This is the collaboration work between my 3d-impaired friend *furan-san [link] (she's awesome none the less) and me. Sun Wukong's Jingu Bang, or Power Pole for the DBZ illiterates (messing with ya!). Took me about 1 hour to model, and even though it looks easy, I wanted to make sure everything was how it was meant to be. Then played around with different render settings which can be seen in the image. I even made it look like glass. As allways, I work on Maya, rendered using Mental Ray

Little history, take from Wikipedia. Ruyi Jingu Bang, literally meaning "As-you-will Golden-bound Cudgel, is the poetic name of a magical weapon wielded by the Monkey King in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. It is an iron rod whose size changes according to the whim of the user, once used by Da Yu to measure the depth of the flood waters destroying ancient China, which Wukong obtains from the undersea palace of Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea. It is immensely heavy; in modern measurements, it is slightly weightier than 7.5 metric tons, which is why it is feared by many deities and demons as the ultimate beating weapon to be killed by. When it is not in use, Wukong shrinks it to the size of a sewing needle and keeps it behind his ear. It is often depicted as red with gold bands near the ends.

Well, there you have it!