In the history of cinematic swords, there’s none more epic than Anduril. Forged from the shards of Narsil, which cut off the ring from Sauron during the battle of the Last Alliance, it’s wielded by Aragorn in the final film and it’s a pretty awesome thing to have. Which is why Imgur user NinjaPuker decided to craft one of his own out of wood.
I’m a little jealous.
First step is always to trace twice and cut once.
The blade, cross guard and pommel are made from Pine, while the handle was to be made from Walnut.
Everything was cut out by a bandsaw.
For the blade, he carved out a fuller (the small channel int he middle of the blade) with carving tools.
And drew out the runes with pen. In case you can’t read Elvish, it says:
“I am Anduril who was Narsil, the sword of Elendil. Let the thralls of Mordor flee me”
Carved out the runes with a Dremmel.
Next, he has to fit the blade and the crossguard together.
A little carving, a little work with the Dremmel, and it’s done.
It fits!
Shaping the crossguard.
Then he rounded the crossguard with some carving tools and a hand rasp.
Then he slid the handle onto the dowel at the bottom.
A little rounding.
Then carved the grooves in with a file.
At this point, everything fit together nicely
Now, onto the pommel.
Shaped the pommel with some small carving tools and a file.
Now, to carve out the bottom recess part of the pommel.
Looking epic.
Final fit test before the gluing and oiling.
And bam, the sword’s complete.
Fuck, that looks awesome! You can see a whole video on his YouTube HERE!
Via Imgur
