How To Make A Wooden Sword In Real Life

Saturday afternoon my son says he wanted a sword.

How to make a wooden sword in real life. Its pretty cool sorry the vid is long. Our swords all have solid modern heat treat and we balance and tune our swords based on the originals we have studied. To make a simple wooden shield start by sketching your design true to size on a large piece of poster board.

This must be matched to a rigorous heat treat for the sword to stand up to use. To make a wooden sword measure from the cleft between your thumb and forefinger up to your eye then round that measurement to the nearest full inch to determine your ideal sword length. Grip the sword with both hands with your dominant hand near the top of the grip and your non-dominant hand at the bottom.

The cross guard has a through mortise allowing the grip to slide through. I always put all three blocks in the middle column. We only take on commissions for swords we can make real.

This deals 6 damage and lasts for 132 hits before breaking. But I made this and decided to upload it. This is all accomplished through subtle changes in the taper and thickness of the blade.

You can make a sword in that pattern. The pommel and cross guard are made from Black Walnut. In comparison the wooden sword does 5 damage and lasts for 60 hits As with all swords.

And the blade and grip are one continuous piece of maple. Dont worry the next video will be a stop motion. Next thing you know he want me to make one for myself so we can fig.