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Frederick The Heavy

Mine? Well, ya know........ Lot's of helping over the fence?

Need to change that. Been that for along, long time. Sure most don't even remember me...

Frederick The Heavy

So I'm getting back into the maille game. Is there a market for these in rivited? They look fairly straight forward to make. How much would a pair of rivited go for?

Frederick The Heavy

Still have the cloak??

Frederick The Heavy

I know you said this is not how you want to make maille but it works for me. Just a sample of the many differant ways to get it done. I'm also one that goes for the K.I.S.S. method. Not much help for you, but I hope everyone enjoys it.

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Cov ... essay.html

Man I need to get back to my maille making............

Frederick The Heavy

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5305000845

I wonder if this is his mom......

Frederick The Heavy

I made mine using that pattern and did not notice it being short. The point of mine goes about three inches below my chin.
A picture of my helm can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/dabigbeefy/helm4.jpg
You might need to add the ole ? at the end.

Frederick The Heavy

I order from them all the time. Their shipping charge is normally very reasonable. They are fast too. Only once was I disapointed in them. They charged me $20 bucks to ship $15 dollars worth of material. Normally it runs about $8-$10. But no, you don't know what the shipping cost is until it gets to...

Frederick The Heavy

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Frederick The Heavy

I am working on a pair of legs from Sinric's pattern and was wondering what the best way to strap them is. I have a good idea of where they go but I want to be sure. I assume one strap goes around the wrap plates, but I'm wondering where the buckle goes (outside of leg/inside), one strap behind the ...

Frederick The Heavy

I'm gonna try. We shall see.........

Frederick The Heavy

I'm in Grants Pass if you ever get this way...

Frederick The Heavy

You will get a real girl model yes? I would realy hate to see you in a maille bikini top............

Frederick The Heavy

You don't need all that to make riveted!!
I use a flattening tool, punch, small hammer and anvil. Easy as pie. Ask POD I showed him how easy it is. By the way, how's the riveted coming along Clay??

Frederick The Heavy

http://www.geocities.com/dabigbeefy/essay.html

My cheezy attempt at an essay........

Frederick The Heavy

Not sure about the gauge I use, but it's .06" round, black annealed. Seems real strong.

Frederick The Heavy

Ya, but are those jeans period???

Really, very nice kit!

Frederick The Heavy

Well, I started with maille in general when I was very young. I have a piece of what I now know to be Japanese's weave I did in the "fithish" grade. I guess things progressed from there. I learned to make basic 4-1, then I made a piece or two. At some time I learned that authentic pieces in museums ...

Frederick The Heavy

Ya it's ugly, but kindda cool.

I wonder why he even mentions the SCA gauge req. when it's not even close to any other req., like full face....etc. Things that make you go hmmmm.
At least it says what it says.....

Frederick The Heavy

Ahhhh, like black oxide. That crap rubs right off. We have a lot of oxide hardware here at work. Your hands are black when your done! At least it washes off easy.
The annealed wire doesn't have any finish to it at all, just the black "mill scale" type stuff. It's just black from the heating.

Frederick The Heavy

Anodizing is for aluminum silly rabbit. (Oxidized maybe? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/tongue.gif ) I use the black annealed stuff for my maille and I have found it works best when you normalize (anneal) it after you coil and cut it. I do it before I flatten and punch it. I also normalize the riv...

Frederick The Heavy

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Frederick The Heavy

"Yes my precious. We hates the geoshities. Hates it forever!"

They really suck. They used to be cool.......... sigh...

Frederick The Heavy

Riveted? You bet ya. William, The nasal? I don't know if it would be period, but I'm sure it would strenghen it up. Also thanks for the mead! I just so happened to make off with some! Thanks. Here are some huge pic.s Do the ? mark thing cause I don't want to put them on a page. It would take a milli...

Frederick The Heavy

http://www.geocities.com/fredericktheheavy/index.htm Tell me what you think. I think I have about $10 in material here, so be nice..... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif Like the page says, it's for a friend. I gave it to him Sat. He loves it. Now he wants a viking sword and sheild for a...

Frederick The Heavy

As soon as I get off my lazy butt and develop them! Hopefully by Friday. Are you back in Utah?

Frederick The Heavy

Them's was some good times! I'll post my pic.s or send them to you to post when I get them back and scanned in.

Frederick The Heavy

I'll be there! BUT I refuse to feel your nipples.......

Frederick The Heavy

Getting close.

Frederick The Heavy

I'm still going! I've been getting coils ready, I'll be making some punches for us too.

Frederick The Heavy

Just put spaces in the subject line. It thinks it says something that is not there.

Frederick The Heavy

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/005199.html

Frederick The Heavy

Silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids.

Frederick The Heavy

I will contribute my riveted maille essay. I need to tweak it a little first.......

Frederick The Heavy

It gets thicker when the number goes down:
18 ga= .0438-.0518
16 ga= .0548-.0648
14 ga= .0697-.0797
13 ga= .0847-.0947
12 ga= .0986-.1106
As stated from Pacific Metal Co.

[This message has been edited by Frederick The Heavy (edited 08-10-2001).]

Frederick The Heavy

If I'm not mistaken, that's some pretty thick stuff. 16 ga. is the min. here in An Tir (I think the known world too). 14 ga is consider good. I would think 12 would be way to heavy. But you would'nt worry about dents.

Leg question from the pattern archive (Sinricâ€™s).

My second helm. My first spagen.