09-17-2011, 07:09 AM
Markus,
The scales are each three quarters of an inch wide and one and a quarter inches long at their longest extent. I honestly don't know how many scales I used. I lost count around the time I started sewing them onto the backing and have not taken the time to count them since, but I think it was probably between four and a half and five thousand.
Regarding your suggestion to leave your's open at both sides, you could do that, but I think it would end up taking nearly as much time to do and would certainly take a lot longer to do up when it came to putting it on. The two to three minutes that it seems to take to lace mine up would be doubled.
Incidentally, I didn't need to remove any rows of scales to modify the girth measurement. I simply opened up the staples and removed the scales from the affected areas only, joining them up again once the adjustment had been made, as described above.
Sam,
I didn't make the scales myself. I was lucky enough to have been given a box full of them some years ago by a friend who had found them surplus to his requirements.
It is possible to buy scales from a number of places. Deepeeka used to sell individual scales but I am not sure if they still do. If you have a look at Matthew Amt's Legio XX site he has a page listing suppliers which may be worth a look as well as a page which shows a way you can make scales yourself. I recall there being a very good thread here on RAT a few years ago about good ways of making large numbers of scales. If you search back about five years you may be able to find it, although many of the pictures may have disappeared by now.
Crispvs
The scales are each three quarters of an inch wide and one and a quarter inches long at their longest extent. I honestly don't know how many scales I used. I lost count around the time I started sewing them onto the backing and have not taken the time to count them since, but I think it was probably between four and a half and five thousand.
Regarding your suggestion to leave your's open at both sides, you could do that, but I think it would end up taking nearly as much time to do and would certainly take a lot longer to do up when it came to putting it on. The two to three minutes that it seems to take to lace mine up would be doubled.
Incidentally, I didn't need to remove any rows of scales to modify the girth measurement. I simply opened up the staples and removed the scales from the affected areas only, joining them up again once the adjustment had been made, as described above.
Sam,
I didn't make the scales myself. I was lucky enough to have been given a box full of them some years ago by a friend who had found them surplus to his requirements.
It is possible to buy scales from a number of places. Deepeeka used to sell individual scales but I am not sure if they still do. If you have a look at Matthew Amt's Legio XX site he has a page listing suppliers which may be worth a look as well as a page which shows a way you can make scales yourself. I recall there being a very good thread here on RAT a few years ago about good ways of making large numbers of scales. If you search back about five years you may be able to find it, although many of the pictures may have disappeared by now.
Crispvs
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