Who are you calling ‘backstabber’?! I am the Dragonblade, gift from the empress herself.
This is part of a three sword (so far) series that I’ve explored. I’m not going to get into process details, we’ve covered them a lot on the forum. Instead I’ll list a series of skills that you will need and you can search for them.
Things you’ll need to know:
- Passthrough technique
- Kerf Adjustment
- Cutting and scoring techniques
Things it is good to know:
- Wood staining
- Wood finishing
- Edge sanding/shaping techniques [search for my layered round boxes, I talk about it at length)
- A functional knowledge of your Agrippa.
Materials:
- 1/8" baltic birch
- Wood glue
- Wood stain (optional)
- Wood finish (I used wipe on satin polyurethane
Tools:
- A belt sander is really nice to have for shaping the blade. It will save you so much time.
- Hand sanding block is basically a requirement
- A bench vise or a clever clamping solution (Far harder to try to hold this while you do detail sanding. A vise really helps)
- Clamps. Lots of clamps. You’ll glue a lot of parts together, but the blade is two layers of 1/8" ply thick, and that requires a lot of clamps to keep it together while the glue sets.
Banana intentionally not included, go to the third post in this series to see that.
