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hammer/ax from the “Infinity War” movie.

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Spoiler alert: Thor no longer
has his hammer, Mjölnir.

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It got broken by his mean sister.

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So in this movie, he is depicted
with a large war hammer.

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And it is called Stormbreaker.

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Gonna hopefully do a good
job of making it today.

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–One, two, 3, 4.

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I am an award-winning cosplayer and prop
builder—and pretty much a full-time nerd.

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I actually ended up on the cover
of one of the Thor comic books.

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covers for a promotion they were doing.

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is grabbing one sheet
of the thicker foam.

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Exciting.

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Remember to always cut
on the inside of the line.

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Your edge pieces are going
to be squared on all sides.

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Your squared-off edges
need to be beveled as thus.

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They’ll become very useful
later, when you're making the

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handle and need irregular scraps
to make all your vining.

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(electronic blasting)

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I actually decided to start
cosplaying only recently.

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About 5 and a half years ago, I met a friend.

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And she asked me if I
cosplayed, and I was like,

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"What is cosplay?"

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And she introduced me to the concept,

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and took me to my first
convention in Toronto.

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I fell in love with it, and was like,
“I have to make a costume for this.”

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And my first costume was Thor.

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I watched the “Thor”
movie, and was just like,

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“Oh my gosh! This is so much fun.”

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I had never made a costume.

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So it was actually all
made out of T-shirts.

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I went home and immediately
started buying leather,

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because I was like, “I need to
make the most legit Thor I can.”

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You can now go in with your Dremel.

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You wanna designate two pieces
of your foam for your sides:

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A top and bottom, and a right and left.

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They have different details on them,
and you don't want to end up accidentally

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making 3 of the same side of the hammer.

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The one-inch, wide line on the
bottom needs to be cut at an angle.

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You want to create a V pattern
that you'll remove foam from.

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Take your blade and score into

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your foam only about a quarter inch.

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The sides of your hammer are going
to have a trench carved into it.

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Put your glue in your
trench, fold your foam,

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and then actually tape it,
pulling the foam at that angle

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to hold it during the drying process.

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We're gonna wanna glue the 4-inch pieces
of beveled foam to the edges of this.

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glue your side pieces to
the end of your hammer.

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so that when it bends, it
fills this little corner.

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You want to grab your thinner foam now for
the details on the right and left sides,

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as well as your circular bit on the end.

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You're gonna wanna score this line in.

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So you basically only really
want to scratch the surface.

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And then, trace it with a pen or Sharpie.

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When you remove it, you can literally
just place that down on your foam.

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Cut a slight angle, so it settles into
the angles you have in your corner.

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That's your tiny little base piece, which is
what's gonna attach it to the rest of the hammer.

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These pieces are going to interlock on
the inside of this hammer hole you’ve made.

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Patch any of your aesthetic problems.

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Use quick-seal to fill in the gaps.

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Once you're satisfied with your patching,

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you're gonna set it aside to dry.

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I would like to just be Thor sometimes
and not have the condition of,

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“Oh! That's a good Thor.
This is a good ‘lady Thor.’”

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I would like to just be a “good Thor.”

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Which is why I'm very
excited—in the comics,

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when they introduced the
female Thor, Jane Foster.

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She wasn't “lady Thor,” “female Thor”—
she was just Thor, and I loved that.

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And that's definitely why I invested
in making two costumes of Jane Thor.

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We're now gonna do the other half,

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which is the ax head.
And that one is actually

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considerably easier, and
you'll enjoy it I think a lot.

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First you're gonna want
to cut out your pieces,

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and you're gonna want
to tape them together.

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and glue those two pieces together.

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The most difficult part of the
ax head is beveling your blade.

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And then, cut them and
spread them with heat.

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Now that we have our ax head
and hammer head assembled,

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we’re gonna move on to making the handle by
first heat-forming and bending the PVC pipe.

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The empty spot—that's your top.

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Now all we're going to do is build

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a little bit of a box to hold
this whole hammer together.

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you'll find that your
hammer is pretty solid.

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Now you're ready for the
more creative, messy part,

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which is adding all of the twining and vining
on it that makes up the actual handle.

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because it's a natural growth pattern.

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So we don't really need any more rulers.

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You're going to have to use
your Dremel and round them off,

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and add vining.

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We're going to want to wrap
your handle in EVA foam.

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crazy crap out of it until it
matches your upper section.

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After you've constructed
your whole hammer,

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you just want to now coat the
whole thing with Plasti Dip.

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Once Plasti-Dipped,
you're ready for painting.

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All you need to do is
take two shades of brown,

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a sponging tool—and all you want
to do is drag that over the surface.

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just going to paint all of it light silver

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with the dark gray accent marks.

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You get a brown leather twine—
you literally just wrap it around.

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let it dry, paint over it,
and you've got runes.

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After you've painted,
you just clear-coat it.

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His hammer is something he has to earn.

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If he was ever too self-assured,

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he would no longer be
worthy of the hammer.

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But if he was too riddled with self-doubt,
he wouldn't be able to wield it either.

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It was a knife's blade he has
to walk to maintain that.

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And I always loved the concept
of every day you strive to

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be worthy of whatever it is
in your life that you're doing.

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I took that to heart when I tattooed

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Thor's hammer on my arm—
which is right here.

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Every day, you just gotta
pick up this hammer—

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which is literally my body—
gotta pick it up every day

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and just go for it,
and earn this hammer.

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And it's stuck with me, so I
can't brush it off one day.

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When I put on my Thor
costume, I feel so powerful.

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I have the confidence to walk up
to people, and to talk to people.

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And they want to come up to
me and ask about my costume.

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And it's empowering.