LeMal
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Post by LeMal on Jan 10, 2022 0:06:38 GMT
Had the angle grinder out with a flap wheel on, and thought "hey, there's that scythe sword I made waaaaay back" (like, in high school, around 1980 or 81) "maybe it's about time I cleaned it off." Then thought, "hey, and I never even really tested it out right back then--and there's a nice dense gourd in the garage." Light swing. Guess I never had to worry about whether these'd be viable weapons, did I? imgur.com/gallery/zY7cXms(Oops though. Now guess I'd better finish that handle off right after ... forty years! )
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Post by legacyofthesword on Jan 10, 2022 19:55:52 GMT
That's badass! Kinda looks like something a Dacian warrior would carry.
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Post by Elrikk on Jan 10, 2022 21:28:06 GMT
Oooh….I see a hidden gem under there.
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Post by LeMal on Jan 10, 2022 22:20:05 GMT
That's badass! Kinda looks like something a Dacian warrior would carry. I know, right? But nowhere near as nice as uzitm's sica and falx! Man, aren't those beautiful?
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jan 11, 2022 2:02:44 GMT
You know we will shun you if you don't finish it.... 😃😃
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LeMal
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Post by LeMal on Jan 11, 2022 3:38:03 GMT
You know we will shun you if you don't finish it.... 😃😃 It and the half-dozen other projects I literally have 95% or more done! The sad, insidiously sneaky oldest secret of successful procrastination I learned too early: if you get really, really close to done quickly, you can dawdle there pretty much forever with hardly anyone ever pressuring you. Then you just keep starting new projects and quickly bringing them close to finished quickly, and so on and so on. (rofl)
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Post by glendon on Jan 11, 2022 22:33:19 GMT
You know we will shun you if you don't finish it.... 😃😃 It and the half-dozen other projects I literally have 95% or more done! The sad, insidiously sneaky oldest secret of successful procrastination I learned too early: if you get really, really close to done quickly, you can dawdle there pretty much forever with hardly anyone ever pressuring you. Then you just keep starting new projects and quickly bringing them close to finished quickly, and so on and so on. (rofl) And that is exactly what I needed to learn. Thanks. Brilliant. Applied to daily life as of this post.
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Post by stormmaster on Jan 12, 2022 3:27:17 GMT
looks neat, i feel u could almost do something zoomorphism with the handle
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LeMal
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Post by LeMal on Jan 12, 2022 4:29:39 GMT
looks neat, i feel u could almost do something zoomorphism with the handle Neat idea--thank you! (You know what's funny too is that what I did way back, what you see atm, was, after a bit of a cutout for the tang, form a handle from epoxy. Now, somehow for the first time in arts & crafts, I've only recently been introduced to "cold casting," and realize it's a great way to form parts when, like I usually do, you don't have space conducive to traditional casting and/or machining. Cold casting would be perfect for forming and then fine carving, with a dremel, the details of something animorphic. One more synchronistic convergence of things from very long ago and the present, sword hobby-wise.)
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Post by LeMal on Jan 17, 2022 18:18:39 GMT
Another case, albeit much later, of a sword made from farm implements. About eleven or twelve years ago I hilted up this puppy. Dug it out and also made short work of another gourd. Went through with scarcely any resistance at all. imgur.com/gallery/qla4KyW
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