Sorta funny how Canadians assume everyone has hockey tape laying around... :P

I have a new found respect for people who make these items. I never knew it took this much work to create larp weps. So cool.

Who cares about who's first? Why not comment about the build? Chris you did a great job! Love your work buddy!

Pile of leather you’ve had for a few years resonated strongly with me 😂😂

Just bought my material. Friends are lending me tools for this weekend. Cant wait to make myself a sword for my cosplay! :D

The techniques and the materials you come up with blow my mind. I would have never thought of flattening a PVC pipe in a million years. This is SO cool and looks real! Brilliant work Chris 👍

"I'm Chris from LostWax"... it's a great beginning for an adventure book/videogame, you know?.... besides, we knew you weren't from this land, so you just confirmed our assumptions lol... cool sword, nice job as usual... Could it be too much to ask for a video on Elvish swords or weapons? That would be amazing! Thanks for your hard work!

Lol that intro was great

I'm a cosplay crafter myself and I'm super glad that I found this tutorial very enlightening, specifically when you flattened the pvc pipe, because my technique is far less superior than yours. Your way will definitely make my crafting much better. Thank you for posting this.

Awesome as always! Great tutorial, Chris! 😁

The best tutorial I found on yt! Thank You!!!

This helped alot compared to others thank you!!!

totally brilliant!

You deserve more subscribers. I love your channel.

This is so awesome I need it

cool techniques!!

Why not try and heat-seal the foam? It's good for painting, the surface will be smoother and easyer to paint with everything,plus that makes the foam sturder for the long shot

Hi, Chris! Fantastic work as always! I've been struggling on how to tackle Valkyrie's sword from Thor Ragnarok, so thank you for this! Cosplayer normally use plastidip, flexidip or some other vinylized spray to seal up foam pores - cosplay shops sell very specific sprays and paints like Flexipaint. But hand painting with the acrylics does work too! Even so, you can always seal foam with watered down wood glue, white glue and I know someone who uses floor wax 🤣 Hope this helps!

Nice, thanks for the free download. That was really nice of you. 😉

Thanks great video

Dope video man

OMG Chris, you are such a dag 😂😂😂😂. That intro. This is so timely, as I had to 😳 buy🤭 a toy plastic sword in an emergency situation. Yech. I will definately be trying this! Thank you so much for your wonderful videos and for sharing the mastery of your craft.

Thank you.

You can use pine dowel for the core if you don't like PVC fumes. It's a good idea to make pool cue tip of hot glue on the end of your core to protect the foam.

i love your videos

I know it sounds weird, but sharpen your disposable blades, for crafting like yours it works and does pay off in several levels.

I stuck mine in a vice instead of the clamps and it worked pretty well. I also tried using heat lamps to get the PVC pipe soft, and that also worked. (The same lamps they use in spray booths to heat up the metal and help paint dry). Also hitting the blade with a heathen at the end gets rid of any fuzzies.

thanks so much ---- Im about to make Lagerthas sword from the vikings tv show. season 3 ;)

This is ingenious! I want to get some swords for my kids but most of the ones on Amazon are total junk! This is so much cooler imo! Seems a lot more durable too!

Yay thanks so much for this tutorial, this will be great for getting dressed up for conventions and mediaeval faires ☺️

This is very cool. Can you make one without the PVC? The comic cons I go to check your weapons and I don't think it will pass with this inside.

I find that if I have a fuzzy surface texture from sanding those thick mats of EVA foam, I can lightly go over the surface of the foam with a heatgun (in a well ventilated area with a respirator of course) and that will smooth it back out.

You can use Wood glue to seal it but if you are going to use the sword for LARP I would recommend Plasti-dip or another coating which will make it more resistant to scrtches

I love this tutorial! Unfortunately I don’t have a heat gun. Would a hair dryer work if I just used it for longer? Or will I need to bust out the butane blowtorch?

My utility/craft knife blade probably wasn't anywhere near sharp as yours, but I made a grid pattern with the blade in the area where I wanted my pipe. Then slowly from the bottom of my foam pieces, held the knife at an angle and gradually chipped the square pieces off. This took probably 45 minutes to an hour total, but I recommend this for a beginner; because this is the first time I've foamsmithed something. ^_^ Also, if you know someone with a hydraulic press, PVC is malleable and soft enough in it's natural state to be flattened by the press without breaking or cracking; the gentleman in our fab shop and myself were both surprised at this discovery. I imagine it will also work to flatten PVC if the pipe were clamped tightly in a vise, no heat or drilling necessary.

Any thoughts, suggestions on enlarging this pattern for a 12 foot skeleton? :) I know total length needs to be 9 feet.

That's the best tutorial for making a Sword!!! Also is there someway we can donate to you to improve your awesome channel ? :D I enjoy your steampunk videos!

What grit sandpaper would you recommend using to sand the back of the foam to get rid of the "bumps"? Also what grit for sanding the middle part to make it smooth before adding the plastic piece in the middle?

Great project, but do you maybe have an idea on what could I use instead of the PVC? I don't have a heat gun nor a mask to heat it up and flatten

Dude, great work! Wish i could like this video a 100times. Awesome!!! Would like to have a list of types foam that would be best? Also, i imagine that acrylic starts cracking eventually, but befor i buy a fabric paint would this work or are there better types of paint to use?

What?? No “Hi my name is Chris, and I like to make things”? Great tutorial as usual!

thinking of making this, but painting it with a florescent blue. gonna be like a real-life arkhalis model!

That so AWESOME! ¿Can you make a attack on titan swords? Greeeeeeettttings from México!!! ;)

Using a Golf Club core and Contact cement would make this - stronger and lighter - Plasti dip will make it weather resistant.

Question, do you think this method could be adapted but with a wooden core instead of a flattened PVC one? I don't have the space/materials on hand to do the PVC method and I can't immediately think of any reasons why a flat wooden stick (like, a yardstick even, something I could easily buy pre-cut from a hardware store) couldn't also do the trick.

Nice tuto! And for LARP? :D

this sword's guard could be modified into a sword for a medieval batman quite easily

Have you ever created a training dummy for sword work? I'm thinking of making one. I'm thinking I should get my hands on one of those cloth based manequins that seamstresses use, the ones with a bust, a neck, shoulders but no arms and usually these go to the waist. I'm wondering how to make the arms, how to fix the in and what to use to make them, and when I say arms, I mean not just arms, but also arms at other areas, for those other sword cuts and parries positions. I'm also not sure how to get it to be able to turn. Let me know if you have any ideas/tutorials for that.

what if it is a thicker sword, what do i put inside of it?

A really cool sword ! But why you are using hot glue instead of contact glue?🤔 i would never miss my contact glue

Nice video. So, next tutor will be a lightsaber one?

So I was hoping to make one of these for my little brother (12yrs) and it says. “Not intended for combat” does that include just playing/play combat?

Hello. Pourriez vous mettre des sous titre français sous toutes vos vidéos please? Thank you.

Now that you did a sword pattern, are you going to make a sheath?

when should we use hot glue and when should we use contact cement?

It's a lot easier to use contact adhesive when sandwiching both sides of the blade together since you have to apply the glue all over the surface evenly and you also will have a lot of time to wait it to be tacky. I am not against the hot glue, but the problem for this particular application, it might fail over time. Just my personal preference.

You are an exelent foam cutter . But.. why did you open holes on pvc !@? :P You are killing the core durability

The sword looks great! I usually sand the edges of the blade with a sander or dremel, but watching you cut it by hand makes me want to try that again. Some general stuff I learned the hard way: If you want to have a more durable weapon, use contact glue (I too hate the smell) and a different core (fibreglass or graphite, I've used both). Mixing your acryllics with some liquid latex (smelly stuff no. 2) will make it less likely to crack (NEVER use spray paint!). A lot of people use clear Plastidip to seal their foam weapons, but since Plastidip is really expensive in Europe, I tend to use Isoflex (smelly stuff no.3, this one actually recuires protection). I have used both and the Isoflex weapons hold up way better, but perhaps I didn't apply enough layers with the former. Lastly: If you're a cheapskate like me and you don't want to buy tonnes of replacement blades, you can buy a sharpener and resharpen the dull blades over and over again. I was skeptical at first, but it works amazingly well! PS: I wish I had a collection of leather scraps like that. Hot damn!

I know that is very old video but... Why You don't cure foam with hot gun or temperature before painting? Why You dont use wood glue for surface before painting for extra smooth surface and more harder?

i didn't get why you had to drill the pvc tube flattening it without making those precise holes isn't faster and less frustrating?

Why is it not intended for LARP or Combat? I want to make a sword for combat and I don't know what should I change in the sword that you are showing in order to make it functional and safe. Please help!

This is amazing. Too bad I don't have the ability to soften the PVC.

I feel personally called out with the leather hoard hahahah

Nice. Guard looks like it's backwards. But looks cool.

What thickness was the pvc?

this is the first video where they bend pvs where they tell about the poisonous fumes. the only other video where they told about those fumes was a video where they wanted them in order to pump them through water to get hydrochloric acid

Guard is very impractical

I watch a lot of these prop/foam sword tutorials and something has always puzzled me, something you actually do in your tutorial that I never see anyone else do. You flattened the "blade" part of your PVC pipe, which makes sense to me, but I never see anyone making prop/foam sword do this. They always cut into the foam itself, which to me seems odd because it thins the foam and would prevent being able to create various types of fullers on the sword.

Howd you get your arm back from the intro? LOL

He put the guard up side down, its going to hinder moviment with the sword because you hand or wrist can hit the guards fang, overall good sword, not a greatsword cause it's a lot shorter than one, if you know what I mean kkkkkkk,

Uh yeah great sword. Now tell how to do the same thing with tools that I own 😂

Can you make iron sword form Skyrim

10:17 don't call me out like that! D:

8:40 I see a foam sword and I want it painted black. No colors anymore I.. I'll see myself out now

Runescape godsword please ?

Can’t I just buy a pvc panel?

Subtitulos spañol please!!!

It looks like something from the first zelda

it's only a scratch!

As a frustrated person😊

Sooooo, just because THIS METHOD is unsafe for LARP or combat, does that mean this DESIGN can be made LARP safe? Also, WHAT about this sword is unsafe for LARP?

WHERE THE HELL DO YOU GET INTERLOCKING FOAM MATS H E L P

I don't want to be negative because I liked your video however and I apologize for being negative. You didn't need to see clamp your PVC the problem with PVC is if you put it in a PVC heater it will burn so you need to turn the PVC it will collapse naturally you don't need to drill holes in it to make it flat and you can use a blowtorch if the Scorch marks on the PVC are not important if you want to be more particular with it you can put it in a oven all you need to melt PVC is heat. You don't need to drill holes to get the heat out it will naturally do that from the ends. There's another fellow on KZfaq called Monster tutorials this guy does some really incredible stuff check him out if you get a moment.

"Safe", this sword don't pass the security control of any larp

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Or, just a though here, learn to use a sword, lol