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Author Topic: Where to purchase brass spears?  (Read 2899 times)

Offline Pan Marek

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Re: Where to purchase brass spears?
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2023, 07:30:09 PM »
The pre-made steel spears are essentially piano wire.  Very straight, and springs back to shape instead of bending.  It comes in different thicknesses.
Does anyone know of a source?
And, does anyone have a handle on what thickness is good for what scale figures?

Offline Aethelflaeda was framed

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Re: Where to purchase brass spears?
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2023, 01:44:21 PM »
I have done myself great harm with piano wire spears.  Ya might as well use needles and pins.
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Offline fantasticlegions

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Re: Where to purchase brass spears?
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2023, 04:35:25 PM »
I have done myself great harm with piano wire spears.  Ya might as well use needles and pins.

Great idea!  It'll keep peoples' dirty hands off my figures!
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Offline Captain Harlock

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Re: Where to purchase brass spears?
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2023, 12:16:14 PM »

Here is an example of mine. A few years ago I had the electric wiring of the house redone, and I ended up with meters and meters of old cables in different gauges. I have pretty much endless supply of armature wire and means to fashion pikes, spears and blades. I even made katanas for my still unfinished samurai band. And I probably over did it with the realism cause I managed to stub myself multiple times by now lol



« Last Edit: March 16, 2023, 12:21:53 PM by Captain Harlock »

 

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