With that entire block gone, the less interior angles are able to be cut away, as well.ĭepending on the wood that you use, you may want to sand the edges a bit, or you may find that you don’t need to. Drill and cut the final angles. There’s an extra trick for cutting out those last tricky angles: you drill them!ĭrill a hole at one corner of the most interior part you can then insert the jigsaw’s blade into that hole and use it as the starting point to cut away both lines leading from that hole. –and then cut in the other side, meeting up at the vertex.ģ.
Basically, you want to cut into one side of every angle, all the way to the vertex– Begin to cut the angles. Because these swords have no curves but instead lots of angles, cutting them out is a little different from your typical jigsaw work. Since I was going to cut them out with a jigsaw, anyway, it was fine.ģ. Trace the template onto the wood. I made nine of these little monsters, so I puzzle pieced them in so that I could fit them all onto this single piece of wood. I found a Minecraft sword coloring page online and enlarged it to the correct size, but you can also hand-draw a perfectly correct template, yourself, if you’ve got a ruler and a little time to count squares.Ģ. Make your Minecraft sword template. After a lot of futzing, I decided that the perfect length for a kid-sized Minecraft sword is about 18″.
They fell right to it when the party started, and returned to it in between each of the Minecraft party games.ġ. If you don’t want to invest in one, however, shout out to your Facebook friends–I guarantee that someone you know has a scroll saw or jigsaw that you can borrow.ĭrill. Specifically, you need a drill with a bit that’s wider than your jigsaw blade.Īcrylic paint. A lot of the fun of this project, for the kids, was painting their own swords. Scroll saw or jigsaw. I loooooooove my jigsaw and use it all the freaking time. Score for getting some unwieldy wood scraps out of the garage! Last summer, I tore out the closet in the kids’ bedroom in order to make room for, you know, their actual beds, and I found that the paneling boards that had been used to make the closet walls were perfect for this. It also has to be wide enough accommodate the sword’s cross-guard, which leaves out pallet wood, dang it. Scrap wood. You can cut these swords out of cardboard, but honestly, I found it easier to find scrap wood that’s wide enough than I did cardboard–I used up all my excess cardboard on the Creeper pinata! The wood should be pretty thin, since you’ll be cutting it with a scroll saw. Thanks to Minecraft’s blocky design scheme, it’s actually not that hard!
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If you, too, want to skirt the line between Bad Mom/Awesome Mom, as well, here’s how to make your own Minecraft sword out of scrap wood. Yes, some of the kids skinned their knuckles. Why, yes, I DID find it perfectly acceptable to make wooden swords for children. Well, here we go again, because I have to tell you that this time I not only made the weapon FOR my kids, but I also made it for six of their friends! Many of you are used to being appalled, by now, at the fact that I permit my children to make and play with toy weapons.Īnd the one that loads of commenters on our CAGW Facebook page fell over themselves to assure me that I am officially a Bad Mom for: the pallet wood lance.
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