The cardboard was less than satisfactory, however, and I soon began it obsessive project that is pictured below. You can't really see the grip on this thing, but it is over a foot long. The blade is over 4 feet long. It's made of spraypainted (and hand-carved) hardboard.
The whole thing is ridiculously heavy and would be near-impossible to actually use - which is unsurprising, really.
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Wicked awesome!
Have you considered using pink or blue insulation foam? It's fairly cheap, affixes with 3M Super 77
(available at your friendly champaign Meijers, or
Art Co-op) and can be carved with relative ease.
We used to paint it with house paint, since it's styrofoam based, it doesn't respond well to solvents.
I'd think embedding a PVC pipe, a balsa plank or the like as a grip and building a couple of layers of foam
about it would look decent, and still be swingable.
Foam would be lighter, but thicker. I really wanted the blade to be as thin as possible.
I'm thinking there might be some lightweight-yet-sturdy sheet plastic out there...
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