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Anything by Lorenz Helschmeidt.

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The only thing I don't (personally) care for is the look of the eyeslots on the visor.

And that's just me.

Everything else?
GREAT JOB!
That's a VERY nice looking kit!

Are you sure you aren't going to add any brasswork?
A little bit would go a LONG way, I think.....

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"but just a few years ago 16 gauge was considered plenty and a dent to it was reason enough to brag about powerful cuts. "

So I really DON'T hit like a sissy then?

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!

Because I can dent 16 g with no real effort.
And have.

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Tom, tell your brother Vermin sez Hi... I'd bet money it's just something someone made and it got buried. I see this kinda thing alot in the lab. "Hey, I found this OLD musket barrel!!!" Most times it's from the 70's....1970's. The trick is to look at what it IS, not what you WANT IT TO BE. (No shit...

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I might be able to make that as well...
I haven't pounded any metal for quite some time, and I've got this ITCH....

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Damn, Adam.....
Very nice.

If you ever decide to play around with making a Burgundian fluted chapel de fer let me know.
I want on that list.

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Yeah....you CAN do it with a dremel..... Keep in mind I only did it that way because my right shoulder was all torn up and I was outta work for a couple of months.....and I was going SERIOUSLY stir-crazy sitting in the house. I worked with the armor and equipment I had on hand. Etching is SOOOOOOOO ...

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"One of the really suprising things about zwei's is how amazingly fast they can be! "

Agreed, I've handled some surviving examples....they are a lot quicker and lighter than ya might think!

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Back in the day, when he was active....Master Cormac Dubh from Aethelmarc. I was never really intimidated by Charlie, just frustrated, he was REALLY hard to hit. Although when you DID hit him, it was very satisfying, since he wore the bare minimum (or, frequently, less) for armor. And that meant amu...

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As a reverend, I will now offer my services as a walking, talking "Get Out Of Hell Free" card.

Vitus, if you put it back up, I will forgive you.
I have a lot of forgiveness.

For the good of the flock, of course......

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Just paint a big smiley on the cup.

Big smilies make EVERYTHING OK.

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"I hate grinders - one of themost dangerous tools in a shop, in my opinion " Nah, you can't really blow sh!t up with a grinder..... I HAVE shot a good many things across the room using a pedestal mounted buffer however.... Vermin Wisdom- If you do not master yyour fear of the grinder...your fear of ...

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Well, here in FL I had a very cordial agreement with the guys who ran a local scrapyard. I handed them a $20 and I got free run of the place and got to pick out whatever I wanted. Then they weighed it (and gave me an sweet discount, of course) and I paid them. You should SEE some of the 1/4" sheet b...

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I've had REALLY good results using old street signs. Never made any sheild bosses, but have made a fair amount of pauldrons that were dished/sunk pretty deeply. And I did a Milanese breastplate that had a good amount of dishing/sinking and it held up pretty well. (now STRAPS? Failures out the wazoo,...

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"alluminum street signs make a poor material for duplicating medieval armor. "

Well, I dunno....I've had some moderate success using signs for material.....ask Sasuke.

(grin)

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"Here's a question for the mercs.. Would you fight in a battle if no one wanted to pay you? " Which I would answer with another question- Why are there ALWAYS kingdom level buyers for the services of *competent* units? The key word being ALWAYS. It kinda makes your question moot, but I do get where ...

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But Logan, consider this, and it's based on an ACTUAL person, not a made up "what if" There's a guy who is Seneschal of his Shire, puts in a lot of hours....helps run the Youth fighting, autocrats HUGE events, does armor workshops out of his house so people DON'T run around in ass looking armor, tak...

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When I was in Confed we had kings lining up for our services.

(You don't have to like that, but that doesn't make it not true.)

Do you think this was because we were an ineffectual unit filled with rabble that had no combat skills?

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"and i would never call a merc into my court as they have no business in the presence of noble people." All right, that's some serious crap there man. Their merits and accomplishments would mean nothing because they don't happen to subscribe to YOUR little view on a tiny slice of history? I was in a...

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Maybe this will make some of you feel a little better- Maeryk helped me in my attempt to rid Pennsic of the "undead". Once upon a time there were many vampires at Pennsic. It pissed me off. It pissed alot of us off. Maeryk had a set of fake fangs. (But he didn't wear them around, mind you...) So I "...

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If there's no liner and it's just metal, you may wish to try electrolysis to remove the rust. It's what we treat most all of our metal artifacts with here in the lab, and it works really well. (I'm currently working on an anchor and two cannon from a 1660 Spanish wreck off of Jupiter Inlet.....) The...

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If there's no liner and it's just metal, you may wish to try electrolysis to remove the rust. It's what we treat most all of our metal artifacts with here in the lab, and it works really well. (I'm currently working on an anchor and two cannon from a 1660 Spanish wreck off of Jupiter Inlet.....) The...

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Pedro- Great job!
That's a niiiiiiiice hat.....

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Start playing around using the horn of your anvil...

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R.D., I had never thought about it that way....great point!!!

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Yes, brass finishing nails will work fine, I've done many pieces using this method.

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Outstanding start!

Keep at it and Cad & Mac will be looking over their shoulders in no time....

(grin)

Rock ON!

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Or the people of position are *sleeping* with someone who wants to be able to do it.....

Seen that alot too....

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"If people want no-missile-weapon scenarios and/or events, why aren;t the autocrats specifically setting it up as such?" What most people WANT to say, but won't, is- Because we're locked into the modern version of what "chivalry" is, and when frail people cry because they can't play..... Don't tell ...

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SoFC went to that arms and armor expo on Malta last year, where he talked to arms and armor experts (not us armchair historians) about archery vs armor in any given time (ie-Bows and arrows of a given era against armor of the SAME era), and he said that they all pretty much agreed that a well armore...

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email sent.

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I'm currently doing a restocking project for a friends wheellock and I want to do some customizing to it.... Does anyone have any patternwelded bits of stock they'd like to sell? They don't have to be big or tempered, etc, I'm not making blades....but I'd like to do a sideplate and triggerguard, etc...

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I'm currently doing a restocking project for a friends wheellock and I want to do some customizing to it.... Does anyone have any patternwelded bits they'd like to sell? They don't have to be big or tempered, etc, I'm not making blades....but I'd like to do a sideplate and triggerguard, etc. out of ...

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What?!?!?!? Brass rivets are PLENTY. I've built helms using them, I've fought in helms using them. My knight has, his knight has...alot of the folks I know making armor use them.... No problems. I fail to see how brass rivets are a hazard. If you're playing with folks who are shearing off rivets in ...

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Pedro, I was just thinking the same thing...

Adam, as always, very nice work!

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