Diy: Woods Preparation Swords!

Wood Training Swords!
These are some fun grooming swords my miss made for her brothers for Christmas. These are fun to vanquish in addition to bang around. I beloved to encourage my kids to acquire exterior in addition to play. We've fifty-fifty had neighbors comment that it's prissy to run into kids exterior playing, since it's in addition to therefore rare. Sad, isn't it?
Things similar these sturdy grooming swords are simply the things to acquire the kids playing outside.
If you lot are worried they volition simply struggle each other, gear upward a business or obstacles for them. We beloved filling onetime milk jugs alongside H2O in addition to letting the boys slash at them...setting upward soda cans or similar things on a bench in addition to having the kids hitting them downwardly i at a time. Challenging them to focus on simply i target at a fourth dimension in addition to non beingness reckless. I am a big believer of letting kids learn to purpose things (like tools, weapons or fifty-fifty make-up) instead of simply maxim no.

These wooden swords are covered alongside leather scraps on the hilt...a nifty sewing projection to instruct mitt stitching too!

Just depict in addition to outline the cast of the desired sword.

We used a bandsaw to cutting the shape. Jig saw's are nifty too.
We used pino boards, but they are non every bit sturdy every bit plywood would travel inward this case, fyi.
Then sanded the edges.