CALEDFWLCH Welsh Sword Kit — STL Files (Digital Download)

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Description



Digital Download · STL & 3MF · Illustrated instructions

A metre of Welsh legend.
It screws together like it was machined.

A 941 mm display sword with a dragon-scale grip and a tail-tip pommel, standing point-down in a carved stone base with CALEDFWLCH round the rim — plus a Welsh dragon shield that carries it on the wall. Every joint is a chunky printed screw thread that clamps itself straight — two dabs of glue on the blade, none anywhere else, no hardware in the whole kit.

Screws together — hilt comes apart again
Every part fits a 256 mm bed
7-page illustrated instructions PDF

Enw’r cleddyf — the name

Before Excalibur was Excalibur, it was Welsh

Caledfwlch — say it kal-ED-voolch, with the ch of “bach” — is two old Welsh words: caled, hard, and bwlch, a breach. The hard breach. It is Arthur’s sword in Culhwch ac Olwen, the earliest Arthurian tale in any language, told in Wales and written down around 1100.

Geoffrey of Monmouth turned it into Latin Caliburnus, the French softened that to Escalibor, and English finished the journey: Excalibur. The most famous sword in the world is a Welsh word wearing a French coat — this kit gives it its own name back.

The dragon runs right through the design: scales wrapping the whole grip, the tail-tip as the pommel, and Y Ddraig Goch herself — red with bold black line-work — on the shield that hangs it on the wall. Designed and test-printed in Swansea.


Self-clamping joints · no hardware

Every joint is a
printed screw thread.

Chunky 5 mm-pitch threads, drawn with printing clearance already built in. The two blade joints take a dab of glue — and the threads clamp them dead straight while it sets, so there are no clamps and no holding. The grip’s ends are its screws, the pommel winds on like a nut, and the whole hilt stays glue-free and unscrews for moving house.

The shield’s three colours are clean horizontal bands — a single-nozzle printer does it with two filament swaps, and a colour-ready 3MF is included for AMS / CFS / MMU machines.

Shield — change colour at
Dragon red
Layer 40
Outline black
Layer 50
Sword & base
Any colour
At 0.20 mm layers — same numbers on both shield sizes.

What you get

The sword — 5 parts + 2 printed blade screws

Stone base — one-piece and quartered + dowels

Dragon shield in two sizes + slim cradle arms

Colour-ready 3MFs for both shield sizes

7-page illustrated instructions + parts checklist
16 printable parts in all — every picture in the manual is a render of the actual files.

Will it fit your printer?

The sword prints standing and the tallest part is 248 mm. The base and shield come in two versions each, so smaller beds are covered too.

Sword parts (height)
256 mm+
Base — quartered
150 bed up
Base — one-piece Ø283
300–350
Shield — 260-bed size
210 × 252
Nozzle · layers
0.4 · 0.20 mm
Finished sword 941 mm tip to pommel. Guard piece needs supports; base and shield print with none.

941 mm
Tip to pommel

16
Printable parts

0
Screws or hardware to buy

~1.6 kg
Full build, 15% infill

Licence

Printing for yourself, or selling them?

The standard licence covers your own printing — as many as you like, for yourself, family and friends.

The commercial licence lets you sell everything you print from these files. No limit, no royalty, no expiry — one craft fair usually covers it. Pick it from the dropdown above, or upgrade later by paying the difference.

Additional information

Type of licence

Personal, Commercial