This is what it looked like before it went into the oven for five minutes. My set up for holding it up without damaging the still soft clay was two peices of tinfoil rolled into tubes and folded in half. I sat the oven, and placed the wand on a foil lined cookie sheet (just incase it did turn out to be a puddle situation) and used rice to weigh the foil down and hold it in place. I figured since the peices of clay that I used. The directions on the box say to set the oven to 275 and bake 15 minutes for every inch or so of clay used. The plus to getting Super Sculpey is that it is chip-resistant. The sculpey that I decided to use was Super Sculpey, the only color it comes in is a fleshy pink and as opposed to the multiple other colors you can get sculpey in. I also used a tiny bit of sculpey to fix the sharp point on the handle of the wand as well. So i used a tiny peice of clay to create a rounded tip on the wand. Every time I glanced at the wand the three little abnormalities bugged me, and slowly picked at me until I decided that If it melted the wand I could always use sculpey and make a new one. I decided that the issues weren't nearly as annoying as I first thought they were, so I put the clay away and sat the wand on the table. Imagine my frustration when the only idea I could think of could possibly reduce the wand I had just received into a puddle of molten resin with a metal rod in the middle! Though I doubted that 275 degrees for five minutes would melt the resin into a puddle I was nervous about seeing visible distortions in the wand itself. Google searches about the melting point of resin pulled up nothing. So I decided on another option: Super Sculpey and an oven. As anybody who just spent a small wad of money on an object, I was slightly worried about the effects of high temperatures and the resin that Noble Collection makes their wands out of. (but to do that you must have time and patience, I dont have either). Most of my results pulled up nothing, other than making a mold out of ruber, and then casting an entierly new wand. So I scoured the internet looking for ways to fix things made out of resin. The wand (tax included) was around 42.00 and thats just a little bit too much money to spend only to not be completely happy with the product. Though it is not chipped it is sharp, this needs to be repaired as well. The very tip where the 'vine' thins out into nothing right next to the base of the handle is where the uncomfortable spot on the wand is. You can clearly see the blunt tip of the wand in this picture, though not a massive issue it is slightly bothersome for someone who is a stickler for details like I am. Clearly the wand on the site has a rounded tip with no visible metal rod. The last thing that I noticed that I was slightly unhappy about was the handle of the wand had a rather sharp point hear the bottom of the handle, though it's not a defect it is clearly uncomfortable and had to be fixed. The tip of the wand was flattened and the tip of the metal rod was clearly visible at the tip, though painted over it was clearly apparent that it wasn't exactly as shown on the site. There were two other oddities that I noticed on the wand that wasn't in the picture or any of the reviews that I had seen online. What I was suprised to see was the Trademark information printed on the wand (i knew it was there from the reviews that I had seen but when I received my wand I was rather suprised to see the words printed across the raised vines instead of in the holes between them like most the other wands i've seen in reviews. The picture that was advertised when I ordered the wand was this one.įrom looking at reviews on youtube and other sites such as the replica prop forum I knew that the color of the wand was going to be more of an earthy green than the pale honey brown color shown in the picture, which is (according to the screen) now accurate. The company that I ordered the wand from was The Noble Collection, all of their products are 1:1 reproductions of authentic screen used props from the Harry Potter Movies. Ever ordered something from a website and been slightly let down when the product you hold has tiny differences from the product you thought you ordered? I had that issue very recently when I ordered a replica of Hermoine Granger's wand.
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