Greek Xiphos Sword
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A sword used by the ancient Greeks in the Iron Age as a secondary weapon
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I'm a Percy Jackson fan so all Greek and Roman swords fascinate me so seeing that there was no xiphos (the sword that Percy's sword Riptide was most likely based off of) on Printables or Thingiverse was quite sad. So I made one myself (I made it printable at least).
These swords historically were pretty small, since they were simply backups, typically measuring 60 cm (23.6in) with the handle at 100% scale. The swords were one-handed swords that may even be considered knives. In some cases they were only 30cm (12in).
All of the pieces should fit onto a Prusa Mini/ Ender 2 because the largest part is 165mm and all the rest are ≤160 from end to end. I decided to try something new that hopefully works a lot better than my "eyeball it" method that I've been using for cutting up models. All of the dovetails have a groove depth, width, flap angle, and tolerance of 10.0mm, 12.0mm, 70°, and 0.20mm, respectively. I want the tolerance to be slightly larger than default just so it's not such a tight fit on printers that aren't as dialed in as others *cough my own cough*. In my mind it's also a funny visual to see part one connected to the tip but maybe I'm alone on that. I also put more of a traditional rectangular tang on this one rather than a circular one and having to inset the blade into the handle, so this tang should be a lot cleaner and easy to put together. Should.
As is tradition with my models, these haven't been printed yet, but they did slice correctly in both Cura and PrusaSlicer so they shouldn't give you any issues. The spine on this sword is wavy so the best way to print these will probably be vertically, and the handle is pretty flat on one side so printing that face-down will probably be easiest.