Your ridicule.

It sustains me.

I wish that I could afford to but about 50K tiny red and gold scales. Combined with these, and a few white light LEDs, I could make one hell of a medieval Iron Man costume.

http://www.morallyambiguous.net/mult...l/J1110116.JPG

Adding to the armour, I have now branched out into weapons. Daryl and his stupid crossbow can't nearly match my rate of fire! (Made for a friend's 6 year old son).

http://www.morallyambiguous.net/mult...w/J5170014.JPG

You know, it's amazing what you can do with a little plumbing pipe. This one is going to get wrapped in deerskin and 'artificial sinew.'

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Whats the pull rate?

Somewhere between 35 and 40 pounds.

Damn. May have to make me one.

It's now covered with deerskin, a pigskin grip, and 'synthetic sinew' holding everything on. I can see that I tapered the tips too much, though, because they're bending enough below the siyahs to be near collapse. With a 40 pound weight at full draw I should have tapered them less. I'll reinforce the tips, reduce the initial bend by lengthening the string, or both. It should be fine if I drop it down to around 30 pounds.

A lot of good information and how-tos from this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_U...gKHN_A-iTAwZbg

Here it is. I'm going to reduce the draw and consider it a costume bow then start work on another one in the same style, that will definitely be able to take that much draw weight. Every new bow is an education.

http://www.morallyambiguous.net/mult...w/Q6230025.JPG

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I'm hoping to have some pics that you folks on here might actually appreciate, some time in September. A friend who I met through the motorsports photography gig also does fashion style photography, and he wants to do a studio session with some of my chainmail and weapons, with a model he referred to as "rather well endowed and heavily tattooed."

I'm now working on some larger armour and decorative pieces, getting ready for it.