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Check out this post of a portable forge .
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I have found leather cuts better when it is slightly damp. I have used a rotary cutter with a large diameter blade with success.

Multiple passes as has been said.

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Jan wrote:...Personally, I made an early St. Maurice style CoP and put the charge in the middle of my chest as my interpretation of an armored surcoat...

St Maurice is what I thought of first.

http://www.arador.com/articles/stmaurice.html

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Please do. I would love to hear about your visit.

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Are there concerns that the coronet will snag rattan and become damaged? Of the coronets on helmets that I have seen, they sat flush to the surface like the one in St George's post.

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Most SCA renditions of samurai armour seem to be done in plastic, and many look quite passable as lacquered metal. However, from my limited perspective, steel seems to be avoided by many in this style. Who are using steel in the construction of their samurai armour? To those that are using steel, wh...

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Hobbies are like sex...

When you start doing it for a living, it's not fun anymore.

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When you have white in your design, do you just leave the silk undyed or do you put something on it? It looked like you were brushing something into the field around the green cross on part 3 but I did not see any color.

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I fully understand your respect of Zweihammer's intellectual property and your desire to not steal his patterns. It is unfortunate that you can't get in touch with him to ask, but if you are just going to trace the good one to replace the the one that was botched, I wouldn't think Erik would have a ...

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I agree. I think he is a pretty knowledgeable guy. However, I think more people from other historical interest groups would be interested in his school if it wasn't for his egotistical, condescending, self-serving attitude. I pretty much agreed with everything Clements said in the article up until h...

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I think Clements makes a point that most don't know anything about swordfighting, but he does not think that it also applies to him. Really, none of us know what it is like to fight to the death, with the intent to kill with a sword. We may hit full force with sticks or blunted steel replicas of wea...

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Were you planning to raise it from one piece, or dish two halves and weld them together?

Different patterns, different techniques.

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Here is a step by step of Eric Thing raising a norman helm. http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor/NormanHelmet/top_index.htm The profile would be similar to a sugarloaf skull. He just started out with a circle and then trimmed the edges. Now, if you are dishing and welding the halves. Have you che...

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I just wanted to share this link to the House Greydragon site where he posted pictures of an extant round pavilion in Basel, Switzterland from the first half of the 17th century. http://www.greydragon.org/pavilions/basel.html I'm sure many have seen the site before and I was looking at it again and ...

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http://laughingsquid.com/pillow-fight-weapons/

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From the Society website : Society Earl Marshal - Marshallate Updates Changes to the Marshal's Handbook - May 2012 Change to page 13: OLD VERSION OF RULE: B. Single-Handed Weapons: Weapons that shall be used in one hand shall have the following requirements: 1. Single handed weapons shall be constru...

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Nails, clinched.

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I agree that BotN looks pretty cool and a lot of fun. But really, how effective are the weapons in the game? Looking at the group fights, it seems those that are pushing and kicking and tripping are more effective than those swinging weapons. Are the weapons really useful in combat strategy to win? ...

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I highly recommend rough from the hammer. Dave was a pleasure to do business with.

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This is a very interesting helm. I have never seen anything exactly like this. I agree Great Bascinets are very underrepresented. I like the flowing lines of them. I am not an expert but only a student and I ask this only to clarify and organize this in my own mind. Would this particular helmet be c...

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If I remember correctly, there was someone here that made maces with rubber doorstops as clackers. Seemed like a good idea but the head might be over-large. For some reason I thought it was a Calontiri.

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William, Is your place up there sugar sand, or is there some clay? How big is the shed? Concrete is expensive, is it in your budget at the moment? There may be some other options, You can get crushed rock from the Co-op but it would be delivered by a center-dump grain trailer, I'm told ~ $800 a loa...

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Here is some of the links for rammed earth floors I have been looking at. http://www.dancingrabbit.org/about-dancing-rabbit-ecovillage/eco-living/building/natural-building/earthen-floor/ http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/green-materials-guide/flooring-rammed-earth.html http://www.naturalhomea...

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I have been looking at rammed earth floors and it seems to be becoming more popular as home flooring. Mixture of earth, sand, clay, and some kind of fiber (like straw) and then sealed with boiled linseed oil. It is said that it is firm, not dusty, easily swept, comfortable to walk on, and easily rep...

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A few years ago I purchased a portable shed with a wooden floor to use as an armour shop. I had planned to share a portion of the space with my wife so she would have a place to do stained glass. Unfortunately, my tools took up more space than I had planned and left very little space for her to work...

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So would a cross hilt in the style of that in the link that Nissan posted be acceptable, as long as it did not extend past the gauntleted hand? http://www.elmslie.co.uk/project.php?id=36 (I realize the crosshilt pictured in the link would extend past the gauntlet, and one reproduced for rattan that ...

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I have no association with Purpleheart Armory at all. I just found this interesting. While I was looking around for suppliers of Indian Clubs, I saw Purpleheart Armory has started making them under the name Revolution Clubs. They appear to me to be good quality. http://www.revolutionclubs.net/ Revol...

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I do not know if we could say what ultimately limits the term sugarloaf as it is a modern term used largely by reenactors. I do not know if any academics are using it still in armour related articles or books. I stopped using it largely because I do not really see a purpose any more. RPM So what wo...

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Sounds like a good idea.

Start a thread. Amourers will post with marks and if there is enough response maybe a mod will sticky it.

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I like it very much. Good on you! Looking forward to seeing pics when the bluing is done.

Looks better than my first helmet.

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Hi guys, I haven't see this episode yet but Mike did get a lot of support from the myself, the other coaches and the rest of the Black Team. Sounds like they have edited that stuff out?? I had wondered if they edited it in such a way to make it look like everyone hated Mike. When he came out they s...

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Ld Thomas Willoughby wrote:Halberds I use my carpenter framing square and a speed square to make a fast and dirty head caliper. Just use it like the old slide calipers they used to measure feet for shoes.

That is such a beautifully simple idea!

Thank you, Ld Thomas. I am forever in your debt.

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Here ya go:

http://www.history.com/shows/full-metal ... reme-sport

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Horton Brasses sells chippendale posts that work well for vervelles. Many people have used them with good results and they are quite affordable.

http://www.horton-brasses.com/store/par ... brassposts

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Is BotN just armoured wrestling?

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