Plastic Pirate Sword Mod

Step 11 Finish scabbard

24.  Replace fancy filigree bits.   After all your glues and adhesives are dry, you can wrangle the filigree back on top of the newly covered scabbard and screw it all back together!  Yay! You have now turned a Prince of Persia plastic sword toy into a real work of reenactment genius.

25. If you plan on wearing the cutlass, you'll need to complete one final step. You must weight the scabbard down too, or your dagger/cutlass/sword will fall right out when strung to your belt, the hilt being heavier than any other constituent parts. To do this, you have to get creative. I purchased five fishing weights in two sizes. After spray painting them gold, I stitched the largest and heaviest inside a store made scarlet tassel. I used four smaller weights on the outside of the tasse. Sure, it looks like a tassel with gold fishing weights now, but what do you want? It's a plastic sword! As it happened, my sword had a mysterious hole drilled into the decorative ball end of the scabbard, so I fished my cleverly weighted tassel through it and stitched it securely with a needle and thread. Now it counterbalances the weighted hilt beautifully and looks wonderfully threatening hanging comfortably off my belt.