8/12/2023 0 Comments Make wood katana![]() I've put fullers into some and made flattened diamond sections for the others. The thickness is 25-28mm thick at the cross and tapers to 15mm at tip. I have made ~40 longsword wasters on the following dimensions 1200mm long, 45mm wide 25-28 mm thick in oak, we have yet to have a breakage and they are used weekly. Posted: Thu 16 Mar, 2017 1:18 pm Post subject: Waster dimensions If you're making a 40" longsword, it's easy to make two of them from a 45-50"*4" plank. You'll find it is hard to balance the sword all in wood, drilling a hole into the pommel and filling that with lead does help. The guard can be easily made of the same plank, a slot made into it, and fitted in place with glue and a few screws. It is stated that the guard should be handle length, but there is a lot of variance. I'd also use a pommel that does not have a larger circle than 5.5 cm. I'd use a 1:3 or 1:3.5 grip+pommel to blade dimension, so a 40" total length would have a 10" grip+pommel. Round off all edges of the wood, which costs a bit of materal, but you can then practice with it a lot safer. Our plank of 2cm thickness would need to be 4.5cm2/2cm = 2.25 cm wide.Īt the base we make the same calculation 4.5cm*0.6cm*5=13.5 cm2, our plank of 2cm thickness would need to be 6.75 cm wide. Say we have a sword that is 3cm near the tip, and 4.5cm near the base, and we'd want to emulate this in wood.ģcm(width)*0.3cm(thickness in steel)*5(ten times as heavy, divided by 2 due to diamond shape vs rectangular)=4.5cm squared That's not easy to get into planks, so you could use a plank that's of even width, say 2cm, and have it taper a bit more. Near the base, the sword could be 6mm or even more, wood 3cm thick of the same width as the sword would be needed. ![]() A 1.5cm rectangular plank the width of the sword near the tip would be exactly as heavy. Near the tip, a longsword can be as thin as 3mm, and since it's diamond shaped, it's only half the volume. I'm going to generalise a lot of things in the next few sentences, take them as you will 78 and the density of steel is 7.8 if I recall correctly. If you want a sword that has the same weight you'd need 10x the amount of material it has in steel, the density of oak is. This does look like it could start you on the journey. Posted: Tue 14 Mar, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject: I think I'll use it for other swords, when I buy electric tools.Īnyway, thanks! I'll continue posting here for advice and even showing my works to you!Īnd here is a picture of my useless prop waiting to the glue to dry out, so maybe it can be useful at all: It's a pretty though wood, that I can tell, working with it was extremely hard. I didn't use pine after all, I used a local wood named "cedrinho", I couldn't find the english name. I'll do another when I buy proper tools, I've used very primitive and simple tools to do it.Īs for the functionality, I will try to fix the pieces with some glue and resin, see if it works better than screws, but I'm not hoping to anchieve anything. ![]() I should've made it whole from a single chunk of wood, but, live and learn. I've made the sword, but piece by piece, and now it costed me functionality. Hail guys! Thanks for all the advice! I didn't take any in the end, because I had no internet connection last week. Posted: Mon 13 Mar, 2017 12:06 pm Post subject: So. They are a bit large (pictures) but if you PM me an email address, happy to share. I tried a short grained hardwood (jarrah) - not a great success!Ī while ago i wrote down all the steps for making both a longsword waster and spadone waster. Oak - relatively easy to work, excellent grainĪsh - again, good and hard but tends to have more issues with tear out when working Pine is likely to splinter and break dangerously and you can easily hurt yourself or someone else.Įven if it is purely display, oak really looks the part especially if you use an iron gall stain and linseed. If you plan to do ANY contact work, whether sword to sword or to pell, you will need a long grained hardwood. I'd echo what the other respondents said. Posted: Thu 09 Mar, 2017 6:41 pm Post subject: Wooden wasters ![]()
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