Random 16in Dagger

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Here is a random dagger that's around 16 inches in length. Honestly, I tried making a sword but it was too short to be a sword. Thus I guess its a dagger but I think it's too long to be a dagger. Anyway, I made it totally by accident. I was trying to make a vase by using ellipses but once I got to a certain point on my vase design, I was like "Man, that sure does look like a sword handle." Once that idea entered my head, I decided to go forth with my thought. I added a pentagon to the bottom of the handle. I printed the handle in vase mode to see how the handle felt in my hands, it felt great. Afterwards, I went to design the blade and I must admit that my very first accidental sword came out pretty good. I have a rather small 5.4 cubic inch printer so I split up my sword into three parts. I designed it so it can all be connected by a 5/16 wood dowel I got from Walmart. I used expanding gorilla glue to glue everything together. This is my first time painting something and it came out pretty decent. I used wood filler to try to remove as much of the lines as possible. I did good on the blade part but totally failed using the filler on the handle due to the many curves it had. Instead, I used filler from a can, X-XXX, which did a good job. I should have put more coats on the handle but it turned out fine. I used aluminum spray color for the blade part and wood stain for the handle. The stain came out good but because it did not work well with the filler materials I used, the stain took several hours to dry out in the sun. I may decide just to get a gun. I suggest using .2mm height for better looking prints. I used 5% gyroid infill with two layers of walls plus an additional wall every other layer. I plan to break the handle into three parts so I can print the area where you hand grips with wood pla and the top/bottom parts with a metal pla. I may just go the easy way and stop my printer and put a wood pla in place, then later switch it back to a metal pla once the area reaches the top of the handle. I am the owner of https://www.neocrisis.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_XGBrwNAh0