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Greetings all. Good grief, has it really already been over two years since I actually spoke up in here?
I just wanted to say.. Thank you all.
Thank you for a wealth of information, that I feel grateful and lucky to be able to access for free.
Thank you all for the help finding a great set of options for some good folders..
Thank you specifically to the wonderful person who sent me a nice CRKT from cleaning out their storage room!
... Thank you for unfortunately getting me to pay more attention to crafting. Argh, crafting. I swear, it doesn't matter what bloody craft it is, crafting is a gateway drug.
For more. Bloody. Crafting.
In short, that knife and talk of knife making got me thinking about the projects I had materials for, and just wasn't doing, so I got started finally on my sewing. Found that sewing wasn't quite my thing, but it was fun stuff, and that led me to give crochet a try. .. I can say, -technically-, I can crochet. If you don't mind it being a deformed ugly mess. That in turn led me to a picture of scale bracers being done on a crocheted backing.. And that reminded me of the scale armor bracers I'd wanted to make for myself for years. Well, to do scale armor work, you really should get a handle on at least basic chainmailling work, at least the european 4-in-1 weave.
... And in chainmaille work, I found my addiction.. err... niche. I've been at it for for about two years now, have well over a dozen sets of pliers and other bits. I've been making bracelets, necklaces, coin purses, dice pouches, hackey sacks, rings (made of tiny rings, hah!) and even did a full shirt for someone (15,000 rings, good grief), and have my own half finished (why did I choose half the ring size? 20,000 rings done already!). Heck, I've even got a website and a patreon.
And along the way, I've been tinkering with plans for leather working (if only so I can do backing for the work, and finally, -finally- make bracers... and put the scalemaille on them!). Now that I've got a tiny income, I'm looking also at a set of projects I've wanted to do for a decade.
Make knives for myself and a friend. I don't expect to make a good knife, nor a great knife. But a decidedly adequate knife that I'll keep bloody forever because -I- made it? Oh yes.
Seriously though. Crafting is such a gateway drug for more types of crafting.
Out of curiosity, what crazy connected sets of one crafting leading to another have you folk had?
- David Hoogeveen,
I just wanted to say.. Thank you all.
Thank you for a wealth of information, that I feel grateful and lucky to be able to access for free.
Thank you all for the help finding a great set of options for some good folders..
Thank you specifically to the wonderful person who sent me a nice CRKT from cleaning out their storage room!
... Thank you for unfortunately getting me to pay more attention to crafting. Argh, crafting. I swear, it doesn't matter what bloody craft it is, crafting is a gateway drug.
For more. Bloody. Crafting.
In short, that knife and talk of knife making got me thinking about the projects I had materials for, and just wasn't doing, so I got started finally on my sewing. Found that sewing wasn't quite my thing, but it was fun stuff, and that led me to give crochet a try. .. I can say, -technically-, I can crochet. If you don't mind it being a deformed ugly mess. That in turn led me to a picture of scale bracers being done on a crocheted backing.. And that reminded me of the scale armor bracers I'd wanted to make for myself for years. Well, to do scale armor work, you really should get a handle on at least basic chainmailling work, at least the european 4-in-1 weave.
... And in chainmaille work, I found my addiction.. err... niche. I've been at it for for about two years now, have well over a dozen sets of pliers and other bits. I've been making bracelets, necklaces, coin purses, dice pouches, hackey sacks, rings (made of tiny rings, hah!) and even did a full shirt for someone (15,000 rings, good grief), and have my own half finished (why did I choose half the ring size? 20,000 rings done already!). Heck, I've even got a website and a patreon.
And along the way, I've been tinkering with plans for leather working (if only so I can do backing for the work, and finally, -finally- make bracers... and put the scalemaille on them!). Now that I've got a tiny income, I'm looking also at a set of projects I've wanted to do for a decade.
Make knives for myself and a friend. I don't expect to make a good knife, nor a great knife. But a decidedly adequate knife that I'll keep bloody forever because -I- made it? Oh yes.
Seriously though. Crafting is such a gateway drug for more types of crafting.
Out of curiosity, what crazy connected sets of one crafting leading to another have you folk had?
- David Hoogeveen,
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