My CNC machined Berserk props and armor

Hey everyone! I'm new to the forums but wanted to share all of my CNC work/armor I've been working on lately. I do this for fun in my little spare time, but plan to have my own shop one day! This year I plan to make a full scale aluminum dragonslayer (no matter how impractical and heavy), functional arm crossbow, and other sets of armor for cosplay. Feel free to ask questions about anything! I also have a lot more build pictures if anyone wants to see.

Guts sword (pre-polish) with early golden age hilt. Weighs 16lbs and is solid aluminum. Also made his late golden age hilt!:

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Casca's Heart sword from late golden age, aluminum blade with solid bronze handle.
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Judeau's swords and throwing knives, all solid 6061 aluminum.

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Guts Dagger:

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Band of the Hawk necklace:

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For the Renaissance festival my Girlfriend helped quickly throw together a young guts outfit to wear and sheath for my sword, wasn't bad for a 1-2 day costume

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After the ren fest I started on my late golden age armor. I could have machined out each piece individually but due to lack of time and just better efficiency I drew everything out in autocad and sent it to a place that water jet pieces out. All 5052 aluminum, about 1/16" thick. Around 80 pieces total!

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Over Christmas I started riveting everything together with 1/4" rivets and real leather straps. I used 3/16" thick felt padding on the back.

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The shoulders were a bit of a pain to bend since I had to do everything by hand over my knee (first armor build so I was working with nothing), but turned out pretty nice imo. Also made his cape broach

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After a lot of hammering the armor was done! My girlfriend (Judeau) and I spent hours and hours hand sewing all the leather for the sheath/belt and made it just in time for the con! I have much much better pictures in the works rn, I'll post when they're finished! Here's a few pics from katsucon.

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Late night con Gutsca, someone just copped a pic when we were hanging out. Good shot of the leather work though
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I have a lot of improvements to make (I cut it so close to the con that I wore the entire costume for the first time when I got there), but overall I was really happy with how it turned out for the first run! Big s/o to my Judeau, she was a massive help with the leather work among other things, I really like how her costume turned out too.
 
Cyrus Jong said:
Cool stuff. And your girlfriend makes a good Judeau.

By the way, is that King Richard's Faire that you're attending?

I was at the Carolina Renaissance Festival!
Most of the stuff I go to is East coast since I live in NC
 

Aazealh

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Hello and welcome.

Very nice work! CNC'd items kind of lack the charm of forged ones, but all of those pieces (and cosplays) are great!
 
Aazealh said:
Hello and welcome.

Very nice work! CNC'd items kind of lack the charm of forged ones, but all of those pieces (and cosplays) are great!

Thanks! As a CNC machinist I'm biased and prefer cnc work over forged, but I appreciate all forms of metal work!
The professional pics are back from the shoot, check it!

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Photography by: Matthew Sperzel Photography

Besides a few minor issues with the costume ( I literally threw the entire costume on for the first time 10 minutes before the shoot), I was really pleased with how everything turned out!
 
Dope said:
Amazing machining work, what are you using for y our CNC setup? Any pics?

Dope

Its a HAAS VF2 CNC mill, I have a few pics of when I was machining out Guts sword :

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The sword was so long I had to make it in 3 sections and stick it out side door of the mill, entertaining to watch lmao

I dig your props btw!! Always super cool to meet another metal prop maker
 
biodude said:
Its a HAAS VF2 CNC mill, I have a few pics of when I was machining out Guts sword :

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The sword was so long I had to make it in 3 sections and stick it out side door of the mill, entertaining to watch lmao

I dig your props btw!! Always super cool to meet another metal prop maker

Wow nice setup, I'm more than a little jealous. And thank you for the kind words :)

Dope
 
Modeled out the sword for my sneaky Guts cosplay, its around 78"long and should be around half as heavy as my first sword (so around 8-9lbs) finished. It'll be made from 6061 aluminum,
I'll probably get around to cnc machining it out in the next few months. I still have a few modifications to make to the model but its pretty much finished!

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My girlfriend made this awesome hand-sewn cow leather hat for the costume!
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I'm planning on making a full-scale all metal dragonslayer soon too, here's a little WIP teaser for that:

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