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Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
September 30 2010 17:38 GMT
#1
...let me show u them.

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3 Hackeysacks.
Celtic Rose pattern.
3 ring sizes: 6mm, 8mm, 10mm.
Frontmost: Copper/Alu roses, Galvy connectors.
Middle: Galvy/Alu roses, Copper connectors.
Back: Copper/Galvy roses, Alu connectors.
~250 rings each.

taking a break now -.-


****
Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
September 30 2010 17:39 GMT
#2
sweet, are these ninja weapons?
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
September 30 2010 17:42 GMT
#3
Wow they look nice. I want one. :D

And the pic is interesting too.

On October 01 2010 02:39 DanceCommander wrote:
sweet, are these ninja weapons?


lol, wouldn't be harmless to get hit by one, I'd imagine.
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
ccdnl
Profile Joined April 2010
United States611 Posts
September 30 2010 17:44 GMT
#4
what are those?
civil cervixes || Kang Min Fan || I like TLO, TLO= German, I like Germans..?
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
September 30 2010 17:44 GMT
#5
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.
-HellZerg-
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States409 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 17:55:15
September 30 2010 17:54 GMT
#6
"It's beautiful!" - Protoss Archon

How long did it take for you to make each of them? :O They look pretty awesome. :D
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Amestir
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2126 Posts
September 30 2010 17:55 GMT
#7
I'm impressed by your balls.
We know nothing.
Tuke
Profile Joined January 2009
Finland1666 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 18:00:50
September 30 2010 17:59 GMT
#8
Not exactly what I expected, but your balls are still pretty neat.
TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #42
MinoMino
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway1103 Posts
September 30 2010 17:59 GMT
#9
I like your balls, how big are them approximately?
Blah.
Tuke
Profile Joined January 2009
Finland1666 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 18:00:16
September 30 2010 17:59 GMT
#10
stupid me quoting myself, sorry
TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #42
Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
September 30 2010 18:00 GMT
#11
Can we get a pic of you playing with them?
Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 18:02:39
September 30 2010 18:02 GMT
#12
Those are balls I definitely wouldn't mind having.
"If watching the MSL finals makes you a progamer, then anyone in Korea can do it." - Ha Tae Ki
Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
September 30 2010 18:02 GMT
#13
Balls of steel, now I know thats true.
Your balls look fantastic btw
Terran
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
September 30 2010 18:02 GMT
#14
On October 01 2010 02:39 DanceCommander wrote:
sweet, are these ninja weapons?

chain mail balls = ninja weapon? not quite sure if i would use it as a hackeysack though lol atleast barefoot it seems super painful
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
September 30 2010 18:02 GMT
#15
The fit with the swarm.
I am not good with quotes
sLiniss
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States849 Posts
September 30 2010 19:02 GMT
#16
Yo those look awesome. Handmade?? Regardless I'm jealous.
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
September 30 2010 19:05 GMT
#17
Balls of steel.
Hadrian
Profile Joined July 2009
50 Posts
September 30 2010 19:07 GMT
#18
I'd like to play with your balls.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
September 30 2010 19:08 GMT
#19
wow they looks ick
Sewi
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany1697 Posts
September 30 2010 19:19 GMT
#20
Nice job! Balls of steel!!
"Well, things were going ok until he lost all his stuff" - Tasteless, 17.02.2016
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary26003 Posts
September 30 2010 19:25 GMT
#21
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?
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Tazza
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)1678 Posts
September 30 2010 19:26 GMT
#22
So whats the advantage of having 3 balls instead of 2?
tube
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1475 Posts
September 30 2010 19:26 GMT
#23
On October 01 2010 04:26 Tazza wrote:
So whats the advantage of having 3 balls instead of 2?

more torque
Two in harmony surpasses one in perfection.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
September 30 2010 19:34 GMT
#24
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.
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
September 30 2010 20:15 GMT
#25
On October 01 2010 04:34 heyoka wrote:
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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.


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.
♥ I used to lasso the shit out of your tournaments =( ♥ | Much is my hero. | zizi yO~ | Be Nice, TL.
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
September 30 2010 20:20 GMT
#26
If you're going to use your balls like that just be sure to tell her she's not lalowed to use her hands, but has to keep the balls off the ground at all times.
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Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
September 30 2010 20:45 GMT
#27
I was expecting a continuation of "they hurt..."

(Reads stuff about making man-rings and now wants to do it also)
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
Versita
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada1032 Posts
September 30 2010 20:47 GMT
#28
this is so sick
Lexvink
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada310 Posts
September 30 2010 21:12 GMT
#29
Looks awesome, and they remind me of Tangela the pokemon...
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
September 30 2010 21:17 GMT
#30
i'd love to stall your balls on my chin
Bub
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States3518 Posts
September 30 2010 21:51 GMT
#31
man I bet everyone wants to play with em
XK ßubonic
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23342 Posts
September 30 2010 22:02 GMT
#32
Quit pholon around with the balls puns guys.
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
September 30 2010 22:07 GMT
#33
Excellent pair of balls sir.
Subversion
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
South Africa3627 Posts
October 01 2010 02:04 GMT
#34
sweet.

how do you join the rings together?
MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10346 Posts
October 01 2010 02:08 GMT
#35
Glorious balls.
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Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
October 01 2010 02:52 GMT
#36
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.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
October 01 2010 08:24 GMT
#37
Bunch of replies:

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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

Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
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