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Greywolf
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« on: June 26, 2015, 07:53:30 AM »
I tried myself in doing a leather grip wrap and emitter shroud on one of my sabers; I let you guess what was the 'origin' Grin

I think (for hopefully obvious reasons) I'll call it the 'Caterpillar'






Any guesses so far? Well, that's a Liberator V2 inside Wink
My modifications didn't mess up the balance as bad as I feared; with an 32" UE the balance point is about at the two screws.
And although I didn't get thin leather, thanks to the slim OD of the Liberator it's still quite comfy...
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2015, 08:44:50 PM »
What did you make  the emitter shroud out of? PVC?
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2015, 10:06:02 PM »
Definitely an interesting custom, how did you secure the leather?
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Greywolf
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2015, 06:26:18 AM »
Quote from: J-Nebular on June 27, 2015, 08:44:50 PM
What did you make  the emitter shroud out of? PVC?

Correct Wink
Here in Germany it is difficult to find a piece of PVC with the right ID. The ID of one I got was about half a mm to small, so some 'fun' hours with file and sandpaper were involved...

Quote from: Drahcir on June 27, 2015, 10:06:02 PM
Definitely an interesting custom, how did you secure the leather?

I was quite amazed but it doesn't take much:
I used a little sandpaper to rough up the hilt. Afterwards I started wrapping from pommel side; as I used quite a bit of force, that way the wrap is 'fixing' itself. On the emitter side for the last inch or so I used leathercraft cement (this one http://lederkram.de/lederkram/grosserbilderordner/fiebingslederkleberleathercraftcementneu.jpg) to glue the leather strip to itself. I could have glued more, but as I don't duel, this should be enough for me Wink
Only downside: The tutorial I found for doing such a wrap recommended to use quite a thin leather; the only 'nice one' I got is two or three times as thick Sad  I'd say the Liberator now has the 'regular' MHS OD...
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2015, 06:02:50 PM »
Nicely done... something tells me you are a fan of the "reverse grip" style ;-)
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2015, 07:49:53 AM »
Quote from: Roband on June 29, 2015, 06:02:50 PM
Nicely done... something tells me you are a fan of the "reverse grip" style ;-)
Well, yes and no Wink  I think it looks cool, but that's all.
On the other hand the long wrap is quite nice as there are some reversals on the simple spins I can already do Wink
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Cascadejackal
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2015, 10:49:08 AM »
What type of leather is it? It looks kinda like suede, not the harder leather I thought it was at first.
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2015, 12:53:10 PM »
Quote from: Cascadejackal on June 30, 2015, 10:49:08 AM
What type of leather is it? It looks kinda like suede, not the harder leather I thought it was at first.

It's quite a soft leather:

I hope I can translate the product information correctly:
That's a strip of 'shoe upper leather', about one inch wide, 90 inches long, 4-5 oz.
(The tutorial I used recommended 1-2 oz., so for e.g. a MHS-sized saber it would be way to thick.)

Link to (German) shop: http://lederkram.de/category.php?cat_ID=653, look for 'ALR250' quite down the page.
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2015, 12:57:56 PM »
Quote from: Greywolf on June 30, 2015, 12:53:10 PM
It's quite a soft leather:

I hope I can translate the product information correctly:
That's a strip of 'shoe upper leather', about one inch wide, 90 inches long, 4-5 oz.
(The tutorial I used recommended 1-2 oz., so for e.g. a MHS-sized saber it would be way to thick.)

Link to (German) shop: http://lederkram.de/category.php?cat_ID=653, look for 'ALR250' quite down the page.


Thanks. ^_^ I've been looking for a decent leather to use on my hilts, and that looks like it'd work great.
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