Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley pirate costumes (Monkey Island)

Step 5 Swords: making pirate blades.

No pirate is complete without their sword.

We briefly look for pirate swords at a discount store, but couldn't find any. We did however find other swords and due to their cheap price decided to buy one of each.

They were:

• Knights sword and shield $2
• Zorro style sword $1

There is one defining characteristic of a pirate sword; that is the curved blade. The curved blades were made from cardboard and attached similar to the existing sword's blades. The Zorro style sword was to be kept longer than the other.

Silver paint was painted on the cardboard to produce the metalic effect.