sh!tz-n-giggles update on the quality of halberd's tools (halberds' maybe? hehe) a couple of months ago I finally broke something I got from him. the threaded pipe on a set of tools bought before he started doing the slide in square stakes. maybe 2008? Don't remember.. I remember scotch and cold.. a...

Totally will.. oh wait you meant.. er.. forget I said that. Bwahahahahahahahaha.

The stuff was waiting in our mailbox when we got back from the anniversary trip. We have a large mailbox.. which I am also glad I went out and reinforced when we first bought this place. Hehe Caution heavy ... no kidding. My wife had a box of herbs (for some concoction to cut down on my smoking) She...

Side note.. and while not armor, and many of the tools used were not from that set I got from you before.. this is something I made recently with some help from things I got from you. (Sorry I'm just plain bad with cameras.. but what would normally be silvery in that is actually coppery. Had I known...

Rock on man, now come on irs guys..... I have an anniversary trip and armoring tools to pay for here... Hehe really shouldn't be too much longer.

Sorry was away for a bit, but yes I will commit to this, but cannot commit to an exact time of being able to pay. Call it "soon-ish" ?
Alot depends on the irs and timing etc..

Hehehe.. I took a little liberty with "truth vs fact" and was like "Hey sweetie, look, if we swing by (and take scotch), I get an extra tool!.. it's worth 70 bucks.. " trying to appeal to the natural inclination for sales.. (i.e. let's buy those shoes I don't need .. they are 20% off!) hehe.. She ro...

As a side note to everyone, my wife still has hers in a glass vase on prominent display on the breakfast bar. While it didn't hit #1 of the gifts I've given her over the years, it's #1 out of things we still have. (To be fair, not much competes with #1 of all time.. I got her favorite singer to come...

I was just thinking about you the other day.. Today I filed the taxes and decided to go virtual window shopping, thought to myself "Hey, I haven't been by the armourarchive in a while...." and lookee here.. A nice compliment to the set I got from you a few years ago (Still using btw.. had my oldest ...

I have one, they are LIGHT!!! Moves well, with my padding it's just under the max for medium though and it bunches up as I put it on, a little shimmying and you'll be fine, or make sure you have more than one inch to the max size it goes to :) All in all it's rather like wearing a heavy coat during ...

Dear pitbull, I think you just saved my hands!!! I have reynauds and it gets REALLY bad from any kind of vibration. (I use heavily padded gloves just to mow the lawn) I've been taking forever to work on a few armoring projects beacuse I can't go at it for any length of time. I can't believe I never ...

Things that earn a name and have a story shouldn't be tossed man. Pull it out for the poor lil bushi. If he ends up not wanting it, you should take a dremel and etch "Scrap, the waster that wouldn't die" sor something around the tsuba and keep putting him up for sale. Maybe print out his story (With...

I was going to chime in after reading the posts where greed was an angle, and after reading the whole thread I'll still say my piece on that, but I have to throw in another tidbit as well. First I just have to point out that money is certainly not what ice is about. I actively tried to pay for my sh...

Erased because of some sort of double post issue, My apologies

Hehe woke her up, she said don't talk to me about this now, so I waited, and finally got an all clear last night at about midnight, figured I'd order today, hrm, in fact now. It is costing me an almost completely redone bathroom for her, for me to fix the honda, re-do the siding on the back of the h...

Woah I should have read this a bit ago. *grumble* the wife recently got off work and is sleeping now. I may be doing a snoopy dance a little after she wakes up though.....

Were I not a medium fella, I'd punch someone in the face to get in line to buy it. I'm still bartering with the wife Ice. :) I have to get her a more fuel efficient vehicle or fix the honda is what we are looking at now. *rofl* I should have learned more about cars. *groan* There is a local guy who ...

Just my 2 cents here. How about this. Paid advertisers get either a single sticky thread they can update whenever they wish, OR a whole sub-category EACH I know that might add too much... Someone brought up about the stickies being too many. but if each paying company gets one, that shouldn't be too...

Silver melts above 1600 F, depending on the alloy. Pewter melts around 600 F. Wow it must have been longer ago than I thought, I could have sworn it was much lower. hah thanks for correcting that! :) but then thats part of why I brought up getting a book. *rofl* my memory must be seriously going on...

Most of what was said so far here is really good advice, but I feel I have to throw in a couple of why's because I think they are important. esp. if you intend on doing something differently and wonder why it doesn't work. Oh! helpful tip buy a book like the complete metalsmith or some such. quite h...

I always wanted to do a handfull of stormtrooper helms (with full armor to match) of sca legal stuff and have a mini fighting unit just to walk out on the field somewhere... problem is cost vs. novelty. I mean you'll have people laughing so hard your side will win the engagement since the other guys...

My girl wanted me to make up a list of what I wanted for christmas... I should have given her links... hahaha! It looks like the face grills on these would be a thousand times easier to work than that 11g from the other combat spagen. Which by the way has only taken a couple of dings (one from throw...

I've done loads of experiments with this. First though, the disclaimer. I am at work and while somewhere in my mess I have this stuff written down at home, that's not here I'm exhausted and was just ratting through forums taking a break :) This was all a couple of years ago, and I'm just going from ...

I already gave my christmas "wish list" to my girlfriend a while back.
Had I known I'd have added this a long time ago.
Well we'll see if you have some next time I have some money.

So many cool things people have on the archive so little money.
*sigh* hehe.

But then you would have had to worry about
the drool rusting things. And of course my girlfriend
killing me and making the floor all bloody.

Nice work by the way.

I was just working on a round shield, and did a very rush job ugly handle. hehe. A couple of the other people I have been fighting with though are thinking about trying out a round shield, If they decide to finally do it, I'm going to point out your handle to them. And of course the next one I make ...

Anyway, I just figure I'd get it up here since I'm fighting again tonight and eventually someone is going to mess it up something awful.


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I built one of hal's helm kits using mostly his deluxe tool kit and a few things I already had, a little help from raymond's quiet press and it's friggin' beautiful.. and not just pretty... but .... The roll of film.. I knew I should have just snapped off the last few pics. Got taken to a pumpkin pa...

First for the guy who wrapped boiled leather on himself. Not only have I done the same, but I still do it.. but with a towel wrapped around the limb in question now. :) With a dremel, and a cutting wheel I'm trying to see better due to a poor angle, and I keep edging over the spot I am cutting, the ...

I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up. If you want to keep the dye, and and tooling, still have it formed, and stiff, but not off kilter from boiling.... Dye it, do any tooling you want then bake it in the oven at a very low temp, (I use about 200 deg.) It won't change shape, but if you don't mo...

under the pic it says he's a little guy and it's a big helm, likely that is why it looks large and sits on the shoulders. I got lucky enough to see it recently and that helm is huge. (As a side note to Halberds.. No *I'm* a little guy. *rofl* and on your spangen kit I got to thinking (*uh oh*) Peopl...

There are some companies on the web that do a third party holding thing. They get the money, they hold it. they let the person with the 'goods' know the money came in. that person sends it. when the person at the other end had the items (Some of them verify this differently, some have the goods sent...