The Armour Archive

hrolf

agreed. The ring test can be deceptive. I've used a very nice old english anvil that makes more of a pleasing thump, but has a 90% rebound. Much more pleasant than tiiiiiiiiiing, anyway.

hrolf

depending on what the edges really look like, it's a pretty good deal IMO. Huge dings out of the sides are a deal-breaker, surface rust with no pitting is a nonissue. Really heavy anvils tend to actually be cheaper than you'd think used because hauling them around is a huge pain -- or so I've always...

hrolf

dual bokken!

hrolf

This is still the most terrifying helm i know of.

To see that stalking across the field at me... eeeesh.

hrolf

without heat, calmly, and politely.

hrolf

Making your sleeves so that they would fit an ape, not a human. http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6420/39623136231158228513664.jpg My third ever tunic, now relegated to shop-tunic duty. It's linen, but it's also something like 19oz linen. It fits at least two people, and i can fit my entire torso ...

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the one, The Only, Ullllllllrich von Liechtenstein!!!!!!!!!! Frauendienst (The Service of Ladies) Auth. Ulrich von Liechtenstein. tr. J.W. Thomas, UK: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2004, ISBN 1843830957 Oh man, I totally forgot about ol' Ulrich. Getting on Amazon right now and finding me a book on him....

hrolf

The first marshal was a non-combatant , the second was a knight. this may or may not make me particularly popular: if you don't fight, you shouldn't marshal. There are other, more helpful ways to serve. I just can't bring myself to agree with this. Fighting doesn't qualify a person to be a marshal,...

hrolf

Fearghus Macildubh wrote: The first marshal was a non-combatant, the second was a knight.

this may or may not make me particularly popular: if you don't fight, you shouldn't marshal. There are other, more helpful ways to serve.

hrolf

they seemed convinced that it didn't qualify as rigid protection, but figured if i was okay with getting popped in the chest then it didn't matter. I considered telling him that you don't need rigid sternum protection, but i was also curious to know what getting punched in the chest while in armor f...

hrolf

I once had someone test my maille by punching me in the sternum with a gauntlet. I didn't wince, they waved me through.

hrolf

[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/winter2010_12_03/w17_26132079.jpg[/img] from "People dressed as St. Nicholas, a knave in a traditional Bavarian woman's dress, two Gangerl and Buttenmandl make their way through the snow during the traditional Buttenmandl...

hrolf

too bad i have a greathelm.

hrolf

Except for the amazing tenacity of someone in a life or death situation pumped up on adrenaline to keep going - even after receiving a killing wound. First touch may kill, but it may not be the end of the story. This is, I believe, why so many period MS show techniques which don't just hit/maim/kil...

hrolf

mcmaster has them in brass...

hrolf

http://www.mcmaster.com/#copper-rivets/=9qvd3w $7.44 for a pack of 50. if you want ones that come with washers, http://www.mcmaster.com/#copper-rivets/=9qvedc are $6.95 / 50. You shouldn't need more than a 3/8" shank length, but if you do, they have up to 1.5". You need a ball pien hammer...

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DukeAvery wrote:Wouldn't it be cool if someone who knew what they were doing did a 'basic kettlebell for sca fighters' video?

Just a thought.

Regards

Avery

I think it would look a whole lot like any other basic kettlebell class.

hrolf

it is pretty stinky when rendering down. You've been warned...

hrolf

They're a little bit heavier in the hand than a dumbbell of equivalent mass. Choose about a step down from whatever you usually use as a dumbbell to start, probably? This is because their center of mass is not usually in line with your wrist and arm when you're using them, so they exert more torque.

hrolf

Even if the boob one is faked, I know botfly larve can do that. botflies are insane. still. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Gully_ElPasoCounty_CO_USA.jpg/220px-Gully_ElPasoCounty_CO_USA.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Jordan_Lipofsky.jpg/200px-Jordan...

hrolf

heating spring steel anneals it...

i bet if you anneal it a bunch more, getting a spear won't be hard.

hrolf

the mac bible has plenty of primary color great helms.

hrolf

Lamprey. not remora. And if that bugs you, don't search on "lotus seed". oh yeah, the boob one? I have linked people who really piss me off to ED's Offended list... after that and 3 years of physiology and emergency medicine textbooks, i'm kind of inured to it by now. but unlike people up...

hrolf

that picture is photoshopped. It's a combination of a finger and, I think, a remora mouth. Getting back on topic: I don't trust split rivets personally, and use solid copper rivets for everything except metal-to-metal articulation, when I use rivets of like metal construction. For attaching leather ...

hrolf

rectangular cloaks are the easiest things ever, it's great. Step one: buy 3 yards of thick wool from the nice man. Step 2: wrap it around your body.

hrolf

The most protection i wear when working hot is long sleeves (and an apron, close toed shoes, jeans, glasses, and earmuffs)- and they're almost always rolled up above the elbow within 5 minutes of starting work. Quench buckets deep enough for your arm are a good thing to have in easy reach. The worst...

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Fownes is a cool name.

hrolf

getups are a hell of a time.

I bet you could figure out a way to do kettlebell burpees...

hrolf

some people have humbling levels of talent.

hrolf

http://davidhuang.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=911&g2_page=1

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JESUS CLIP : Any small retaining device, spring, or other fastener under tension that makes you yell JESUS as it whips past your eye at near light speed, destined for the darkest corner of the shop. GRINDER: Colloquial name for a semi-sentient shop tool whose only purpose in its existence is dreamin...

hrolf

you could stick a horizontal handle on the top swage and use it like a struck tool like a flatter.

if you like the idea of custom swages, consider whipping together a guillotine tool. I'm making one that fits in a hardie hole, but presumeably you've got stake holders that would be a better thing.

hrolf

looks like a bottom swage. I'd make a top swage to fit, and that should set the crease nicely, no?

hrolf

eh. I'm obviously not too worked up about it. I got about 20 gallons of the stuff for free after someone was done deep frying their thanksgiving turkey, so it's good stuff for quenching tool steels in. And baking on a finish.

Anything I stick into that pot is going in at >800F though.

hrolf

I would refrain from using any type of tree nut or peanut oil to blacken anything that you intend to sell. You may end up killing your buyer. Not likely. nut allergies are queued to specific proteins, and i'm willing to bet they all denature as the blackening is baked in. additionally, nut oils con...

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