Keyblade

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1 How to Make a Keyblade

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How to Make a Keyblade

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Materials

one 1 1/4" wooden dowel
around 6 square feet of a single corrugated Cardboard
60-75 sticks of Hot glue
around 20 standard cardboard Comic book backs
one foot of plastic chain
paints and a black Sharpie

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Tools

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Procedure

1) Cut the dowel to a length of 106cm

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Making the Keyblade Handle

2) Cut two circles out of cardboard that are 7cm wide. Cut out a 3cm hole in the center of each circle then glue them on the dowel so they are 7cm apart on the dowel. This will be the start of the bottom of the handle.

3) Cut out ten cardboard tabs. Bend them, then glue five of them evenly spaced around the inside of the two circles. They should be .7cm in from the edges.

4) Cut out 4 pieces of cardboard that are 7cm wide and long enough to cover half of the circle. Glue two of those pieces to the tabs so that it closes off the circle. Then glue the other two pieces so that it covers the seam of the originals layed down. The bottom handle should now be completely encircled with cardboard.

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5) Cut a 13cm by 23cm pieces and glue it around the dowel starting right from the base of the second circle than fill the crack with hotglue. This will be the handle piece you actually hold.

6) Cut out two circles the are 6.5cm wide with a 3cm hole in the middle. Glue them on the dowel starting at the end of the of the 23cm handle piece you just glued to the rod. Space the circles 4cm apart measured from the outer edges of the board. This is the top circle of the handle.

7) Cut ten more tabs and a strip of cardboard 3.3cm by 21cm. Glue the tabs in .4cm from the edges of the top circles then bend the other piece around and glue to the tabs. The top handle piece should now be fully encircled.

8) Cut out a strip of cardboard 1.5cm by 13cm, a circle 5cm wide with a 3cm hole, and three circles 6.5cm wide. Glue the 3 6.5cm circles to the bottom of the keyblade. Wrap the stack you just glued together with the strip of cardboard that is 13cm long.

Take the 5cm circle and place it 1.5cm from the top circle of the handle. Take the strip of cardboard and glue it around the edge of this circle connecting it to the top circle of the handle.

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9) Use hotglue to fill the edges at both the top and the bottom of the handle as seen in A) and use the tip of the glue gun to smooth them out as seen in B)

10) Cut four 15cm by 36cm strips out then glue down comic backs on the top of the of the pieces (note: most comic backs have a glossy side, so you'll want to glue that side face down - it makes painting easier)

11) Print out a pattern for the handle, so the handle is 34.5 cm long. Cut the pattern out and use it to cut out the four handles - remember there should be two left sides and two right sides so the glossy side of the comics will be on the surface of the handle(note: don't forget to cut out the holes). Then cut away the inner edges of the two ends of the handle pieces at a 45 degree angle (note: be careful not to cut the comic backs when doing this)

12) Cut eight square and glue them under the round edges of the handle pieces as seen in A) (note: make sure the square covers the hole) cut away the extra so they match the shape of the handle as seen in B) fill the inner edges of the hole with glue asssen in C)

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13) Make tabs and put together the pieces of the handles the tabs should come to the very edges of the pieces except the two ends where the tabs should be moved in little over 1cm the pieces should be put together so that the handle is 5.5cm tall on the inner side and 3cm on the outer side

14) Bend and glue comic backs to the edges of the handles except the two ends. Glue them by putting glue on the edges and tabs than putting the comic backs on as seen in B) Cut away the extra comic back as seen in C). Cut the sides of the edges so they are round and will fit on to the rest of the handle

15) Cut a 13cm by 1.5cm strip and glue it to the dowel 3.5cm away from the handle than fill the outer edge with glue than put glue along the inner space between the strip and the handle and smooth with the tip of the gun as seen in A) (note: the way the gap is filled and the fact its a dark blue makes illusion of it being smaller than the rest of the dowel)

16) Glue the handles the cylinders. Than cut squares of comic back and glue than over what cylinder you can see left as seen in A)

17) cut two pieces 17cm by 24cm than glue down a comic back

18)The blade is 22cm wide than cut it out and use it as a temple.Cut out a left and right side of the blade. Than glue pieces on the under side of the blades and cut away the extra as seen in A) than make tabs and put the two side together the same way you did the handle in step 13 but this time make the inner edge 3cm tall and the outer 1.7cm

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19) Glue on and cut away comic backs the same way you did in step 14

20) Glue the blade on you the end of the dowel (note: be sure to keep it level with the handles)

21) Cut three pieces of the shape seen out of broad and glue than together. Than crave away the edges so they are rounded as seen in A) Fill with glue than smooth with gun as seen in B) when done you should get something that looks like this
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22) Trace a micky shape on a piece of cardboard so that Micky is 10.5cm wide. Then cut it out and use it as a temple to cut two mickies out of board. Then cut two slots out of them between the ears about 1.5cm deep. Than glue comic backs to both side and again cut out the mickey shape

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23) Take seven link of the plastic chain. cut the last link in the chain in half as seen in A) (note: save the other half for step 25). Glue the chain in to the slots of the mickey as seen in B)

24) Take the screw driver and poke two holes in the back of the blade that are the same width apart as the chain. Than poke a hole in the bottom of the connector link as seen in A)

25) Take the free end of the chain and cut throw the end of the link as seen in A) than pull it open and put it in to the hole poked in the connector link. Than using the other half of the chain link left over from step 23 hook on the connector link than glue the chain link in to the hole in the back of the handle

26) paint and detail the key