This one was not easy. It is made of an aluminium plate under a brass plate, attached together by handmade rivets (tiny nails, that you hammer down on the pointy side at the back to flatten it and clamp the two plates together).
The big difficulty of this is the rivets, that are already not very easy (for me) to do, but here I had to shape them after bending the curve of the two metal plates. Why? Because if you attach them together, then try to bend them, the outer plate has a flatter curve than the inner one, which misaligns the holes of the rivets. And in the process, starts tearing them and causing damage and other problems.
However, hammering down a tiny nail, while having to make sure that the hammering is done in the proper way, on a non-flat surface, feels a little bit like trying to kill a mosquito with a hammer: it doesn't feel right, and you know that it'll probably end in a disaster.
At least, the little problems that appeared in the process are not too visible, but yeah, I'm not so sure I would want to make this one again :')
This is cool but I can't help but think it would be so cool if the sword was more like a rapier that acted as the pin for the whole thing.
It would be pretty cool, but the rapier would probably be a bit too big to be a pin without destroying your clothes...
I maybe more an epee. I was thinking a long actual pin could be used to set the size. add a hilt. Maybe though with a buckler so it goes together better.
Thats a pretty cool idea, I'll have to consider it more in details...
yeah just riffin.