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Cut the foam out for the gold layer to check on the thickness, it looks like it will work well! I will probaby need to figure out some way to uniformly taper everything -> need to investigate that
For the PVC structure/removeable handle, the hole in the sword prevented it from going straight through. Trevor suggested bending it and with my heat gun and a few minutes I was able to easily bend the PVC! And it stayed their nicely. Eman suggested flattening it to make it thinner and stronger, that will be the next step!
Had some unplanned free time today as tutoring ended early, Harbor Frieght was nearby so I stopped to get some more mats for my sword! With the four original squares I had bought I was able to make about 90% of a Dreadblade so I purchased two more, one for the other sword and then one more for finishing off the pices + hilt mats
I couldn't find any relevant coupons but the mats were $9 a piece which isn't bad at all. There were a TON of people there for almost 1pm on a Thursday though!
I opened my new mats to cut out the pieces for the second Dreadblade and the gold pieces and THEY SMELLED SO BAD, so they went outside for a couple of hours. The fumes seem to have disappated so cutting them tomorrow!