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The swordfamilly of Kitetsu is said to hold a sinister curse. All swordsmen who's been wielding any of these swords has finally met a horrible death. Sandai Kitetsu is a so called Wazamono (sharpsword) which is one of the lesser in the Kitetsu familly. Roronoa Zoro finds this sword in a barrel among "cheap blades" when feeling the soul of this unusual sword. Zorro, by throwing the sword up in the air and holding out his arm, gives the sword a chanse to harm him. It sneaks just around his arm, leaving it uncut. The shopkeeper, impressed by his currage and luck decides to give him the sword Sandai Kitetsu, as well as the very beautiful longsword Yubashiri/Snowrun.
The handle of the sword has a rugged tsuba/hilt with a siple divided battlewrapped strap of leather. The solid blade without fuller has a hamonline in a characteristic "flame" pattern. The sword has a very solid and smooth feeling to it.
This sword was made before I learned how katanas looks irl so nerds like be might get irritated of some details x3 Any way, the blade is nice and soft, with a full fibreglass core and leather cap to prevent the point of the core from harming the sword from the inside. It's fully functional and very comfortable to use.
These Roronoa Zoro-swords are all a familly. They can be sold sepparately but that would be a shame to pull them from eachother, don't you think? ;3
All my weapons are handmade in every detail, with as genuine material as possible, wood, real leather etc... They're all tested to withstand all kind of beating that can occur, during larp, cosplay etc...
The core is a 8mm in diameter fibreglass rod. The body, heads and blades of the weapons are all made of a cellplast material, much like the same material used in campingmadrasses, just tougher and more flexible. The surface is made of about 10 to 12 layers of latex. (5 regular, 3 mixed with black acryllic and about 2 too 4 layers of differentially coloured latex.) The handles are often made of wood, due to the wobbly effect you might have with a normal foamplast handle. The wood makes it both safer to use and easier to controll. There are exeptions though.
If wished, I can take orders. Give me a holler and a description or picture (or both) by note. From there, we can discuss the matter and perhaps come up with something awesome! I'm working like this: First I sketch up a set of weapons that I will make (Up to 15 weapons) and then start building from there. When my set of 15 is planned and done, I will continue making order, but you'll have to wait untill the current generation of weapons are made before having yours created. Why I'm doing that is because that is the number of weapons I can cover with latex before the brush is destroyed. Latex can't be washed of and every layer of latex destroyes one brush. I've tried many solutions but noone works good enough without lowering the quality of the latex layer.
OBS!
These weapons has been laying for a looooong time, without beeing latexed, with makes the surface of the cellplast a bit rugged. Therefor, some of the weapons may have a bit of a rugged latexcoat. With that in mind I have lowered the price of this weapon.
Please understand that when doing all this by hand, it takes much time and effort. The materials are also of as good quality as I can afford to make them as durable as possible. Thereby the prices.
I'm taking payment throught paypal.
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Say where can I get some of the material to make one? I'm working on a new cosplay and the oc character of my choice (One of my one) has a katana as a weapon of choice and I have never made one before.
Any tips would be very appreciated.
Thank you.
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The foam-plastic can be everything between a normal sleeping-mat for camping - to expencive special manifactured cellplast (which I prefer). The sleeping pad is the easiest component to get your hands on. The other ones are following: Liquid latex, 1 rod of fiberglass (between 8 to 10 mm in diameter.) and some acryllic paint.
The liquid latex is one of the most tricky ones. I have my one contact from which I buy containers for about 5 l. For one weapon, I would say that 50 to 75 cl would be sufficient. Check larp-sites and costume-sites to find it. It will be used to qoat the weapon in many protective and decorative coats.
The fiberglass rod is usually found as poles for electric pig-fences. They can be found in (i dunno the english word for it) some "farm-stores" or sometimes on larp-sites. The rod will serv as the core of the weapon and it will never break. The tip must be secured with a leather or - for example - duct tape socking to prevent the tip from wearing its way through the cellplast and thereby destroying the tip of the weapon.
The acryllic paint will be mixed with the latex (mostly like: 1 cup paint to 6 cups of latex) You'll have to coat the weapon 5 times with pure latex, then 3 times with quite concentrated black-mixed latex to create a plain black foundation to add additional colours to in the following 3 layers of paintmixed latex . The paint can be foun in almost any hobby store.
When it comes to the creation of the weapon, I can only add that you should look up different youtube and google etc. tutorials to create your own way of making them. No matter how much anyone tells anyone "how to make" bofferweapons, it will never be the same result. The tips I can give you is to use a firm material as a handle, like wood, to replicate the real weapon as good as possible. Just think about padding both ends of the weapon propely to make it safe to use.
Good luck!
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Okay and thank you.
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