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Can I make anything with these?

Postby Magpie Saegar » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:41 am

I've just inherited 100 circles of leather 2.25" diameter and 1/16th of an inch thick.

It seems as if they must have SOME application related to this sport, but I'm having trouble thinking what. Any suggestions?
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Re: Can I make anything with these?

Postby Black Cat » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:15 pm

Judging by the dimensions, those scraps are for building reinforced arrows.

2.25" in diameter by 1/16" thick sounds like the perfect measurement for the first cap layer of a custom-built 2 1/4" diameter arrow can. One layer of blue foam or EVA would go on top of the leather. Then you could use Yoga Mat for the third layer, since your "base layering" of the cap (the part that keeps the penny cap from punching through) is already covered by the leather and first layer of ~2# foam. Then just add your favorite open-cell foam to the end and finish the arrow like normal.

Arrows built this way should last a lot longer than normally-constructed arrows.
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Re: Can I make anything with these?

Postby Magpie Saegar » Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:30 pm

I like that idea! I had assumed armor or garb of some kind, though I know they're definitely not thick enough to be armor themselves.

(That's not, however, what they were initially for... I inherited them from an octogenarian who knows nothing of Belegarth. No clue what they were initially for).
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Re: Can I make anything with these?

Postby Cib » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:40 pm

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Re: Can I make anything with these?

Postby Kraesh » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:26 pm

Can you say event tokens? :D

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