Black Monday 2

The giant frigging’ scythe of Maka and how to assemble it. Within the world of Soul Eater, some persons can transform into a weapon. Which is exactly what Soul is, a giant farm tool, meant to harvest the souls of the dead, various monsters and evil witches. It’s a brutal and very inefficient weapon design-vise and way to big to get into most convention halls. Not to mention air travel. But that is a small price to pay for an awesome photo-shoot. My part in this project is mainly to give advice and to cut out the scythe itself. I walked by the theater, they had a container there. A giant metal box of loot and plywood plates. So I just had to lug a couple with me, a couple of Mondays later, she came and asked about a tall weapon. Talk about timing. The wooden pole just comes from a hardware store.

Now the tricky part is to actually cut a hole in the pole, with a wood drill and a jigsaw. It’s noisy, cumbersome, but very efficient. Afterward, it was just a case of sliding the blade into the slot and add some screws to keep it in place. In order to hide the wood texture, several layers of woodglue was used to smooth out the surface. This process can be sped up with a heatgun. However keep it in place for too long and it will boil and blister instead. That being said, we’ve yet to figure out how to make the thing cylinder on top and the screw just yet. Not to mention the eye.

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