The OCHEC (Oklahoma Christian Home Educator's Consociation) convention is a place for home school people to buy curriculum for the school year. They also let 10 to 18 year olds have an entrepreneur booth. My booth was called Frabjous Forge. I sold foam swords. I had two types of swords. I had a Hand and a Half which is the small sword, and the big sword is called the Great sword.
Here I am covering the PVC with foam insulator.
I had to squish the tops of the swords together to make a tip.
I cut hand guards out of 2x4s.
After that, painted them red or black for the first coat. Then I would paint them metallic.
Here I am wrapping them in duct tape.
Now I am wrapping the handles in twine. That took a lot of time.
In this picture, I only had 13 left to put handles on. That was two days before I had to set up my booth.
In the end I had 25 of both swords.
I had a grand total of 50 swords. But I only sold 23 Hand and a Half swords. I had fun seeing all the booths at convention . Next year I might do it again, I do not know.
