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Want to make a Shield
Sir Patrick:
If you go the Gaffer route, take your time and make a good press. You can turn out shields for years with it (or turn out blanks you can sell off to fund your kit).
Sir Ulrich:
You could always buy a shield blank from Oakheart armory and then finish it yourself. They only cost about 40 bucks per blank. Then you can do whatever you want with them such as put a rawhide rim on them add high quality handles and paint it however you want. They're already canvas or linen covered so you dont have to worry about the plywood showing. Their shields arent bad just their leatherwork leaves more to be desired which is why I suggest the blanks rather than the finished shield. If you're doing templar for the shield painting is simple too, as thy had a black top that took up 1/3rd or one 1/4th of the shield and the rest was white.
Sir Nate:
--- Quote from: Sir Ulrich on 2014-06-02, 19:07:03 ---You could always buy a shield blank from Oakheart armory and then finish it yourself. They only cost about 40 bucks per blank. Then you can do whatever you want with them such as put a rawhide rim on them add high quality handles and paint it however you want. They're already canvas or linen covered so you dont have to worry about the plywood showing. Their shields arent bad just their leatherwork leaves more to be desired which is why I suggest the blanks rather than the finished shield. If you're doing templar for the shield painting is simple too, as thy had a black top that took up 1/3rd or one 1/4th of the shield and the rest was white.
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I will go with this route. Seems best for now, and more affordable and less time consuming. I think I will still try making a shield this summer though.
--- Quote from: Thorsteinn on 2014-06-01, 00:01:36 ---I've made a lot of shields over the years. What's your budget? How historic do you want to get? Purpose of the shield?
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My budget would Ideally be $100 dollars or less, I want to be as historic as possible, and I want to be able to use the shield for just about anything.
--- Quote from: Sir Patrick on 2014-06-02, 19:06:08 ---If you go the Gaffer route, take your time and make a good press. You can turn out shields for years with it (or turn out blanks you can sell off to fund your kit).
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What is the gaffer route exactly?
Sir William:
Yeoldgaffer's an old SBG poster who decided to make his own armor stands, scabbards w/belts, and shields. He wrote up some really in-depth how-to's if you're interested; Douglas posted the link to his site.
I would also second Oakheart Armory; the last two shields I had commissioned came from them and they're really willing and able to work with you. Rather than going with a blank, I had them make up two complete shields, with arm straps and neck/guige strap to hang from the back; one was rimmed in steel and painted with my heraldic colors and the other was a Templar one-off (not the beauseant version, white with a red cross) same layout and both shields were around $120 or so when it was all said and done.
Sir Nate:
--- Quote from: Sir William on 2014-06-03, 19:27:21 ---Yeoldgaffer's an old SBG poster who decided to make his own armor stands, scabbards w/belts, and shields. He wrote up some really in-depth how-to's if you're interested; Douglas posted the link to his site.
I would also second Oakheart Armory; the last two shields I had commissioned came from them and they're really willing and able to work with you. Rather than going with a blank, I had them make up two complete shields, with arm straps and neck/guige strap to hang from the back; one was rimmed in steel and painted with my heraldic colors and the other was a Templar one-off (not the beauseant version, white with a red cross) same layout and both shields were around $120 or so when it was all said and done.
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So it only comes out to about 60 to have it customized?
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