Splinted forearm

[Kang]

I would very much like to find a good design for a spilted fore arm made from cloth with pockets for the splints. I have some trigger and a seamstress but she tells me it's going to be easier on her if I can find a pattern.
It seems like I've seen this type of thing before.
Any help?
Thanks
K

[Thorsteinn Raudskeggr]

Try here: http://www.arador.com/construction/

Go down to the splinted arm pattern and modify as needed.

Hope this help's.

-Ivan

[Gryffinclaw]

You might try making a pattern from an old shirt.

1. Get the splints you plan to use
2. tape them to your arm the way you plan to wear them.
3. put on an old long sleev t-shirt with snug fit.
4. tape your arm up over the old shirt.
5. mark the pattern tape were the splint pockets edges should be with a sharpee or something permanent
6. Cut the shirt sleve off at the point were you want the opening to be or hem line to be.

That how I would make it.

Good luck

[Steve S.]

Another option is to wrap your arm in plastic wrap, and then apply duct tape patches on top of that.

You don't want to spiral-wrap your arm in duct tape, as this will stretch the tape and cause the pattern to shrink when you cut it off.

After you cut the pattern off of your arm, you can tape it back together and stuff it with old plastic grocery store bags to make a model of your arm.

Steve

[Gryffinclaw]

Another option is to wrap your arm in plastic wrap, and then apply duct tape patches on top of that.

You don't want to spiral-wrap your arm in duct tape, as this will stretch the tape and cause the pattern to shrink when you cut it off.

After you cut the pattern off of your arm, you can tape it back together and stuff it with old plastic grocery store bags to make a model of your arm.

Steve

HMMM cool idea. I need to do that before I start on my greaves

[Bran MacNiell]

Get Talbots pattern. He has one for splints on leatehr, but the same one should work as a base for a fabric one with pockets.

[schreiber]

I suggest fighting two-stick every day with no forearm protection. You will eventually be shown the very latest in splinted forearms.

Seriously, though, I would do it out of heavy stock like manila folder, in a design you like, and then with it secured to your arm, move it in every way imaginable. Wherever the paper gets wrinkled needs to be trimmed back. You might have to do a couple complete iterations so you can tell what is working and what isn't.

[Mad Matt]

It's just a section of a truncated cone. Measure your wrist. Measure the fat part of your forearm. Add a bit. Put the 4 points on the page. Connect the dots on the sides. Then draw an arch between them to get the cuff and top.

90 degrees to the sides on the cuff. If you're running it into the elbow you draw an arch on the top the same way and then add and subtract with your lines a bit so you have space in the elbow pit to bend and it runs up into the elbow in the middle.

Very very simple.

Instead of posterboard use a file folder. They're already folded so you cut one half and end up symetrical. And they make good sturdy patterns. Plus you probably have some sitting around somewhere.

For splints 1" wide 14ga strips work well. Set them up so they're spaced evenly at the top and bottom (bigger space at the top smaller space at the bottom.

If that explanation doesn't make any sense lemme know and I'll try to explain it better.