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(SCA) Using dead Boogie boards for pole arm heads
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:32 pm
by Ringlancer
Anybody here tried it?
I'm in the process of obtaining an old board, going to chop it up for a pollaxe and maybe something with a hook.
Just wondering if people have had success with this or no.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:17 am
by Milan
People have had success with that (that's very common here in Calafia) but I really don't know the exact technique.
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Milan Ivanovic
Drafn, Wolfpack glaiveman
Part time armorer
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:27 pm
by Therion
Yup, works fine - here's two pictures showing a partisan I made years ago from a boogie board. The secret is that rather than slapping tape on willy-nilly, use several hundred 5" long pieces of high quality strapping tape carefully applied. (method for making *any* polearm head aesthetically pleasing, not just a boogie board head)
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Hal Siegel - TherionArms
http://www.therionarms.com[This message has been edited by Therion (edited 04-22-2003).]
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:11 pm
by Symon VanMoordrecht
Therion,.
Looks like you lost a little weight for that first picture
Love the second harness!! (It's pl@$tic, right?)
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-Scott Thomas
Symon Fitz Gilbert, Squire to Sir Mitchell MacBain
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:48 pm
by Ringlancer
Hal, I can't see the pics, your site is blocked to me at work.
Can someone else post the pics/
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:16 pm
by Vermin
Hal's been sick....
(grin)
VvS
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:31 pm
by Therion
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Symon Fitz Gilbert:
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Looks like you lost a little weight for that first picture
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That's what full plate and Texas weather'll do to you!
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Love the second harness!! (It's pl@$tic, right?)</font>
Yup - that's what *wanting* to wear full plate in Texas weather does to you!
I have a steel black&white set for WMA fighting, and a pl@$tic black&white for SCA fighting - and folks down here tell me I'm "wearing too much armor" for SCA .... it's tough being an armor junkie in a semi-tropical environment ... good thing one of my best life-skills is sweating excessively ...
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Hal Siegel - TherionArms
http://www.therionarms.com[This message has been edited by Therion (edited 04-25-2003).]
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:37 pm
by Therion
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ringlancer:
Hal, I can't see the pics, your site is blocked to me at work.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You're supposed to be working, not surfing the Archive!
Yeah, the double-edged sword of the Internet finally caught up to me about two months ago. I was discovered by the net-nanny programs, and now I'm blocked some places in the "Weapons and Other Dangerous Things" category ..... I guess I really can't complain, since my site *is* all about selling weapons and armor, but being censored is pretty annoying
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Hal Siegel - TherionArms
http://www.therionarms.com[This message has been edited by Therion (edited 04-25-2003).]