April Sword Update

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Well, another month and more progress.

So, I've learned a thing or two about prototyping. Everything is gonna cost you $200 or more and take at least a week to complete, lol. Just expect it, unless you want to hand-jam everything, but for this project I wanted a repeatable process. Needless to say, it's been a very fun and educational experience thus far. With only 1 more major process, and a few finishing things to do (such as attaching the horns to one of the sets of cross guards), I can say the sword is nearing completion.

I had a really cool experience with a local blade smith who was able to grind an awesome hollow grind onto the blade. I'm so impressed with this that I may abandon machining the edge in favor of coming up with a grinding jig for any future blades. I just love the precision of machining, also aluminum dust is akin to saw-dust but obviously alot more dangerous. This thing generated a bunch of dust during the grinding process. So, if I were to do again I'd setup a collection system to keep it at bay.

Thank you to all who've been following, I look forward to completing this project and taking pix!
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ShaozChampion's avatar
Some pretty epic props. Hope to see some of them in movies someday