Orla Jarenis Lightsaber, Made With Maple, Leopard Wood, And Indian Rosewood, With A Spalted (beech?)

Orla Jareni’s lightsaber, made with maple, leopard wood, and Indian rosewood, with a spalted (beech?) stand.

Besides the hinge part, this one was pretty simple to put together, though the hinge was quite simple once I figured it out. I decided to put magnets in the bottom so it would lock itself in the long, staff form. The magnets I had aren’t very strong but it’s just about enough to hold it.

I finished it with citrus oil instead of lemon oil this time. Partially because there’s no small, fragile parts that might break off if I buff it with the wheel, but also because it has a stronger smell, as Indian rosewood has a very, distinct smell kind of like old piss which was not being covered up with lemon oil. Even the citrus oil only covered it up for about a day. It does give a shinier finish than usual though.

Orla was always a really interesting character with how she doubted the ways of the Jedi but still staying firmly in the light

So this took longer than I expected, and some of the colours and lighting might be a bit off, but it was still really fun. I don’t do a lot of painting just to make a painting so this was fun. Also I don’t know where she’s supposed to be here, I kind of just made it up, a waterfall felt appropriate.

The Rod of Daybreak and the Rod of Seasons, made with tanga tanga, cherry, cedar, and red mallee burl with an ash base.

I got a chunk of red mallee burl for Christmas and I was really hesitant to use it cause it was too nice, but I finally bit the bullet for this, and I think it worked out pretty well. I wanted something a bit different to go in place of the crystal parts (echo stones?). It was a pain to carve though because the grain goes in all directions at the same time so it’s really hard to get a clean cut.

It was also a challenge to get the two rods to fit together. I haven’t done much of it before so I went very slowly and it’s a pretty decent fit.

Porter Engle’s lightsaber, made with cherry, mopane, spalted lime, and redheart on a beech(?) stand.

This one was a lot of carving and not that much turning. It’s also one with a lot of art and comic book depictions, but with comic book lightsaber depictions, the exact shape isn’t generally consistent so it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with the curved guard part. This was a fun one though.

Manifesting alive Porter for Temptation of the Force. He’s not dead you can’t convince me.

Wooden Jedi vector, made with cedar, panga panga, redheart, and lacewood, with a cherry stand.

This was quite awkward to figure out because there isn’t one specific way a vector should look. All the official art is very slightly different so I had to figure out the right shapes and proportions for everything so it still looked enough like a vector. It’s not massively symmetrical but the Art of the High Republic book mentions that ship models for Star Wars actually have built in asymmetry to make it look more lifelike, so yeah that’s all definitely intentional I did that on purpose, definitely…

The joints on this could definitely be stronger, it’s literally just held together with glue, but as long as you don’t swoosh it too hard it does hold itself together.

Clone trooper earrings.

I had some spare resin from some other projects I was doing so I used the clone helmet mould from my clone dice to make clone clip on earrings for a friend.

I used some new powder pigments to wether the helmets so I think I might’ve overdone it a bit compared to the last ones, but they still look pretty much how I wanted them too.