/diy/ - Do It Yourself

A friend of mine does a bunch of cosplay. Though he has gotten into doing props and robot costumes. One of them called for using stilts and he wanted to create braces for his legs. So he had the brilliant idea of casting some extra fiber glass from the robot shell he had around his legs to make a stiff hold for his legs. Now he put extra socks and saran wrap or something between his foot and the fiberglass.

Yet he still let it harder to the point he could not get his foot out. We.. kinda got distracted playing Mario Kart. And he really didn't put wood or something that he could easily cut the fiberglass away from his leg. He realized he did not have one of those small circular saws used to cut casts. The best he had was a drummel and even then he didn't have any good saw bits. So he went through some sanding disks until the drummel started to smoke and filled up the whole garage.

Whelp.. Then he decided.. fuck it.. not going to the hospital.. I'll try the jigsaw... veeerrrrry carefully. I was on hand in case he knicked himself so I could stop the bleeding and call 911. He didn't hit anything major and only got a couple of small cuts. Holy shit did he goof that up.