Meroidoc
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Why use swords, when axes are more fun!
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Post by Meroidoc on Feb 25, 2009 13:45:18 GMT -5
So i wanna make a gaint center grip shield; yea like damn near everyone else in Dag seems to have. Does any know where i can get the lovely Uber-foam that people use for their cores... or any other core that would be good for a punch shield...
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 14:00:59 GMT -5
I have no idea, but you can ask big Nova when he gets here tonight! YAYS!
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 14:03:26 GMT -5
Okay, so I just texted him, he said Mcmaster Carr, and I don't know what that means.
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 14:17:21 GMT -5
Okay, he meant a website, www.mcmaster.com/# and the foam you are looking for is polyethylene, then you'll have a shield like Big Nova. |
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Post by Haze on Feb 25, 2009 14:56:39 GMT -5
I want some too, I want to make a -big- shield.
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Meroidoc
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Post by Meroidoc on Feb 25, 2009 14:56:51 GMT -5
hahaha so when is nove getting in? you guys should come over to the house
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 15:08:39 GMT -5
He's staying at the house, and well... let's just say supernova.... so yeah
He should be there around 9, I'll probably be there at 10, because RLST club is watching and discussing Religulous.
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 15:09:25 GMT -5
I think one sheet Of the polyethylene make two shields like Big Nova's but I'm not sure.
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 15:15:41 GMT -5
Okay, so now Jarrad responded with a different site : www.foambymail.com Polyethelyne sheeting, at least 2.2 lbs. density, two inches thick. I'd go with what he says. |
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Post by Haze on Feb 25, 2009 15:18:33 GMT -5
That shit ain't cheap.
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Feb 25, 2009 15:53:55 GMT -5
I know... But it lasts quite a while... that said. I'm perfectly happy with my strap shield.
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Post by Mercaine on Feb 25, 2009 16:11:04 GMT -5
Yeah its really insane for just one shield. SIgh... OH well. And yes RLST club tonight... Hmm being a major i should go... Ugh.
I'd say for a quick center grip go with something like a light plywood I saw a lot of those come through the checking and they were all good quality. And many of them were pretty light, but they'd have the bulk to push someone back.
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Post by Haze on Feb 25, 2009 16:14:31 GMT -5
Religulous is fucking amazing.
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Post by Mercaine on Feb 28, 2009 3:32:05 GMT -5
i still have yet to see it.
On topic:
For punch shields you could always go with the boogie board style shields. they work nicely and they are slightly expandable witht he blue foam strategically placed around. Personally. Take the plastic barrel's that are thinner than the ones we traditionally use (like that blue one we had that one time) use some fiberglass core (from the swords) to keep it straight.
Do this by drilling holes in the top and bottom of the core and then wrapping the fiberglass rod to the core through the holes with telephone cord (that shit doesn't break).
That will keep your core flat and straight, that way you could make it a center grip anyway you would like at that point. Just cover it like any other shield we make. then you have a centergrip with the rigidity of the plywood ones, but the weight of plastic!!!
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Post by Swordbrother Nova on Mar 1, 2009 0:01:25 GMT -5
AGH! I Missed the RLST club meeting... I had to go to the hospital, boo, I really wanted to see that.
On topic: What? I didn't get that at all....
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