Saturday, April 29, 2006

shaping the bottom edge




Rubber hammer and anvil horn . Fold the armour over the horn until it gets the right shape, then reverse curve to show off the spinae erectae muscles. Often I'll shape the intermediate piece of armour at the same time to ensure a good fit. When you finish, you want the suggestion of a curve. A common mistake is to leave a bump which will dig into the spine.
Observe the obsessive use of duct tape to keep from scarring the surface!


I do a lot of pushing the metal around by hand at this point, and discover where the sharp edges are!

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

Did you write those notes on there just for us?

STAG said...

Yup.

Jennifer said...

Garsh...thanks.