Thinking of making a wooden sword like this... Any tips?

>>1179689
Full tang or go home

>>1179689
What purpose shall it serve ?

>>1179689
>wooden sword like this... Any tips
try using steel

>>1179689
Yes, put one at the end away from the handle. Good luck taking on Magneto, you glorious bastard.

>>1179698
Just a prop. My cousin is a fantasy fanatic, so seeing how I do absolutely nothing I thought it would be a nice project.

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>>1179700
Initially I thought I would use steel, but the hilt would be a nightmare to forge or grind.

>>1179705
original and funny

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>>1179689
Pic somewhat related. Just finished this. All I can say is take your time and think about how you want it to go together before you start butchering some wood.

>>1179689
remembered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcDCZ2TmTck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1--0DLJv-8

>>1179765
>>1179771
Thanks, I'll draw a template and see how it goes.

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>>1179689
or you can buy damascus sheet and grind the shit out off it and then just heat treet it (or what ever you whit it - to much YT knifemaking videos)

>>1179689
Make sure the blade and handle are one piece. The hilt can be separate.

>>1179765
thats fucking beautiful anon

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>>1179689
Cut out blade blank
Make sure blade blank includes tang (which you will use as handle)
Give bevel on either tilted table saw, or a wide taper chamfering bit on a table router
Cut fuller (falsely known as blood groove) with router using a straight guide

Build the guard and pommel
Before shaping guard and pommel, make the mortises, so just like a real sword they go through the tang and sit in place
Shape and stylize guard and pommel
Glue together

Wrap leather on grip

Fucking done son.

(pic related, I make wooden swords)

>>1179765
I'm not OP, but I'm a newfag at this

Can you describe how you did that? How you put it together, etc.

>>1181273
Oh that's a lovely one too. Thanks for the steps, didn't finish reading the thread

>>1181273
This.
Basically make it the same way as a metal one, just carve instead of casting and forging.

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>>1179689
You want the whole thing to be two pieces, the blade/handle, and the guard.

Theres two ways you can attach them, the one on the left would be the easiest to have a clean finish, but the one on the right would be the most secure although would need more precise work to have a clean finish.

>>1179771
ha. came to post this. just watched it yesterday. He does a good job, and is interesting to watch.

>>1181273
>>1181639

Thanks. I'm a bit tied up with work these days, so I'll probably plan a bit more and save it for another day.

If it's going to be used for villainy, make it at least partially serrated/irregular.

OP you have reminded me of when me and my brothers were young, we would draw sword designs on plywood and dad would cut them out with a jigsaw. Then we would beat the shit out of each other with them. Good times.

>>1183823
Mom got rid of the pool noodles because we played with them that way :(

>>1183824
But now I have Force FX lightsabers I got when I was younger and stupider, and a bf to duel with :D

>>1183823
>>1183824
My friends and I use to use PVC pipe with foam insulation loosely taped on. The tip of the "sword" would wear down from scraping on the ground and expose the pipe. Blood was shed.

>>1179732
Nobody said the entire thing had to be steel, and it looks like a simple enough part to take to a machinist to mill.