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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: ricktrojanowski on August 15, 2009, 07:38:43 am

Title: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: ricktrojanowski on August 15, 2009, 07:38:43 am

I'm starting to mess with some quartz and other bigger pieces of tough stone.  Anybody have some ideas on a good easy/cheap leg pad for heavy hitting? 

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: DanaM on August 15, 2009, 09:26:14 am

A balled up T shirt under yer leather leg pad, ya need lots padding or your leg will look like hambuger :o

Speaks from experience Dana :)

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: sailordad on August 15, 2009, 09:42:07 am

ya i need a leg pad too
been trying some percussion knapping on some new stone i bought
nice bruise i have on my left thigh now ;D

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: DanaM on August 15, 2009, 10:48:08 am

Tim try quartzite with wooden billets, your thigh will be pretty colors from knee to hip :o

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Outbackbob48 on August 15, 2009, 12:30:21 pm

I,ve never tried this but thought It might work. How about a pc of carpet scrap, maybe berbur or something. Later Bob

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: FlintWalker on August 15, 2009, 01:44:07 pm

How about a couple layers of firm carpet padding under your leather pad?

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: bowmo on August 15, 2009, 02:47:37 pm

Goodwill. Cheap leather jackets are a great sourse of materials.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: knap_123 on August 15, 2009, 04:23:59 pm

tandy leather company, google it up and lok for deals.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Bill Skinner on August 15, 2009, 05:03:05 pm

Go to Wally World, they have carpet sample rugs that are 2 feet by 1 foot.  They have the backing on them.  Put one or two under your leather leg pad.  Carpet scraps work for padding but flakes will stick in them and you will drive them into your leg if you don't use some type of leather cover.  Bill

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: mullet on August 15, 2009, 08:36:40 pm

  The best I have seen is a Carpenters padded apron that Hillbillys friend, Barry Mc Caul has.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Hardawaypoints on August 16, 2009, 12:48:20 am

They sent me out of the hospital with a thick 60" x 30"  cotton blanket that I fold up and use under my leather leg pad. It works well enough and I also have something to wipe blood on if I need to.

Jim

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: ricktrojanowski on August 16, 2009, 06:36:10 am

Thanks for all of the ideas.  I finally had some time to sit down and really bust up some rocks the other day (before I asked my question) and now my thigh looks like someone was beating me with a bat. ;D  I guess it would have been smarter to ask first. ;)

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Pat B on August 16, 2009, 12:02:55 pm

Rick, someone was beating you with a bat...YOU! ;D

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: cracker on August 16, 2009, 03:31:58 pm

I used a piece of conveyor belt until I finally cashed up and bought one on the internet.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: nugget on August 16, 2009, 04:21:24 pm

I use a pair of farriers chaps. I double them = over and lay that on my leg.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Jaeger on August 16, 2009, 07:36:43 pm

I used an old burnt up welding jacket sleeve until the coast was clear to buy me a leather pad.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: ricktrojanowski on August 16, 2009, 11:37:23 pm

Quote from: Pat B on August 16, 2009, 12:02:55 pm

Rick, someone was beating you with a bat...YOU! ;D

;D, You're right,  it happend to be a small dogwood bat in the hands of a not too bright individual.

Title: Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
Post by: Hillbilly on August 20, 2009, 03:50:49 pm

I have a piece of pigskin leather that I use as a leg pad for most knapping. When I'm whaling on the tough stuff, I wad up an old t-shirt and fold it inside the leather pad. Works as well as anything I've tried. Oh, and don't miss....;D