Thread: Wooden Swords

Very kool!.
But I'd be rounding the ends off those before letting the kids loose with them.
That cutlass looks like it could take an eye out!.

Cheers
Trev.

it's actually quite rounded off at the end, was a balance between looks and saftey.

They look way too good to use a toys....the kids will have a heap of fun playing & imagination....TOP JOB SIR...cheers. crowie

Yes these sorts of toys get beaten up rather quickly, it is great having your own kids to use as testers.

Nice work , thanks for sharing. I had the same problem with safety vs. looks. My wooden toys swords and axes had to be registered with the police before I could take them into the Caboulture Medieval Festival.

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Originally Posted by Cooroy Toymaker

Nice work , thanks for sharing. I had the same problem with safety vs. looks. My wooden toys swords and axes had to be registered with the police before I could take them into the Caboulture Medieval Festival.

The FUN POLICE at it again concerned you were going to start a mini Sunshine Coast Medieval Revolution with wooden toys......

Awesome, I remember my brother and dad making a timber sword for a Scouts project. They went a bit crazy and my brother ended up with a full size sword with pretty sharp edges, there's no way a sensible parent would give that to a kid today. However, from about the age of seven we had home made bow and arrows with Bullrushes for arrows and shanghais and we all still have eyes.

Getting injured by a wooden toy is better than getting RSI from playing the X-Box too much.

Originally Posted by Ubernoob

Awesome, I remember my brother and dad making a timber sword for a Scouts project. They went a bit crazy and my brother ended up with a full size sword with pretty sharp edges, there's no way a sensible parent would give that to a kid today. However, from about the age of seven we had home made bow and arrows with Bullrushes for arrows and shanghais and we all still have eyes.

Getting injured by a wooden toy is better than getting RSI from playing the X-Box too much.

Well said mate

Well done on the wooden swords. The photo seems to indicate that the cutlass is a bit too pointy.

That being said my son has started picking up a pen or chopstick and he starts waving it close to his head. Then when I take it off him the cries, I never though that he could open his mouth so big.

Originally Posted by Ubernoob

...getting RSI from playing the X-Box too much.

No gaming console in the house at the moment. But something that I am not looking forward too. Why can't he pickup woodworking?

Originally Posted by Cooroy Toymaker

I had the same problem with safety vs. looks. My wooden toys swords and axes had to be registered with the police before I could take them into the Caboulture Medieval Festival.

Seriously?

I ask as a toy store has asked me to make a new range of simple "Peter pan" style stubby short swords.

Can our society have become so bad that one has to register a "stick"?

This can't be real. I work fairly closely with a few knife makers here and I don't recall them getting too much strife over their creations. One of them was a humongous Bowie!