A while ago I remade my first heater shield into a centergrip. It worked much better that way than it ever did strapped, but it has recently become battered enough that it’s time to replace it. I cut the same shape out of two layers of 1/4″ birch plywood and glued them together in the shield press with a slight curve. I cut out the hole for the center, leaving a strip through the center to use as the handle. I painted the front and back and padded the handle with foam weather stripping front and back, covered with duct tape and athletic grip tape. The edge is covered with metal-cored plastic edging from McMaster-Carr, with rawhide from Viking Leathercrafts sewn over it. As before, I filled the back with a handy list of chivalric virtues and the poem I wrote for my second shield. I also added copies of my relevant paperwork for convenience during armor inspection.
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