The Armour Archive

Samuel

yup the vendel 7 shield straps are exactly what I was thinking of on strapping. there is another shield boss that has a Y fitting in the center that was more what I was thinkinf for shields. having beaten the shit out of super thin poplar ( Ive used poplar scrap for shims in cabinets and doors) Im s...

Samuel

ironmongerarmory.com pre made grills. although I dont suggest buying a premade anything to fit a helm that varies in shape especially when it would probably not fit for crap and cant be bent by hand to fit. find a local armorer or buy some barstock and make a grill using rivets and rivet it to flats...

Samuel

Man Erik thats impressive.

nice work

Samuel

Some very noticable features on shields from this period and place (ValsgÃƒÂ¤rde) are the abundance of metal hardware on the shield as well as a metal grip and an extremely tough to reproduce mushroomed shaped umbo. If you succeed in those areas, choice of wood becomes a moot point. Stock up in iro...

Samuel

sixtus, I hear you can sell plazma in the springs:) 50 bucks a pop... in just a short few months you could buy it:) If I were to sell plasma for something, it would be for a Master Knutt Welded Flat wire TI hauberk. ohhh.... lemme know when you go to the plazma place... Ill join ya and get a stainl...

Samuel

sixtus,

I hear you can sell plazma in the springs:)

50 bucks a pop... in just a short few months you could buy it:)
of course you may be anemic for a while..

your right though with the aventail attached even ( welded stainless aventails are 200 in bulk order)

its a good deal.

Samuel

I read a thread somewhere and decided to give this a whirl. since ive sold off my valsgard helm and have time to kill before ill have the chunks to make a new one... First I want to know if anyone has made one for use in sca combat ? ( with leather rolled over the edges, marshals shouldnt shit thems...

Samuel

Adams work is immaculate as well. the reason I didnt recommend him is he ( last I heard) wasnt taking commisions due to injuries.

Samuel

sadly hes great at making armor and shite with web pages... he had one up for a while and it died... alas here is Sir Nigel wearing one of bens bascinets m Ben is a machinist by trade so you'll find no finer attention to detail than with him. he works primarily in stainless and its the contention of...

Samuel

my suggestion would be a long time friend and ex-squire brother of mine dragon forge armory ... Ben makes exceptional bascinets in stainless you can reach him at ben@dragonforgearmory.com He may not be taking commissions at this time but it would be worth it on both your pocket book and sanity to ch...

Samuel

I wonder if poplar would suffice for what your looking for?

its light and very durable and takes shaping very well..

its not very popular for furniture due to a green look to it.

Samuel

aww you know you wanna piss on it... dont hold back.. go with the flow...

( fyi Ive heard it was the period nethod, makes sense since leather was tanned with cow urine)

Samuel

my old shop table was sorta what your talking about I got a 3/4 ply 4'x 8' sheet and cut in center making a 1 1/2 thick 4' x 4' top and made a frame with 2" x4" ( box frame with corner bracing) and some horizontal bracers ( so you have a place to stick a foot) it was heavy enough to have my throatle...

Samuel

Josh Warren wrote:Your helm is indeed nice. What do you wear with it?

knowing garreth...

my bet is nothing but a thong atm... while dancing around in front of his wife with helm and thong on...

singing the " thong song"

Samuel

go but a box fan and a bunch of air cond. filters .. a couple long bungee cords and make a filter for your shop. everytime Ive set up a shope, even my wood shop with built in dust collection connected to every tool ive ran the box fan filter and still collect a LOT of stuff... smash about 3 filters ...

Samuel

Egfroth wrote:
hovag wrote:"Le singe de reddition qui mangeant le fromage"
Litterally translated "The surrender monkey who eats the cheese"

or you could use
"Le singe de reddition qui mangeant du fromage"
"The surrender monkey who eats some cheese"

Nup. Still not right.

well offer up the correct translation then...

Samuel

this may sound like a joke but..

piss on it...

urine is acidic and has no oxygen in it. ( hence you piss on white posphorus wounds in the Army)

it will put a russet patina on the metal rather well..

just dont tell people .. pisshead isnt a good nick name..

Samuel

The backing doesn't have to be a black rubber. Consider a trasparent resilient substance; this will minimize the light loss and help with the brightness. I was going to suggest a dollop of white bathtub caulking (silicone or acrylic), for padding, adhesion, and light reflection. COOL! and Ive got a...

Samuel

Anybody know a gold-plating company that is cheap and reliable? NOOOO!! although im debating on gold plating some 22 guage 4130 gaunts im tryin to find time to finish.... but even I have cheese limits BUT if ya gotta.. e-mail raymond the Quiet. there is a gold plating company that does all his cast...

Samuel

OH the other big worry... since nothing is ever flat on armor and cabachons are all flat across the back. think this will make a pressure point on the cab? any ideas on dealing with this as well would be keen. MY thought was add a few cabachons on the brow banding maybe the 6mm x 4mm versions just t...

Samuel

Quoth Russ- You can still use a rubber backing, but just sandwich a bit of gold or silver foil between the rubber and the stone. I was just about to suggest that, but I had aluminum foil in mind. Keeping the mounts as low profile as possible is gonna help a lot, and I think that as long as you avoi...

Samuel

I JUst picked up some yellow brass 3/16 thick. Ill cut the bezel out of this stock and leave it really heavy along the edges ( 4 rivets as well, keeping shearing low) I wanna kinda cone it out after I set " / \" that to hold the stone... I figure tha will keep the stone protected a bit.. it will be ...

Samuel

well what im doing is making a bezel out of heavy brass ( got both 12 and 10g ) that will rivet to another piece of brass and that will rivet onto the stainless ( ie the SS will be the back and the brass will bezel . I usually put a slice or two of heavy paper behind stones ( it dont fall apart or c...

Samuel

hehe watch "return of the king" closely..

one of the horse rider guys has a horse head nasal on his helm.

Samuel

Alcyoneus wrote:
Samuel wrote:good idea except im gonna use them on a stainless helm and shield boss..

I can just see my pals comin up and lickin my helm..

and I aint one to take a Lickin!

Afraid they might cause rust?

more worried about the bad breath smell on my head...

Samuel

the cool thing about the mounting interest in people doing valsgard/vendal et al helms is the genera-celt viking thing is becoming populare not because its easy but because the helms are so cool...

Samuel

good idea except im gonna use them on a stainless helm and shield boss..

I can just see my pals comin up and lickin my helm..

and I aint one to take a Lickin!

Samuel

IM lookin for info on what stones ( semi precious and junk basically that looks shiny)
can hold up to sca combat. basically something I can smack often with a stick and it not shatter.

Samuel

I tend to wear a heavy helm because impact does a great many things to your neck. the more you isolate the movement the less impact transfers through your padding and metal. a heavy helm and a nice gorget are really the answer.compression ( unless you have prior injury) is really the least of the wo...

Samuel

Id been debating on making a type 5 ISH helm since I finished up my type 6 variant and still have the bug I know there is no evidence of cheek peices ( per halvs site) but since im not making a period version anywho what about the addition of mail draping? my thought was to make a "german vervelle" ...

Samuel

relax.. Duke Hrothgar is a reasonable guy who really is all about trying new things from having met him a number of times I think any of the " crazy-talk" rules wont live past the first month of his term...

Samuel

Vitus wrote:Remember, there were very few actual Englishmen at the Thirty.

wasnt the english side mostly burgunidian or gascons? I cant recall where most of them came from...

Samuel

hmm "NO KNIGHT CAN LEG WRAP ME!!!" or a big rhino on the front in day glow yellow.. or " Osama bin Laden for president" maybe "chiv pinata" could put "FT KSCA" or " my cup protects so well I cant feel grion shots" how about " spears are for fencers" hmm poetic justic at work.. I love it

Samuel

it was march , 1351.. I cant recall the day but I know its a known date...Robert de Beaumanoir was the French commander and the English was another Robert something... I think the final tally was 10 english dead , the rest prisoners. and I think there where four french dead.. the French won.. they c...

Samuel

I'll suggest to Richard that he take a look at this thread even though he doesn't like to let people know that he uses a computer - it messes with the image, you know. which image would that be? the sorta uni-armorer with hood and sunglasses one or the tree huggin hippy image of peace love and "dam...

plank round shield?

bejeweled (stones that can take a beating)