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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2017-10-22 07:00 pm

Birthday swords

On my birthday, my family and I started playing around with my longswords.  I set my husband and daughter a challenge to see how many locks they could find using six swords.  In the process, they invented one new one and created an improved version of one that I've seen in a book.  Here's some of what we came up with. 

This is the Mohr lock - I learnt it from an American Rapper dancer





Black Joker lock (or you can call it a farm gate if you prefer.) This is a more rigid version of a known lock.

I found a good way of making it quickly, too.



Lindsey's lock. She found this one that I hadn't seen before.



Richard's Yacht lock.  This may actually be one that nobody else had before.



If you want to play yourselves, just cut out some strips of cardboard from a cereal packet or similar, and interweave them.

You'll probably manage to fins the six pointed start before long, but there are others, as well, that I've not shown here...





kerravonsen: 9th Doctor wearing his headlamp: Technical wizard (technical-wiz)

[personal profile] kerravonsen 2017-10-23 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Works now!

Cut and paste from Google photos didn't work either.

Of course it wouldn't. If Google photos is set up so that other people can't view the pictures from outside the site, changing the way one gets the URL isn't going to make a difference. It's a matter of configuring the server to prevent hotlinking of images. I assume that's what they did.