Renaissance Faire Armor Updates (Part I)
Oh yeah. It's that time of year.
We got a whole list of shit that needs to get done.
First things first: Doing something that's not even on the list of stuff to do.
Remember the Hurt Styck? That needs an update. The morning star attachment was peak, but I hated the staff. The connections took too much effort and time to screw together, and the staff itself just looked like somebody just wrapped a cardboard tube in newspaper and painted it brown (cuz that's what it was, pretty much).
So I'm remaking it.
I also wanted to make the bottom attachment look more like a handle for when it's in one-handed mode.
I reused the bottom bit I used on the original staff and then I made the grip with backer-rod bescause I liked how it looked on the practice ax.
The new connections are made with wooden paint roller extensions. They're basicically just cheap wood dowels that screw into a plastic bit. They don't take much to screw together and they feel a lot more solid than the last staff.
Then I had to make a new connection for the morning star attachment.
Ripping the top off was a lot easier than I expected.
Unlike making the connection.
I made one version that didn't look good. Then I tried to make it look good but failed. Then it just bugger it and threw the whole thing away and made a new one.
After testing it out (by running around the yard and swinging around like a crackhead berserker), the whole thing felt solid.
Some of the spikes got bent, so I removed them and made replacement ones.
Stay tuned for more updates.