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Sathanas

The gambeson.

You can hit me with an axe too, but I expect a discount.

Edit: Should I PM you my address to calculate shipping, I haven't bought anything off the classifieds yet so I'm unsure of the process, sorry!

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If this is still available I would very much like to jump on this!

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Have tried this. They never have any loose bearings, and when I mentioned the sizes I wanted, they seemed skeptical of getting any. Some of the new carbon / chrome steel balls I have been looking at are sold as bearings anyway, so it seems like I would be getting the same thing just with less info a...

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Question re: ball stakes! I'm looking into making some, what kind of steel is usually used for the ball? I found a source for high-carbon hard chrome steel, which seems like it would be ideal, but the product description says it does not weld well. I assume I don't want a soft, low carbon sphere, bu...

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Awesome, I picked up a set of the HF autobody doodads about a week ago. I haven't had a chance to use them much as I'm still working on getting a stake holder and such. I have no welder myself, so tool construction is a slow process that I have to do when I have the chance, and some good ball stakes...

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or my first decent ball stake was a steel shot put. i welded it to a round pipe and bolted the pipe to my bench corner. they really dont cost that much...you can find them on sale for $29 to $39 . much cheaper than getting a 5 or 6" ball stake made. I actually have a shotput but I was told never to...

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What exactly is your ball stake doing that makes it less than satisfactory? We've a collective long ton of experience with stake problems. We can probably say how to fix yours. Well, it isn't a ball stake, which is the biggest problem. It's a polished bolt from a railroad scrap heap. It is too smal...

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I just got back from welding the halves together - I'll take pictures tomorrow. Probably after I clean it up a bit - its pretty rough looking at the moment. Overall though, pretty happy with the results Thanks for the links and info on the rawhide hammers. I'm going to check the local flea market to...

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Where would I get a rawhide mallet? I've certainly never seen one locally. Scour ebay, or any better suggestions? Edit: And while on that subject, for the most part I am happy with my oxygen tank but I'm always looking for upgrades, where would I get a set of proper dishing forms? Have a machinist m...

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Planished (not completely - my ball stake is terrible) a bit last night and worked on the crest and fitting tonight. Fairly happy with the results. Its held together loosely by duct tape; the top actually closes up a bit more than is visible, though there is still a gap I have to fix. http://img580....

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I believe your main problem is that you're assuming the pattern is right. The pattern isn't right - at least not for you using the tools you're using. The bottom of your helm halves is too curved. If you flattened out that curve, by adding to the pattern in the front & back, it would do what you ex...

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Thanks for all the information.

poniatowski wrote:Another solution would be to use this area for a comb.

That's the plan!

I'll post more pictures after I get a chance to implement some of these ideas tonight.

Sathanas

as you dish you are pulling in some of the metal from the edge, you may need to start again but allow more metal where you are now short and then trim it as needed later. I'm not actually short, I don't think, I could trim and I believe it would work. I'll have to do some fitting tonight with paddi...

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Hey all, I've been working on a new helmet, using Talbot's Barbute pattern. The base material is 14 gauge mild steel. The first couple passes were done using a dishing hammer on a stump. After a bit of that, I shelved the project for a couple months, and have restarted it using an oxygen tank bottom...

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I have one of these, and while they are pleasing to look at, i have to admit that it is the heaviest hilt i have tried out. I only used it at one practice due to the weight and the stress it put on my arm. Apparently he has a newer design that is a bit lighter, but i just thought i would mention it...

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$55

Those are my measurements and I can't sew!

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I like it! Especially the black finish. How well does the linseed blackening hold up? Is it a more permanent coloring like forge blackening or does it form a coating on top that can be worn away?

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I have been playing around with making a couple knives for a while now, and this one is my first success. I bit off more than I could chew with my initial plans and had to scale back, but its been a fun learning experience. http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9503/bladesa.th.jpg http://img94.imageshack...

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Ah! Thank you! Use heavy leather straps for arm bands or the handle section. Historically, you'd see rivets going straight through the shields often enough to hold these attachments in place, and this would probably have the coolest affect for a simple shield such as this. It seems like that would h...

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Hi - I feel awkward bumping my own thread again, but I'm tearing my hair out over this and feeling very lost. What materials are normally even used for strapping? Just leather bands, no rigid handles? What kind of bolts are used to hold them on? If there's somewhere else that will have this informat...

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Actually, I took this design for my mid to late 14th Infantry Kit. You will find plenty of those in Italian artwork of this time. Although it will differ bit, as those earlier examples are shown with much less curvature. I build one myself, it is a little bit small though. In pictures it covers the...

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I'm currently involved in making my first shield. The inspiration for this is several illustrations that were recommended to me by the archive about a month ago. For reference: <a href="http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/ucelsrom.jpg"><img src="http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/ucelsrom.jpg" width="200">...

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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:58 am Post subject: I'm glad to see I'm no the only madman who has raised an elbow cold. You know, it was actually that thread and your patterns for the black prince arms that I used to make my first arms! Though I obviously didn't attempt to raise anything there. <img sr...

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Thanks for the tips on the corners. I'll be sure to let everyone know how that turns out since its looking like I'll be starting over on these. You can bend the wing in or out depending on your stake and hammer choices. After posting I went back and looked at some of the pictures a little closer... ...

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Hello everyone, My current project is to attempt some 15th century arms with an eye to fixing a lot of the flaws my current ones have. To that end, I've been experimenting with some elbow. I raised this one cold over a mushroom stake ground down from a railroad bolt. The shape actually came out nice...

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Compressed air. You can do a lot with some pvc, a ball valve, and a bicycle pump. Good power behind it for a single shot and the reload and recompress time would not be out of character for an arquebus. On my air cannon (which is simply a toy and not built for combat or looking like anything other t...

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You could use a steel thickness gauge to gauge the gauge of the steel! (So very sorry.) In all seriousness though, you can measure the thickness to verify that it is 12g proper. The ones I'm thinking about look like this: http://toolmonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gage.jpg Now, those things ar...

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Mad Matt wrote:Get the brown fuzzy surface conditioning disks for your grinder. will take things from 80 to 180 pretty quick.

I dropped by the local hardware store today and didn't see anything that matched that description. Got a picture or product name for comparison?

Thanks!

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Well damn. Another tool to add to the list to look out for.

Although... I am currently doing all my buffing (poorly) with a drill press, I seem to recall seeing those things with a drill attachment as well...

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Hmmm.

So what do you use for for sanding, since I assume it isn't all done by hand?

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I'm trying to sand some stuff down with 80 grit angle grinder flap disks.

It leaves patterns in the metal which are very difficult to sand out by hand when I move to finer grain paper.

What am I doing wrong?

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How would you do - with reasonable safety - combat with a net?

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I've used a buffing wheel drill attachment before, and was rather disappointed with it. One important factor to consider is the drill itself: Most cordless drills can't put out enough power to use it effectively.

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Tailor perhaps?

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A couple interesting threads have popped up on this forum ( "Half-swording" , "Meridian fighting culture" ) that raised a couple questions for me. How are differences between combat rules sorted out at large multi-kingdom events? It makes sense that if I'm flying out to the kingdom of half-a-country...

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My first knife

Building a 15th C. Condottieri shield

Cold raising an elbow

Sanding with an angle grinder

Inter-kingdom combat variance