Sorta fitting that these are almost ready since Highlander The Source just hit DVD stands this past tuesday.
Let me first say that I am a HUGE Highlander fan, so for me to say that The Source is one of he worst movies ever made, is saying alot.
However, it IS a Highlander movie, therefore i forgive it of all of its miriade of shortcomings and will probably grow to love it as much as i love Highlander 2, which USED to hold the title of worst movie ever made...
SPOILER ALERT....... ah hell... no one will probably see it anyway...
but in the Craptastic movie, poor Duncan looses his PRIZED 500 year old Marto wallhanger katana and has to find another weapon to chop heads with.... Luckily, Docks in Lithuania (where the movie was filmed) just so happens to have a large amount of weapons laying around and in a fancraptic musical montage, Duncan finds some Butterfly Swords that he luckily is already very skilled in using. It helps when the Music is "Princes of the Universe" but alas, not sung by Queen, but by some Karaoke band who are all tone deaf..... After quickly cleaning them with some KY jelly, they apparently finds them suitable for fighting the most powerful immortal every, who happens to have a leather fetish.... however Duncan drops them a few times fighting poorly armed mortals.... guess they are tougher than those ancient immortals...
Anyway, if anyone has actually SEEN this movie, which had its major huge big U.S. premier on the Sci Fi Channel a few months ago, you will probably get all of the jokes above.... if you have NOT wasted 1.5 hours of your life watching it, then i just wasted a few minutes of yours making you read all of that.... so without further adue... on to the blades!
regardless of all i said above, Im still a highlander fan, and therefore have supreme authority to complain... and still love it!
as stated Duncy looses his sword and gets butterfly swords.
I commissioned a swordsmith, Earl Blackmore to make me a pair, replicating the movie props as closly as possible while at the same time making them functional weapons. useing crappy pictures , we were able to figure out the "kanji" symbols on the blade and Earl acid etched them on.... i gotta give Earl props, because given the VERY limited photographic reference combined with the fact that neither he NOR i can read what it says, i think he did a good job........ if anyone who CAN read that writing (i THINK its supposed to be chinese...) and it looks fudged up.... well.... be nice
He has been working on these a long time and I think hes done a really good job replicating the prop!
so here are some pics...
Let me first say that I am a HUGE Highlander fan, so for me to say that The Source is one of he worst movies ever made, is saying alot.
However, it IS a Highlander movie, therefore i forgive it of all of its miriade of shortcomings and will probably grow to love it as much as i love Highlander 2, which USED to hold the title of worst movie ever made...
SPOILER ALERT....... ah hell... no one will probably see it anyway...
but in the Craptastic movie, poor Duncan looses his PRIZED 500 year old Marto wallhanger katana and has to find another weapon to chop heads with.... Luckily, Docks in Lithuania (where the movie was filmed) just so happens to have a large amount of weapons laying around and in a fancraptic musical montage, Duncan finds some Butterfly Swords that he luckily is already very skilled in using. It helps when the Music is "Princes of the Universe" but alas, not sung by Queen, but by some Karaoke band who are all tone deaf..... After quickly cleaning them with some KY jelly, they apparently finds them suitable for fighting the most powerful immortal every, who happens to have a leather fetish.... however Duncan drops them a few times fighting poorly armed mortals.... guess they are tougher than those ancient immortals...
Anyway, if anyone has actually SEEN this movie, which had its major huge big U.S. premier on the Sci Fi Channel a few months ago, you will probably get all of the jokes above.... if you have NOT wasted 1.5 hours of your life watching it, then i just wasted a few minutes of yours making you read all of that.... so without further adue... on to the blades!
regardless of all i said above, Im still a highlander fan, and therefore have supreme authority to complain... and still love it!
as stated Duncy looses his sword and gets butterfly swords.
I commissioned a swordsmith, Earl Blackmore to make me a pair, replicating the movie props as closly as possible while at the same time making them functional weapons. useing crappy pictures , we were able to figure out the "kanji" symbols on the blade and Earl acid etched them on.... i gotta give Earl props, because given the VERY limited photographic reference combined with the fact that neither he NOR i can read what it says, i think he did a good job........ if anyone who CAN read that writing (i THINK its supposed to be chinese...) and it looks fudged up.... well.... be nice
He has been working on these a long time and I think hes done a really good job replicating the prop!
so here are some pics...
