Mikhail
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Post by Mikhail on Jan 27, 2009 11:34:55 GMT -5
Has anyone found a good tutorial for how to put shoulder-straps or back-straps on a shield? I want to try it, and it seems fairly straightforward, but I'd like to make sure I'm not doing it wrong. Cheers.
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Post by Haldor on Jan 27, 2009 13:17:30 GMT -5
I know of no tutorial, but it is in fact very straight forward. Pretty much anything you can do to make them stay is fine. If you have a specific question, it would be easier to tell you if your idea is ok.
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Mikhail
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Post by Mikhail on Jan 27, 2009 15:20:13 GMT -5
My thought was to use two straps, possibly adjustable ones (although that might be pushing the credibility a little bit), and cross them over my chest (ie, right shoulder to left hip and left shoulder to right hip).
I suppose my questions are: Would it work to do this on a coreless shield? Or would that necessitate the shield being too small to be worth it? And if I did use a coreless shield, what's the best way of attaching the straps? Obviously there would be nothing to bolt them to...
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Post by Kallagh the Coffinmaker on Jan 27, 2009 16:28:30 GMT -5
A possible solution would be to use two leather belts (modern) in a cross pattern.
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Zaron
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Post by Zaron on Jan 28, 2009 17:16:38 GMT -5
First off, you can definatly do straps on a coreless shield, I've helped build several of those. You just cut slits in the foam and thread the straps through them, and then put a layer of blue in the front to cover them.
I do see one flaw in your plan of how to strap the shield however. I would recommend not crossing the straps over your chest. A shield has be able to be dropped quickly if broken, even if it's on your back. And while you can usually get off a backpack shield as they're called in a reasonable amount of time, I'm not sure that you could with them crossed over your chest.
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Post by Haldor on Jan 29, 2009 7:50:07 GMT -5
Right. It would be difficult to get out of it quickly. Depending on how you want it to hang, another possibility is to have a single cross/torso strap. It'll tend to hang lower and to one side, but I've seen several people use this effectively.
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Post by Friederich Eberwein on Jan 31, 2009 2:04:02 GMT -5
Alyosha, have you seen what Ingvarr picked up the other day? It's a ruddy great nylon strap with a great big plastic buckle. That way, when broken, it's a /snap/ (oog.) to let the shield drop.
Perhaps a snap/buckle on the strap would make it easy to do either configuration--so long as it would hold under fire, as it were.
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Mikhail
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Post by Mikhail on Jan 31, 2009 17:23:42 GMT -5
The puns, they hurt me.
Yeah, good thought. I'd rather avoid a buckle, though, because it seems like it'd kinda suck to get hit there.
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Post by Haldor on Jan 31, 2009 21:27:09 GMT -5
Agreed, it'd probably not be fun. Also, it'll likely look like junk and, if it is a "back pack" shield, the big ugly buckle would be prominently displayed.
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