Curved sword cores

[Phlebas]

old attempt with shaped foam on top, new one with curved core on the bottom.

[Forkbeard]

The finished swords worked great. Everyone liked them. They passed check with not problems and survived very hard fighting with no damage.
This angly handle on a straight core idea is brilliant. It was a Dagorhir dudes idea. I need to look up his name to give him credit when I post the final pics.
Bad * superkatana.
FB

[Koom Di' Puts]

Am I the only one showing any concern over the pointy tip on the wooden cores? I've never even considered using them.... I could sand down the tips a bit.... but they scare me....

[Forkbeard]

Who is using wooden cores? The ones in the pictures are there for comparison of the curve.
No one I know of is using bokken as cores. They would fail hit tests horribly.
FB

[Tobia Blackthorn]

No one I know of is using bokken as cores. They would fail hit tests horribly.
FB

^that^

Bokken are meant to be heavy and strong. I couldn't imagine trying to use a Bel weapon that used a bokken as a core, not a quality one at any rate. The cheap ones from conventions and the like would be to fragile too.

[Koom Di' Puts]

Ah, gotcha... all those pics with it beside a foam sword was making me twitchy.....

[Sieglatan]

Functionally finished for a few days now. Its a bit heavier than a normal blue/green its size, but feels great to fight with. I'm debating putting a tsuka maki on it, but that can be done later.

So far, it has blocked a red hit with an 8' glaive and is still cruvy, flexible, and passing- So far, still very pleased with the design.