How to protect your LARP weapons with Protection Gel Silicone!! | Epic Armoury — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey guys, Y here from Epic Armory. I
2. 0:01heard you bought yourself a new sword
3. 0:03and a new shield and you're wondering
4. 0:05how to maintain them and make them last
5. 0:07through countless of battles. Here are a
6. 0:09few tips on how to do exactly that.
7. 0:12First and foremost, we at Epic Armory
8. 0:14and I myself recommend that you use
9. 0:16protective gel or silicone. We recommend
10. 0:18in this case protective gel as it's
11. 0:20usable for both latex and non latex
12. 0:23weapons. It's easier used with a cloth.
13. 0:25[music] you generally tend to waste less
14. 0:28of it. And in case you are on a slippery
15. 0:31ground outside, of course, with the
16. 0:32silicone, you're not making it more
17. 0:34slippery with the gel. You might wonder
18. 0:35when should I do this? How do I do it?
19. 0:38We'll try to go through that. My
20. 0:39recommendations and the ones from our
21. 0:41chief epic overlord 10 years ago is that
22. 0:43you use the protective gel the first
23. 0:46time before your first battle. Meaning,
24. 0:48when you get a new sword like this
25. 0:50beautiful Imperial sword, it has not
26. 0:52been given [music] any protective gel.
27. 0:54And that's due to the packing and the
28. 0:56storing transportations. It's better
29. 0:58when it's not stored in a box with
30. 1:00plastic around it, you know, moist and
31. 1:02all that. But before you use it the
32. 1:04first time and then [music] every time
33. 1:06you use it for battling. If you go to a
34. 1:08LAR that is more about playing your
35. 1:10character in a festive or tavern like
36. 1:12scene and it's more hanging in your
37. 1:14scabbard as a piece of decor to your
38. 1:17character or a part of your character.
39. 1:19If you're playing knight or so on, then
40. 1:20you might not need it. But every time
41. 1:22you've been out using it in actual
42. 1:23battle, we recommend doing so. So now
43. 1:26what we're going to do is we are going
44. 1:27to show you how to apply the protective
45. 1:30gel to your weapons or shields. We will
46. 1:32guide you through the process. As you
47. 1:34might have noticed, this fine sword here
48. 1:36is rather new. It's not very used, and
49. 1:38it's not going to show you uh very well
50. 1:40why protective gel is going to help you.
51. 1:42So can you throw me the other sword?
52. 1:46This one on the other hand, it's very
53. 1:48clear that it's been in use. The coating
54. 1:50on the latex have started to blemish off
55. 1:53a bit. There are spots here and there.
56. 1:55Generally, we have not really been
57. 1:57taking care of this sword as well as we
58. 1:59could. I mean, it's not going to damage
59. 2:00the foam integrity or structure or
60. 2:02anything. You can still use this sword
61. 2:04in battle and at larars. You're just not
62. 2:06going to have the prettiest sword out
63. 2:08there. So, if you want to keep the
64. 2:10glance that you can still see somewhere
65. 2:11on this sword and very clearly on the
66. 2:13Imperial, use [music] the gel. Now, to
67. 2:16doing it, pretty simple. You take your
68. 2:19protective gel, for example, from Epic
69. 2:20Armor. You take a cloth. You apply gel
70. 2:23to cloth
71. 2:26and you slowly begin to wipe your sword.
72. 2:29Some of you might actually begin to
73. 2:31notice already the side up here that
74. 2:33were very, very damaged in [music] terms
75. 2:35of the coating. It's getting a bit of
76. 2:37shine back. Starting to look more like a
77. 2:40newer product. Of course, never going to
78. 2:42look new again. This is a few years old,
79. 2:45but it definitely helps. And it is just
80. 2:47like when you clean your house at home,
81. 2:50take the gel on the cloth and apply
82. 2:53[music]
83. 2:54everywhere. And yes, it is going to seem
84. 2:56a bit moist afterwards. And that's okay.
85. 2:59You just leave it on. Make sure you keep
86. 3:01it in a room where the air can get out.
87. 3:04Of course, you might wonder, yep, you're
88. 3:08holding a hybrid now. It has the latex
89. 3:11blade and a nice PU handle. Is it the
90. 3:14same for both? And yes, that's why we
91. 3:16went over to the gel because it is
92. 3:18designed to work both for your latex
93. 3:20weapons and your PU. So, you do the same
94. 3:24here. Of course, the damage is and will
95. 3:26be a little less on the PU. It's a
96. 3:27harder material. It's grained in in a
97. 3:30different way. And of course, for the
98. 3:32shield, can you guess what we're going
99. 3:34to do? You guessed correctly. We're
100. 3:36going to take the gel. We're going to
101. 3:38apply it [music] to our cloth. And then
102. 3:41we're going to start wiping our shield.
103. 3:42Of course, this can be a little less
104. 3:44easy [music] to spot whether you've been
105. 3:47everywhere. We have darker colors on the
106. 3:48shield. Be more thorough than you see me
107. 3:50being right now. Just take good care of
108. 3:52it. It's your equipment. It's going to
109. 3:53last you long if you treat it right.
110. 3:58Now, a little bit of an immersive tip
111. 4:00because you might have seen in those
112. 4:02Hollywood medieval films, they are
113. 4:04sharpening their sword. You can do that
114. 4:06with the protective gel. If you take
115. 4:07this little bottle, put some leather
116. 4:09wrapping around it to cover all the
117. 4:11modern plastic off it. [music] Instead
118. 4:13of using this fancy ass microfiber
119. 4:15cloth, you take a random piece of linen
120. 4:18or cotton and you use that instead. And
121. 4:21suddenly you can do this in game. It
122. 4:23will look like you are sharpening your
123. 4:25sword or simply taking care of it,
124. 4:26removing rust while actually taking care
125. 4:29of your live action roleplay gear. So,
126. 4:31some of you might be thinking out there
127. 4:33if there are other things that we could
128. 4:35do to take care of our gear and keep the
129. 4:38longevity of it. And there is. First of
130. 4:41all, when you store your gear, you
131. 4:43should never leave your weapons and
132. 4:45shields lying on each other or up
133. 4:47against each other. It happens that they
134. 4:49will start glued [snorts] together. The
135. 4:51latex might come and kind of looks like
136. 4:54it's falling off a bit like if it was
137. 4:57paper. This is what we in Denmark kindly
138. 5:00refer to as latex pest. Most weapons
139. 5:03that that gets latex pest will end up
140. 5:06needing their coating removed and
141. 5:08reapplied. So when you store your
142. 5:10weapons at home, make sure there's a
143. 5:12little bit of space between them. Make
144. 5:13sure there's air in the room. The same
145. 5:15goes when you are leaving for a lock.
146. 5:17When you pack up the car or the van or
147. 5:19the horse wagon, however you get to the
148. 5:21lock, don't put all of your swords like
149. 5:23this in a pile. Make sure there's a
150. 5:25little space. If that's not possible, we
151. 5:27have learned a little trick from our
152. 5:29climbing friends. [music] Talcum powder.
153. 5:31It makes sure they won't stick and the
154. 5:33latex pest won't occur on the travels.
155. 5:36So guys, remember when you buy yourself
156. 5:38a nice sword, for example, from Epic
157. 5:41Armory to also get yourself a protective
158. 5:43gel. And if you have any other
159. 5:46questions, inquiries, or wonderings
160. 5:48about Epic Armory products, how we do
161. 5:50things, or just something you would like
162. 5:52us to address, please write it in the
163. 5:53comments and let us know. See you around
164. 5:55and adventure awaits.