Swordplay

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Perhaps it's good that I waited until after last night's Smallville to make my sword for my Halloween costume. Now I'll have visions of Lex caressing his Kurosawa prop sword and cricking his neck to inspire me.

Which reminds me, if anyone has any tips about making a cardboard sword, feel free to leave me a comment about it. This is the first time I'll be attempting it and I have a few (hopefully) kick-ass design ideas - I'm just hoping they translate well on cardboard.



ETA - after weighing myself this morning, I've lost nearly eighteen (18!!!) pounds. Woo! That's pretty exciting, considering all the birthday cake I've eaten recently.

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Mmmm, cake, pie, ice cream, meatloaf, mashed potatoes....oh, I'm sorry, what was I saying?

Thank you for the advice on the sword. I had thought about cutting out two of them to glue together, but lazy-assed out and only cut out one sword. I did cut out two extra handles and taped them all together to get a bit more raised surface on the pommel (or whatever it's called). Plus I reinforced the "blade" with packing tape before I put on the foil covering.

It's fun to swish around in a manly fashion (would that be "swash"?) and brandish one's sword; I can see why Lex does that a lot on SV.