So for those who missed my budget Nimbus 2000 build (http://www.therpf.com/f9/i-got-my-gi...es-day-176699/) I'll go ahead and tell you, I'm not really a Harry Potter fan, but my girlfriend is. So via osmosis I know a bit about the series. Any I was in Hobby Lobby, and I saw a "rosewood yarn winder"
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I pointed it out to Tiffany(my GF) and said it was a Harry Potter wand, she said it did look kinda like one. So I picked it up and with one of those 40% off coupons they are always having with their website(I love my smart phone) I picked it up for just under 5 dollars. Anyway as it turns out the winder is 11 inches, and Harry's wand in the books is suppose to be 11 inches. Also here is what his wand looks like in the first 2 movies.
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I was floored! Very similar, i mean yeah the yarn winder is thicker, and has those 2 nubs at the end of the handle, but wow, it is defiantly close enough for government work :p. You could take off the "nubs" but then it would be about 1/2 inch to short.
I read that the wand I show in the pic was in the wand shop scene, but maybe not the one Harry gets, but the one Harry does use is identical to it in looks, and that one is 11 inches long, just like the winder. I read that Harry's wand was 14 inches in the movies, but that may have just been the last 6.
Thoughts? Ideas? Comments? Questions?
I pointed it out to Tiffany(my GF) and said it was a Harry Potter wand, she said it did look kinda like one. So I picked it up and with one of those 40% off coupons they are always having with their website(I love my smart phone) I picked it up for just under 5 dollars. Anyway as it turns out the winder is 11 inches, and Harry's wand in the books is suppose to be 11 inches. Also here is what his wand looks like in the first 2 movies.
I was floored! Very similar, i mean yeah the yarn winder is thicker, and has those 2 nubs at the end of the handle, but wow, it is defiantly close enough for government work :p. You could take off the "nubs" but then it would be about 1/2 inch to short.
I read that the wand I show in the pic was in the wand shop scene, but maybe not the one Harry gets, but the one Harry does use is identical to it in looks, and that one is 11 inches long, just like the winder. I read that Harry's wand was 14 inches in the movies, but that may have just been the last 6.
Thoughts? Ideas? Comments? Questions?