Dad and I finaly got time to get a few good shots of the sword!
thus I'm doing one of these:
the sword itself in its box and again here:
me with the sword:
can you see in the first two that I'm holding the handguard?
That's because the thing is stupidly heavy and I was getting myself used to the wait before getting the third, very brave, shot taken!
I couldn't resist the icon and I'm sure you'll see it again for anger induced/fandom intensive rants!!!
for those curious I still love my brother very much for getting this sword!