Make a Prop Sword From Cheap Foam Panels | Adventure Time Sword
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My favorite Adventure Time quote is routinely relevant to your projects. You often start things you don't really know how to do and, well "sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at it!" You rarely "suck" but I know you get nervous about trying new stuff.
I agree that sucking at something is the first step.
After doing A LOT of woodworking during the pandemic here is my answer to ''What is 1/8th of 7'''': Screw it I will switch to metric. When doing those weird divisions, metric is most often easier to deal with temporarily.
Just use it all the time person
Like what are you doing
Also it’s 14 sixteenths of an inch in imperial(this is an actual measurement, not something I made up. Sixteenths of an inch is like the second one smaller than an inch)
A quick tip bob! When working with foams, Plasti Dip makes an awesome base coat before paint, and gives things a nice clean rubber-ish texture. Just make sure everything is sanded how you want before painting! Also, Bondo spot putty is a rigid fast-drying putty good for filling voids!
I'm sure he's aware. He's used those before
This is really helpful advice, this will really help with some cosplay. 🙃
"What's 1/8 of 7 inches?"
*Laughs in metric*
I'm also very confused as to how he ended up with "3/8 of an inch".
Isn't "1/8 of 7 inches" simply "7/8 of an inch", or am I tripping here?
Alternate "fiberglassing" option: woodglue and canvas. Simply brush on the wood glue (thinned slightly) and then add strips of canvas and brush glue over the top. Squeegee out the air bubbles as usual. Sandable, flexible, no smell, and much much cheaper than fiberglass
Fascinating... I've coated foam with woodglue to prevent it from dissolving from spray paint (how'd that Super 77 not disintegrate the foam?), but I've never considered using it as a rigid alternative to fiberglass/resin. Have you done that before, what is your take on a durability comparison? Best wishes Master
@@wren7195 i made paper mache once using diluted wood glue and it was at least 3 or 4 times stronger than regular paper mache. Canvas and wood glue works well for crafty projects. Non structural 100%. Resin and fiberglass will always be stronger but for cosplay purposes, wood glue and canvas are a much cheaper way to go. More forgiving too
@@M4st3r0fN0n3 Thanks for your kind and swift reply, it's much appreciated. WOW yeah I can imagine a paper mache reinforced with wood glue would be impressive, I'll look into that. Thanks again, very much
That's Finn's "demon blood" sword that is actually made of frozen grape juice blessed by a priest (Shelby).
Finn: "Bless this sword father."
Priest/Shelby: "Hmmmmmm check please!"
Cool Project! Quick tip for the handheld cutters, use metal straight edges and clamp them to the line(s) as a guide for the wire to run along (you can even make jigs to space them and run parallel really easy). In this case you would clamp a long ruler/aluminum profile along the two sides of the bevel for each of the 4 cuts and you can get super straight and smooth "cuts" and you can be rough with your speed and pressure as long the you push into the guides.
those difficult measurements are why metric is better!
Yeah.
And I’m from America which makes me be shamed lolw
When working with fiberglass, I've found that coating the piece in resin first (as you mentioned) and then waiting until it gets a little tacky before laying the fiberglass sheets on top helps to keep it in place and squeeze air bubbles. Then you can flood it with more resin. Awesome project as always!
Excellent prop work and good for you for learning something new! =D
Hey! Your channel is awesome too!
You mean use the bandsaw instead of the hot-wire ;)
In case you want to make something like this again, I'm pretty sure if you prime the foam before you put the fiberglass on it won't melt it.
I was thinking that as well, but wasn't sure as I haven't used this type of foam. But a paint layer would be a good barrier.
Have you tried the metric system? :)
Sincerely,
The Rest of the World
Can't argue with that.
I make mini terrain for D&D out of the same foam you used here, in my experience, it is frustratingly hard to cut a smooth straight line with the hand held foam cutters. I use a Proxxon Hotwire Cutter most often. I know this was mostly an experiment, but if you want to get serious about it in the future, would strongly recommend something like the proxson.
As for the coating, another option if someone doesn't want to get into the resin/fiberglass headache, is to make up a mod podge wash. BlackMagicCraft has a great recipe on his channel that works quite well, and is pretty durable.
I was gonna suggest a Proxxon as well. And as a follow up to check out Shifting Lands for their selection of jigs for the Proxxon table.
I have never thought of using a wood file on this stuff! That is a great tip to keep in the back pocket for the future! Great stuff, as always. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Man, seeing a styrofoam project gives me a ton of nostalgia for The King of Random's old videos. May Grant's soul rest in peace
Totally gonna make a prop now. My 10 year old is sitting here with me watching. Now I'm gonna have to make him one.
Working with this, I found that a couple coats of cheap acyrlic paints will seal your from from the polyester resin from melting it. Great video, thank you
Wow, I've always resorted to 1:1 resins, they don't dissolve the foam either, but that polyester stuff sure is cheap and convenient despite the workarounds. How many coats do you usually apply? And with a brush not an airbrush? Best wishes Buckaroo San
@@wren7195 I have only ever needed 3 coats applied with a brush.
Learning new things = fun
Fact.
Impeccable timing! Wanted to make a keyblade and had no idea how to do it. This gives me some ideas. Thanks.
I worked in the foam industry for a few years and the pink foam was always gratifying to cut.
21:15 "If you build it, they will come". Or, Bob's take on that one: "If you squint, you can see it..."
Thank you for reminding me about the insulation foam for props! I had forgotten all about that stuff.
Well done Bob I think my grandson would love that I must have a go at making one
Such a fun project and awesome execution!! Love how it turned out! ⚔
I’m thinking a jig that holds the cutter and moving the foam could maybe be helpful.
i HIGHLY recommend Sean’s Crafts for what you were trying to achieve!!! he makes awesome IRL marvel props and uses the mesh technique to perfection
Try applying the fiberglass to long/large areas with just a light tack spray of Super 77 to hold it in place. It will help you make the relief cuts for corners and edges. Wet the cloth out in-situ with a chip brush that you have trimmed and removed the loose hairs from. The small interior surfaces will still be difficult, but there will be less of the wet-handed epoxy maché action.
That thumbnail looks a
Waaay better!
Awesome project!!
Cool project. I love the Problem Solver T-shirt. I just need one where 'Solver' is crossed out.
I recommend using metal rulers clamped along your two edges of your bevel. Then you can run the wire along them and you get a nice flat and straight bevel.
The night before we went to a convention a couple of months ago my daughter decided she wanted to dress as Marceline. Thankfully I had some larger pieces of pink foam and in about 5 hours was able to make her an axe bass. I don't own a cutter like that, I used a bandsaw and a razer blade/sander to make the body and head. The neck was a piece of wood I cut down and then just 3d printed all the little guitar greebles. Turned out really well for a last min project!
Bob, buddy, you made this fiberglass process so much harder than it needed to be. You can use mats or tape but measure and cut it to fit them use spray adhesive to apply it. After that sets up, then you brush resin on over it
Very creative Bob and yet another type of project that I know I never will be doing myself! Thanks 👍👍
Fiberglass is one of those things that looks easy... gotta learn hands on! I used styrofoam/epoxy on my Batmobile project- learned a lot!
These are the kind of videos I really enjoy, just the right length also 😁
the three inch tooth-thingy is called a pommel
For general knowledge, tooth thingie is the pommel. It can be used for securing the handle and cross-guard in place, depending on how the the sword is constructed, as well as an offset weight to adjust were the center of mass is located. IE, adjusting the sword's balance.
hell yeah love to see other grown men showing adventure time some love
for future note... use the spray-foam insulation spray to bond the two sheets of foam together. waaay better than super-77
a farriers rasp is good for shaping that foam, and that foam is also good for a lost foam fasting process... if you wanted to cast it out of aluminum.
Why do I feel like I remember you made a foam wire cutter project some years ago? I must be mixing it up with another maker channel...
The King of Random?
I probably should have made one by now.
@@Rdh-ed5wh I was thinking the same thing or Adam savage
@@Rdh-ed5wh Not likely, that's not a channel I follow
Maybe Jazza?
You could use simple Wood glue and newspaper with paper towel between 2 layer of paper : it si much cheaper and less toxic. Tour child can even do it and if you do enough layers it is very solid.
With the fumes and dust on this scale you should have a respirator I use this stuff to make small terrain and wear a mask until I seal it with modpoge
looks way better than Allen Pan'd blood sword made from actual blood!! now you just need a blue t-shirt (easy), green backpack (easy-ish) and white bear hat (easy-ish)!!!
A tip for saturating your glass with your resin is to cut a piece of plastic big enough to envelop your glass once you fold it over. Add your resin to the glass and fold over the plastic, then you can spread the resin with a squeegee. Once its saturated remove it from your plastic and add it to your base material.
Part of the issues that you ran into was the style of hotwire cutter that you used. Don't get me wrong, the handheld ones are great for some things, but they are kind of the jigsaw of hotwire tools. Something like a Thermocut from Proxxon is more of a table saw of hotwire cutters
You literally just brought back some nostalgic memories from my childhood
Easiest way is saturating the sheeting and dabbing it with a brush chum then sand and fill if required
you should make a heavy full metal bat with a sharp durable blade and a slege hammer side on the other, i really want to see the results and it may become the best weapon ever for deffence and destroying!
love it! if you make more cartoon stuff in the future, having hard black edges could complete the cartoony look you want
I really like that you and E&K are friends and just how different your approaches are to a project. E&K, weeks of testing, Bob let's just wing it and see what happens. :)
When putting a hard surface to xps foam you can use black paint mixed with mod pog painted on
I recently worked on a styrofoam project and used 3M 77, works great! About halfway through the project I thought to myself, I wonder if hot glue would work on this project. What are your thoughts?
I am thinking over some kind of rail to keep de distance everywere the same. Like at some saws. Rob
1:22 metric system sent you kisses
Cool project, Bob! I have one of those fancy hot wire "tablesaw" deals you see on Black Magic Craft's youtube channel. If you want to play with more hot wire foam stuff, it might be worth looking at!
13:24
Resin Time!
Resin Time!
Do do do do
Resin Time!
And you didn't even need Demon's Blood to make it! Fiber mat is an artwork, that's for sure.
Fantastic work, Bob! 😃
You can use sandpaper with the foam as well and the results are great. Just search for some old videos of people making rc airplanes with pink foam and you'll see. 😉
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Hi,
Lose fibers is not a good idea, I think you used a too heavy mat for this application, a lighter cloth would be way easier to drape on , also there's different type off weave patterns .
Don't know what units they use in the US , but here in EU they are labeled gr/m² .
50 to 110 gr/m² would be sufficient for this application.
To use fiberglass resin on the pink foam, first cover the entire piece with adhesive backed foil tape and then you can use the cheaper stuff than epoxy.
Grant Thompson designed and built a really nice hotwire foam cutter, that would make Jimmy happy... It might as well be a hotwire band saw, lol. Not really, but it's got the working table and an adjustable heat setting. Can also be AC or battery powered.
I built one to make foam objects for lost-foam casting patterns for my home foundry, and it works incredibly well.
"King of Random: hotwire foam cutter" here on CZcams...
Bondo would work perfect for this project
True.
1:20 or, you could just use something called metric system, it would be a lot easier
The odd math. That can get you spinning out. "F it. we're doing it live. WE'RE DOING IT LIVE!"
A good trick for doing fiberglass is to lay down a coating of resin on top of some plastic, then lay down your fiberglass, then poor resin over the top and cover it with another piece of plastic. Then use something like a Bondo squeegee to work the resin into the fiberglass between the two sheets of plastic. This allows you to get the fiberglass totally wetted out and also saves on having to use too much resin by trying to drip it over the top of loose fiberglass. Then all you need to do is pull off the top sheet of plastic and you've got a bunch of pre-prepared sheets of soaked fiberglass you can start working onto the piece like paper mache.
This looks good! Fake sword making tip from a seasoned vet: never work all the way down to your lines when making blade bevels (or any detail really), leave some space so you can work to it slowly and cleanly
Another gotcha for fiberglas sheet - it really doesn't like laying flat over sharp corners. Better to add a small fillet, or do each facet separately (but then you don't get as much strength on the edge)
Yay, americans struggeling with the imperial system at 1:20
Always fun to watch ;-)
Would doing the fiberglassing with wood glue and fabric (ei.: poorman fiberglass) work?
The thing at the end of a sword handle is called the "pommel".
If you are interested I think a great project for a video would be if you made the two star sabers from Transformers Prime plus i really want to see a maker finally attempt those
Josh comin in clutch
I loved Adventure time when it was on Cartoon Networkwork😅
Bob please wear a respirator when using a hot wire cutter on insulation foam! That stuff is so bad for your lungs when melted.
Love love love AT and love this!! ♡♡
Would you not be tempted to use metric when doing precise measurements? Seems so complex to convert fractions of inches!
my birthday is next week and i would love to buy this for myself! haha
This is a good idea thanks for sharing, I've never heard of micro center I'll have to check it out.. What state are you in? I'm coming to you from California. Look forward to hear from you by for now Ken.
In my experience, doing many, small, patchwork style cloths, completely impregnating each with resin and then overlapping the next over the end of the previous one is the way to go. Trying to do BIG SHEETS is really dificult to get adhesion to odd surfaces, but my main experience is doing an iron man helmet years ago.
I think you should hire me to do all the final steps for your projects, then everything you make will have a Matt Finish!
At no fault of yours, this video is giving me nightmares from when I first started my business and had to build 21 custom road-worthy cases for a client.
I used this same foam for all the custom inserts, and super 77 adhesive to bond plastic layers to the plywood carcasses.
It was so complex, unexpected and tight deadlines that I almost ran out of cash before my business could get off the ground. Thankfully I got it done, and changed my “full-service” creative company to “full-service” video production. 5 years later I’m rocking and rolling and only make stuff like this as a hobby.
Great project, only thing is you really should be wearing a respirator when cutting the foam with the hot kinfe and a mask when sanding it. Even if you are in a well ventilated area, your are still close enough to the foam to be inhaling things you really shouldn't be.
Cool build its always fun to learn new techniques. BTW have any of you checked out BoyLei Hobby Time's videos? The pink foam and wire cutter remind me of his diorama builds which usually incorporate the pink foam. Bob might like them since he does some really cool Star Wars themed builds.
"I'm not good at math.".........SAYS THE GUY WHO IS A CZcams CARPENTER!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 You, sir, are too damn funny! Oh....how's the car coming along?? I like those videos.
The secret to getting fiberglass cloth to lay correctly when you do this sort of project is to cut it with a rotary cutter so that it's only slightly oversized, apply elmer's white glue to the styrofoam with a chip brush, then gently lay the fiberglass cloth onto said elmer's glue starting at one end and working your way to the other in a pseudo rolling motion. After that, you pat it to get it to stay in place, and apply elmer's glue with a chip brush in spots where it's not staying where you want it. Let all that dry for 24 hours, THEN coat it with epoxy resin.
For those of you saying metric is better...
This isn't a metric vs imperial argument. If he took those measurements in cm, he'd still need to scale it to a reasonable size. I.e. If the sword on his phone is 6cm, he probably doesn't want a 6m sword, so he would still have to use fractions to reduce the size.
This is why metric system is so much easier :D
"So an 8th of 7 inches is three 8ths of an inch"
Ah, yes, the imperial system. Makes tons of sense. xD
Hi bob, I’m trying to create my own lightsaber and might be yoinking your idea. The links on your video (from 2017) have expired and I’m not sure how to get the materials that I need.
Love the Tron shirt, do you have any Tron themed projects?
Not very many, but we should do more. czcams.com/video/jZSMWmevFBo/video.html
Cool
The most useful measuring device is the Eyeball-O-Meter 9000. And for the really small stuff you can use an eyecrometer... 😂😁😇
Oh my glob! That’s a sweet sword
Curious did you think about taking the image to AutoCAD and scaling it so you can get your best dimensions? I only ask because I have had to do that on multiple occasions. Great Build!!!
It would have definitely worked.
@@Iliketomakestuff I got stuck in the shop doing math too, where if I just would have spent a few minutes on autocad I would not have wasted soooo much time.
@@Iliketomakestuff I might sound completely ridiculous, but how about using metrics for these kind of things?
1:20 That's why the metric system is superior.....
"now this is a tool that you can make" says the guy who's channel name is I Like To Make Stuff.
For the first time I'm seeing the parallel between The Crucifix, A Sword and a Headstone.
Love your videos
Thank you so much!
@@Iliketomakestuff keep it up
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You should make your own foam cutter