

I would use the original paint pattern, just make it used like a real world item would be. Not the shiny way many call as first build, but also not the rotten thing we are used to see.

StevenBills · Jan 22, 2017

Is this the v2 in this photo?

Halliwax · Jan 22, 2017

StevenBills said:
Is this the v2 in this photo?

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nope looks like some kind of graflex clone sunts

kevin926 · Jan 22, 2017

Great! Another saber. Glad I'm not a completionist :eek

thd9791 · Jan 22, 2017

Yep, it's this one, with the tape peeling off. I am 80% sure

Halliwax · Jan 22, 2017

thd9791 said:
Yep, it's this one, with the tape peeling off. I am 80% sure
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excellent work tom!

thd9791 · Jan 22, 2017

Thank you! and there's still T track on there too, ***** I thought it had come off by ROTJ

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