Rough. That's ok I'll just cold work it then.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it

Yeah, it's on both sides.

Hi, I started dishing a large piece if 3mm steel that I want to eventually raise into a helmet, first stages are going pretty rough. I was wondering if it would go faster if I heated the steel, but I got it at the scrapyard and don't know what kind of steel it is. I figured maybe you guys could look...

This is just so cool.

I made a thread awhile ago asking for help on these spaulders and i got tons of help, so thank you guys so much. I finally finished them and I really like how they turned out. It took me a good couple of days to figure out how to attach them to my shoulder when i had no gorget or a second pair of sp...

Thanks for the encouragement everybody. I plan to have the dishing stump finished soon and I'll continue to work on the shoulder cop. To "hammer on air," the new guy should start with slightly dishing a piece of metal just to get things going simply. The rawhide mallet will serve for the job. Then p...

ManOnFire thanks that really helps me out. The log I used doesn't have any sort of dip in it, it's just a regular flat log. How do I put in a dishing depression like that? losthelm the hammer I used was a 16 ounce ball pein hammer. I plan on using the armor for the SCA. Thanks for tip about using th...

Hello, So I read some articles and watched some videos and decided that armouring looked like a lot of fun and I'd try my hand at it. So far it hasn't disappointed, im having tons of fun. I completed a chain hauberk awhile ago and now i've moved on to plate. I gathered some scrap steel from a junkya...