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Sounds like it's too late for you, but I would definately make the cheek peices in one peice with the bottom half of the helm. Not too much shaping to do in that area, and it will save you the trouble of lining up some fairly critical rivit holes.

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I think that you are very ambitious. That is a great thing, but if you judge the result of your work in comparison to the work of the masters that inspire us. . . Well youre being too hard on yourself. When I got frustrated to the point you seem to be at, I pulled out a botched peice (a peaked spang...

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The guy with the bandana o0n his head looks an awful lot like: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/manson1.jpg Charles Manson More seriously: could it be possible that the glowing peice on the large anvil is being thinned out for work while hot? Or did they already have hammer mi...

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Overall it's pretty impressive. Outside of this message board and any university campus, no one would notice the fact that the helm is a couple hundred years removed in history from the rest of it, so as long as it's being represented as a wholly fantasy peice, I like it. I'm interested to know what...

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My favorite cutting surface when cold chiseling is a section of railroad track that I found. I read on another forum like 5 years ago that they could be found easily if you walk along railroad tracks and it was no lie. I have about four sections of varying size that I use for differant stuff, includ...

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Historically speaking, the mail should be made in a way that will allow the weave to close up when it hangs instead hanging open. If you haven't made any of the difficult seams yet, you should not have too much trouble fixing it.

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(if you wanted to) You could probably still smell the battle sweat on the canvas liner in the second pic. Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

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I'm wondering if any of you have ever made a corrizina (sp?) out of plastic covered in fabric?

I personally have enough experiance in metal to do it in steel, but it seems like an ideal application.

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Sometime soon Im going to make one of those odd, barbute-like helm that the mounted knights wore in the two towers, but I never get any requests because I refuse to part with my babies! Er, I mean my creations.

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Good stuff. It reminds me of the pseudo-greek armour that was worn in the movie Troy.

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I'm planning to start building a late 13th early 14th century kit, and im looking for some confirmation on what I have put together. Fom what I have learned so far I compiled this list: Armour Sugarloaf Greathelm COP or armoured surcoat Mail hauberk Spaulders Splinted vambraces with elbow polyns Gri...

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I would urge you not to do this unless the harness of which you speak is early 14th century. We need to wear the typical rather than the wierd. Just because we can justify an isolated case of something does not mean we should copy it. If you are portraying an early 15th century Irish knight then by...

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Permanent or not, zinc poisoning is a nasty experiance. I always mention it to guys who are new to metal working and decide to work with galvinized metal as a favor. I equate it to something like letting a friend know that a girl he is going to date gave you crabs. Crabs aren't permanent they aren't...

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The above post laid out the purpose of planishing very well. As for annealing nails, it isn't nessacary. Even more important then that is the fact that heating anything that has been galvinized is dangerous because of the toxic fumes that come off of the burning zinc. Don't do it unless you know wha...

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Until now, I thought that it would be a sort of humiliation for a nobelmen to be represented in out of fashion garb or armour. Learn something new every day on the armour archive, I guess.

I may just use this thread as an excuse to wear a visored sugarloaf with a 14th century harness.

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I tried for 2 months to weave mail flat in my lap or on a table but could not make it work. I ended up making a weaving frame out of an old chair back and some wire. It works out very well for me, and the best part is that I can watch movies or tv right past may work.

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maybe in a few years we will be wearing shirts of this stuff under our chainmail. I wonder if they will be able to take the place of elbow and knee cops for people with whose persona's dont really fit?

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Eric thing made a great online essay on raising that I read several years ago and learned alot from.

http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor ... _index.htm

You should definately check this out.

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Wow. that game is great. it's not quite as confusing as chess, but its still very strategic and fun to play.

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First of all I want to say thanks. "Thanks for what?" you might ask. Thanks for helping me make my mind up. Through the course of this thread I have seen many emotions and opinions expressed, all of wich were valid and worthy of note. Some of you thought that the girl needed to be looked after; othe...

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Thanks for that Rev. it was kinda driving me nuts. This is like the 3rd referance to a madu I've seen on these boards in the last couple of weeks ; ) ------------------ We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last p...

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That's really beautiful. It's funny how much a spangen can sart to look like a corinthian helm once it's enclosed with the cheekplates and such. I especially like what you did with the neck slats. they are much less imposing than they might have been. ------------------ We are raised to honor all th...

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what the #%@# is a madu?

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle
on J.R.R. Tolkien

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Cheval: I wasn't trying to suggest that anyone here had done more or less research than anyone else. Really, I have no idea how much research anybody but myself has done, and I can promise you that it is much less than even the least of you here. After rereading my reply I realized that it probably ...

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Actually, Bob Charron was kind enough to define the term fendente in one of his replys to a post I made some days ago. I think, but I might be wrong, that many of the terms they were using were specific to Fiore, and might be completly differant when studying the works of, say any of the German mast...

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Hehe. First of all I had no idea how deep the animousity between Clemens and SCA types actually ran, so I did not intend to start a bashing session. Second, I have studied some of the fechtbuchs and because of this I gave little heed to the notion that edge on edge parrying did not happen, although ...

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About 1 year ago I bought John Clemens book, techniques of mediaeval european swordsmanship. Since then I have been studying the book along with some of the old manuscripts that I have found online, doing pellwork and such. My question is: Have I been wasting my time? Does anyone have any opinions o...

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I feared as much. I was hoping to construct the helm in four sections like other greathelms. Since I don't own a welder that is not an option for me, and I really want to build this helm. I am wondering if anyone has seen or heard of any extant historical peices that are made in this way, or even wi...

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That really looks terrific. I'm working on my first cuirass right now too, and I hope it turns out as well as yours seems to be.

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Thanks for the quick reply Uryen.

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Hi first of all : ) Uryen: Halberds said in another post that you might have patterns for the helm in the link below. If your patterns are rough or incomplete its ok with me, since I already have an idea what shapes I need and I mainly want to reassure myself before cutting. Really I only need the t...

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I am almost sure that the helm is historicly accurate as I have recently seen on the web illustrations depicting helms that suggest the type of construction used in the helm in my post.

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Cet: Thanks for the tip, but I'm new and dumb, so I still have a hang-up about doing all of the work myself http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Soon I hope to buy a mig welder. I think I'll just hold on the sugarloaf until then. ------------------ We are raised to honor all the wrong explorer...

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Uh, sorry heres the link: http://store.museumreplicas.com/isroot/www11650/ProductImages/mrl9057.jpg ------------------ We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. -Peter S. Beagle o...

I want to be a Luxemburgish knight inthe Battle of Worringen

Clemens book

Uryen or Lynxicanus