[Bryn-gwlad] Boffer Weapons

[kcmarsh at suddenlink.net]

Artorius used a foam kick-board from the pool-toys section of Academy Sports and Outdoors as the basis for his halbard.  It was thick enough to hold up after putting the 1/2" pvc haft through it.  He used a knife to make an x-shaped hole through the foam and then forced the shaft through, then used lots of strapping tape to secure it in place.

Pool noodle is best for swords but sometimes other foam shapes are desired.  There is also some dense computer-packing foam that works well for boffer weapons if you can find it in the shapes you need.

Maelgwyn


---- Dcypress <Dcypress at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Using the foam noodles for swiming you can buy at like Walmart are better. As 
> they have the hole already and are shaped.. then duct tape it all down.
> 
> Maire
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Zakes" <dontivar at gmail.com>
> To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Boffer Weapons
> 
> 
> At 03:28 PM 4/12/2008, you wrote:
> >
> >I wanted to ask if anybody(probably everybody) knows how to make the
> >blade for say...a boffer axe.
> >I'm a bit confused in that area. Jason
> 
> 
> I would use a piece of foam rubber cut into the appropriate shape,
> mounted onto a haft and then covered in duct tape. Depending on how
> it behaves, you might want to make a sandwich of open-cell foam (the
> squishy yellow stuff) and closed-cell foam (the denser blue stuff
> used for camping pads.)
> 
>          -Tivar Moondragon
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