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Baron Alcyoneus

Mac, I am not sure I am following the apex of the point aspect though. Since bascinet points from period fo time, region and such vary I am not sure I am following the 'point' you are making. RPM Randall, This is a subtle point, but an important one. When viewed from the side, most helmets have a s...

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I attended a couple of her practices on my way home from KC on Sunday nights, and the Selohaar specific stuff was never mentioned.

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I feel as though they are deliberately keeping us in the dark, just because they can't figure it out. That's exactly what they're doing... It's what every one of these curator folks are taught to do while sitting on cool information. Don't publish until you can take the credit! Why would the museum...

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It's a pity that Three out of four of the items are about fixing things that should have been done by the mail maker in the first place. But, I hope not to get distracted by how the mail industry is not serving us properly....that just makes me foam at the keyboard. Mac But no one is willing to pay...

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BTW, the Army has issued us (no shit) Kevlar diapers to wear on patrols... No shit diapers? Where do they get those? I'll bet the wife would love to get ahold of a box or two of those for babysitting our grandson! http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20070813/Champagne-Cork-411053.jpg Just add st...

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Stahlgrim wrote:If you talk to the guys on the BOTN team America they will tell you how well finger gauntlets against rebated steel did over in Poland. Duke Lucan told me fighters lost fingers wearing similar hand protection.

Last I heard, we weren't trying to knock people out in C&T.

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Victorian, or at least modern. I'm not sure that I've seen fluted rivets like that in any of my museum catalogs. If I have, it is rare enough that it doesn't register. The butts of the rivets are barely even peened, just enough to keep them from falling out of the holes. They might even be just sold...

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Still, would scaled finger gauntlets like the ones in the first post perhaps work for WMA or Cut and Thrust? Well, they were used to protect against real swords. ;) I wear my mittens when I'm doing C&T with anything similar to a broadsword. If it is closer to a Schlager, I'm satisfied with gloves. ...

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Not turning off the machine before checking the blend sure saved some time, didn't it!

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Things often look damned good in books, with the mistakes becoming invisible due to the size of the picture, or the detail appearing incredible.

And then, you see it in person and think "*I* could have drawn that stick-figure!!!"

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Dresden-Zwinger-Armoury-Armor.13.-besagewshighlightedjpg.jpg/220px-Dresden-Zwinger-Armoury-Armor.13.-besagewshighlightedjpg.jpg Those rivets are likely holding on a bit of leather that covers the back. I know that I have pictures of some where the...

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That was my thought as well.

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I don't think that would do anything beside break the mold if it was weaker than the hammer. I think you'd need a male form of some sort, whether wood or metal depending on the level of detail. I have the book at home, I'll look into it.

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It looks to me like they are sewn on, with pairs of holes and the stitching crossing the peak of the splint.

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Since butted rings "didn't exist" in period, I think we can assume that these are riveted. It would not surprise me if some of the very small mail rings that existed (I've read that some from ancient Rome were about 1/8" ID) might be butted.

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I have some electronic muffs I bought circa 1994 that I use for shooting, and they work pretty well, but they are only designed for intermittent impulse noise, not overlapping constant noises. Do yours work for continuous duty in a busy shop?

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1550-1560 Firenze

A Hungarian re-enactor posted this on FB, and this is all I know right now.

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It looks like a development from the bow drill, to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaaLSJ6Ykk

Information on a patent:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread. ... sser-Drill

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What needs to be done to use it for welding? How large is it? I have a friend interested if the shipping to KS isn't prohibitive and it works.

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If you wait until it is perfect, you may never be satisfied, while completing something now can encourage you to do better next time.

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Henry VIII's 1547 garniture had also been sent to a "breastplate stretcher", IIRC.

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Chris Gilman wrote:There is a set I believe, made for Charles V that are cut with decrotive floral boarders on the openings.

They looked more like flames to me(I haven't looked at them in some time), but yes.

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16thC splinted arms, rare, but there are other surviving examples.

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So they are more like upholstery tacks/nails?

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So...do I understand this correctly? They were trying to cut it up for scrap; but when someone expressed interest, it was suddenly worth $200? Mac I'm not sure exactly what was going on, I THINK he really wanted the end of it for bending horseshoes- he'd stuck one into one of the hardy holes, to sh...

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Here are a couple things that would work, like many specialized tools, you might need to modify them for that specific size/purpose. https://www.blacksmithsdepot.com/page.php?theLocation=/Resources/Product/Anvil_Tools_and_Swages/Anvil_Horn_-_OC.xml/ Pretty much the same thing, but bent over: https:/...

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I looked it up online, and while I don't know how old it is, the info said that it was probably cast steel, and flame hardened to Rc 55.

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So I was at The Yard with a friend today, and we found some raw materials, and I noticed that there was an anvil in the horizontal band saw they use to cut materials. So, I decided that we should go over and have a gander. The Mexican that owned it was trying to cut off the back end of it, but wasn'...

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This is an enthralling subject, to be sure!

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Your shield looks good, Isabella, I like the way you have protected your hand. It isn't hung quite the way I would, but we probably don't fight the same.

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Is it for dress, or will you be fighting in it?

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Which would also match one of the surviving 16thC steel corsets.

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No, my point is that feedback should go both ways. We should also be perceptive enough to know when we are hurting our sparring partner, and reel it back before him having to say, "Jeebus...tone it down a few notches." A skilled fighter should be able to calibrate to the force needed, and only ramp...

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