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Captain Jamie

Update - 10 slots open for the round shield production run.

Captain Jamie

19 slots now open....

Captain Jamie

SCA_wise I am Jamie Blackrose and I run By My Hand Designs

https://www.facebook.com/By-My-Hand-Des ... 122096372/

http://bymyhanddesigns.mypinnaclecart.c ... hed-round/

So please pass those links along.

Captain Jamie

SLOT COUNT DOWN - Now 10 left. Taking orders for 26" Dished round shields. Tariffs on Aluminum disrupted my supply chain (as in big companies got stock going to small companies diverted to fulfill their own contracts) which dried up supplies and raised prices. So the bad news is prices for these are...

Captain Jamie

Selling 10 Pre-orders of our Fish Tail hilt with two different guards available. This has been out of stock for a while and to get it back in stock I need some pre-orders to make a run. The Fish Tail Pommel and Longsword Guard are currently $60.00, normally $75.00. The Fish Tail and Arming sword or ...

Captain Jamie

Found him. Thank you's to any one that helped. Could any one that has Ron's contact info drop him a line/ shoot him an email/ send a carrier pigeon to let him know that what I wrote down for his email is bouncing? He has a time-critical order with Vince at WoodMont Accessories (The BMHD Leather Guy)...

Captain Jamie

An hour and 45 minutes left on the Pre-Pennsic sale.

Captain Jamie

Thank you!

Captain Jamie

PRE-PENNSIC DELIVERY SALE! Now through July 25th at noon order at least $10.00 of stuff from the website - bymyhanddesigns.com will get you there- and get 10% off and I will tag it with your name and bring it to Pennsic for you to pick up at our shop on Battle Road #143. We will hold your item until...

Captain Jamie

You are quite welcome - I hope it serves you well for years.

Captain Jamie

In Stock at last! Domed Round Shields in 5052 H38 aluminum. 26 " diameter and .100" thick and weighs 5.05 lbs.

$100.00 + Shipping and Handling

Bymyhanddesigns.com will take you to the BMHD webstore where you can get pole arm heads, hilts and other items of interest.

Captain Jamie

Sodium Silicate or water glass, is one of those liquids. It is cheap, very available and it is used to stick CF to the steel walls of the furnace.

Captain Jamie

Why would you cover ceramic fiber with refractory cement? Ceramic fiber does a great job of reflecting heat and absorbs very little of it. Refractory cement materials absorb heat and then re-radiates it inefficiently. See Kiln Building with Space-Age Materials by Frank Colson. The two materials like...

Captain Jamie

ByMyHandDesigns.com will take you to the new store. Finally and at long last I have caught up to the 21st century. Product on hand is going up and I am taking pre-orders on hilts. "Sales of the hilts have been good enough that we are often out of a particular combination of cross guard and pommel or...

Captain Jamie

Hi, Captain Jamie here. I understand that the Windrose crew are traveling back from Lilies and the shop phone goes to voicemail for that reason but I have a pressing B2B need to speak to them. If someone could relay to them that need of mine I would appreciate it. 317-931-0561 or bymyhand@bymyhandde...

Captain Jamie

I get to poke too. Price for one handed hilts is currently $45.00. There are several new varieties that will break from that price point. Breakage - I will need to write an essay on this and post it on the BMHD FB page. Short answer is - it happens to a few people but most customers are not sufferin...

Captain Jamie

My hat is off to you Sir.

Captain Jamie

That can come after I get my '72 Duster!

Captain Jamie

Huh, I am missing a reply.

Tomburr - The elusive aspis shield and possibly larger rounds in 30" and 36". There is the possibility of forging dies for pommels too.

Captain Jamie

InsaneIrish - I think that is correct.

Gregoire - Thanks for the link! I will look into it.

Captain Jamie

Can you expound on that just to make sure that I am understanding you? If I understand you the singular product price would need to include a portion of the tooling and the materials cost for the item and outside labor. So example -$5000.00 tooling $40.00 in materials per unit and 50 ransomers=$140....

Captain Jamie

Has anyone used the ransom approach (seen in indie RPGs for instance) to raise the money to do a project and production run? From what I can see the people that would like a product that is too costly to be produced normally put up set amounts to help cover tooling and production costs. If the goal ...

Captain Jamie

Pics, I hope. Oooo! Oooo! The 2nd one! The cocked hat! I want! Tell me how I can has! :mrgreen: Swete - Check the width of your gauntlet and let me know what it is and I can check to see if I have one in that size. We can arrange payment in many ways. No small children, I have enough. :wink: Pricin...

Captain Jamie

Question- would it be possible to have a trigger added to one of these? I don't have a welder myself or I'd do it. Nothing fancy, or even particularly pretty, maybe just a partial ring of round stock? I've also heard that the narrow openings on these cause a weak point on the stick that results in ...

Captain Jamie

BdeB - I have heard of this ruling but apparently it is under going refinement. I keep answering questions from a Kingdom Marshal about the properties of the foam so that, presumably, the material(s) that are alright can be defined. Maybe it is a Kingdom that is trying to define it further. As a man...

Captain Jamie

Vladimir - this is a concern for me also. I have used materials with densities in the 12 to 15 pound per cubic foot range for these heads. How much weight can I add to a polearm and still be considered safe? No one can tell me either. Further no one can say with any certainty that the amount of foam...

Captain Jamie

daithi - how do those handle for you?

Captain Jamie

Spatha and Tea cosy

Captain Jamie

More styles - Wheel, Trilobe, and Viking

Captain Jamie

Pics, I hope.

Captain Jamie

No but it is being worked on by an underemployed IT friend. That means that something will be getting done. Apparently HTML, FTP, and the rest of the fricking alphabet hate me.

Here is a pick of the English Bill.

Captain Jamie

M' lord Duffy you did nothing wrong. I have been absent tending to other duties for quite some time. Now those duties have been discharged and I can attend to the business of changing the face of warfare one weapon at a time. The Early Swiss Halberd and the French PollAxe should be displayed below. ...

Captain Jamie

Thank you for that essay Bkillian!

Captain Jamie
(No, I am not dead though Lilies has been trying.)

Captain Jamie

Max- There seems to be a philosophical divide about thrusts to the head. It appears that in the East and Kingdoms that sprang from the Midrealm thrusts to the top and sides of the head are considered ineffective. In other places thrusts to those areas are valid shots.

Captain Jamie

Captain Jamie

Torvaldr- Please make more scrap!

Re: Dished Round Pre-Order sale

Re: Dished Round Pre-Order sale

Re: Dished Round Pre-Order sale

Dished Round Pre-Order sale

Pre-order sale for Fish Tail Hilts

Ron Simmons to the White Courtesy Phone please

Re: Pre-Pennsic Sale

Re: Pre-Pennsic Sale

Pre-Pennsic Sale

Re: Domed Round Shields!

Domed Round Shields!

Re: Melting furnace for bronze

Re: Melting furnace for bronze

By My Hand Designs has a website - and a sale on hilts

Need to contact Windrose Armory

Re: By My Hand 1 piece hilt Review

Re: No more custom orders

Re: Ransoming a new project

Re: Ransoming a new project

Re: Ransoming a new project

Re: Ransoming a new project

Ransoming a new project

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt

Re: unpadded but light?

Re: unpadded but light?

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt

Re: WTB By My Hand 1 Piece Sword Hilt