How to make a Bone Scythe

The cradle core is a plastic water pipe that was heated to be bended. I added a right angled connecting piece and then a thin pipe where I glued the blade out of card board on.

I used standard expansion foam on the blade and gave it a day time to get hard. I used a cutter to bring the foam in shape. Testing the scythe. Cradle and blade are easily disconnected so the whole thing can be transported. Cradle and blade are covered with paper mache. Pipe isolation is cut into pieces that will be the discs of the spine. Another testing. Got a cheap styropor skull from the internet. Ugly but only a base anyway. I removed the lower jaw. The hole of the nose and the form of the head had to be adjusted. With two component apoxi sculpt i formed a new jaw with teeth and a new nose bone. When the sculpting material dried long enough it gets hard like stone. I covered the skull with black Worbla. That is  a thermo plastic that you can form easily after heating it up. I smoothed the edges with a dremel. Also covered the blade with Worbla. Covered the spine discs with paper mache. Covered the skull with Gesso as filler. The skull after painting. Cover the blade with Gesso. Made little thorns out of paper mache on every other disc so it looks more like a spine. Cover the spine with Gesso. Painting the spine. To cover the connection pieces I bind some jute cloth over it and fix it with hot glue. A simple red LED give the skull an evil eye. Because from my story the skull sharea a pair of eyes with its owner I cover the second eye. Batteries, cable and switch are hidden in the skull. A picture with the light on. The final Scythe: I sprayed the blade with silver black color and all pieces were covered with matt coating. The skull is not fixed so I can remove it from the scythe and take it with me as additional roleplay element.