Covid quarantine breast plate

[Mulesaw]

Due to the Norwegian Covid regulations, I have to stay in quarantine for 10 days after arrival in Norway. The company I work for have arranged for a hotel room in Bergen, and there is not much to be done about the situation.

But due to a bit of planning ahead, I had bought various buckles and rings etc. and precut some leather at home and brought with me. So I am hope to make a breast plate for my sons horse while I am stuck out here.

The working conditions are not optimal, but it sure beats watching TV or surfing the net. 

I got inspired by the Dyon anatomic breastplate, and I started out by measuring a bit on the actual horse and making a sketch.  I still try to become better at making a nice looking stitching, but I haven't got a stitching clamp out here, so it is a bit difficult to draw the right hand thread and the left hand thread up or down. But I think it will end up looking OK.

I have a small starter kit from Tandy with a marking wheel, and I have ground an old screwdriver to make an edge beveller. The knives I think are old fruit knives that are sharpened but they are sharp and that is the main thing for me. 

Before marking out for the holes, I glue the parts together with contact glue, and then I mark out and us a small awl before sewing it all together.

 

Work station and place for eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I brought a piece of plywood with me to avoid getting in trouble for cutting in the table.

Nice and tidy workspace..

 

The main parts of the breastplate. for some reason the picture is upside down.

 

[Retswerb]

Now that’s planning ahead! Nice job.

[Mulesaw]

Thanks,

The worst part is the smell of contact glue, but there is a decent extraction from the bathroom, so I apply the glue on the table, then put the parts out into the bathroom, wait for five minutes, press them together, and leave them a bit to let the smell disappear before marking and sewing.

Once it it time to call it a day, all the glued parts go back into the bathroom so I don't get a headache while sleeping due to sniffing glue :-)

 

[Scoutmom103]

nice preplanning

 

[Mulesaw]

Thanks, I had originally planned to do the project on board, but since they changed the quarantine rules, I decided that it was a great way to pass the time in the hotel room.

Brgds

Jonas

[Constabulary]

Don´t let the room maid see the harness laying on your bed - she might have little bit of cinema in her head and probbaly won´t come back the next day 

[Mulesaw]

Hahahaha.

Good idea :-)

 

[jcuk]

Nice work, can i ask is it lined? As I cant really tell from the pics, if not you really don't need to glue your buckle and hardware turns, not sure if you have access to a tack hammer and some tacks you can always lightly tack them in place saves having to inhale glue vapours. 

Hope this helps

JCUK

[Mulesaw]

I am only going to line the piece that goes over the neck of the horse. That is as much as I can see from the pictures of the Dyon breast plates. Since I am doing it in a hotel room, I didn't bring any tacks and a hammer with me. I'd hate to get into trouble for disturbing the other guests. But is is a great idea that I might do next time I am making something similar at home.

I am lining the piece with a thin piece of black soft leather (don't know the correct English term), kind of the stuff that you could use to upholster a car seat or make a leather jacket.

Here's a link to my source of inspiration: 

https://www.google.com/search?q=dyon+anatomic+breastplate&rlz=1C1SQJL_daDK797DK797&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=yNj2k2M6Zi46XM%2CnpVioJLhjUbikM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSfUxWldiMqJvhtXHMRwlbQ1AM9_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio48vE-druAhWotYsKHWKZALoQ9QF6BAgKEAE#imgrc=yNj2k2M6Zi46XM

 

Economically it would probably be cheaper to buy a finished breastplate, but I wouldn't learn muck from that, and besides, I like to make stuff, (guess most people in here does that)

Brgds

Jonas

[jcuk]

Considering your resources you done a great job there, as for the noise loud music helps. Yes you could bye a cheap and nasty one and learn nothing from it or maybe you can see how badly made some off the shelf things are.