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Zweihammer

Sorry about the tardy response, I have been in jury duty. I will be responding to the email queries shortly.

Zweihammer

Greetings,
The topfhelms are the only kits I currently have left. I have quite a few in stainless and brass. Email me at zweihammer@hughes.net if you are interested. Thanks!

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Greetings, I have just a few V6 kits still to sell. I know I have one large stainless and a couple mild steel mediums and a small or two. Let me know if you are interested.
Cheers, Erick

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That video is the super size of my little helper;

Protip; use UHMW liners in your dies and you don't have coining marks to deal with.

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SOLD, thanks!

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Sasha Khan, it looks like $39.10 to send the swage to you in Caid Samuel, I am looking to post all the patterns as pdf's once I have sold out. I am now out of gauntlets and soon the V6s. I am trying to work a lot deal on the topfhelm parts as there are so many of them and I don't want to deal with l...

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SOLD pending payment. Thanks for your interest!

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I have here an Ironmonger Armourer’s Swage block I bought at Pennsic about 13 years ago. I used it quite a lot in the beginning, then transitioned to different techniques and more specialized forms. It is in great shape. I would like to see it used more instead of on my shelf. They are $300 new, I w...

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Greetings All! I am winding down my remaining inventory and have sold all of the gauntlet kits that were complete, there are no more. However, in getting those out I rounded up all the loose parts I had remaining I pulled together this; in stainless, 50 pounds of parts (I will confirm this again ton...

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Varukh, Yes, I have a couple 13ga CRS medium Valsgarde 6 kits left. I have already pre creased my remaining kits on the center bands and back slats per the examples on my website. PM if you are interested.
Cheers, Erick

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Well, you picked the one combo I am definitely out of. Thanks for the consideration.
Cheers, Erick

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Depending on what you are looking for, I still have a small selection ready to ship. I have just returned from a week long trip to Oregon and I am still looking to liquidate what I have remaining.
Cheers, Erick

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Well, I have sent off the first batch of respondents orders after waiting a few days to allow some to pay or decline. I will try contacting the next group to see if they are still interested, then post what remains, probably in a new thread(s) to try to avoid the mass confusion, again. Thank you for...

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Well, I have been contacting people in sequence. Not everyone has been contacted, as I was getting myself and everyone confused by responding "you are sixth in line for the first item you asked about, and third for the second until we hear back from X and Y". Having people using multiple names conta...

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Again, as I stated above, I apologize for not getting back to many of you this past weekend. My only internet access was my phone and I am not of the generation that can write text effectively on a touchscreen phone (or maybe it is just me?!!). I will respond before the end of today to the 40 odd em...

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I apologize for starting this thread before I had to leave for the weekend. I will answer the emails in the order they have been received Monday as I hate typing on my phone. Thanks for your interest and patience!

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Greetings All! I apologize to any who have tried to contact me recently as my day job has sapped all of my time. I am looking to sell my few remaining kits and then, when most of them are sold, I will be posting the patterns online as a PDF and offering to sell the vector files as well to those who ...

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Get yourself a pair of quick exhaust valves to dump your air instead of passing it back through the valve. You would be amazed at how much of a difference that will make in terms of speed in a pneumatic cylinder. I would have used a two position, open center and just exhausted the cylinder at the po...

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Greetings All! I am sorry to have made the decision to suspend offering the kits, but it has become burdensome to myself and my family in respect to time and finances. This venture was unfunded to start with so has basically run in the negative most of the time for the last several years. The best i...

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How quickly do you need the saltshaker

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I will take the little one for my lady. PM sent.

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That....is....cool!

Well thought out.

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Oh, that sucks! Buffers are the devil. I used to have a 10hp buffer from an old brass bed frame manufacturer. It would set the buff on fire before it would slow down. I thought it was cool, mostly for bragging rights. Until a friend gored himself in the crotch buffing a breastplate. He had tired and...

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Dayum....Dat is teh secksy.

I have been struck stupid, Ugo.

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Here is another thread we have on using the press; http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=132724&hilit=+press As well as my pic of my press, shortly after it was built. I have since changed the controls on it, adding a little PLC with a couple of adjustable prox switches so I can...

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Hello Iron Dwarf-
How much to send one or two of those, as they are, to the US, zip 93907? you can PM me if you prefer.

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Your collaboration has resulted in an object consisting of 75% Win and 75% Awesome.

That's right, Baby, 150%!

The bar just keeps getting lofted higher, excellent work, all!

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Greetings All, This is a bit off topic, but it has relevance as I have run into this problem many times before with old armour straps, etc. I just scored some vintage 1973 SIDI Full Bore motocross boots. You know, the kind with 7 straps down the side. Visually, they are cherry, practically new, spen...

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I apologize for the website, I am not sure what has been going on lately, I am looking into it. If you could email me (or re email me as a couple days of emails were lost before I could reply to them), I am still in business! As far as the Facebook account, that was set up and is mostly checked by m...

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Mattmaus, that is redonkulously sexy. I echo everyone else when I say only the lucky cuss who bought that from you thinks you are duly compensating yourself. I had an almost identical ( without the bling and fluted face!) helm I made three years ago sell at an open, live auction for 800. Keep doing ...

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That is teh sex!!

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Yep, Matt, that is the stuff. Those are pretty steep prices, I think. You might also want to think about a foot control. I have mine set up so I can sit comfortably, use the foot control and hold the material with both hands if need be as well as a bright flex light pointed right at the die interfac...

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You typically just start with a block, I use drops off material from our machine shop at work. UHMW can take a ton of abuse, and as it is used repeatedly, it will take a permanent shape. I line my dishing dies with a thin sheet of it (protects both the tool and the material), I start flutes into a b...

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Now Matt, you ask for examples but keep yours to yourself! Well, I will let you in on one of my most used techniques. Combining hard and "Soft dies", mostly UHMW or urethane,with bounding boxes to control the squish. Doesn't mark your metal, conforms around the hard die more closely with less stretc...

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