svdl opened this issue on Apr 09, 2007 ยท 41 posts
Elfwine posted Tue, 10 April 2007 at 4:50 PM
Yes, full leather bracers. Well, they're almost full. They cover most of the forearm. 3riversarchery.com to see some. I think 3riversarchery also has some pics of leather pouches too. I could see that your model is a wrist guard, the type commonly used by compound and recurve shooters. The wrist guard is a modern adaptation of the old leather bracers. I've owned a few and could never get them to stay where they're supposed to, they kept slipping around. I shoot my longbow with leather bracers now. I have two types, which I make, one has speed hooks to make putting it on fast, the other has holes which the leather lace passes through, like shoe laces. You could model full bracers, just make a slit along the outside of the forearm and dangle some leather lace to look like its been tied together. cheers! [~]D
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