Anti-Security Blade Control Rod - Finally Confirmed!!!

Hello everyone!

I am super excited to share this news with you as there is nothing I love better than found parts! I would love to take some credit here, but I can’t take a drop, as this is all due to Mojo-Fett’s hard work!

As most of you know, a while back a friend of TDH made a list of original part suppliers for the Fett costume available to us. That list originally came from Mark Harris, who oversaw the Fett project, then filtered down to our benefactor and then to us!

One of the manufacturer’s on that list was Michell Engineering, who make very high end (and very expensive turn tables). As most of you know, the Michell Turntable sweep arm contains the toe spikes, knee dart, and wrist darts. A lot of people have been scouring the turntables in hopes of turning up other parts, and some other parts have been discovered, while others have been guessed at. It was believed that Michell Engineering had been raided and pretty well cleaned out of any useful parts, but thanks to his tenacity, Gav (Mojo) went back to Michell to check on a piece that had been previously speculated upon, but never confirmed. Low and behold, Michell was able to turn one up and send it Gav’s way ! Thanks to Gav’s dedication we are now able to confirm that the Michell Engineering Stylus Brush is the “intensity control” rod found on the Anti-Security blade which is one of Boba Fett’s 4 shin tools.

As you may notice, there is a slight variation between Gav’s Stylus brush and the one used on the movie prop as his has one hole at the top and the original had two. I don’t know if the prop maker’s made a second hole to attach the two brush rods together or if this is one of Michell’s numerous variations. As you can see in the attached photo from C4, the two rods are held together by a brass pin/screw.

Congrats to Gav on being persistent and following up on what was believed to be a tapped-out source and for finally positively identifying this part! And thanks to Gav, and Delta-75 (who did some of the initial work with Michell when the list first came out) for being so willing to share with the community!

One more part down… only a few hundred left to go!

ART YOU AND GAVIN NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME!!! Thanks for all of the hard work guys!!!

amazing work fellas! do i see some machining in the near future, Mr. Gav?

woo! and now he can do up a run of amazingly accurate machined replicas

Well done Gav for your work bro. You're a star!

Originally Posted by Boomer Fett

ART YOU AND GAVIN NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME!!! Thanks for all of the hard work guys!!!

Whoa! Whoa! This isn't me. I am just the messenger! Gav is the man!

Originally Posted by ART ANDREWS

Whoa! Whoa! This isn't me. I am just the messenger! Gav is the man!

Thats not strickly true bro... I was lucky enough.. yes! but without the numerous chats and confirmation from you? :thumbup

LOL! Somebody just take the D**n credit!! LOL!

Originally Posted by Skupilkinson

LOL! Somebody just take the D**n credit!! LOL!

fine, fine, alright. i did it. i found it.

oh, you meant one of them...

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! STORMTROOPER GUY CONFIRMED THE MICHELL ..... oh forget it...

Originally Posted by ART ANDREWS

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! STORMTROOPER GUY CONFIRMED THE MICHELL ..... oh forget it...

well Mojo - does this mean we are gonna get a full set of screen accurate shin tools etc from foudn parts!!

congrats on the fd parts mate

Nate

ps need a favour, email sent

Good point Nate!! Gav, if if anyone can do them true justice, you can. Count me in right now!

Well done Gav
Arun of these would be an awesome idea
glad someone suggested it.

Who was selling these a while back? Someone had bought a couple of swing arms but I can't recall who.

Originally Posted by Chucko

Who was selling these a while back? Someone had bought a couple of swing arms but I can't recall who.

The sweep arm is a seperate piece from the stylus brush.

Originally Posted by ART ANDREWS

The sweep arm is a seperate piece from the stylus brush.

True.. I did those too...

Originally Posted by slave1pilot

Well done Gav
Arun of these would be an awesome idea
glad someone suggested it.

I think I can accomodate that! a certain phone call has cleared that idea...
You think there'd be enough interest?

Do you really need to ask that question mate?

I think there would be plenty of interest!!!!! Great find.

Originally Posted by Skupilkinson

Do you really need to ask that question mate?

OK.. will try an do this justice

Awesome find!! I just saw the WIKI and flipped.

Originally Posted by cojake

Awesome find!! I just saw the WIKI and flipped.

ditto!

Great find.

Can't wait to see what the machined set will look like and cost...

Out of curiosity, is there a second hole, maybe one that doesn't go all the way through, under the sticker? Will the machined version have the second hole?

There is no second hole under that foil label mate. Believe me I've checked.

LOL! Pity I didn't know of the brush arm's importance earlier! LOL! You should have my part delivered this morning Gav.

Like I said to you Gav, I think that second hole was added by the prop makers to secure the two arms/parts together. I did a quick photoshop pic to show my theory on that second hole:



You can see how that second hole lines up with the original hole on Gavs part and mine. Maybe they added a second hole to one of the arms, so that they could secure it to the second arm using it's existing hole.

Makes sense to me but there could have been variants of that part made by Mitchell?

I think the theory about the two holes is sound.

This piece is also the handle of Lando's Cloud City comlink and for that it has only the one original hole.
Most likely only one of Fett's has two holes.

Chris, I don't know if you remember that far back, but this is really the piece that started it all for me back on the RPF, because everyone thought these pieces were an exacto-knife handle! In a small way, it was this piece and arguing about what it was, or back then, about what it was not, that started TDH! I wish those threads were still around as information like that and other finds were sadly lost.

While I agree with everyone's ideas on the second hole, I have to disagree on only one of Fett's pieces having the second hole. Now, I may just be seeing what I want to see, but I believe on one of the anti-secutiy blades, you can see the second hole on the back stylus brush as well as on the front one. It is hard to see with the two pressed together, but I believe it is there. My assumption is, if they did drill them for Fett, they just quickly drilled through all of them but one hole ends up not being used.

Nice find indeed, and a very amusing story about how this very part birthed THD

I'd be in for an accurate set of these. I'm so glad I found this site so that my anal retentiveness...I mean meticulous personality has a place to stay

cool stuff as always. thanks Wes & Gav for your hard work

Parts now drawn up....

Outstanding Gav!! Looking forward to seeing your part compared to mine bro.

Originally Posted by jedi.paramedic

I'd be in for an accurate set of these. I'm so glad I found this site so that my anal retentiveness...I mean meticulous personality has a place to stay

I'd be in for a set as well. This is too cool!

Originally Posted by Skupilkinson

There is no second hole under that foil label mate. Believe me I've checked.

Originally Posted by Mojo-Fett

Skip would know...
When I first told Skip about my find/purchase I sent him a couple of pics of the stylus brush. Just for him to turn round and say that his dads got one?

The idea is that the second hole will be added as per ref pics, I'm in discussions with Mitchells to ask if there has been some design evolution or scrapped parts etc to try and determine the second.
'thoughts' are that they added the second to the prop so that it neither slid up or down against the other, or revolved. looks to be held with a bronze piece.

Cool stuff. Adding a hole makes sense as does the reason for it; so does the idea that there were variations of the piece made.

I'm just glad the piece was confirmed!

These will be cool.........but I still need to pay for the last replica accurate parts I ordered!

Great Score Mojo! I can;t wait to see you work your... well... MOJO on these!! Since I'll never own an authentic part (let alone 2) you bet your keester I'll be getting a Mojo crafted version!

The two hole thing was certainly a deal breaker for some to ID the stylus brush as the found part
Discussed here: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/shin-tools-anti-security-blades-25888/

But I am glad that this has been confirmed.

As a FYI, the stylus brush that Transcriptors.net offers is the incorrect one and could take up to 9 months for shipping. I wouldn't recommend buying theirs for your security blade.

Great find, Gav!

Cheers Andy...

@ NEF & Seven - I've been calling them today to discuss and 'other' types of design between what we see in the shin tools and what I have in my hand... details tomorrow.

Also in email correspondances today.. I have to confirm before everyone goes calling/ emailing etc that I did in fact mange to snag the last known piece? it was gathering dust in an old back room.
I can post the email I got confirming this and that no other stockist in UK has one. - Unfortunatley!

Looks like the stabalizer beacon on the jetpack is from the turntable aswell...

Will you guys be posting the list of original part suppliers?

Originally Posted by Omega_Man

Looks like the stabilizer beacon on the jetpack is from the turntable as well...

Why yes it is...
This has been found for some time, some can still be found on the bay of fleas.

Originally Posted by Omega_Man

Will you guys be posting the list of original part suppliers?

There is a thread somewhere bit I can't remember where?