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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...





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[personal profile] aunty_marion 2017-10-23 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Or an even more miniature version - coffee stirrers (the flat wooden kind).
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[personal profile] aunty_marion 2017-10-23 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. So I grabbed a bunch (they're useful for all sorts of craft stuff!), and experimented. 6" ruler for scale.

Edited 2017-10-23 20:30 (UTC)