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Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:59 am
by sdfgeoff
Hammer a nail flat, and spend a few hours at a bench grinder, and then a whetstone and you have these. The long one is 11cm, and the short about 4 or 5.
Yes there is photo-editing involved.

The "made by ###" reads made by Chris. In a phonetic language of Chis' manufacture. He happens to be designing an entire race, and these are some prototype weapons....
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Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:42 am
by Thenior
Now my old legos can have real swords!

Looks cool.

Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:02 pm
by sdfgeoff
Now you've put an image in my head of walking through a child's messy room and being chased by a bunch of sword wielding lego men, stumbling over the other bricks...

Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:42 pm
by Thenior
yeah that, or stepping on them in the middle of the night...

Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:52 am
by Isaac
Those are cool!

Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:04 pm
by Spidey
But, did they fold those nails over and over and over…

Re: Nails, um, I mean, swords....

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:11 pm
by sdfgeoff
I'm afraid I don't have the equipment of skills to make damascus steel, so no.
The build process can be viewedover at instructables

I'm glad you like them. I've made two more, a cutlass and another generic sword.
I'm currently seeing if I can plate them with aluminium so they don't rust, because where I live, everything seems to rust way to fast....