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Well this is the secret project I have been working on, a full size, full tang, replica of Benihime "The Red Princess" from the show Bleach.

For those of you who may be out of the loop on the Bleach universe Benihime is Kisuke Urahara's(Mr. Hatnclogs) zanpakuto(sword). When not in use she(the sword) resides in Kisuke's cane and is used like a normal cane sword but when "Released" using the call "Awaken" it turns into the sword above.
Benihime also has the ability to manipulate blood into the form of a shield(blood mist shield) on the call "Cry"(none such luck getting MY Benihime to do this, rats )
Since I love the show so much I decided to make the sword of my favorite character!

This has been my most involved project to date with over 30 hours of actual work time over 2 weeks(3hours of prep 10hours on blade, 15hours on the hilt, 30min on the wrapping, 30 min on the tassel, 1 hour on the triangle chain)

The Blade is made out of a 1/4"thick 2"wide sheet of industrial aluminum(because steel would weigh 3 times more) painted on one side with high intensity heat resistant stove paint(thats right good to 1200-degrees F) and sanded to a round edge on the other(street legal :D). The whole blade was then covered in lacquer to protect the sanded edge and to smooth the paint transition.

The Hilt is made out of thin plywood that has been cut, sanded glued, painted, sanded, painted, etc, etc. the designs where drawn using a fine tip marker(by hand I might add :D ) after painting the hilt I sprayed it with lacquer and slid it on the blade, 4 holes where then drilled through the blade and 4 dowels where glued in with polyurethane glue(sticks everything to everything) to secure the hilt to the blade then the hilt was repainted and relacquered(because I can't think ahead :P )

The Tassel was made using red and burgundy embroidery string

Triangle chain was made using a piece of nylon rope and red electrical tape

Wrapping is black hockey tape(thanks for the tips :D )

Dimensions: 35" of blade 20" hilt(5"overlap) 50" overall
weight: about 2lbs 7oz
that silver thing is a quarter for scale.

I hope everybody likes it if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them :D

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Moreuse's avatar
forgot how she looked, nice job on this.