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The Iron Dwarf

have often heard of your helms on here, all good

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less than 10 days to go

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time for another this will end sometime on the 13th of july and I will give about 1 hour notice. bear in mind that I am in England and now it is about midnight so it is likley to be a few hours earlier than this when I close it. I will aim for about 8pm here making it about 4 hours earlier than this...

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thank you Tod my merchandise is not in the same league as yours by any means but I seem to have found my niche and low though it is I hope I help a few get better kit for their camp and tools for their workshop. I hope to help people get from frowned upon or laughed at kit ( like the BBQ's and other...

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You Meridians aren't going to let an Ansteorran whip you are you!? How about the rest of you!!? Bring it on!

sounds like fighting talk, I hope at least some here will rise to the challenge and will give this Duke what he deserves

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that is a very generous offer Duke Drake.
I will send the tool at my own expence to Woeg if you win

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that looks great Hal,

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thank you Galileo

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Hal did a tool called a flute o matic, not period but I hear it works well

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I was trading there last year and will be next year too, if you get there again say hello ( I may have a spare cool drink avaliable for those who have travelled so far ). I am likley to be the only one there selling forges and this time have a suprising new product to launch, will post details here ...

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very soon I will be at Tewkesbury http://www.tewkesburymedievalfestival.org/index.html the weekend after I am at Kelmarsh and at the start of august I am at midlands history festival held at radley hall just south of birmingham, at this last event I will have a forge in use there so the re enactors ...

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time for a

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like the air planisher vids

home made tools are good, often you need a tool that cant be bought and its a great achievement to do something that works

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I would guess a few armourers will read this thread and consider what type of customer they could do without. there are many people who I will not do anything for due to things they have done customers who want things done the same day and then take 6 months to pay, thier next job is not started til...

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if there is a problem people here would like to know about it. on here you can get reveiws of many armourers work, it is a good place for a newbie to find out who to trust. there have been armorers who had taken orders and not delivered, some take a long time and some may have a year long waiting li...

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on a standard length stake ( 12" 305mm ) without stop collar or extra sleeve and allowing generously for packaging this weighs just under 2kg which at a guess is under 4.4 lbs. things can be done to reduce this if required. http://sg.royalmail.com/portal/rm/PriceFinder?catId=23500532&gear=p...

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if you think you could make helms that keep people safe, are SCA legal, look historically correct as far as possible for $120 maybe you should try it. you may need to spend thousands on tooling and materials lots of time to develope skills needed and more time getting patterns right and after all th...

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http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=135030 see this thread for details. I will sell by auction one of my stake tools, a 50mm ( about 2 inch ball stake ) http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/ball-stake-50mm-blacksmith-tinsmith-silversmith-armour-44329449.htm this is mounted on 20mm...

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Heinrich H wrote:http://svtplay.se/v/1371061/oppet_arkiv/spik-_och_oxskosmide_samt_enbladig_ramsag__utan_ljud__1923?sb,k103004,1,f,103007

thank you, thats the one

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it was me, I have the link on a computer at work ( that is no longer connected to the interwebz )
will post it tonite if I remember

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never bid early unless it is just to remove a BIN, I always bid in the last 20 seconds and mostly in the last 5 seconds. I got an original work of art from a reasonably well known artist ( who was known for keeping originals and not letting people have them ) after he died for 14.99 ( uk pounds ) at...

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go to a snipe site and set your max bid then forget about it. if it goes for more be happy that it was more than you wanted to pay, if you get it for less then be even happier. it avoids you bidding more than you want in a bidding war and prevents auction fraud by the seller bidding up their own ite...

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have a lot of stainless strip that may be useful for those into making a coat of plates or similar. it is 0.5mm thick ( about 22 or 23 gauge ) and is 55mm ( about 2 1/8" ) wide. I have quite a lot of it. I am in England so that may affect who is interested due to shipping costs. am going to lis...

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getting out of london can take an hour on a good day unless you leave at 2am on a sunday and at a guess it is about 200 miles from london to leeds so traveling at the speed limit without a break all the way would be close to 4 hours. to get to kelmarsh you only have to go 1/4 mile off a major dual c...

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will take a lot more than 2 hours from london to leeds, probably double that. york is close to leeds for viking stuff I am about a third of the way up north from london to leeds, some great events close by in the summer ( kelmarsh festival of history run by english heritage, its a big multi period e...

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thats a bit thinner than the metal I would normally form, 1/4" 5/16" or even 3/8" is easy when you have a press and some formers. shaping by hand is not so easy though unless you can get it really hot, at least red and orange is better but your blowtorch wont do that, you need a forge...

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here is a forum you could try, not many SCA on there but a lot of english reenactors
http://livinghistory.co.uk/forums
there are many locations as well as events you may like, if you ask there you will find most of the natives are reasonably friendly

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I have no doubt you will win the war even if a little skirmish along the way delays you

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When I want a big dome head... I use carriage bolts.
However... one must grind off the lettering.

for really big ones I have used the bolts used for joining rail tracks, no lettering but there is a bit to grind off under the head that stops it turning, pix later maybe

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I know working Ti is not easy and wanted to see what can be done.
hopefully lots of people will learn a little too including Hal.
these are the things I cannot do

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it works Hal but I need to stand on a box more than you do. top of my bench is 29" high and im 61 1/2" tall. will see if anyone wants the prototype at an event soon. on using 2 pieces of angle like I do, I find it grips well enough not to tilt and fits more of a range of vices than blocks ...

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or buy things with it online.

I normally transfer most of mine to my bank
I do use it to pay for shipping of stuff I sell, tonight I have a forge and a large firebox to book for collection in the morning plus another urgent parcel to go.
I spend a small amount directly on things I need.

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In reality there is nothing wrong with Warrington really

well nothing a nuke would not put right anyway

I used to work near runcorn bridge many aeons ago.

hope you enjoy it there and that you visit a few of us while you are this side of the pond

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I have posted pix here before but here it is again.

the helm belongs to cathy the slayer

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there is a very small female fighter near here who fights in a leather helm, and not SCA but with steel.
her helm is a narrow steel brow band and a nasel with 3 panels of leather that are as hard as steel.
will post a pic when I find it.

she is about 4' 6" and scares large guys.

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