The Armour Archive

PatternWeld

I could replicate that, in silver. Feel like bribing me into spending hours... cutting plate silver with a jewelers saw, making a couple stamp chisels for the decoration, turning, cutting & filing a few rivets, headspinning some silver wire into rivets, cutting copper roves, snipping then dopping th...

PatternWeld

Damn man... I'm so dissappointed that you moved down the list of "phone calls to be made right after I confirm my lottery winnings."

PatternWeld

You use a graver, you cut a slot, you use a different graver and make undercuts. it is slow exacting work that defies you to make a mistake. You then tap in dead soft wire untill it fills the undercuts, then sand it smooth.

I'd be willing to bet Knitebee even made his own gravers.

PatternWeld

Gahh! Don't insult me like that... people will forget I'm a Viking lol

Top notch folks there to boot.

Regards,

Grimr

PatternWeld

https://www.facebook.com/BillyAndCharlie

they have what you need

PatternWeld

http://piehtoolco.com/contents/en-us/d730.html

Good luck.

Grimr

PatternWeld

Pardon me guys but you are ragging him on a single design element of a custom super rush commission?

Not a word about the hand inlayed wire? The custom brasses other than the strapwork? The tapering skull bands?

The scrollwork bars are a nice touch and I HATE bargrills.

PatternWeld

You do realize than a nice damascus blade can be somewhat tempting...

I get the feeling like you gents just skipped right over me since mine wasn't a cash offer.

We will leave it up to Pelagon I suppose.

PatternWeld

They better tap you for vigil soon, cause you're making a lot of people look unskilled with work like that.

PatternWeld

If you use a optically clear epoxy and gel tint, Viola! cold Enamel.

PatternWeld

Man after my own heart... Loves good drinking horns AND what fills them up.

PatternWeld

It seems you are much happier following your own creative instincts wherever they may lead you. I love the work you display here, and I keep searching over your past posts...because they inspire me to try my hand at some of the horn decoration/preparation that you do so well. The idea that "the pow...

PatternWeld

Pelagon,

I bought that other tent from you... Any chance you'd consider trading this one for something pattern welded & sharp?

Regards,

Grimr

PatternWeld

Happy to oblige. I'm a huge fan of your work and plan to commission you one day. I also have serious envy going on with Frank right now.

Grimr

PatternWeld

Check... no iron dildo's

How about a bar mace?

PatternWeld

A copy from The Team USA page, actually. As you know sometimes there are rulings or changes made and I wanted to be sure of the parameters. Don't want a Falchion over 2100 grams dead maximum for example. Wanted to make sure there were not dead limit maximums on length or width that wasn't posted. It...

PatternWeld

These are the current weapon rules and are expected to be good for 2013? The humanization of arms 1.5.1. The humanization is rounding of percussion edges of any blade and staff weapon which is executed in a plane, it is to correspond to the radius of 1 Euro coin. Such rounding is necessary for all t...

PatternWeld

Not just those but buckets of sliced pickles & peppers are also similarly beefy as well as being food grade HDPE.

PatternWeld

I really shouldn't post before coffee. Konstantin is right it should have been 3 mm. The buckets I used to get from places like Krispy Kreme were not thin 65 mil wall. They were beefy thick 6 gallon with sealing ring lids and extra renforcing rings molded in. They held things like raspberry and lemo...

PatternWeld

As I was doing research for an unrelated project I came across this:

http://www.vikverir.no/ressurser/hist_m ... ir=&page=4

And felt compelled to share it. The style of carving sabakakrazny is doing is spot on and documentable as well as being jaw dropping gorgeous!

Grimr

PatternWeld

Got a doughnut shop in your town? A delicatessen? Any kind of eatery that uses a lot of sauces or pickles? ask the manager to raid the bucket pile. Many foods are bulk packaged in heavy duty HDPE 6 gallon buckets. Their slight taper makes them Ideal for many projects. Faulds, 2 piece cuisses, slat s...

PatternWeld

http://ironmongerarmory.com/stock-helms/roman-helms

PatternWeld

His mundane job involves Waterjet cutting. You'd be surprised how helpfull most of us Bladesmiths can be. Jamie may not even be thinking of making BoN blanks and it could lead to even more business for him. I'd call that a "Win'Win". Personally, even if you planned to open up shop right next door, I...

PatternWeld

I would hit up Jamie @ Polar Bear forge

http://www.polarbearforge.com/

PatternWeld

Nissan, An option... I picked this up from Dafydd here on the archive. http://www.pandsphoto.com/Joust%20web/content/bin/images/large/pandsphoto.com_33.jpg If Gregor decides he doesn't want it (I offered it to him first and am waiting on his final yea or nay) it may be easier and cheaper to have a n...

PatternWeld

This may help?

http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp ... Spear+Head

PatternWeld

I don't have anything used that will fit your frame & build so I will jump on the RFH bandwagon.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rough-fr ... 7653794369

He's uploaded a lot of illustrations and pricing on Facebook.

PatternWeld

I'll ping him again and see what I can do to help you get them rid of.

PatternWeld

Whats your height, weight & chest size? I may have a nice used breast thats small on my 50" chest

PatternWeld

Odie,

I know Wilhelm has a few really financially challenged newbies... This would be a good chance for them to make some stuff.

Is he aware you have so many extras?

Grim

PatternWeld

I have a 3 burner forge and reach high welding temps at 8 lbs of pressure.

I use a 100# tank and it lasts me a week of the forge running 8 hour days.

Something isn't right here.

PatternWeld

Gunther, You didn't mention a critical factor. What is the size of your compressor? Most of these need 5hp and 80 gal tank for production use. Also most of the ones I have seen use 1/2" To me, the engineering for placement of the Air cylinder looks wrong. You are not using fulcrum as a force multipl...

PatternWeld

I cannot more highly recommend KWT's Bazubands. Just be sure to take your measurements OVER the padding you will want. I sent them measurements assuming the armourer would allow for padding and got a set that fit like a second skin, on my skin. I insisted on 16 guage but would recommend the 18 guage...

PatternWeld

Not only cable is made from improved plow steel. I can get different bars of the stuff from the welding supply close to my shop. I typically use it for dies for my 20 ton press. It's the equivalent of 1065 .... just the right balance of hard & tough for something like a lance tip. Now I do make "Cab...

PatternWeld

*Sigh* maybe one day I will get some armour made by Murdock... serves me right for sleeping in.

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