Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01847

Because the handle for Kirby’s Rainbow sword was so small I thought that I would take the handle that I created for a dagger that Eva wanted for her cosplay. That dagger did not work right because the blad was printed in 4 parts that did not go together right so I still had the handle parts. I glued it together and then added it to Kirby’s Rainbow sword. The problem is that when I was cutting off the handle I cracked the blade where it was attached to the crossbar of the sword. I glued it back together but it was no longer strong and Andy picked it up and it immediate cracked again. I sanded it down and attempted to put it back together but there is now a huge gap that I will again attempt to fill in and then I’m going to have to paint the whole thing with the primer spray paint and we’ll see if we can salvage this for a prop for Eva. It probably won’t have that fancy multi color filament showing though. But maybe I can make part of it still work for the design.

I’ve got to get going on learning more about how to take files like the sword handle file and the other sword blade file and put them together into one file to print as a single sword/ dagger. That way I won’t have to fool around with glueing and all that. I did not have enough of the filament left to make another sword so instead I made some fidget items for Andy and also a bunch of tiny axolotls that Andy could give their friends tomorrow night at bowling.