Saturday, November 6, 2010

Deathtrap part III - Maces

The maces were my favorite pieces, and the most fun to make. So much fun evidently that I completely forgot about my camera and ended up with only two work in progress pictures. Fortunately the construction processes just a reapplication of the techniques used foe the flail and axes. (I knew I wrote those first for a reason)

The morning star is practically the same as the flail except that the head is attached to the handle directly, with no chain.  I wanted it to look a little different though, so I cut the spike molds to be a little smaller and made another ball with smaller but more numerous spikes. I drilled a hole in the plastic ball the diameter of the dowel and stuck them together with hot glue. I made a simple handguard out of a scrap of 1/4" plywood cut to a kind of rounded star shape with a jigsaw and with a hole in the center to fit on over the dowel.

Painting it was the interesting part. I made the handle plain black and the handguard plain gold but the ball-o-spikes needed to look more interesting. I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I painted it all gold, then painted over that all black, then before that dried wiped most of the black off with a rag.  Whatever it was possessed me to do that obviously knows more about painting than I do because it looked pretty good.
 When there isn't a camera flash directly on them the stitches even blend in pretty well.



The flanged mace built nearly the same way as the smaller axe.  I pie-cut the end of another dowel with a jigsaw and cut out three pieces of 1/8" fiberboard to the shape of the flanges I wanted

My crude drawings in Paint are actually a fair approximation of how poorly I cut the pieces out with the jigsaw. That being so, it should come as no surprise that the final product was composed of 80% hot glue.








The flanges were spiky and dimensional enough to look fine plain black. I painted part of the other end of the dowel black and added some small paperboard rings painted gold to make a handle. I also stained the exposed wood part of the handle a light color, Golden Pecan if memory serves.




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