I finished my sword and have painted it. The handle turned out really well and is by far my favourite part. The blade part had some holes and divots that I tried to fill but the glue ended up dripping out and didn’t work as well as I had hoped. I decided to wrap the handle in leather but the leather we had was a weird yellow colour and I wanted either dark brown or black. I tried a couple ways to dye it but they ended up not working or the dye rubbed off on my hands. I thought that I could just paint it but the I ended up colouring it with sharpie and it worked pretty well.

Overall I think this genius hour project went really well. I had learned a lot from last project and that really helped my success this time. My presentation went a lot smoother than last time because I realize I work better if I just put points to mention instead of writing an entire script. My final project turned out pretty well and I am glad that I chose to do this. I really enjoyed doing both genius hours and they taught me quite a few things. Overall everything went well and I’m glad we got this chance.
Bye!

This week I worked more on the components of the sword. I have gotten a good rough base of the blade part and started to work on the hilt. The way I chose to do it makes it kindof hard to carve because of the angles it is at. I figured out how to have eequal shapes and could finally think about attaching the two pieces. I changed my original idea of carving out a hole to fit the blade exactly and decided to carve down the blade to a rod instead. This was a lot easier to glue and fit almost perfectly, with less chance of snappingthe hilt in half. Now I just have to make the handle and finish shaping the blade.