BUILD a SWORD

by I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON!

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Intro: BUILD a SWORD

This instructable will show you how to make a home made sword easily and effectively. But this will all depend on your creativity with it. I only made this when I was about 10, just as an example of how easy this is.

STEP 1: Gather the Junk

First your going to need afew things sutch as any type of strong ties or metal strips.Tape of your choise will be needed(I perfer duck tape),and a bit of card board.The tools you will need will be a grinder of some sort,and a sort or hand grinder for detail.

STEP 2: Hurry Up and Start!

Now you can start with the strip.First you have to take the strip and tape and configure a comfortable handle to fit your grip.Secondly,you have to figure out how you want to make it.I made mine with horns as you can see on the intro.You can use any metal strip you find in this way of sword making.But be sure you have the stamina to sharpen thick strips.(I've done it before and it takes for freaking ever!)

STEP 3: Begin Sharpening

This is pretty self explainatory.Sharpen and becarefull.

STEP 4: To Make Sheath

Take you're card board and metal strip and line them up.Cut out 2 shapes of youre blade from the card board.After youve done so,make sure that the card board and the blade are the same shape.Then you measure out how long your blade is and cut out a rectangle big enough to cover the edge of the sheath.Make two of these rectangle strips.I used a knife for this example.

STEP 5: Cut Out

These will be some steps on how to make the sheath.

STEP 6: Sheath Step #2

Cut out each pice of the card board.

STEP 7: Sheath Step#3

Sandwitch the blade between the two main pices and use the side pices on the sides of the blade and the sheath.(The blade will have to be in the half way made sheath the whole time).

STEP 8: This Is It!

This is what you should end up with.

STEP 9: Dont You Feel Proud!

If you survived making it,you will find that the swords function will greatly depend on how thick you chose the metal.You can now use this sword as a macheti for lawn work.Or you could be really board and want to cut things like fruit or other random things.If you make it thin it will be more liable to bend and look like crap after use.But it will be easier to make and will have a better cutting effect.If you make it thick,than it will take longer to make,have a strong hack and slash effect(not clean cuts), but will last far longer.

43 Comments

ArtemisF 8 years ago

You could have just used an axe to cut the the pointy end (sorry I don't know the correct terminology)...

liLightaura 13 years ago

How do you cut it after you have your design?

I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON! 13 years ago

The reason my method of "sword making" is so simple, is because I am so limitted in the availiability of tools and space. So you see, I had to do it the hard way, with my little dremel hand held, a grinder, and a pear of metal sheers. It would really depend on what kind of strip you are using. I usually make a very basic shape and then just continue to grind the rest off and proceede to shape it with my grinder. Actually I can do a lot with a spinning wheel of stone.

curvy77 12 years ago

ooo now i see what i forgot on my sheath! (the small rectangle bit for the edge) thnxs man!

curvy77 12 years ago

lol your right! my 10 year old bro made a sword too! course it was the scrap from my 6ft one ( hehe >=) )

liLightaura 13 years ago

BY the way who said you where michael jackson

I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON! 13 years ago

I honestly have no clue since I made my profile a loong while back. Wierd thought I guess.

Gage987 14 years ago

what did you use for the blade

I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON! 14 years ago

For the first sword, I used a strong tie and for the second one I used a sort of pole. You can find them in some fences holding up the fence. For the first one I used a strong tie. A strong tie is a strip of metal use to anchor two pieces of wood together. There are many forms of them, you just have to use the straight ones. I would suggest some of the thicker ones.

snowbum14 14 years ago

i would end up using  3/4 in plywood and measuring the thickness of the blade to make it a tighter fit 

Camisado 15 years ago

No offense, your Idea is good, but the hilt is just terrible. Make a neater wrap around it.

dpsilver 15 years ago

I made my own sword but i used a sock and wrapped tape around it for comfort and to prevent those shocks for hitting something hard

I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON! 14 years ago

I bet it looks way better than tape right? Come on man, no one is going to take you seriously with a sock for a handle wrap! At least tell me you tried to hide that fact with some thing......

dpsilver 14 years ago

sigh heres a picture of it and u seem to have misunderstood me i used a sock and wrapped tape around the entire thing so it looks neat sorry i dont have a pic of it close up 

I AM NOT MICHAEL JACKSON! 14 years ago

I am so sorry for dissing you like that. But I just got a vission of a sword with an end of a sock hanging from it. It looks alright. How long did it take you to make it? How long and thick is it? And one mor important Q, what the f$#k do you use yours for?

dpsilver 14 years ago

lol yea its alright not bad for using hand tools alone right
but time to answer ur questions
1 it took me about 2 months of constant work to make it
2 the blade alone is 26 inches long and another 13 inches for the handle
3 thickness the back end of the blade is 0.5 cm thats very thick and the top of the tip is 0.1 cm thick
and most importantly
4 i havent killed any animals with it and only used it to cut soft plants. i havent been able to get it hardened yet so that all ill risk for now
but the blade should be toxic after all thats what ive been cutting with it the oleander plant 
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