In this part of the tutorial we continue making the sword and I show you a neat technique for making the sword blade much stronger and much better looking.

Part 1 of this tutorial is here

Ok! We want our sword blade to have a nice shape and we want it to be nice and strong. This is a cut away view of how we want to assemble the two blade lengths together.

Draw a line going right down the center of those four sword pieces. Only on the blade sections. Not the handle sections. Then cut through that line with a sharp knife.

But, you only cut through the top layer of paper and some of the foam. Do not cut all the way through everything.

Then cut a line both to the left and right of that first line you cut. These two lines are cut at a 45 degree angle. In effect what you are doing is cutting a long notch right out of the center of the sword blades.

This is what you end up with.

So now it can be folded like this to form the shape of the sword. The only thing remaining is to trim down the ends at the red dotted lines. This is so the two sword halves will sit flat against each other.

This picture shows you the whole process really well. At "A" the center notch has been cut. At "B" the edge has been cut and I am in the process of cutting away the edge at "C".

Don't glue any of this together yet. But go ahead and form a nice bevel on those blade halves so they look like this.

Next draw a series of runes on the blade. And cut those runes out. I only did one blade. But you have the option to do both blades if you want to.

Ok, let's start making this sword

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