I have never used 3D printing for anything, and neither did my father. My dad now helps me with my props for my costumes, so he ended up helping me with the sword and sheath. I ordered the pieces online, he put it together, and then I paint it. However, we didn't know what we were doing with the pieces so it ended up in a fun little story to tell due to us not knowing what to properly do the first time.
When the sword had initially arrived (i bought the sword all at once, where I bought the sheath in two separate orders which contained half of the sheath), the tabs that were supposed to be used for durability??? did not fit. I figured it had to do with printing such a small little piece, and I figured that the sword should be fine as long as I don't swing it around, which I didn't plan on doing anyway.
We first glued it together using Gorilla Glue. We glued multiple different pieces together, and then those pieces together, etc. until we got the full sword. Putting together the handle proved to be trickier than the blade as it had more detail on it and part of the handle slipped while being assembled. My dad finished putting together the sword while I was at work, and he showed it to my mom and started to wave it around and said "Look how sturdy it is!" before it broke apart mid swing.
When we got around to putting the sword back together, some of the glue caused other pieces to start to fall apart. We were able to fix those with sand paper and more glue. We managed to fix the handle again after that. However it once again got broken accidentally.
The third time we put it together, we changed our glue to superglue. To which my dad after putting the first pieces together said "wow, that dries fast" because that's what superglue does and it held. We put the whole sword together and I painted the sword (I had a couple of repaints due to testing out new painting supplies which did not work well). I didn't use any primer for the sword before painting, and the only scratches on the paint were from spots where the sword was propped against a corner before I had sealed it.
Right before sealing the sword, I had moved it out of it's original spot to keep it from being knocked over while I was cleaning the area up. To which I had forgotten where the sword was, bumped into it and knocked it over causing it to break again. After doing so, we simply put on some more glue to fix it, fixed up the paint, and then sealed the sword. And it stayed together ever since.
The sheath did not have much of an interesting story, it only got assembled once. The sheath was fine. Didn't use tabs on that either.
Moral of the story: use tabs, and don't talk about how sturdy the Master Sword is. It likes to prove people wrong.
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