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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 6643532" data-attributes="member: 27897"><p>Doing nothing would kill me quickly. I'm slowly building a bunch of crafting skills, that I'll use in my retirement. I've built rigs to coil and cut wire into rings for chainmailing, and have been making costume grade chainmail armour for the last few years. A few of my pieces are now in the hands of several indie actors. One appeared in the last season of "Standard Action." </p><p></p><p>Along the way I started making simple chainmail jewellery using the same equipment that I'd made to produce rings for armour, and supplemented by bits and bobs I buy from my wire stock supplier. A run of good luck resulted in a whole bunch of sales; enough that my rigs and all the wire stock that I currently have was paid for.</p><p></p><p>To build the rigs took some basic carpentry skills so I acquired some basic woodworking tools, and have been slowly adding to them. I've got a slowly progressing project to build a stand to hold my 2 bows and modest collection of reproduction medieval cutlery.</p><p></p><p>The whole costuming thing made me want to produce various accessories, like hats, boots, and archery quivers so I'm trying to pick up some basic leather working skills.</p><p></p><p>And then there's bow making. I started out making bows with PVC plumbing pipe and oak, which shoot surprisingly well. i wrapped one of them in deerskin to make it look like a more authentic Mongol style horsebow, so that a friend could use it for CosPlay. I'd like to move into making bows from fibreglass and carbon fibre, but that's in the future.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that my retirement will be more busy than my working life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 6643532, member: 27897"] Doing nothing would kill me quickly. I'm slowly building a bunch of crafting skills, that I'll use in my retirement. I've built rigs to coil and cut wire into rings for chainmailing, and have been making costume grade chainmail armour for the last few years. A few of my pieces are now in the hands of several indie actors. One appeared in the last season of "Standard Action." Along the way I started making simple chainmail jewellery using the same equipment that I'd made to produce rings for armour, and supplemented by bits and bobs I buy from my wire stock supplier. A run of good luck resulted in a whole bunch of sales; enough that my rigs and all the wire stock that I currently have was paid for. To build the rigs took some basic carpentry skills so I acquired some basic woodworking tools, and have been slowly adding to them. I've got a slowly progressing project to build a stand to hold my 2 bows and modest collection of reproduction medieval cutlery. The whole costuming thing made me want to produce various accessories, like hats, boots, and archery quivers so I'm trying to pick up some basic leather working skills. And then there's bow making. I started out making bows with PVC plumbing pipe and oak, which shoot surprisingly well. i wrapped one of them in deerskin to make it look like a more authentic Mongol style horsebow, so that a friend could use it for CosPlay. I'd like to move into making bows from fibreglass and carbon fibre, but that's in the future. I suspect that my retirement will be more busy than my working life. [/QUOTE]
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