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Duco de Klonia

Thanks for the kind words, At least I'm working on the jewellry smithing for a hobby, trying to involve armouring design-fluting and patterns into juwellry stuff, and I'm in the process of interresting a Wargame-company in a tool I ivented. Perhaps I will start a great helm project, just because I n...

Duco de Klonia

Hi to you all, I'm about 7 years member of this forum, I really forgot, but I started armouring in the year 2000. I made a lot of helmets, shields, Roman armour, 15th century stuff, and a really cool copy of the Brocas helmet. However I never became the best of the best, and did not reach the level ...

Duco de Klonia

Hi Kel, If i need to tin items, I use a product called S39 (that's the brand) Tin-it. http://www.rustbuster.nl/Solderen_enzo/verinningspasta.JPG Just clean and sand down the surface, apply the tinning-paste - just a thin layer will do. Heat it up with a soldering torch, and voila! a nice and shiny s...

Duco de Klonia

One of my older favorites about the gambeson construction:

http://www.geocities.ws/kamillavh/02.html

You have to read this!

Duco de Klonia

My dear Friends, Try the most modern way to etch... Use a car - battery-loader and very salt water. Put resist in any form (Ductape, paint, wax or whatever) use a tub - big or small and put warm water in it. Saturize (just mix as much salt in as you can) the water with kitchen-salt, connect the 12 V...

Duco de Klonia

Oh yeah! Great vid, rolling over the floor with laughter... some real Monty Python effects... Nice helmet Halberts.... I showed the whole thing to my son, liked it too. Soon I will start armoring again, but just for myself, now only working on jewellry for my webshop. (dutch only) www.terra-arte.com

Duco de Klonia

Anyone has tips for me on how to forge a skull, as tiny as the top of your finger (1x1x1 cm) from iron barstock?

I need to make fibula brooches with the skull-icon on the top of the pin.

I allready tried 2 skulls today, but not yet satisfied.

Perhaps one of you out there can give me advice.

Duco de Klonia

Hey Losthelm, I've got the perfect solution to your problem. Use the Electric - salt water etch-method. needed: A bucket full off water Salt (kitchen salt) car-battery loader 6-12V dissolve as much salt as you can in the water put a piece of copper plate on the "-" contact and put is on one side of ...

Duco de Klonia

Whoohaahaaa....

Very nice, Pitbull. Original as allways...

Thanks 4 the pic.

Duco de Klonia

Auch!
The sight of that helmet hurts...

Inspiration!

Thank you, Jiri, that's more then great.

Duco de Klonia

Hi Jantien,

It's a great tool...

I used it (borrowed) a lot of times and I bought one for myself last year.

Can't do without it...

Really super!

Duco de Klonia

Hey, Klaus,

You're absolutely right!

Strange mistake... Sorry.

Duco de Klonia

Hi, They same bloke who wrote Sharpe's rifles also wrote "Hornblower". It's also a TV series. About a young constable, Horatio Hornblower, and his adventures in the British Fleet during the Napolenic wars. Not bad, I've bought the DVD box. The only episode of Sharpe's to avoid is the Waterloo one......

Duco de Klonia

I dish them - hammer a depression with the ballpeen on for every finger. Then use the chisel to make that depression a ridge. Here's some workpic of the outside chiselling. [img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/17sept09005.jpg[/img] on the leadblock. [img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/17sept09006...

Duco de Klonia

O yeah,

for more see my (Dutch) blog on
http://www.anytimehistorischereproducties.blogspot.com/

and look somewhere halfway the page for the mitten section....

Duco de Klonia

I did.... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GXOuY9x03WE/S8Qu2vu-rgI/AAAAAAAAAJk/jS8OZ1XPL9w/s1600/mittens01s.jpg I used a ball peen hammer to make depressions on the fingerplates, then used a half-rounded blunt chisel to make the groove in those depressions. After making the inside grooves (those show as hi...

Duco de Klonia

For the Hastings battle in 2006 I made hidden gaunts. What I did: used a welding glove, made a hand-shaped piece of thick felt (under-carpet it's called here) and covered the "fingers" of the felt with overlapping aluminium scales, like on a gothic type gauntlet. This piece, with the stiched-on fing...

Duco de Klonia

If you like to see the complete process, I made a little website about the "makin' of "this helmet... part one: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/brocas.html part 2 http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/2008/brocas_2008.html some pics of the original and other pics of my replic...

Duco de Klonia

This one, the Brocas.

those 2 plates warps inwards and also go around the head...

That was very difficult to do, especially with such a huge helmet.

It cost me an immense lot of time to learn how to do it.

[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/DSCN0476.JPG[/img]

Duco de Klonia

Well, The new year is well on its way and I have to start some new commissions. Commission 1 is some Roman project, BIG project and lots of stuff involved.... It is a bit of a secret, cannot explain right now. I have to make a lot of stuff, I have to get the price right. I planned to do some fantasy...

Duco de Klonia

Well, I put the pages with the pics back on the web.... Here's the link: First part: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/brocas.html Second part: http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/Brocas_helmet/2008/brocas_2008.html Tomorrow I'll copy the brocas museum pics for your. Some more some museump...

Duco de Klonia

nice try. It's an awfully difficult helmet to make. I made it using 3 plates. Front, back and top. Bend the frontplate. Hammer the sides roughly in with a big mallet. from the front it will look like \ / > < / \ Then start hotraising, gently using your hammer to push the plate to the inside, until y...

Duco de Klonia

Hi Jiri, I've some of the same problems... I work as parttime IT system engineer for a wholesale toolcompany in the Netherlands. No way to get any sheet springsteel like there in the states... I asked everyone there (on my work...) Only company I found was a tools factory (de Wit in Kornhorn, Gronin...

Duco de Klonia

I use black schoolboard paint.

Sometimes add wax or just WD40 after 2 layers.
Looks nice.

Duco de Klonia

Hi there. Got the flue again, or something like that and sitting coughing inside is a good time to announce the finishing of my everlasting project for the "Thermen museum" ( at http://www.thermenmuseum.nl/thermenmuseum.aspx ) with one more Imperial Gallic B helmet. It differs from the last one beca...

Duco de Klonia

Lorenzo, those holes were intended to stitch a cloth / embroided cover on it. http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/D/durer_albrecht/0002-0051_ein_reiter_im_harnisch.jpg and a far more better pic of Albrecht DÃ¼rer (Duerer) "the horseman" (Reiter) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/D...

Duco de Klonia

Here's the picture directory....;

http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/blacksallet/

Duco de Klonia

Hi there, After a very busy period dooing too much non armour (I also have to be a part-time network engineer to get around) stuff, I managed to finish some projects: A black sallet and a Roman helmet. The black sallet was intended to save myself from injuries during sword fights, I sold my own helm...

Duco de Klonia

I've had and still having it. It started in april last year. I think because I was working a lot while holding an angle grinder in my right hand. Doctor told me to take rest for ... a year! Well that was not an option. I just took a lot of Ibuprofen and that abled me to work on... Then somone told m...

Duco de Klonia

Well, that'ts kind of very very very nice.

I just looked at the picture of the original yesterdayevening sitting somewhere where I keep some old magazines...

Are you going to silverplate it? like the original.

Duco de Klonia

Great!

I stopped working - twice - when I read you made a new video.

Thanks, I now have a DVD called "The best of E. Dube."

Even my wife (she's not interrested at all in making armour) watched it tonight.

What's next? I can't wait.

Duco de Klonia

Hi, I used another process on alu. Buy a car-battery loader with 12V and 6V switch. use very salt (kitchen salt) water, hook the alu object to the + and a strip of copper to the -. You will see that a current is running (about some Amps) and bubbles come out of the water, this is hydrogen gas. after...

Duco de Klonia

Tell me about Winkelmayer...

Who was he?

Duco de Klonia

Here's the last one.

Bad quality, but anyway.

[img]http://www.pixis.nl/divertimenti/segovia_1990ofzo03.jpg[/img]

Duco de Klonia

I found another two pics in a box. By the way, a lot of museums in Spain (and in the Netherlands too) displayed their collection just out in the open, I mean not behind glass... It was just like that in the 1980's. I also have seen a lot of castles that were used for "building material" just torn do...

Re: Hi, farewell to armouring...

Hi, farewell to armouring...

Re: Tinning steel items

Re: Gambeson Construction Advice?

Re: Etching paste

Re: Armoring Video - Special

Not directly armour, but

Ork armour

New Roman Imperial Gallic B helmet for the Thermen museum

Black sallet