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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: SirNathanQ on 2012-05-16, 02:54:44
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Here's my Teutonic heater shield. It's appropriate for most of the 13th century and early 14th century. This I made from two pieces of 1/4 inch Birch plywood, pressed the wood and did most of the assembly work myself, and painted it.
Here's the facebook album. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.439297202748481.104657.100000046165415&type=1 (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.439297202748481.104657.100000046165415&type=1)
Credit Goes to my dad, Eric Pritchard (helped with the shield press), Sir james and milady Rachel. :)
(You will have to excuse my lack of full kit in the pictures, as I simply had no time for a full armour up)
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More Pictures, of course ;D
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Nice! :D
Now tis time for you to build them thar shield muscles. Let the joy begin. ;)
What's it weigh?
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That turned out awesome! Glad I could be of help, Sir Nathan.
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I'll get some weights for you tomorrow, Ivan. and thanks sir James for the help!
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That is a fantastic job! Great strapping on that as well! :)
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Fantastic work! It looks great even with the soft-kit. Well done.
If you want to build up the arm muscles, maybe what you need is a 5 lb hand-weight, and walk around with your arm extended out in front of you at all times. :)
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You've done an excellent job...looks like you have the placement of the guige strap perfectly. I hope you won't mind, I've saved a copy of the way you did it so I can send it to my shieldmakers. For some odd reason, they're still iffy when it comes to the strapping for a lefty like myself. Well done, Sir!
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Yes, well done indeed Sir Nathan!
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:)
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You've done an excellent job...looks like you have the placement of the guige strap perfectly. I hope you won't mind, I've saved a copy of the way you did it so I can send it to my shieldmakers. For some odd reason, they're still iffy when it comes to the strapping for a lefty like myself. Well done, Sir!
You can always get it unstrapped and head over here and we'll fix 'em up just like Sir Nathan's. ;)
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You can always get it unstrapped and head over here and we'll fix 'em up just like Sir Nathan's.
Agreed!
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Thank you all for your fine words :) You know, after training with the shield, I find that my zornhau is faster. I think it may be my left arm getting used to picking up some slack.
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You've done an excellent job...looks like you have the placement of the guige strap perfectly. I hope you won't mind, I've saved a copy of the way you did it so I can send it to my shieldmakers. For some odd reason, they're still iffy when it comes to the strapping for a lefty like myself. Well done, Sir!
You can always get it unstrapped and head over here and we'll fix 'em up just like Sir Nathan's. ;)
Deal...because its a beauty, but the strapping's awkward...I'll show you at VARF, I'll bring it w/me. Debating on whether or not to actually wear it. I have a sword coming back that I had a custom scabbard and rig made for (new grip too) that matches, I'm kind of stoked about it, but am not sure how to...well, you'll see. lol
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I'd reccomend giving the strapping the Sir James treatment. All of my strapping turned out wonderfully, thanks to his guidance.
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Duly noted, Sir.