The Armour Archive

Ckanite

A hair drier won't eat your flesh the way shop tools will. More dangerous things tend to stick in your mind better...

Ckanite

That's one hell of a way to dress up a kit!

Ckanite

Well you can get the wool of a sheep... but 100% bamboo batting is a bit harder. I've always used synthetics but I'm looking get the 50-50 blend the next time I re-do the padding in my stuff.

Ckanite

Thomas Powers wrote: Annealing in lead is an old process as is quenching in mercury for a very strong quench indeed! (More of the expendable apprentice techniques---like fire gilding...)

Quenching in mercury!?!?! And what's fire gilding?

Ckanite

Just heating it won't fully anneal it, the time with the lead holding the heat anneals it. And you're right, steam kills. And you should never mix hot and cold if it can be helped.

Ckanite

Mac, I second what John said. Don't screw with electricity and more then you would want to place your privates in a moving grinder.

Ckanite

When I melt the lead into my pieces, I make a rig to suspend the piece over my forge. I get the metal red hot and then start putting quarter sized shavings into the dished piece that I wish to work on. I do this until it's full and leave the steel at red hot for about 20-30 mins and then turn my for...

Ckanite

Well done brother!

Ckanite

Those are defiantly pretty! I'm not sure if they would have even bothered to do that inside work, but it really shows the love that you have for your work! I LOVE that hinge detail that you put into them. One point of criticism, from what I see, it looks like you should peen that pin in there. I'm n...

Ckanite

I have another question about pitch. Do you put it in hot? And if you do, what are the annealing properties of it compared to lead? I know once I pour the lead into my pieces, they're pretty much dead soft when I go to work them...

Ckanite

Redrook, that's the kind of information that I usually have to pay for...

Ckanite

Can you explain the process of using the pitch? I've used lead before. Is pitch harder to remove once you're finished with it?

Btw, very nice! I should start doing more pretty things like this...

Ckanite

Mac wrote: This is one of those things that different schools of raising argue about. If I remember correctly, silversmiths like to do it one way and coppersmiths the other.
Mac

Yes but blacksmiths do it harder

Ckanite

Zetheros wrote:Daaaaaangggggg!!!

It looks amazing finished. The amount of detail is phenomenal! Congrats, Ugo!

Zeth! You're still alive!

Ckanite

DAUMMN!! That is one sexy back plate!

Ckanite

On the left side, you should see very few if any... On the right, you'd have many more. I wouldn't say the almost random placement means much if anything.... Just my $.02

Ckanite

I'd start them off on something small. 1 day projects. Day 1, cutting washers. Day 2 making hinge parts. Day 3 riveting together the hinge parts and the washers onto pieces of armour that you've made. Day 4, patterning out a great helm (starting with an established pattern) Day 5, cut out and shapin...

Ckanite

Nice and simple, clean lines... I like it!

Ckanite

Go on youtube and look up woodworking for mere mortals, Matthias wandel and steve ramsey. I can't remember which but I'm pretty sure I saw a few sawhorses being mad and they talked about the angels...

Ckanite

Cian, I've honestly never thought of that in any of my medieval helmets.... Thanks!

Ckanite

Harbor Freight

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They couldn't have been all that bad or they would have been few and far between.

Though what was written does seem a bit nostalgic and somewhat over zealous... beautiful though.

Ckanite

That would also depend on the finish when the piece was in the ground, soil pH, average temperature and waterfall in the region, depth of the piece as it pertains to O2 penetration... Usually a piece close to the surface in a more acidic soil in a warm and wet environment will be destroyed very quic...

Ckanite

That guy's got a great idea!

Ckanite

If it were that simple, you would be leaving the world worse off if you believe what is written in your signature. I see no problem with discussing this piece in the open. The more people know it's a fake and why would be able to better spot fakes in the future. More information, even at the benefit...

Ckanite

I already asked Mac about some way we could have a private chat on how we could debate the authenticity of this piece without it being seen by the general public. Like he said, a lot of the fakers have gotten smart and are reading the message boards just to learn how to make fakes better. That being...

Ckanite

WOW

Those are pretty spiffy!

Ckanite

I didn't see: Wear a non-flammable apron. Clothes, or fabric aprons catch fire when struck by hot stuff. My personal tally is two shirts and a cotton apron with a nice scorched-edge hole in it. I'm stubborn apparently. :) Sparks ARE fire. I do always wear double layer hearing protection though, ear...

Ckanite

Those are some small rings!

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Looks like it's got sliced a few times as well...

Ckanite

Okay, well then how about filing down the thickness?

Ckanite

Mac, if it's too springy, wouldn't you be able to soften the spring up a bit with a small pen torch?

Ckanite

I may be ignorant, but why?

Ckanite

Just out of curiosity, when you wash off the navel jelly, how apt is the thing to flash rusting?

Ckanite

Yeah... I think I'll stick to my flaps and grinding disks... I've already cut off the tip of my finger once...

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