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The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 1 (Tools and Equipment)Have you ever asked yourself "How do I make a sword?"more pricesely a katana. Well If you have asked that question then I am here to help you answer that. This swordmaking Tutorial will cover everything you need to know about swordmaking. It has an attractive layout, easily readable discriptions, easier to understand discriptions and step by step pictures to know which process you are at. These swordmaking tutorials are aimed towards swordmakers and propmakers, however anybody is free to use them at their own leisure to try swordmaking.
The first part of this swordmaking tutorial is (tools and equipment). In this first part you will learn which tools and equipment you will require to do swordmaking. The discriptions will say why you need to use the tools, how to use the tools and finnaly which part of the swordmaking process you will need to use it for. All these tools and equipment are basic hand tools, cheap to buy and find saving in money and to be more safe.
The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 1 (Tools and Equipment) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 2 (Planning and Drawing) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 3 (Cutting out the Sword) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 4 (Cutting out the Tsuba) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 5 (Sharpening the Sword) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 6 (Sculpting the Details) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 7 (Painting and Glossing) [link] The Swordmaking Tutorial: Part 8 (Constructing the Sword) [link]
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look for a tutorial in my gallary called swordmaking cost analysis
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Great tutorial, I think I'm going to try this out. Will it work for Western swords too?
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sure it will work, just cut the blade out straight
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By the way, about how long does it take to make an average katana?
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Ok. What about the crossguard/tsuba?
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Hmm, I can't seem to find some primer spraypaint. Does it have to be white? Plus, where did you get yours?
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I bought mine from any convience store lol
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omg awsome guide.i made one after seeing this and i worked on it for lik 3 days but i do have one question......where do you live because i cant find these measurements in cm so i used like a 44in seeder plank we had laying around. so yeah when ever u get the time will you (OR ANYONE tell me where to get these measurements at!!!!) please and thank you oh and one other thing where'd u get the cool work bench??
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I got the work bench from my home improvement store, I live in the UK, so I use metric measurements lol, have you tried using a measurement calculator?
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o.0 havent thought about that.... thank you ^^
(3mins l8er after using calc.) wow this is interesting lol ok so i need to get a piece of wood thts
-40in long
-3.5in wide
-.2in thck 0.0
well...good thing tomarrows pay day so imma c if i cant find a place in the u.k to order off the net from
thank you again^^
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lol im gunna end up hurting myself trying to make a sword ^^
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well we all did and so did I
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Cewl!
Now I need to figger out how to make a metal one.
*dashes away*
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then that would require someone else XD
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Woo..~ I think I'll become Home Depot's new best friend. I think I've been there every day this week. xD
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I used to visit the home depot everytime I could aswell when I started swordmaking
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DUDE!!! This is FRIGGIN' GODSENT!
I've been looking for a tutorial like this for months.
FINALLY, someone uploaded one.
Your swords are awesome. And the whole tutorial helps me understand more to make prop swords.
I'm trying to find a way to create my own sword for a short film I'm doing here in my Video Tech class.
Great work on the Tutorial by the way.
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well next time you need to find tutorials for swordmaking, just come straight to me and I will guide you to infinite knowledge XD
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Thanks...
I'm hoping to create a replica of the swords from ARAGAMI.
They're awesome.
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Your katanas are beautiful!! I'm so glad that you are willing to teach others!! You're some one I could look up to... sensei.
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People who dont teach others obviously want to keep their secrets to themselves, share to care I say
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You're so right^^ I shall start work immediately... as long as I get the okay from my father... XD
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Oh my god. I was looking for something just like this... have been for several years, in fact. Is it possible to do something similar for other types of swords? I'm assuming so. I hate limiting to just one style with cosplay. For example, one year I want to make the Masamune, but the next I want to make Excalibur. I know it probably won't work for something like the Gunblade, but for swords that have a basis in the real world, it should be fine. What do you think?
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learning how to make one type of sword will help you learn how to make other swords by adapting the skills you have learnt to new sword designs. Everytime you make a sword of a new design you learn new experience and with that you can make even more sword designs, is what I think
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well when my step dad goes off to costavo for a year and his tools are unwatched ill have to attepmt to make one! besides some of the files and piant he got all the tools to do it
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well when you do make a sword upload it and link it back to me 8D
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well im wondering if this weird or not but stuff likle that for me is even if i screw it up i still finish that is that normal
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I dont understand your engrish lol
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Thank You For That
NiCe (:
صور الحلقه الاخيره من مسلسل نور
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TY SO MUCH for these tutorials 
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Make a sword, then link it back to me as thanks XD
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you wouldn't mind if i copied this, would you?
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ok i'm gonna make a katana even if it kills some 1!!!!!!!!!!! (or posibly me,but i highly doubt it)
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may I wish you the best of luck then ^^
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This tutorials are really great.
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My new and improved swordmaking tutorials to teach the world swordmaking ^^
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The world will be deeply thankfull!!!
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Oh YAY! This is great! I so want to try this! I'll just have to wait until school lets me 
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Theres still 6 more to go so dont hold your breath XD once they are complete get ready to do some swordmaking ^^
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thats prity cool
but u mied up screws a little
when u said "flat head" there realy called "counter sunk"
and when u said "singel line" thats ment to be "flat head" (flat head = type of screw driver)
other than that this is cool
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O.O Ah damn now I have to change them XD thanks alot for telling me ^^
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use zippo to wipe off the excessive adhesive from fabric and electrical tape...
that would solve the problem
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I would be a little bit scared of doing that with a wooden sword XD
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actually use a tape base for the tsuka... it eliminates the need for paint...
which zippo fluid usually dulls paint or dissolves them
and since the fluid vaporize quickly with almost no remaining smell and sticky feel...
i use it to remove adhesive residue on scissors and other items as well
electrical tape typically shrink due to the initial pull to lift the tape from the coil...
the shrink leaves behind a trail of adhesive...
cloth tape are not as bad, but still shrinks a bit...
the good thing about ribbons is it's non sticky, the draw back is it slips from smooth surface easily...
so im currently thinking of using fine, light-color abrasive paper to act as a mock-up ray-skin
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omg u make ur own sworks!!!!!!!!!!!
thats soooooo cool ^^
nice work........
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yes I do make my swords thank you very much XD
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