![]() i had it wide at the ends so that i could fit lots of staples in. then you out fabric in the shape you want for the handle. i would suggest making the strap sort of round and fitted to your arm, not just secured at the ends other wise your arm will slide around in the strap. then you staple it on to the shield, i used lots of staples just to make sure they didn't all point out. the to make then handle and strap you get some fabric and cut it in to the right shape. and then use a plug cuter to cut a plug and fill in the hole with the plug and the sand it down, then cut of the screw in the back. i put the screws in from the back to the front and cut off and painted the parts that stuck out of the lump, but the best way would be to to drill a hole the size of the screws top and then drill the pilot hole through that and the put in the screw through that. if this happens, reverse the drill and use nail or something to poke a hole to help the screw go through. what you have to be careful of is the fabric catching on the drill bit of screw and twisting up. if you miss when drilling a pilot hole of when screwing that's OK it leaves only a very inconspicuous hole. other wise just try to find where the center of the design is and screw the lump on. if the center of the design is the center of the shield it will be much easier to screw in the lump. you have to make sure that the lump is in the center of the design not the center of the shield because otherwise it would look weird. then you paint it silver and screw it onto the shield. ![]() i turned one on a lathe, but you could also go to a hard ware store and find something like a fence post or table leg or some other wooden object that has a sphere on it and cut the sphere in half, and use that. to make the swirl you take a model of part of the circumference and use it as a stencil between a point of the circumference and the midpoint of the circle. when you staple the strips make sure they over lap so bits of vinyl don't stick out. that cut the edges into strips but make sure that the strips are not to long or you will be able to see them on the front of the shield. ![]() cut a circle of vinyl that's bigger than the shield by a few inches. then you stretch the colored vinyl over the foam and staple around the back of the shield. then you get some foam and staple it to the wood around the edges with a staple gun. its probably cheaper though to just get some half or three quarters inch ply wood. then i put in some screws around the edges and cut off the part of the screw that was sticking out. since the ply wood i happened to have from another project was about 1/5 of an inch thick i used three layers and glued them together. i choose a circle about 2 feet in diameter. first you cut your ply wood into the shape you want. The shield is a relatively simple process. i turned the hilt of my sword on a lathe but if you don't have a lathe or access to one you can use the method in the instructable listed above. this piece breaks especially if its thin so you have to be careful.i also used a grinder to make the sword shiny because its pretty dull when it comes out of the mold and if you recast it to fix it. at the bottom of your sword you have to have a skinnier part that goes into you swords handle. at first i had a curved sword bu i decide i like strait better though it is still slightly curved. it wasn't as good as my first mold so i didn' have a very sword like object but i hammered it a lot and it broke a lot (if your sword brakes you can just put the broken pieces together and put some aluminum foil around it and melt the pieces back together) until it was the shape of a sword. the clay i used exploded when it was heated, just small parts of it not the whole thing, and so i didn't do much with it other than make a bar of tin. then you heat and melt the tin in a something, i used part of a can, and poor it into your mold. and this is how you get the clay back to a good consistency for making a mold. I'm telling you this because you may have to cast multiple times or your mold could break. the clay i have was self drying and had already dried so i had break it up into small pieces and then put it into a container with water for about an hour then drain out the water witch resulted in giving a bunch of a sort of clay sludge, but then it dried out for a few days and it got to hard but not that had so i wet it with a spray bottle and i got it to workable consistency. tin is very easily melted with a blow torch. ![]() If you already have a sword you could use that and if you don't want to mess around with casting metal you can use this- if you don't mind casting metal here's what you can do. ![]()
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