This Little Sword Letter Opener Will Slice Through Envelopes
A fire poker gets a new life as a sword-shaped letter opener.
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Weekend Watch: Building Comically Giant Swords with Michaelcthulhu
Mike Craughwell (aka Michaelcthulhu) makes awesome giant swords for a living. If you’ve ever wanted a ridiculous large sword, he’s your man.
Casting a Pewter Sword with Styrofoam
Swords are generally made out of some sort of steel, but if you simply want to stab backyard plants, pewter (an alloy made primarily out of tin) will do the trick. USF student Kevin Kohler, home for the summer, decided to try his hand at casting metal, and decided that pewter was an excellent material […]
Sword from Space! Blacksmith Forges Blade from Meteorite
Modern blacksmith artisans from ASBL Lucilinburhuc use old world craftsmanship to transform a meteorite into a sword. The meteorite is heated to form the raw material. Then it must be carbonized to transform the brittle iron and trace metals into hardened steel. For the carbonization process the blacksmith chiseled the meteorite material into 80×40mm pieces […]
A Tiny Sword from Nails
No, that’s not a plastic drink stirrer you see in the picture above, it’s an actual metal sword made from two nails. If you have some simple tools, like an anvil and hand drill, this sword takes the prize for best awesomeness-to-cost ratio. If you watch the video below, you might be confused by the […]
