The short Video guide...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvM9upmG-o&feature=youtu.be
Side note, should of made a pickaxe, it would of given me my iron faster.

If you have your tool set as the arrow, in 0.86 under the column of textured meterial, then click on one of the squares (voxels) under inspector tab on right, you will have the options, and a slider for adjusting the edges. In the video, you will notice how I bring up a single line from the guard, and adjust those for my edges, then using the other technique to make it grow to a desired length, about 96 in length for the blade. Just to keep it semi realistic, and feel more natural. (you might prefer more of a cleaver style weapon that is twice as large as your cahracter, so I say, make it to suite your play style)

Be sure to play with the Voxel sliders, as shown to get the most damage out of your blades.
Then later you can make Vehicals,

Q: Does the edge really matter?
A: Actually, if you make a blunt sword, it does far less damage than an edged sword, so it does matter. Technically, you can turn the whole thing into a giant block of material with the handle burried in it somewhere, choose the statistics tab on the right, to see how much material, damage, and weight for the weapon. By using the Voxel slider, and making a tripple bladed edge (3 blades with a single space between each) you get get fairly close that number using 3 or 4 pieces of the main resource instead of 1000+. Then to make it higher, turn those other 2 blades into fly swatters, stagger up the center of the auxillary blades -99 10... Very time consuming, but you can effectively get more starting damage from a weapon that way. Once you have built your colony, you can then upgrade the damage your weapons deal out. And when you are ready to change the material/hilt of your weapon, just remove the old hilt, add the upgraded one, then select your entire blade (increase depth to catch it all at once, choose your material then in the Inspector tab, click on replace material.





When you get the parts, or can make the parts for it, hand guns, riffles and Laser Riffles.



And when you get the Aluminum, really nice swords!



That concludes this short guide.... Hope it helps, and by all means, Enjoy the game as much as I do!

Shift + space does not work in Beta 0.7

Now they are:
Shift+arrow keys (forward/back, left/right)
Shift+Page UP/Down (add up)