I've attached photos showing how it looked before the grooves as well as the handle studs were added. My sloppy work isn't really noticeable when the wand is viewed straight on if you get what I mean. It was a bit of a trial and error thing since I had no real previous practice, but overall I'm happy with how it turned out. The grooves in the top portion were filed in using a thin precision file. It was made from NINE different parts, by a combination of different tubular pieces and conical pieces made using the mandrel. The top handle/guard separation was the most challenging part. I left a bit of an oxidized finish on the pommel. One of the triangle shapes were too irregular so in the end I re-cut a single triangle shape about the right size I needed and brazed it back in place, if that makes sense to any of you. I then pliered them around into a mostly-decent pyramid shape. The bottom pyramid-shaped pommel part was made by cutting out a sheet of (mostly equal sized) conjoined triangles, then filed in the lines separating them. ![]() They were all then brazed together carefully. The parts shown are all made by cutting, drilling, piercing, and hammering against a steel ring mandrel. So I got to work on it using copper sheet instead of a silver-colored metal the original wand is clearly portrayed with, mostly due to the fact that I have tons of copper lying around, and I thought it would be a good practice metal as it is easy to work with. I was also inspired by user dcn5002's insane Slughorn replica made with aluminium parts. I had a clear enough picture from The Wand Collection book that I could use to calculate approximate handle dimensions in proportion to its length, knowing the total length of the wand is listed as 12.25 inches. ![]() As the movie version isn't for sale anywhere, I naturally took it upon myself to work on a movie version, but with ebony and real metal parts to make it more authentic. These wands are both official in the sense that they were clearly both designed for the movies, but there's no clear reason given as to why there's two versions. It's common knowledge to most wand-obsessed fans that Narcissa Malfoy is shown using two different character wands: the one seen used by Narcissa and Draco in the DH part 1 and 2 movies respectively, and the more well known one used in the publicity/promo images and posters which is also the same one sold as a replica.
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