This is *MY* daughter. She's wearing the chain coif *I* made for her first Halloween. Also: Home-made Trebuchet!
Posted Mar 23, 2010, 3:54 PM UTC
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Downvoted for submitting your own content. (I keed!)
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lol, some(one|thing) is downvoting my sweet, little, bacon-loving, siege engine-operating offspring... I'm gonna go with the old, "Don't sweat it, it's just bots. Happens to everyone," line but, still... 5 up and 5 down. It's a bit hard to swallow. :)
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Been there, done that with my own content when submitted - who knows, maybe just the adbots and spammers trying to get their own content higher by downvoting everything else.
Saydrah? (Kidding, Saydrah, I love you and I don't care what anyone says!)
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Obligatory: Yes, it is my actual daughter.
I can't believe I haven't submitted this before. Obviously some (poor) 'Shopping going on here. I was browsing my photos one day and somehow these 2 (1, the treb; 2, the anachronistic daughter) showed up in short succession and inspiration hit! My 'Shopping skills are admittedly mediocre, but it's not too bad...
The coif took a long time (only wire, rod, snips and pliers were used) but turned out quite well, if I do say so myself.
The trebuchet was cobbled together by me and a couple buddies over the course of a few (beer-fueled) nights. It was ostensibly an attempt to draw a crowd to our yard sale, but really we just wanted to chunk stuff. It was moderately successful at both.
Enjoy!
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LOOKS SHOPPED! LOOKS SHOPPED! LOOKS SHOPPED!
Oh... uh... never mind.
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Do you have close up of the chain? It looks more like ring mail rather than chair. Anodized rings held together by wire, or did you make the rings from wire?
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It is chain, made from wire (mostly galvanized steel with some brass and copper thrown in for flair) wrapped around a steel rod then snipped into rings. The "weave" is mostly a basic 4-in-1 but I had to get a little creative while figuring out how to make it cap-shaped.
I will try to remember to take a closeup at lunch today if you really want to see it.
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yes please! I'm always interested in seeing stuff like that, especially if you don't hide the snip ends.
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Sorry it's taken so long, I've been trying to find the darned thing (this was Halloween '08) and my house is a mess! I'll keep looking so I can get you some better closeups, but here's a higher-res pic of her wearing it in which you should be able to better see the pattern and convince yourself it's not ring mail.
Cheers!
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Austr--------
I'll stop myself there, cool picture
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I guess that's one way to avoid dealing with boy issues until she's 30.