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Zelda Master Sword Forged For Fan
An anonymous reader writes "Do you pretend you are the Hero of Time in your sleep? Are you the biggest Zelda fan on the block? Well, take a gander at what this Zelda fan owns... a real-life replica of the famous Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda series." The article mentions: "After a ten-month wait period and a £1,800 transaction (around $3,300)... [a Scottish] blacksmith provided updates of his progress during the one-and-a-half-month forging process."
So, does he have the official Zelda Ocarina also?
Now if I he could only forge a lightsaber.
you can get those here.
but, i must say that master sword must be damn heavy. that's a fat blade. i couldn't figure out from the pictures whether the guard was plastic that had been chromed or if that was a wax mold the smith used in the forging process. the smith must not be terribly proud of it, as it isn't featured anywhere on his site (unlike a lot of other designs).
He says it weighs 18 pounds, and swings great.
To put that in perspective, a good katana will run at about 2-3 pounds, and a claymore, which is nearly as tall as I am, will weight in at 6-10, tops. You would need arms like Herculese to use this thing properly.
Thomas Galvin
I emailed the man who designed / constructed the sword.
He said he has since lost the mold. HOWEVER, because so many people are emailing him about it (I'm assuming because of the planetgamecube.com article), he's going to make a limited edition.
He says the adjusted price would be 1100 Euros. But he wants to know about how many people would like to order it.