Paper Laminate Dagger

This is a fairly simple paper dagger, and it is VERY strong for paper. It is made out of paper and glue(there are no Popsicle sticks, no metal, and no extra reinforcements of any kind besides the paper and glue.) The method I used is what makes it so hard and strong. Although the blade of the dagger may look thin and brittle it is actually over twenty lairs thick. The already painted dagger has withstood little kids, being thrown over and over again, and hard thwacks to metal and wood, I even demonstrated the durability of it in the video at the end of this Instructable.

Also I am not some 7 year old trying to make a sword, I had the idea of using paper laminates for various things for a few years now, I have made small functional paper guitars(they don't last too long though), functional paper ping pong paddle blades(by blades I mean paddles without the rubber), and now toy daggers. I am soon to be 18 and going to college in a few weeks(well moving out I don't start until summer), so I hope this Instructable will inform you as to why my friends say I have to much time on my hands.  =P

Step 1 Tools and Materials

Materials-
-about 20-40 sheets of Printer Paper
-White craft glue(don't be intimidated by the gallon of glue it doesn't use nearly that much.)
-spray paint (optional)

Tools-
-a big paint brush
-a Styrofoam bowl
-hand clippers (the paper gets that hard to cut)
-scissors
-a vice
-a hammer

Comments

[omfglawll33thacks]

20-40 sheets! Wow lol. Looks good though.

[HoboPhil]

If someone can make something like this to withstand the punishment I dealt on it, it says 2 things. 1 your pretty good at it. and 2 you spent to much time on it. go back to college =P

[14r31337]

Rated 5 stars but it came up at 3.09 for some reason. Awesome dagger.

[smileys]

Thanks, and one of my other ibles first rating was 5 stars and it also showed up as 3.09, so I don't know what that is.