I finally realized my worbla warps because I was heating both sides

Been building armor for like 3 years and always fought with warping until a guy at a con in Austin pointed out I was torching the back side too. Soon as I stopped hitting the reverse face, my chest plate sat flat on the first try. Anyone else torch both sides out of habit?

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blair_gibson7812d ago

Heating both sides" hit me right in the gut because that's exactly what I did for two years with my first set of pauldrons. I watched every tutorial, read the forums, and still couldn't figure out why my edges kept curling like a bad lasagna. Turns out I was also torching the back while trying to smooth out the front seams, and the heat was pulling the worbla in two directions at once. Once I stopped and just worked one face at a time, it was like a whole new material. I ended up making a little cardboard shield for the back side so I wouldn't accidentally hit it, and that stupid shield solved everything. Now I tell every newbie at my local shop about it and they look at me like I'm nuts until they try it themselves.