Nora sews her new dress
Wyllow helps Julia select a time and place for which to dress.
Abby lays out her gorget plates, marks and punches holes in the leather, and rivets the plates in.
Frosti cuts out a leather half-gauntlet using my one-piece pattern.
Link and Josh and Daniel and Frosti all finished their armour plans, so they can start marking out elbow and knee cops on sheet aluminum 5052 alloy pieces. This stuff is dirt cheap at $1/pound at Metals4U in Pflugerville. All of the aluminum will be hidden under sleeves or pants when the armour is complete.
Ben lays out the fabric for his coat of plates while Toner supervises.
Daniel learns to cut aluminum on a throatless shear. (Not a Beverley shear but a cheap Chinese imitation.)
Gunna and Evie practice period cooking. Come over to Open Shop night...we have cookies!
Link, Daniel, Josh, Ben and Frosti show how much they got cut out tonight. Wolf has been busily lacing his lamellar.
Then everyone else gets into the picture too. At this point Belle had left to take Nora home and Julia had left also. Counting them and counting the guy (me) taking the picture we had 15 people at Open Shop night. A new record!
I even found a few minutes to work on the cheek-plate hinges for my helm. My son took the picture and my wife is "helping" behind me. Isn't it great to have a supportive family who takes you seriously? :)
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