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Todd Feinman
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 Posted: Sun 02 Aug, 2026 6:21 pm Post subject: Egyptian hide shield: New Kingdom |
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I'm making an all-hide Egyptian shield in conjunction with a figure-8 shield. Pics soon. I've had the hide for these projects for over a decade.
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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Todd Feinman
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| Posted: Wed 05 Aug, 2026 8:48 am Post subject: |
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Some pics. Three layers of heavy hair-on-cowhide, tightly bound with double-knotted loops. It is totally rigid. In the ultimate visual metaphor for the middle-age guy with no kids and just hobbies, I could be seen bathing a large puce of rawhide in a kiddie pool in my yard..
anyway, it will have a horizontal handle. I?m working on making it from a billet now. The stitches seem in the front will be covered by the bronze boss. I?ll edge it with very thick rawhide and paint or tool and fold it a la Tut. Forgive my typing etc. I do everything from a phone.
I don?t seem to be able to successfully upload pictures here. Maybe files are too big.
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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Todd Feinman
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| Posted: Wed 05 Aug, 2026 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| Todd Feinman wrote: | Some pics. Three layers of heavy hair-on-cowhide, tightly bound with double-knotted loops. It is totally rigid. In the ultimate visual metaphor for the middle-age guy with no kids and just hobbies, I could be seen bathing a large puce of rawhide in a kiddie pool in my yard..
anyway, it will have a horizontal handle. I?m working on making it from a billet now. The stitches seem in the front will be covered by the bronze boss. I?ll edge it with very thick rawhide and paint or tool and fold it a la Tut. Forgive my typing etc. I do everything from a phone.
I don?t seem to be able to successfully upload pictures here. Maybe files are too big. |
Since I?m not going to be changing the file size of pics each time, I may need to migrate.
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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Todd Feinman
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| Posted: Wed 05 Aug, 2026 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Todd Feinman wrote: | | Todd Feinman wrote: | Some pics. Three layers of heavy hair-on-cowhide, tightly bound with double-knotted loops. It is totally rigid. In the ultimate visual metaphor for the middle-age guy with no kids and just hobbies, I could be seen bathing a large puce of rawhide in a kiddie pool in my yard..
anyway, it will have a horizontal handle. I?m working on making it from a billet now. The stitches seem in the front will be covered by the bronze boss. I?ll edge it with very thick rawhide and paint or tool and fold it a la Tut. Forgive my typing etc. I do everything from a phone.
I don?t seem to be able to successfully upload pictures here. Maybe files are too big. |
Since I?m not going to be changing the file size of pics each time, I may need to migrate. |
Progress pics here:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewto...2#p2857772
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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Sean Manning
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Todd, I think Flickr is still relatively good for image hosting and sharing, like Photobucket used to be. I hope the AA comes back soon. You could put your final photos on Wikimedia Commons.
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Todd Feinman
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| Posted: Sun 16 Aug, 2026 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Sean Manning wrote: | | Todd, I think Flickr is still relatively good for image hosting and sharing, like Photobucket used to be. I hope the AA comes back soon. You could put your final photos on Wikimedia Commons. |
That's a good idea Sean! For now I'll probably keep using Imgur, as I'm already using it. I haven't had a chance in years to update my stuff on various platforms; don't even have the passwords for a lot of it anymore. The last decade was spent fnishing up my job and taking care of my dog, and doing art when I had a chance... That has all change now! 
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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| Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2026 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Imgur sounds fine too and has been around for a long time. I get error 403 Forbidden from the Armour Archive since about two or three weeks now.
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Todd Feinman
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| Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2026 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Sean Manning wrote: | | Imgur sounds fine too and has been around for a long time. I get error 403 Forbidden from the Armour Archive since about two or three weeks now. |
BTW, I enjoyed checking in on your progress with the Woodworking Diary. Cool stuff. Working with wood is fun, a lot more fun than dealing with pieces of hide off animals. I love animals, so am conflicted about making shields out of them. I didn?t want this hide to go to waste though. It will be the last time anyway, with these two projects. There is something gruesome about it.
Photo from my backyard. Real. https://tinyurl.com/vhp4e8hj https://tinyurl.com/4zknmw8v
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Sean Manning
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| Todd Feinman wrote: | | Sean Manning wrote: | | Imgur sounds fine too and has been around for a long time. I get error 403 Forbidden from the Armour Archive since about two or three weeks now. |
BTW, I enjoyed checking in on your progress with the Woodworking Diary. Cool stuff. Working with wood is fun, a lot more fun than dealing with pieces of hide off animals. I love animals, so am conflicted about making shields out of them. I didn?t want this hide to go to waste though. It will be the last time anyway, with these two projects. There is something gruesome about it. |
Thanks!
In Canada llivestock hides are a waste product, so either you use them or they get buried. Parchment-makers have farmers begging to take hides off their hands since the hatting and gloving industries moved to Asia. Likewise, a lot of deer have to be taken before they eat up all the greenery on an island and then starve. So reducing meat consumption reduces animal suffering, but leather is mostly a byproduct of other people's meat eating.
I still have my Patreon and my blog (and the #shieldMakingWithTheophilius hashtag on Mastodon).
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This is a standard topic