Forging a Master sword

Here is the link to my long project. http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...threadid=50444
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I am getting down to the fine details. I count on you Zelda scholars to help me out. Thanks, S.

Which Master Sword design are you drawing the bulk of the design for this one from? A Link to the Past? Ocarina of Time? The Wind Waker? Twilight Princess? Personally, I like the design and make of the ALttP or TP swords the best. The others seem so... artificial.

*edit--reads further*

I'll be curious to see how the TWW handle turns out.

Originally Posted by LionHarted

Which Master Sword design are you drawing the bulk of the design for this one from? A Link to the Past? Ocarina of Time? The Wind Waker? Twilight Princess? Personally, I like the design and make of the ALttP or TP swords the best. The others seem so... artificial.

Sorry about the length of the thread mentioned, but on the last page, I go in detail of my design. the Master sword is somewhat mercurial, so I have a little wiggle room in bringing a sword that exists in electrons, to a real, functioning weapon. That is the goal anyway.

Interesting, I read a lot of your thread. The final result will be interesting.

By the way, your choice for your personal logo couldn't have been better.

Anyway, according to your first post in the other thread, you said the sword was going to be a birthday gift for your daughter. However, it seems as if her birthday already passed by...twice, actually, unless I miscalculated. What are you going to do with the sword, still planning for it to be a birthday gift?

Originally Posted by William Zelda4ever

Interesting, I read a lot of your thread. The final result will be interesting.

By the way, your choice for your personal logo couldn't have been better.

Anyway, according to your first post in the other thread, you said the sword was going to be a birthday gift for your daughter. However, it seems as if her birthday already passed by...twice, actually, unless I miscalculated. What are you going to do with the sword, still planning for it to be a birthday gift?

You are correct.
A lot has happened since that time. The sword sat in Washington for 9 months, idle. My wife put the kibosh on the b-day present. She said if I make one, I have to make one for them all. Although I don't mind a bit, it would take a few years since I have a day job. Custom swords are labor intensive.

Soooo, The sword will belong to the "family" with my daughter as the "keeper" of the master sword.

It's been a lot of fun so far. I hope to do it up right.

Originally Posted by Sahasharala

She said if I make one, I have to make one for them all.

Yes, because that would be fair. Ironically, life itsself is seldom fair.


I like the idea of making a real custom sword.

This is awesome! Someday, I want to get my own Master Sword replica, and not a cheap one you see on Ebay, but one that is a real sword and has the proportions right, you know, like yours!

Originally Posted by LinkZeldaGanon

This is awesome! Someday, I want to get my own Master Sword replica, and not a cheap one you see on Ebay, but one that is a real sword and has the proportions right, you know, like yours!

That's the idea. Not only "real" but I would like it to be as high performance as possible. It's been a challenge so far. Video game programers have a huge advantage over us If you have any questions, I would be happy to help you get started.

Anyway, I started this thread to mainly ask you folks questions. Question; the design on the ricasso are on each side of the blade. What does it signify? I'm finding that a lot of the symbolism in the Zelda games comes form a wide mixture of folklore and legend. It's kind of interesting.

I'm at the point now of etching it into the blade and was curious. Thanks, S.

here is the design I'm taling about. The triforce is easy to distiguish, but what does th brackets on the side mean? It's one of the few consistant designs through many versions of the game.

Thanks, S.