Hello fellow makers of things,
I decided finally write my first post. This is one of my first proper prop builds, though I have been making for many years now. I had not planned on posting, but hopefully some of this may be useful to someone, and by all means, I'd love to hear any improvements
So, I've always wanted Ned Starks sword, Ice. I Looked at the replicas available, but they all seemed too commercially made. Having about a day where no one was in the work shop I decided to go hell for leather making one. I had all the research done over the previous couple of weeks, so it was a clean run at the project. All in all though, I would like to have had the luxury of a bit more time for the finer details.
So, after getting my 1.5 metre drawing finished I planned down some beech to 13mm and transferred paper to timber
Next I routed out the blade design . . .
Once routing had finished it was about 20 mins of hand plane and sanding to get the blade shape correct . . .
As this sword is 1.5 metres in length, and I wanted to be able to swing the thing around (who doesn't!!), I decided to extend the blade timber into the hand, and to build the handle around it. Before doing this I need to make the guard. This was made for some of the off cuts from the blade. I mortised it on the mortise machine, cut to shape on the band saw and sanded it all up.
So, next up was the handle. This I made from two old off cuts of Mahogany which I stuck together and turned on the lathe. I left the end quite wide so I could trim it on the bandsaw to the get flat section on the end. Once sanded and happy with the shape, i ripped the entire handle in half on the bandsaw. I traced on the shape of the blade I had extended down to the blade and cut out a trench using forstner bits. Once everything was fitting snug, it all got glued back together around the handle and then the entire sword got the mother and father of sandings!
Okay, so, now all it needed was some spraypaint, and to make little gold ends of the guard and handle. These were made by cutting and gluing dowel rods of various sizes together. All this was done while waiting for the 4 coats of primer to dry.
So, all that remained was some color and a good weathering.
And that's it!! The photos really don't the size of the thing justice, its HUGE!!
I decided finally write my first post. This is one of my first proper prop builds, though I have been making for many years now. I had not planned on posting, but hopefully some of this may be useful to someone, and by all means, I'd love to hear any improvements
So, I've always wanted Ned Starks sword, Ice. I Looked at the replicas available, but they all seemed too commercially made. Having about a day where no one was in the work shop I decided to go hell for leather making one. I had all the research done over the previous couple of weeks, so it was a clean run at the project. All in all though, I would like to have had the luxury of a bit more time for the finer details.
So, after getting my 1.5 metre drawing finished I planned down some beech to 13mm and transferred paper to timber
Next I routed out the blade design . . .
Once routing had finished it was about 20 mins of hand plane and sanding to get the blade shape correct . . .
As this sword is 1.5 metres in length, and I wanted to be able to swing the thing around (who doesn't!!), I decided to extend the blade timber into the hand, and to build the handle around it. Before doing this I need to make the guard. This was made for some of the off cuts from the blade. I mortised it on the mortise machine, cut to shape on the band saw and sanded it all up.
So, next up was the handle. This I made from two old off cuts of Mahogany which I stuck together and turned on the lathe. I left the end quite wide so I could trim it on the bandsaw to the get flat section on the end. Once sanded and happy with the shape, i ripped the entire handle in half on the bandsaw. I traced on the shape of the blade I had extended down to the blade and cut out a trench using forstner bits. Once everything was fitting snug, it all got glued back together around the handle and then the entire sword got the mother and father of sandings!
Okay, so, now all it needed was some spraypaint, and to make little gold ends of the guard and handle. These were made by cutting and gluing dowel rods of various sizes together. All this was done while waiting for the 4 coats of primer to dry.
So, all that remained was some color and a good weathering.
And that's it!! The photos really don't the size of the thing justice, its HUGE!!
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