just curious where you got the shield disks and such. didn't know that counted as "trade secrets".
nah. No trade secret. Not as far as I know...ANYwho, I just took a leather strap, punched some holes just big enough for the braid of twine to fit through, and laced some buttons I got at JoAnn's in. I sewed a separate strip of leather on the bottom to keep the twine from chaffing my wrist, and left a loop of it at the end to wrap around one of the buttons to fasten in to my wrist. Pretty simple stuff. The runes on the rod and staff were just various languages, symbols and fonts I found on the internet. They include, but are not limited to: Angelic Script, Elvin, Norse, Kryptonian, Celtic, Demonic, Navajo, and something called "mystic." I bought a burning pen from WalMart, bought some wood and sandpaper from Home Depot, and went to carving and sanding till it looked "natural" and then burned the symbols in. And I ain't eeeven done yet!