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16th November 2016, 07:07 AM #1Senior Member
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Wooden Swords
After watching my boys chase each other around the place with sticks I decided to make them something a but more realistic, I'm also considering making adult sized ones and selling them as sparing swords, along with small sparring shields. Wooden swords were used in the old days for training so beginners didn't seriously hurt each other.
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16th November 2016, 07:48 AM #2
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.
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16th November 2016, 07:51 AM #3Senior Member
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it's actually quite rounded off at the end, was a balance between looks and saftey.
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16th November 2016, 10:43 AM #4
They look way too good to use a toys....the kids will have a heap of fun playing & imagination....TOP JOB SIR...cheers. crowie
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18th November 2016, 09:19 AM #5Senior Member
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Yes these sorts of toys get beaten up rather quickly, it is great having your own kids to use as testers.
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25th November 2016, 09:22 PM #6
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.
DSCF7353.jpgHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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25th November 2016, 09:50 PM #7
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25th November 2016, 09:59 PM #8Senior Member
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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.
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26th November 2016, 07:50 AM #10
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.
No gaming console in the house at the moment. But something that I am not looking forward too. Why can't he pickup woodworking?
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26th November 2016, 08:26 AM #11
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!
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