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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:34 am |
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| Mr. Business wrote: |
| Who was it that said their Dad liked to make shirts of mail out of bent spoons? I still want one! Spoonmail! |
That was me. My dad made an incredibly heavy shirt of chainmail in high school. Ttwo years ago, he did the scalemail out of spoons. He's also made his own atlatl with five-foot darts, a bow out of scrap polymer rods from Boeing Aircraft, knives out of hacksaw blades, sandals out of tires, a two-man boat out of a bunch of two-liter soda pop bottles, and a miniature flail out of a railroad-car ball bearing, a rectangle of rawhide and a short rope.
I keep meaning to upload pictures.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:56 pm |
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| Mr. Business wrote: |
| Forget pictures, man. I seriously want a shirt of mail. I will send you money for this very purpose. |
Heh. Talk is cheap.
Here's what it looks like, though.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:03 am |
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| psiga wrote: |
That really does transcend into something awesome. How does he do it? Punch holes in the neck of the spoons and then link them with smaller loops?
That would look staggering as sporkmail, but sporks are wildly expensive. |
The process involves first cutting a portion of the handles off and drilling a hole on each side of the spoon. Then he cuts off a section of heavy wire, threads it through the adjacent holes on two spoons, and curves it into a ring. He does that enough times to create a long chain of spoons in a ring of the size needed. For the next row, after putting two spoons together with a ring, he puts the remains of the handle of the spoon beneath them through the ring and bends it back in a loop. That's what keeps the pattern regular.
The one problem with this method is that it isn't really possible to change the number of spoons in the rings , meaning the shirt is essentially cylindrical. You can't really shape it to the body, short of using a different size of spoon in different places. The shirt tends to bunch up in the back, a little bit; it's also hard as hell to put on.
I can't remember if I've ever seen a metal spork.
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