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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« 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? 
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #1 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 :)
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Offline sailordad

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #2 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
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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #3 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
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #4 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
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2009, 01:44:07 pm »
How about a couple layers of firm carpet padding under your leather pad?
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2009, 02:47:37 pm »
Goodwill. Cheap leather jackets are a great sourse of materials.
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Offline knap_123

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2009, 04:23:59 pm »
tandy leather company, google it up and lok for deals.
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Offline Bill Skinner

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #8 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
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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #9 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.
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Offline Hardawaypoints

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #10 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
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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #11 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. ;)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2009, 12:02:55 pm »
Rick, someone was beating you with a bat...YOU! ;D
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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: Cheap Easy Leg Pad (ideas needed)
« Reply #14 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.
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