Wooden Shields

Dunlop Foam in East Tamaki. They prefer to deal with accounts rather than cash purchases - sometimes they allow cash purchases and sometimes they just say no.

NZLARPS is in the process of getting an account but not quite there. The form is lying around my house - given that we buy a sheet every few years it hasn’t seemed urgent but if someone wants foam now we can finish forming the account and buy on your behalf.

I have a 1x2m sheet of PE45 foam, which is denser than the stuff we use for sword blades and probably suitable for shields. It belongs to NZLARPS, if anyone wants it they can have it for $46.83 as I don’t think the society needs it immediately. Or if you’re a project you could put it in your budget.

I’d just like to butt in here.
If you glue and compress several layers of corflute it becomes very rigid but remains very light. By backing the section were ur arm goes with some foam (which can be made to look like a cross brace for authenticity) then u’ll never get cut up. The relatively primitive Quest shields are made like this way & some are very old… We used patterned lino offcuts on some to give the facing to the shields a nice texture too.

[quote=“Jared”]I’d just like to butt in here.
If you glue and compress several layers of corflute it becomes very rigid but remains very light. By backing the section were ur arm goes with some foam (which can be made to look like a cross brace for authenticity) then u’ll never get cut up. The relatively primitive Quest shields are made like this way & some are very old… We used patterned lino offcuts on some to give the facing to the shields a nice texture too.[/quote]

That’s how I built my corflute shield. It’s three layers of corflute with foam padding and fabric ties looped through the corflute. Works a treat.