How to Make a Spartan Warrior Sword

The Tools and Materials you will need to make this sword:

• A cardboard box, or sheets of cardboard. You will need three pieces that are each a minimum of eight inches wide and 36 inches long. You need three pieces because the sword is made up of a sandwich of three sheets glued together. This makes it strong enough for use; and you will also need another small sheet of cardboard that is about 8 x 1l inches
• Some kind of glue or a glue gun to glue the cardboard together
• Scissors or a sharp utility or hobby knife to cut the cardboard
• Paints, Recommended are brown, black and silver
• Some wire (optional) this is to make the vane going down the center of the blade. I will show you more about this

http://www.stormthecastle.com/how-to-make-a/spartan-sword/make-a-spartan-sword-template.pdf Template

Step 1: Print up the template booklet and cut out the pieces of the template then tape them together so you get a sword shape.

Step 2: Put this paper template on your cardboard and trace it out. Do this so you have three sword pieces that you will glue together. Also, trace out the handle pieces. There are four handle pieces.

This is what you end up with.

Glue the three sword pieces together one right on top of the other. They form a sandwich like an oreo cookie.

Then glue the four handle pieces onto the handle of the sword. Two on top and two on the bottom as shown in the next picure.

Once you have glued the three sheets of the sword body together you can then glue the four handle pieces onto the sword. The picture at left shows the two that have been glued to the top of the sword. You can then flip it over and glue the two to the bottom.

You can see that the sword is pretty much complete. Now we just have to add the optional vein down the middle and then paint it.

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Starting at the tip of the sword glue the wire right down the middle of the blade. Glue gun works really well for this but if you only have regular glue that will work fine too. I recommend you glue it then put a little bit of tape over it to hold it in place while it dries.

Run the wire all the way down the blade to the handle. And also do this on the other side of the blade. This whole step of adding the wire vein is optional but it does look better with it.

Once the glue has dried it is time to paint. You can see in this picture on the left that I have covered the handle with white paper. This is to protect it from getting painted.

Once I have painted the rest of the sword I will remove this white paper and paint the handle last.

You don't need to mask off the handle if you are brushing on paint. But if you are using spray paint you might want to do this. It will turn out better and neater.

Painting The Sword

Paint the whole sword black. And if you are spray painting, mask off the handle like I have done in this picture.

Paint the edge of the blade silver.

Paint the handle brown and add some black lines and you are done!

Here is the completed sword. Have fun!