The efforts of one particular Shingeki no Kyojin fan have drawn titanic online appreciation thanks to his exceptional forgecraft, having recently completed a year long labour to create an immaculate replica of the blades used in the show.
A video detailing their creation:
Images of the blades, with their handiwork on a daikon radish demonstrating their sharpness:
The total cost is said to have been in the region of 500,000, although there is apparently some talk of selling subsequent blades for less.
why not colossal devotion..?
Seems like most of us were expecting this guy to make a *real* weapon instead of a replica. That thing’s made for show & is probably a good job in that respect. Otherwise, he’d of been chopping blocks of wood or stone rather than stew ingredients.
The mechanism that locks the blade looks extremely flimsy. Not that you’d be using these to kill anything other than radish titans…
The handles are ok, but the blades are far from “exceptional” in fact, they are complete s♥♥t, that’s what you get when you use sheet metal, there’s no detail in the blades at all. That seriously took a year? It’s obvious he used a computer. In the time it took him to put the 3d image in there he could have used simple gun grip checkering chisels and finished that part in under 30 minutes.
Fucking Asians, man…
FUCKING. ASIANS.
MAN.