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Chill
Calgary25980 Posts
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Tazza
Korea (South)1678 Posts
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tube
United States1475 Posts
On October 01 2010 04:26 Tazza wrote: So whats the advantage of having 3 balls instead of 2? more torque | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
On October 01 2010 04:25 Chill wrote: Lately you've posted a lot of chain mailish stuff (I don't even know what it's called if you're not making mail out of it). How do you actually do it? Is it all physical? Like just crimping the ends of rings or something? Where do you get the rings? Are they expensive? I've had friends who did this by buying huge spools of wire (aluminum/copper/galvanized steel) then wrapping them into tightly coiled springs with a drill attached to a wooden dowel that was the size they wanted the rings. Then they would take the springs and cut them with a wire cutter to get the rings. From there they bent them to make a closed ring (or one that had a small gap so it could be used to link). This is pretty cool, I love the stuff you're sharing. | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
On October 01 2010 04:34 heyoka wrote: I've had friends who did this by buying huge spools of wire (aluminum/copper/galvanized steel) then wrapping them into tightly coiled springs with a drill attached to a wooden dowel that was the size they wanted the rings. Then they would take the springs and cut them with a wire cutter to get the rings. From there they bent them to make a closed ring (or one that had a small gap so it could be used to link). This is pretty cool, I love the stuff you're sharing. Holy shit that's way above and beyond. I had a friend who did it for a while, and he just bought pre-made rings. They were kind of expensive, but not terribly so... From what I've seen, it seems like most of the difficulty is in the planning of the patterns and such, and the actual process is just extremely time consuming! It's like knitting or something, but for real men. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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Rinrun
Canada3509 Posts
(Reads stuff about making man-rings and now wants to do it also) | ||
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Versita
Canada1032 Posts
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Lexvink
Canada310 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23335 Posts
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
how do you join the rings together? | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10341 Posts
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
On October 01 2010 07:07 hifriend wrote: Excellent pair of balls sir. There's three balls in total. It's not just a pair. Regardless, those are some awesome balls. | ||
Pholon
Netherlands6142 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + On October 01 2010 02:39 DanceCommander wrote: sweet, are these ninja weapons? Yes. In fact, there are three ninjas in that picture. On October 01 2010 02:44 Scorch wrote: You can't actually use them as hackeysacks, can you? I bet they're hard and heavy. They look great though, the pattern is beautiful. You can perfectly well I imagine. They're not too heavy, the one that's mostly aluminum is quite light (which actually makes the three of them kinda weird to juggle with), and, from what I can tell, the shape behaves very similarly to an actual footbag. On October 01 2010 02:54 ProHellZerg wrote: How long did it take for you to make each of them? :O They look pretty awesome. :D About 3 hours a piece. On October 01 2010 02:59 MinoMino wrote: I like your balls, how big are them approximately? About 5cm in diameter On October 01 2010 04:25 Chill wrote: Lately you've posted a lot of chain mailish stuff (I don't even know what it's called if you're not making mail out of it). How do you actually do it? Is it all physical? Like just crimping the ends of rings or something? Where do you get the rings? Are they expensive? Yeah must say I've been busy. Making the TL logo kind of prompted me to look up/try to make stuff I hadn't before. This is one of them. We can still call it chainmail I suppose - anything that interlinks rings in some pattern is. I make all the rings myself, pretty much using this method: On October 01 2010 04:34 heyoka wrote: I've had friends who did this by buying huge spools of wire (aluminum/copper/galvanized steel) then wrapping them into tightly coiled springs with a drill attached to a wooden dowel that was the size they wanted the rings. Then they would take the springs and cut them with a wire cutter to get the rings. From there they bent them to make a closed ring (or one that had a small gap so it could be used to link). Buying pre-made rings is ridiculously expensive - they do sell these to cater to beginners but I would especially not recommend it to them because you're gonna waste a lot of material when starting up. How to interlink them depends on the type of weave. The most common weave (the one they used to wear and the one you see in films etc) is called European 4-1 (its origins are European and every ring goes through 4 others. Tutorial here. On October 01 2010 07:02 Slayer91 wrote: Quit pholon around with the balls puns guys. You just made Kwark smile | ||
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