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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Sept 2, 2014 13:38:48 GMT
So I've decided I need to remake a few pieces of SCA armor...turns out "I never get hit there" no longer works, go figure.
Over the years I've had good success with wax, heat, or water hardening leather. So I made a set of pauldrons, wet/heat hardened them, then waxed the outside to make them waterproof...
Decided I was going to sew a flap to them for attachment, drilled a line of holes, started sewing...ANNNNDDDDD the line of holes I drilled worked like a perforation, so it broke tore along that area ruining the piece. Sigh...start over.
Mopral of the story- and the part I neglected, when doing this sort of work do everything to the leather first, before hardening...I was lazy.
Also I had not considered that holes would be weak spots...
Bah
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Post by Bryan Heff on Sept 2, 2014 14:29:46 GMT
Well that stinks. The next pair you make will be better than the first set anyway, so UPGRADE.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Sept 2, 2014 17:28:51 GMT
Yes yes...the next set will fall over in the swamp right? And the one after that will burn down then fall over...
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