Got the blade fitted by making a short tang and threading it into the pole used for the hilt, then securing it with 2 set screws.

this should have been finished ages ago but i'm lazy and school is time consuming. all that needs done is the hand guard, because the last 3 i made sucked but now i have a jig saw so 'sall good if i can keep my hand straight.

The only change to the hilt is the paintng of the raised grip piece which needs re-painted, and the addition of rust effects to the 'metal' pieces.

once again, sorry for the terrible pictures. my parents camera won't take photos without the flash for some reason, and with the flash the pics look even worse than those taken by my phone.

Apologies in advance for my terrible camera/phone.
this is what i have so far for my shishkebab replica, from fallout 3.
I'm still waiting for the motorbike handle brake, but aside from that, it's nearly finished.

The round tsuba like piece is a piece of mdf with 16mm holes drilled around it. the piece that attaches to the tsuba is 1.5" ID pvc pipe, which i squeezed in a vice for a couple of days, to make sure it squished into an oval shape. I'm unsure whether the 4 parts covering the holes are flat headed screws that hold the blade in place, as the groove of the screw heads appear to curve downwards.

The copper pieces i used are 15mm in diameter will be weathered using bleach. The two valves are a 15mm gate valve and a 22mm ball valve. I got both on eBay  for about £7. The blade itself is a 1.3" steel bar, which needs much more weathering(Read: Beat it against the corner of the garage wall!). I may replace this with a wider blade at some other point, to fill out the oval shaped piece more, and rust it up. I'm using the piece found on mountain bikes, used to change gears as the grip, as it has the right shape. But i may alter it a bit with some polymer clay or epoxy putty.

 Thanks for listenin' chilldren!