by Bear » Mon May 12, 2014 9:28 pm
Wire is neat and all, but the cool kids are using leaded drapery cord. Its a thin rope with beads of lead in it which makes it super easy to wrap though and you can find it at fabric stores. Most of my handles are a layer of this, maybe a little more or less depending on what I am doing, followed up with a layer of regular 1/4" cord and then cloth tape. I use carpet tape to stick the cord onto the core and the next layer of rope. I find that when I had used wire for counter weighting the coil would gradually slide down and into the pommel but that could have been the stuff I used.
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