Haters tear you down so you become silent and they can live as if you don't exist. You're alive. Be loud. That's winning.

- Core ends where the foam starts flaring out
- 2# XLPE for side padding and around 4# biscuit
- 1" EPDM + 3" "Charcoal" Open Cell, partially compressed and secured with strapping/hockey tape, for spearhead
- ABS handle wrapped in EVA bike handle grip
- 4# XLPE pommel
- Hockey Tape Skin

Heat treat it without having any idea what you are doing.

Soak the handle in maple syrup, clean it well enough to get it off the surface, but not well enough that sweat can't extract more from the handle wrap.

Secure the handle to the tang with indoor carpet tape.

Make the crosspiece out of plastic and then electroplate it.

Paint it yellow.

File down the tang just below the crosspiece.

Add imperceptible burs to the top of the pommel and bottom of the crosspiece.

Make sure there are hollow bits interspersed along the blade like perforations.

blonde person: ...
doctor: ...
blonde person: When I-...
doctor: Don't do that. That'll be 100 gold.

And everything still fits in the car for taking to the field. This is unacceptable, too much empty space. I might need more shields.

Close up of the knuckle duster basket hilts on these matched 'sabers'. Fully foam with no rigid supports, just fiberglass tape reinforcement and 3 laminated layers for strength.

Some detail shots of the takedown connection. Strip of tape is for tighter fit. Would need secured with non stretching tape around the seam for use, or permanent epoxy on both ends instead of just one.

Glad for Bluesky, then. Willing to bet the reason I hadn't stumbled onto it before this year was a surprisingly predictive early unadoption of Twitter in like 2016.

Unironically, probably the same thing I told you I'd do to turn it into more money. It wasn't a profit venture, and I'm already doing it. The small margin I put in is so I can scale and make things even cheaper for myself and others, so we can make more stuff. We like making stuff.

Import carbon fiber tubes and distribute them to the domestic LARP communities for making their gear. Specifically, at prices that save them $60-$150 per tube compared to the domestic market.

At least until someone imports him piecemeal via screenshots.

1776 = US War for Independence
14 refers to a supremacist mantra
88 refers to HH (abcdefgH), and what was said during Nazi salutes
1022 = religious, "angel number", represents encouragement