I’ve got some updates and an offer for you. Let’s get to the progress report on the wakizashi first.


No, I didn’t break it. That’s an extra chunk of Plexiglas in there.

At last! The pattern is all cut out. Edges ain’t pretty yet but that gets fixed next.

I like keeping aside the pile of all the off cuttings to see how much plastic gets removed. Some of these bits are big enough to make a pendant or small decoration. I try not to waste plastic unnecessarily.
Now! My proposal …
I’ve mentioned before that my wife and I are struggling financially. If I were back home in Canada, I could put up my Patreon or PayPal and you could simply contribute a buck or two if you felt like supporting my work here. But in Finland, that’s illegal.
Yep. I have to sell a product or a service. I can’t legally take donations. Sucks eh?
So I have to take more of my very limited time and energy and try to make an additional product to sell in hopes of getting a trickle to take some of the pressure off.

That’s why I’ve decided, for the first time, to offer tutorials on how to do what I do, step by step. It’s difficult. It requires a degree of insanity to stay patient and stick with it. But it produces results that you cannot get by any other means.

This kind of clarity, structural strength, and inner “glow” cannot be produced by 3D printing or moulding and casting.

What do you think? Are you crazy enough to try it yourself? Or perhaps just curious about the techniques? Would you be interested in some tutorials?

The short answer is that yes I am crazy enough! I am 100% interested in tutorials. I just hope others are as well so that it’s worthwhile for you to do them. (I’ve been a little short on time to reply lately on count of work, though that should clear up next week, hopefully.)
I’m not sure if I have the skill to make blades the way you do, but I would not pass up the opportunity to learn how you do it and also help you and your wife at the same time!! I am both curious and interested to learn, and would also like to buy some seraph blades from you when you have the time as well!
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