Hand-made Guinea Pig Scale-Mail and Helmet (Armor) sold on ebay for $24,300.00

[dipsydoodle]

Has your guinea pig ever wanted to go with you to a Renaissance Fair but had nothing to wear ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-made-Guinea-Pig-Scale-Mail-and-Helmet-Armor-/321142440749?nma=true&si=eqWrajiAPwpPkyfqc2vIv4Oj6Tw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I think I'll learn how to knit and start making striped sweaters for frogs.

[Chan790]

1. Fucking A, I'm in the wrong field.

I can't make hamster-mail but know how to make a giant wooden metal-banded war-hammer....like a 10# sledge. Hammer some spikes into the striking surface and you've got a nasty weapon.

[petronius]

10. Well you see, "giant" is where you went awry. Can you make one hamster-sized?

With a grip modified for little tiny paws? Because it seems to me that there is currently a well-armored but unarmed hamster out there, with a seriously spendthrift owner...

[Chan790]

3. Can you tell me how to get that job?

Something that much fun should be illegal to get paid for but apparently it's not.

[Chan790]

5. Nah, I wonder if creepy Fred will teach me to hawk reverse mortgages.

[ileus]

7. And here my 8 yo son is wasting time on paracord bracelets

And he thinks he's in the poo @ 3 bucks a pop.



Nice charity snag that's for sure...

[surrealAmerican]

8. It was a charity auction.

Whoever paid that was making a contribution to a charity that they wanted to support.

That said, it was rather well made armor.

[Xyzse]

13. I saw that... Makes sense

It is pretty well made and awesome.

[DFW]

9. Perusing flea markets is sometimes lucrative, too, I hear

An Iraq vet from Ohio found an old book at a flea market. It was a copy of The Federalist Papers. It looked old, but he had paid something like $8 for it, so it was one of those "naaah, couldn't be" type of situations. Still, he got it to some friends of mine in Dallas, who authenticated it for him, auctioned it off for him for over $80,000 and, in light of his otherwise dire financial situation, even waived their seller's fee.

They also sold an original Sgt. Pepper's album cover autographed by all four Beatles for nearly $300,000 for somebody (don't know who).

Beats working, if you can pull it off.

[MadrasT]

11. That is

FUCKING AWESOME

[Broken_Hero]

12. hmm, I wonder when they are going to put this in a DLC pack for Skyrim

I'd get it....

[sinkingfeeling]

14. I saw a clip of this on HLN last week. They said the model Guinea

Pig had passed away.