(SCA) Using dead Boogie boards for pole arm heads

Ringlancer · Post by **Ringlancer** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:32 pm

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.

Milan · Post by **Milan** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:17 am

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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Therion · Post by **Therion** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:27 pm

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
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Symon VanMoordrecht · Post by **Symon VanMoordrecht** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:11 pm

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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Symon Fitz Gilbert, Squire to Sir Mitchell MacBain

Ringlancer · Post by **Ringlancer** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:48 pm

Hal, I can't see the pics, your site is blocked to me at work.

Can someone else post the pics/

Vermin · Post by **Vermin** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:16 pm

Hal's been sick....
(grin)

VvS

Therion · Post by **Therion** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:31 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Symon Fitz Gilbert:

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!

Love the second harness!! (It's pl@$tic, right?)

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
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Therion · Post by **Therion** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:37 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ringlancer:
Hal, I can't see the pics, your site is blocked to me at work.<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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http://www.therionarms.com

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