The Armour Archive

knuut

Halberds wrote: Some vest on "Black Knight" were done like that I think.
Hal

Black Knight was mostly Sir Gaston's scales and my flatwire mail

knuut

A good tong type is way faster and easier to use consistanty.

knuut

welcome to the adiction.

knuut

1018 is mild steel....not suitable for hardening.

knuut

I can also do welded silicon bronze in round wire if you like the yellow metal look.

knuut

Save your money and buy a name brand like Makita, Bosch or Milwauke. 10 times the price but 20 times the life expectancy.

knuut

Scott wrote:If this is the "long" Knuut flat, welded stainless, I'll take it. I already have a short one, but I need a long one for a new kit I am designing.

Thanks,
- Scott

Any time you are ready. I have over 20 in stock and another big batch in process

knuut

Ok, after you anneal and then flatten the rings do you need to anneal again? If the annealing process weakens the metal enough that you can shape it, how does it return to its previous strength? Sorry, moving on from butted to rivetted and seriously curious about the whys and wherefores of the proc...

knuut

At the present time, stainless cannot be directly injection molded for want of a suitable mold materiel. instead, a wax pattern is injection molded and the wax is used in the modern version of lost wax casting called 'investment casting'. Google for that and you should get a few hundred thousand lin...

knuut

That's mainly my plan. I'm going to cut the sheets myself to fit the helms. I have a couple that I want to do this on and figured it's just as easy for me to just cut them myself with the flairing than try and send dimensions on the helm and purchase that way...Unless there's a good argument for do...

knuut

Virtualy all of them come from India by way of various intermediaries.

knuut

Not me. All my horror stories deal with UPS and USPS. FedEx has done me well.

knuut

I get 'Kingdom of Heaven' / LOTR requests from time to time....no biggie. The real problem is when somebody wants something from one of the older movies where they were using silver painted knit burlap to represent mail. Curiously, I have never gotten a request for 'Black Knight' armour even though ...

knuut

I have had zink poisoning twice (once my dumb, once somebody elses dumb). Obviously it is survivable...but...IT REALY REALY SUCKS! I would rather have root canal surgery with no anesthetic than go through that again.

knuut

SirLyonel wrote:From what I can see in Steve's photo, the offending rings were wedge riveted. I realize I'm asking you to speculate, but why didn't they hold?
Thanks for your time.

because pin rivets are easy to do right and wedge rivets are easy to do wrong

knuut

are you dead set on rivets? if you want something a bit stronger, contact me

knuut

M. Eversberg II wrote:..... I'm not sure if any 100% riveted hauberks exsisted, but they might have, and if someone else knows they'll say.......
M.

Eric Schmid ( http://webpages.charter.net/erikdschmid/ ) can probably give you a neumeric percentage but 100% riveted hauberks are quite common.

knuut

I'm a bit annoyed that I have not ben able to find mild steel in real 16 gage of late. They now seem to roll it out about .005 thinner than they used to. Because your sheet metal supplier doesn't use gage's they use gauge's. There's at least one gauge system in which 16 is 1/16" as evidenced by the...

knuut

Confusion is why The National Bureau of Standards declared ALL the gauge systems (there were at least 6 of them at the time) to be obsolete about 125 years ago. They persist at the retail level but all the major industrial sectors have long since gone to decimal inch or metric.

knuut

Best thing to do is write them and express your interest in the collection and its visibility. Also, become a member of the museum. Your word may carry more weight if you show a vested interest. They are particularly sensative to threats by 'sustaining' or 'lifetime' members to delay or withhold co...

knuut

Glad to hear it!

Now if we can just slay the eMail eating server.....

knuut

Hold out. The H.F. punches are a joke.

knuut

Looping a rectangle will give you either a cylinder or a Moebous strip. To get a cone you need either triangles or an equivalent number of expansion links.

knuut

Now tempered medium carbon steel... thinner, lighter, shapes like mild and stronger then stainless after heat-treating... THAT is worth the whole putting up with rust issue. Sean Not quite true. The strongest heat treated medium carbon steels top our at about 220 ksi and the strongest high carbon s...

knuut

looks like the spam filter at the mail server end is being picky, it didn't like the HELO string (part of the email send sequence) for some reason and blocked your email the url there (http://unblock.secureserver.net/?ip=12.45.111.232 seems to be a petition to have your address unblocked. -T I for ...

knuut

I have your new address incluiding the addition of 'court'. The street name isn't all that badly misspelled by Phoenix standards. We have a lane with a very similar name . at one end it's spelled '****p**el' and at the other (about 2 blocks away) it's spelled '****pp**ell' :roll: Is anyone else havi...

knuut

Now tempered medium carbon steel... thinner, lighter, shapes like mild and stronger then stainless after heat-treating... THAT is worth the whole putting up with rust issue. Sean Not quite true. The strongest heat treated medium carbon steels top our at about 220 ksi and the strongest high carbon s...

knuut

I don't have an anti-virus program except for whatever is built in to Mozilla (don't need one. Windozy viri choke and die when they hit OS/2). It's a new instalation so I don't even have the SPAM blocking turned on yet. I am geting about 20 SPAM a day so whatever is blocking Rhyance Llew ap Llewelly...

knuut

Most odd! When I try to send an e-mail off the link in your post I get the same result but when I send myself an email from home or work or the local library it sails right through. I don't get it. Your shirt should go into the cleaning tank tonight or tomorrow and be ready to ship later this week N...

knuut

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence. A whole lot of absence of proof sure drops a strong hint, though!" (David Tristan the Elder; Captain, LSCo) :lol: Nice quote...if we had 'a whole lot of absence', we wouldn't be having this discussion Unexplained cordage with odd rust stains is one of the ...

knuut

I agree, but unless you can show something more concrete I will stick with the idea of it being a simple representation of mail. :wink: Thats why I am watching the archeological data so closely. Both laced mail and Ashdown's silly washer stuff (I have good EXPERIMENTAL reasons for calling it silly)...

knuut

Knuut, To me it looks like something that would have been quite expensive to do. What happens when the links oxidize? Wouldn't the links oxidize more quickly due to the wool retaining moisture? It seems to me that repairing damaged sections might also be more laborious with the addition of the yarn...

knuut

It took me a few days to track down some hand spun wool yarn (The Navaho seem to think that theirs is spun from some sort of golden fleece so I had to settle for an Argentinian import). I made up a swatch and posted some pictures on my website (sorry for the large size, I'm new to this picture posti...

knuut

Would you by a book on the history of armor if the entire section from the fall of Rome to sometime in the 14th Cent. consisted of: 'Gee, we just don't know much of anything for sure. All we have are some realy styalized (or maybe not so styalized...you tell me) pictures and some more proseic sculpr...

knuut

Victorian misinterpritation of period illustration of mail. And your source is? About 25 years ago I did some experiments with wool yarn laced through the links of a relatively open e4/1 mail. It certainly looked a lot like the early illustrations and it prooved to be a LOT 'cushier' than the same ...

Re: Annealing

Re: Couple questions for the maille experts