Hi sword lovers. I actually posted this over in another section before I realized there was a section specifically for swords. So here we go again lol....
Hi everybody. Im fairly new to posting here but been lurking around here for years LOL. I recently finished a project Id like to share and get some feedback on. It's a sword inspired by the movie Blind Fury. And although I do make my own blades I actually used a Huawei blade for this one. But even though I didnt actually make the blade a lot of work went into the rest of it. I guess you could call it an extreme modification or customization lol. Anyway I have always loved the sword in the movie but could never find one even close to looking like it. I know that there are lots of Zatoichi swords out there but most are really nice and pretty looking whereas the one in the movie just looked like a plain ol stick. Not perfectly shaped it was kind of irregular and plain like someone had just cut a piece of straight tree and just roughly made a walking stick out of it. Well thats what I wanted. But to be honest I didnt want it to be quite as rough looking as the movie. If you catch some still footage in the movie you can see that it was pretty damn rough LOL I wanted mine to be as unnoticeable as possible to the fact that it was actually a sword. But I still wanted it to look like a plain ol, hiking stick So I purchased a Huawei Zatoichi and tore it down. I dont know if any of you have ever seen the inside of one of these but to mu surprise the tang is not very long at all and the blade was not pinned. Its actually held in by the tang being shaped kind of zigzag around the wood inside the handle.. So before I set out to make my Blind Fury sword I actually welded a little more length to the tang. If you look closely at the pic of the handle you can see where I actually pinned the blade in and countersunk the pins and made some small wooden plugs to hide them. That was some hard metal to get a hole through lol But anyway here it is. I worked on it off and on for a long time and its finally finished. My plan is to just handle it as much as I can and maybe even use it hiking sxo it can get that natural Worn used and slightly dirty look Then Ill lightly polyurethane it BUT use a FLAT poly so that way it will protect it but it wont be shiny and wont look like its finished. Ok so didnt mean to babble on like that sorry. But anyway here it is. Tell me what ya think.
Hi everybody. Im fairly new to posting here but been lurking around here for years LOL. I recently finished a project Id like to share and get some feedback on. It's a sword inspired by the movie Blind Fury. And although I do make my own blades I actually used a Huawei blade for this one. But even though I didnt actually make the blade a lot of work went into the rest of it. I guess you could call it an extreme modification or customization lol. Anyway I have always loved the sword in the movie but could never find one even close to looking like it. I know that there are lots of Zatoichi swords out there but most are really nice and pretty looking whereas the one in the movie just looked like a plain ol stick. Not perfectly shaped it was kind of irregular and plain like someone had just cut a piece of straight tree and just roughly made a walking stick out of it. Well thats what I wanted. But to be honest I didnt want it to be quite as rough looking as the movie. If you catch some still footage in the movie you can see that it was pretty damn rough LOL I wanted mine to be as unnoticeable as possible to the fact that it was actually a sword. But I still wanted it to look like a plain ol, hiking stick So I purchased a Huawei Zatoichi and tore it down. I dont know if any of you have ever seen the inside of one of these but to mu surprise the tang is not very long at all and the blade was not pinned. Its actually held in by the tang being shaped kind of zigzag around the wood inside the handle.. So before I set out to make my Blind Fury sword I actually welded a little more length to the tang. If you look closely at the pic of the handle you can see where I actually pinned the blade in and countersunk the pins and made some small wooden plugs to hide them. That was some hard metal to get a hole through lol But anyway here it is. I worked on it off and on for a long time and its finally finished. My plan is to just handle it as much as I can and maybe even use it hiking sxo it can get that natural Worn used and slightly dirty look Then Ill lightly polyurethane it BUT use a FLAT poly so that way it will protect it but it wont be shiny and wont look like its finished. Ok so didnt mean to babble on like that sorry. But anyway here it is. Tell me what ya think.
