JRHunter13
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So I'd like to start off by thanking everybody who helped me verify the authenticity of my vintage folmer graflex with serial number! This community has absolutely amazed me with positive and helpful responses, and the well of knowledge available goes so deep you can never find the bottom. I'd like to send an extra special thank you to the one and only Scott JUA for his guidance and help sourcing my exactra 20. He is also going to be doing this as a commission for me when it comes time to put it all together. While I realize that a graflex build is fairly simple in nature and I could probably pull it off myself, I've poured too much money into this project to make any mistakes. You only get one shot to get the orientation perfect and I'm not about to accidentally butcher my beautiful vintage on a rookie mistake. I have however caught the bug for replica prop building and expect to post more projects here on the rpf constructed by my own hands in the future.
That all being said, let's get into it!
I'm very happy with the condition of my folmer. It has a lovely level of natural weathering. Not too much, but exactly the amount that I was looking for. I decided to keep a lot of the funk, as I felt that it added the right character to the saber. I did go in with a micro fiber and carefully dust it off. The clamp section as well as a few of the other parts had a decent amount of rust that I didn't like. While a lot of you would have kept it exactly as is, it wasn't what I wanted. I disassembled the entire flashgun and hit the really bad parts with a mild non abrasive metal polish. I'm looking into other products to help hault the rust. I was extremely carful while cleaning not to disturb the natural grain of the metal. Polishing the entire flash gun would, in my opinion, be a giant mistake. I've yet to fully decide if I'm going to add some of the weathering back using non corrosive products and methods. So that's it for the graflex so far!
Scott JUA helped me source the exactra 20. I can't express how great full I am for his help and guidance.
I bought some vintage graflex D-rings and parts off of eBay. I tried my best to scale the sizes of the parts but they might end up being way off and unusable. I suspect that they will be a little too small, but I'm crossing my fingers that some may work out. The D-ring I'm looking at in particular is off of the bag of a graflex graphic 35 camera case. The other part is a triangular ring that I would like to use the mounting assembly off of. As soon as I located the exactra, I began to obsess over the idea of going all vintage and found parts, unless they are just too far from screen accurate. I am willing to fudge this a little bit if vintage parts can be obtained though.
I've also ordered Roy's wannawanga ANH set. I'm planning to use it to help me match the sizes of D-rings I can obtain, as well as useing the parts provided to build the saber if vintage ones cannot be found.
I'd like to say at this point that if anybody here could help me obtain vintage T-track material I would be so extremely thankful. If you know anybody who has used it or has some it would be awesome if you could send me in their direction. I have yet to check the junk yard, or even upgrade to a premium account so I can search, but that's on my list of things to do very soon.
I will post an update as soon as the parts show up!
Until then, here are some photos!
Thanks for checking out my build, advice and comments are highly encouraged!
That all being said, let's get into it!
I'm very happy with the condition of my folmer. It has a lovely level of natural weathering. Not too much, but exactly the amount that I was looking for. I decided to keep a lot of the funk, as I felt that it added the right character to the saber. I did go in with a micro fiber and carefully dust it off. The clamp section as well as a few of the other parts had a decent amount of rust that I didn't like. While a lot of you would have kept it exactly as is, it wasn't what I wanted. I disassembled the entire flashgun and hit the really bad parts with a mild non abrasive metal polish. I'm looking into other products to help hault the rust. I was extremely carful while cleaning not to disturb the natural grain of the metal. Polishing the entire flash gun would, in my opinion, be a giant mistake. I've yet to fully decide if I'm going to add some of the weathering back using non corrosive products and methods. So that's it for the graflex so far!
Scott JUA helped me source the exactra 20. I can't express how great full I am for his help and guidance.
I bought some vintage graflex D-rings and parts off of eBay. I tried my best to scale the sizes of the parts but they might end up being way off and unusable. I suspect that they will be a little too small, but I'm crossing my fingers that some may work out. The D-ring I'm looking at in particular is off of the bag of a graflex graphic 35 camera case. The other part is a triangular ring that I would like to use the mounting assembly off of. As soon as I located the exactra, I began to obsess over the idea of going all vintage and found parts, unless they are just too far from screen accurate. I am willing to fudge this a little bit if vintage parts can be obtained though.
I've also ordered Roy's wannawanga ANH set. I'm planning to use it to help me match the sizes of D-rings I can obtain, as well as useing the parts provided to build the saber if vintage ones cannot be found.
I'd like to say at this point that if anybody here could help me obtain vintage T-track material I would be so extremely thankful. If you know anybody who has used it or has some it would be awesome if you could send me in their direction. I have yet to check the junk yard, or even upgrade to a premium account so I can search, but that's on my list of things to do very soon.
I will post an update as soon as the parts show up!
Until then, here are some photos!
Thanks for checking out my build, advice and comments are highly encouraged!
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