The Rick Farman Rhombo memorial bracers

[Nighthawk]

Nighthawk,
The workmanship looks great. True that they are fantasy in nature, but it is indeed a wonderful tribute to your friend.
It is an interesting contrast to the yellow Hawaiian shirt too.

A note on the craftsmanship- the scale leather is a 1 or maybe 2 oz cowhide leather. I glued it over the top of 12 oz saddle/armor grade leather. The sheath is made from 3 oz veg tanned cowhide, glued and stitched to the armor grade leather.

It was hot here today. The shirt is nice and cool. I'm going to the Colorado Renaissance Festival this coming weekend, though, so I'll get some pics of those bracers in an outfit that makes more sense. My friend was almost obsessed with dragons. He actually kept little scraps of leather from his projects and used them make 3D dragon models. His sister kept those, although I would have loved to have one to decorate my leather shop. She did give me his Viking horn, though- the one for blowing; not drinking. That now hangs above my work table. So his love of dragons and fascination with the Vikings were my inspirations for the bracers. I have like 30 square feet of that scale leather left, too. I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with it! Hi sister didn't give me what I needed- she gave me the whole roll. I think I may make a sheath for my basket hilt with some of it.

So, if anyone is interested, this is the group that my friend was involved in:

http://www.fjellborg.org/

And this was his persona within the group:

http://www.fjellborg.org/Farmans_gallery.htm

It has a small gallery of some of his work. He was a great and patient teacher.