United Cutlery Hobbit/LOTR replica mods
Nov 16, 2015 3:53:56 GMT
Post by campoli on Nov 16, 2015 3:53:56 GMT
Hey guys!
Was inspired to make a sort of spontaneous purchase of the United Cutlery Hobbit Sting replica (Not the Museum Collection, I found out about this line after I purchased the one from the standard line from a store that has a no return policy, naturally, #$%* @!%&!!!).
However the Museum Collection struck a chord. Have any of you ever done any mods to/disassembled any of these United Cutlery replicas? Doesn't have to be specific to Hobbit/LOTR experience, but would be preferable as it's what I'm dealing with here.
I realized that the hilt on the standard edition UC Hobbit Sting is of some sort of plastic (anybody else know?), but I was absolutely convinced it was wood somehow in the store upon handling it. And I had a thought: would it be difficult to craft a hilt of some sort of hardwood and basically swap it out after disassembling? Of course the wood would have to be a nice deep red wood like cocobolo or something, and stained, and one would have to think about a way to get the vine detail on it.
Has anybody ever attempted this? Curious of thoughts, processes things like that, tips for disassembling/reassembling, warnings, etc.
Thanks guys!
Daniel
Was inspired to make a sort of spontaneous purchase of the United Cutlery Hobbit Sting replica (Not the Museum Collection, I found out about this line after I purchased the one from the standard line from a store that has a no return policy, naturally, #$%* @!%&!!!).
However the Museum Collection struck a chord. Have any of you ever done any mods to/disassembled any of these United Cutlery replicas? Doesn't have to be specific to Hobbit/LOTR experience, but would be preferable as it's what I'm dealing with here.
I realized that the hilt on the standard edition UC Hobbit Sting is of some sort of plastic (anybody else know?), but I was absolutely convinced it was wood somehow in the store upon handling it. And I had a thought: would it be difficult to craft a hilt of some sort of hardwood and basically swap it out after disassembling? Of course the wood would have to be a nice deep red wood like cocobolo or something, and stained, and one would have to think about a way to get the vine detail on it.
Has anybody ever attempted this? Curious of thoughts, processes things like that, tips for disassembling/reassembling, warnings, etc.
Thanks guys!
Daniel
