{"id":286,"date":"2018-07-16T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/?p=286"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:19:26","slug":"wooden-swords-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/2018\/07\/16\/wooden-swords-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Wooden LOTR Swords for the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my summer vacation I built Lord of the Rings inspired wooden swords for the kids. I love these kinds of projects, where you just make something because you love the craft, and someone will be very happy with the result. The image on the cover is Sting (That Bilbo had, and handed over to Frodo). The other two are Orcrist (Goblin Cleaver, that Thorin Okenshield got) and the last one is Glamding (which is what Gandalf had). Three elven swords, made in Gondolin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Orcrist had a handle from a dragons fang.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/orcrist-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e4t have a picture of it painted.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Glamding taking form<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/glamdring-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here it is finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally Sting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/sting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/sting.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/sting-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/sting-768x860.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/sting-915x1024.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of the swords used as inspiration:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/orcrist_real.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/orcrist_real.jpg 750w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/orcrist_real-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring_real.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring_real.jpg 750w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/glamdring_real-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" src=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/sting_real.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/sting_real.jpg 750w, https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/sting_real-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my summer vacation I built Lord of the Rings inspired wooden swords for the kids. I love these kinds of projects, where you just make something because you love the craft, and someone will be very happy with the result. The image on the cover is Sting (That Bilbo had, and handed over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-for-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bskog.com\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}