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Post by mitsuhide on Mar 19, 2011 19:58:04 GMT -5
I wear a judo gi and its night and day to what it was before. Google American Tiger Strike they have Gis and what not. I got my kendo gear from them good quality to price.
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Post by konrad on Mar 19, 2011 20:05:23 GMT -5
Depending on you you plan to use your equipment will help you figure out that you need to change to make your new Dou viable for SCA combat. I have a bunch of different kits that I use for different things at events. I have a set of armour that I wear for local practices twice a week and some nicer kits that I wear at events. The practice armour is for learning things and getting my ass kicked which in turn saves wear and tear on my nicer gear that I can use at events. The amount of work that you have invested in the project kind of automatically disqualifies any time-saving short cuts in favor of doing it the 'Right Way (tm)'. The motto we use around here is: 'Anything worth doing, is worth over-doing.'
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Mar 21, 2011 1:50:33 GMT -5
I realized tonight that I didn't build the coward's plate boards yet. I'll put shiki in those when I make them and see how that works out. I laced some more. Do progress 7 by tomlapille, on Flickr Kusazuri close-up by tomlapille, on Flickr Mistakes aside, this is still going to be really nice looking.
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Post by pallidus on Mar 21, 2011 18:23:32 GMT -5
how long is it taking you to lace one set of kusazuri and do the suspensory lacing?
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Mar 22, 2011 0:11:24 GMT -5
It takes bout two and a half hours to put a kusazuri together after I already have the boards made. I don't know how long it took me to make the boards, as I did that a while ago. I can't recommend this process to anyone unless they fell in love with kebiki odoshi armor, which is what happened to me. It takes a while. :B
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Post by BigMek on Mar 22, 2011 5:00:10 GMT -5
Wow that is really amazing, looks really good. Can't wait to see it finished, really inspiring.
Would love to do one myself but sadly, since I'm a LARPer and not an SCAer, plastic is not allowed at all.
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Post by Suzuki Ken'ichi on Mar 22, 2011 12:42:59 GMT -5
One could easily do this in leather. Tandy sells "Armor and shield grade leather" on their website. It would be more expensive than plastic, but I don't get the impression LARP combat is as concussive as SCA combat, so the leather would be fine.
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Post by BigMek on Mar 22, 2011 15:04:06 GMT -5
I did consider it but seems like leather is to "bendy" for it, but could be the way out. This is the "normal" leather I'm talking about though, dunno what it's called in english, do have some 2m2 of it though, may have to try this.
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Post by arashi on Mar 22, 2011 15:31:31 GMT -5
Armor grade leather usually still has to be hardened, some people wax harden, some water harden. Traditional japanese methods would be lacquer hardening, which I've never experimented with.
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Mar 23, 2011 0:51:39 GMT -5
The process of making my own waxed leather scales before doing what I'm doing now sounds pretty tedious, but then again I am putting tons of time into this project. :B I'm curious what the problem with plastic is in your line of fighting. This stuff is somewhat flexible as opposed to being rigid like plate ABS. Also, I am close to done with this part. Next up is the coward's plate, which will have shiki because I haven't made those boards yet. Do progress 8 by tomlapille, on Flickr
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Post by BigMek on Mar 23, 2011 1:08:33 GMT -5
Looking really awsome, very much liking the blue turning darker as you go down. I may have missed it somewhere but are you planning on doing a full suit with kote, suneate and all or just this piece?
The reason why plastic isn't allowed in LARP (least where I'm from) is because it's not a material they used "Back then", least that's the reason that's been given, not much I can do about it sadly. The thing with LARP is that the fighting is not in focus but more the roleplaying, but that also means that you don't really need alot of protection and most people wear armour just for the cool-factor of it.
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Mar 23, 2011 12:53:16 GMT -5
Although this is made of plastic, it looks mostly indistinguishable from lacquered leather or steel, which is what was used in period. If you used powder coated steel for the kanagu mawari, it would look exactly like it was supposed to.
EDIT: I do plan to make a complete suit. I will not be making haidate as foot soldiers didn't usually wear them, but I'll be doing the rest of the kit to go with this.
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Mar 27, 2011 19:53:37 GMT -5
Do progress 9 by tomlapille, on Flickr Hooray! Now to make the coward's plate. I'll use shiki in that, as I haven't made the boards yet. After that, it's time for kanagu mawari and I'll be about done with this part.
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Post by Suzuki Ken'ichi on Mar 27, 2011 20:35:31 GMT -5
That's looking very sharp.
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Post by BigMek on Mar 28, 2011 6:52:40 GMT -5
Wow, that looks very cool...hope we get some pictures of it on
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