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PatternWeld

Any hints on what the more will be? sorry to jump the gun.

PatternWeld

Ok when I get back to doing Viking I know who I am hitting up for embroidery work. Thats cleaner than machine

PatternWeld

Can you accept paypal? if so please PM me payment address & total including shipping to 92307.

Grimr

PatternWeld

BdeB,

My apologies because that wasn't directed at you.

Back to lightening up and more decaf.

Grimr

PatternWeld

... And the marginalization begins. How... predictable. Edited to clarify... I have spent over 10 years out of armour due to injuries. I have spent almost a year and a couple thousand $ to assemble a kit accurate enough to not just "slip by the rules"... So I will one day be able to attend Pennsic f...

PatternWeld

Yeah.... do you think this would work? 60 odd fighters sit out the ToC in protest out of how many at Pennsic? I think that would work if enough people stand up in unity and make a statement "This is unacceptable." If I saw 60 belts delivered to a empty field you bet I would sit up and take notice. ...

PatternWeld

The crowns of Caid had an inscription.... "You rule because they believe" The desires of the Crowns are stepping on the neck of one of the best and most reknowned gatherings of martial deeds. If they insist on this selfish course. Do what I advise people to do when they don't like the current sittin...

PatternWeld

Ka0z got into my head from across the country because we are working from the same effigy LOL. My plan is for a scale fauld for the Corazinna kit I got from Sean and a leather fauld with Spring steel banding strips for the Stainless Breast & back... as soon as AaronCarter finishes it. No problem Bad...

PatternWeld

My vote is for a snazzy blued to match globose with a blingy stoprib... then add a leather fauld.

I forgot where I swiped this from so I hope the original owner will forgive me for posting it.

PatternWeld

Need to know if the shoes are 10.5 or 11's I have extra wide feet and would need an 11 standard size.

PatternWeld

Very interested in shoes

PatternWeld

Welding wire comes in grades and alloys... what is "regular" ?

PatternWeld

You should see my knifemaker's vise.... Its a piece of pipe, with a nut brazed onto it for the tightening handle... which is a piece of scrap wood with all thread epoxied into it. The contact wedges are 3" rattan, split on my bandsaw with a flat place for a end cut off of 1/8" 1084, also epoxied int...

PatternWeld

Don't forget to weld on "stay put bars" to avoid warpage.

PatternWeld

You know.... I've always thought it odd that other knifemakers don't make stuff like this for themselves.

My blade shoulder file guide is 2 pieces of 1/4" 1095 drilled & tapped, heated to critical, then olive oil quenched.

Been using it for 10 years now.

PatternWeld

Whatever way you decide to go I cannot more highly recommend using white latigo. Its hard to find but it is struck through and will not flake. It will take many years for it to even begin to fade and it will wear like iron. Are you planning on a highly decorous belt or something plain with fitting f...

PatternWeld

Gavin,

I think you'd point out the same difference if someone asked for garment weight sole bend vs brain tanned.

Cheers.

PatternWeld

Your Grace, I must disagree. Case in point. With the BotN fervor, Kerry Stagmer of Baltimore Knife & Sword has recieved rave reviews and the fact that he massively screwed one of our fellow archivers (and has refused to handle it for years now) has been neatly swept under the carpet. His Grace Icefa...

PatternWeld

Aaron,

Mild isn't spring... its carbon content that makes it hardenable. I think most folks are using 1050.

Grimr

PatternWeld

I shall

PatternWeld

Sean Powell wrote:(** It might be possible to case-harden it using a Kolsterizing process but that is a proprietary manufacturing process)

Sean is that the process where you bring it up to about 700-800 degrees and soak it in nitrogen/cyanide?

PatternWeld

This is for Andrea's benefit and very simplistic so please don't jump me for not giving a encyclopedic scientific explanation. Since I work with some of the more exotic Stainless steels and do my own heat treating I've learned a thing or three about them. Picture, if you will, a Gamma Iron matrix, l...

PatternWeld

I like it...

if it were mine I would bronze the face and blue the cheeks/helm plates. Leave the browband & nasal shiny. I'd add a post & ring to the top & bronze that too.

That way you can acid etch the mustache and beard right onto the face.

Awesome work as usual Donngal!

PatternWeld

Ramses you got your panties in a bunch. Go take a few deep breaths and a few grains of salt. Every merchant or artist has shit happen or go south through their own fault or a combination of things. When it goes wrong, everyone gets to know. When it goes right... one in 10 maybe one in 20 will even b...

PatternWeld

I don't think it would be right for me to offer my opinion, even asked for, on that.

PatternWeld

Did you see this one?

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=148543

Its a "second" the opening is a lil big and the center crease is a lil off....

But he's got it ready to go.

PatternWeld

IMO - if you have 6 months to wait check out http://www.illusionarmoring.com/ No one does a better German sallet at the pricepoint. You may luck out and someone may offer up a used one from a higher grade maker. If all else fails I have a Illusion close helm I got from Daffyd here on the Archive. I ...

PatternWeld

What size is your head and what do you consider a good price?

PatternWeld

Check out his old website...

Much better pictures.

http://www.beenterprises.net/pitbull/index.html

PatternWeld

Albrechtthesilent wrote:
if you buy from RFH you are going to get unfinished pieces
Uh, no Master Cet also takes custom work sometimes, it's not ALL rough work.

Albrecht

Then you would be ordering from Vulcan Forge not RFH.

PatternWeld

Eirik,

Please tell me what I got in the mail from you today was an odd joke?

Grimr

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I seem to remember Ugo saying he gave up on pitch.....

Aha! my search fu is STRONG today lol!

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=115174&p=1737336#p1737336

PatternWeld

Ka0z, There are lots of folks who do awesome work here on the AA. Some are harder to contact than others. Honestly if you are not looking for stainless and want an awesome kick ass breastplate send Pitbull a message. His cuirass makes my shorts two sizes too tight. If you have a couple more bucks to...

PatternWeld

Ramses, Sounds like a lot of errors on both sides of the fence. Honestly as soon as you attempted to modify the item the merchant's responsibility to remedy went bye bye. No one needed to get snarky but once that happens no good can come of it. That said... go get yourself a set of Andy Ward guantle...

PatternWeld

Its worth calling admiral to see if they will cut other widths or quarter a sheet.

Re: Lots of Armor for Sale

Re: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!

Re: FS: Turn Shoes, Hjalmr Helm, and a Side of Tooling Leath

Re: Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI

Re: Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI

Re: Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI

Re: Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI

Re: A Question of style

Re: A Question of style

Re: FS: Turn Shoes, Hjalmr Helm, and a Side of Tooling Leath

Re: FS: Turn Shoes, Hjalmr Helm, and a Side of Tooling Leath

Re: BOTN armour materials ?

Re: A new Seax.

Re: BOTN armour materials ?

Re: A new Seax.

Re: White belts - whats the best place to buy em from?

Re: BOTN armour materials ?

Re: Bokalo's Armoury

Re: BOTN armour materials ?

Re: TAX SALE on Rattan!!! (Munitions Grade Arms)

Re: Spring stainless

Re: Spring stainless

Re: tinkering on a new helm

Re: Bokalo's Armoury

Re: In search of a good 15th-16th Century SCA legal German h

Re: In search of a good 15th-16th Century SCA legal German h

Re: In search of a good 15th-16th Century SCA legal German h

Re: In search of a good 15th-16th Century SCA legal German h

Re: Important message for PITBULL

Re: RFH?

Re: TAX SALE on Rattan!!! (Munitions Grade Arms)

Re: wax vise? for engraving, repousse?

Re: RFH?

Re: Bokalo's Armoury

Re: LF source for spring stainless steel (410)