Lemongrab's Sound Sword- Adventure Time

[The Schlitzie]

Hi guys, well as some of you guys know I'm a huge Adventure Time fan. As soon as I saw this sword in the episode "You Made Me", I knew I had to make it.


The proportions change for the sword in every frame (yay for cartoons!) so I had a bit of wiggle room on sizing it, but I did grab a shot here he holds it against his chest sort of and I scaled it roughly according to his arm length from wrist to elbow. I ended up lengthening up the blade a bit because once I saw the scale of it in real life it just looked too short. ( I settled on a full length of roughly 25.5" with a 19" blade)



Anyways, made up some blueprints and transferred them to a thin wood sheet I had. The grip will be wrapped with leather to thicken it up. Then I went to town with my jigsaw.





There will be a left and right grip that will sandwich the center and I'm going to round them considerably to keep the thickness to a comfortable amount. Also one side of the grip will be open with a slot in it because I'm mounting a battery pack and inverter into it so that I can mount EL wire into a grove that will run all the way around the edge of the blade! I'm just waiting on the EL wire and battery pack so that I can double check it's dimensions then I'll cut out the slot in the center and one of the side grips. I'm thinking I might stain the grips instead of painting them for more of a real world version of the sword. The leather wrap will velcro together to cover the slot on the one side.

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

I hate Adventure Time but I love this character. Would love to see some thin sheets of brass cover the surface of your sword!

 

[The Schlitzie]

You hate Adventure Time?! One million years dungeon! hehe. I like the darker or weird episodes much more than all the candy kingdom stuff.

That would be pretty easy to do..I wonder what it would set me back to find 2 sheets long enough.

I hate Adventure Time but I love this character. Would love to see some thin sheets of brass cover the surface of your sword!

 

[ultraman]

WHAT YOU HATE ADVENTURE TIME?!?!?!......................

I hate Adventure Time but I love this character. Would love to see some thin sheets of brass cover the surface of your sword!

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

There's just something about that show that is obnoxious to me; it's like Young, Cool, Hipster Kids: The Show. They also replaced my show, Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, with it so consider me a bit biased. If you want dark and weird every episode, that's the show for you.

 

[The Schlitzie]

I loved that show! I also liked Over The Garden Wall. Patrick Mchale I think is the writer for it as well.

There's just something about that show that is obnoxious to me; it's like Young, Cool, Hipster Kids: The Show. They also replaced my show, Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, with it so consider me a bit biased. If you want dark and weird every episode, that's the show for you.

 

[The Schlitzie]

I had a few meters of green EL wire to test out the setup:



It was not fun making room in the grip for everything but I managed it! I know the grip looks really chunky but, I will be sanding and rounding quite a bit of the material off. It's just what I had on hand. Also I will be recessing the wire into the blade 3/4 of the way and it will be bent into the shape at the tip of the sword.

 

[The Schlitzie]

I had a chance to finalize the way I would run the EL through the handle/blade and I started shaping the handle some and worked on the crossguard (sorry, don't know the official names of the sword parts). I might shave the crossguard down a bit as it looks kind of big.

 

[ultraman]

 

[The Schlitzie]

That's a cool idea. I might just use real brass handle pins. It looks like I can get a bag the right size for $1.99 shipped.

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[NathansPROPS]

I absolutely love Lemongrab and have been wanting to build his sword! Your's is looking awesome and ACCEPTABLE! I shall look at your build as a reference for when I start mine. Had a question about your EL wire color? Greens a nice color, but isn't it more yellow in the photo? Could go either way, thanks for sharing your build!

 

[ultraman]

he's making it with yellow el wire.....they sent him the wrong color but he used it for the picture to see how it looked.

I absolutely love Lemongrab and have been wanting to build his sword! Your's is looking awesome and ACCEPTABLE! I shall look at your build as a reference for when I start mine. Had a question about your EL wire color? Greens a nice color, but isn't it more yellow in the photo? Could go either way, thanks for sharing your build!

 

[NathansPROPS]

ultraman thanks for the clarification! I saw the photo and thought "Green works, but yellow would work better?"

 

[The Schlitzie]

Yup, Ultraman's right. My yellow EL wire came in today. I got impatient and tried to rush cutting the groove that the wire will sit in....so I did some bondo work as well today. I've decided to just wait till monday on this project when I can run the blade through the table saw and get a nice straight groove cut into it. I think I might just paint the blade and once I find a good source for affordable brass sheeting I'll upgrade it.

I did though get to work on my second BMO today.

 

[karmajay]

Any updates? Thanks! ( I LOVE AT also!)

 

[The Schlitzie]

Thanks! I was able to make a mount and run the sword through the table saw at work and get a really nice groove in the blade. I've been busy with some other projects but I haven't forgotten about the sword, I promise! Hehe. I still need to put a groove in the recessed part at the tip of the blade, which I'll have to do with a router or a dremel. I'll get some new pics up soon of the sword in it's current state though.

Any updates? Thanks! ( I LOVE AT also!)

 

[The Schlitzie]

Wow, I've had this sword sitting around the shop forever! I finally finished this thing up. I might throw it in the Junkyard since I'm not %100 happy with the route I took. I'm contemplating making a proper solid metal sound sword that doesn't light up or utilizes an led strip instead of EL wire.