Great Lakes Garrison & Base

Well, I have my Tusken costume now and I couldn't be happier with it. I finished my Gaffi. I used some of the tutorial at http://www.tk1336.com to make it. What do you think about it? Tell me honestly! I can take criticism!

Started off with the Gaffi end from King Jawa (AmAzInG work on the Gaffi ends, cast from a real Fijian war club. You can check them out here: http://www.kraytclan.com/forum/viewtopi ... =18&t=1641), some dowel rods, epoxy, epoxy putty, and some PVC couplings.



I drilled a hole in the end of the Gaffi head to insert the larger dowl rod. Then I epoxied it in place then covered it with epoxy putty.



I then began the process of whittling down the spear end.


I made the fins from a plastic FOR SALE sign. (Thanks to freakengine for the fin pattern. You can get it here: http://www.kraytclan.com/forum/viewtopi ... hilit=fins)


I Dremeled out slots for the fins in the spear-end dowel rod and used epoxy and E-6000 glue to secure them in place.


Sorry I didn't get any more pics of the build. Here's the finished stick:





I used hot glue beads to simulate welds on the fins:


I used the awesome woodgraining and metalizing techniques found here:

http://panzercorps.com/panzer-how2s/pan ... grain.html

http://panzercorps.com/panzer-how2s/pan ... alize.html

Here's the cheapest place to find the Mohawk paints online:

http://www.cdmcabinethardware.com/acata ... Toner.html

You have to use the exact paints or it doesn't come out right. Here's my next project: