The Armour Archive

Keegan Ingrassia

Alrighty... 1. That small propane torch is not enough heat for your metal, as you found out. 2. The hammer you're using now is not the right kind of hammer for raising. Its working against what you're trying to do, and is making your life more difficult than it needs to be. The hammer face you're us...

Keegan Ingrassia

Keegan Ingrassia

Keegan Ingrassia

If we started using full face mesh, does that mean we can start using shafted arrows with bird blunts society wide?

Keegan Ingrassia

Most likely from Wade's site.

http://www.allenantiques.com/movies/GothicMovement.mp4
http://www.allenantiques.com/movies/Rus ... vement.mp4

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, there are several schools across the nation that teach blacksmithing...seems plausible the same could be done for an armoury. Problem is, is getting enough people to justify the overhead costs.

Keegan Ingrassia

Yeppers, you need some sliding rivet slots cut on the inside. That will give you your downward motion, as well as a little bit of dishing on the lames (very little...just enough to round the inside edges).

What gauge is that you're using? It almost looks like 16.

Keegan Ingrassia

Or, we could all go to solid-faced helms instead of barred visors, and the only gaps would be the breaths and 1/2"-3/4" eyeslots. Whee, problem solved! (for the 14th crowd, anyway) *stirring the pot*

Keegan Ingrassia

I have the same feelings for my workshop or laboratory as I call it. Even with my kids, especially when they start picking up tools or parts and playing with them. Or someone borrows your mirror-faced planishing hammer to drive nails... Or tries to cut barstock in the throatless shear... Or puts a ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Dougale MacAlestyr wrote:But please keep us in the loop, the last thing I want to hear about is how some archer was injured on the Line.

Ha.

Keegan Ingrassia

Sir Omarad wrote:
Leo Medii wrote:
Baron Logan wrote:How about why do I have to put a layer of padding on my mace when the guy across from me is swinging a 7.5 foot unpadded 3" diameter polearm at my head?

What he said.

because.

That.....is not exactly a clarification, nor an explanation.

But it is a perplexing question.

Keegan Ingrassia

Ha, that's the exact one I've got, and did the same thing too. Now I don't have to dig out the camera to take pictures; thanks, Hal!

Keegan Ingrassia

Corey, believe it or not, but Pep Boys has a hammer that works wonderfully as a raising hammer, once you round the faces.

http://www.quaware.com/AZATE-20412.html

Its a Bondo 3M 103 Bumping and Shaping Hammer.

If you want, I can take a couple quick snaps of the one I use, with its reground faces.

Keegan Ingrassia

The orange areas are no-no's, mmkay?

Keegan Ingrassia

I've still got the original psd file on my drive; I -can- remove the black shorts, if they are too confusing...

Keegan Ingrassia

But...Nissan already did that, on the older Shaped Weapons thread. Bottom post on page 6, and third post on page 9. In summary, he found that shaving a piece from the same stick made it weaker (read, flex more). However, a thick piece that was shaved to be the same weight as an unshaved thinner piec...

Keegan Ingrassia

I believe the testing that's currently going on is just for the round material. I think it'd have to get passed, before you could start playing with shaping it. And it already hits harder than rattan, from what I've read. That said, it would be awesome to have a shaped sword made of that stuff, and ...

Keegan Ingrassia

-A 2" piece doesn't flex as much as a 1 1/4" piece. -A 2" piece is heavier than a 1 1/4" piece of the same length. -A 2" piece, shaved down to 1 1/4" thick, would be: --Much lighter than the original 2" piece, and --A little heavier than the 1 1/4" round piec...

Keegan Ingrassia

Picturebook images like this --v would be great for weapons. Or, just really good photographs.

Keegan Ingrassia

I don't think anyone is saying that shaping a sword would decrease its flex. Wouldn't it actually reduce the flex of the rattan overall? I mean starting with a 2" piece and shaving it down would reduce it in some areas not increase it, right? Its rigidity would, however, be more than that of a...

Keegan Ingrassia

They're making me work even harder to sew up a gambeson and some padded quisses to go under my armour.

Keegan Ingrassia

Good Baron, is it possible that people are taking your type 15s, and your other pre-shaped rattan blades, and taping them up so that their striking edge is not, in fact, that flat surface, but instead that sharp angle?

Keegan Ingrassia

Then I suppose a rule that states something along the lines of:

"No striking surface shall be less than 3/4" wide"

would neatly fill that gap in the rules, yes? That would take care of the 91 degree corners on the striking surfaces, but still allow shaped wasters...

Keegan Ingrassia

Ah, but Kilkenny, can you say that you absolutely will hit with the flat striking surface, every time, for the lifetime of that weapon? No? Then you could conceivably hit with that radiused corner, could you not? Well, according to the rule-as-rewritten above, that is "too dangerous" and i...

Keegan Ingrassia

I don't like the subjectivity of this whole tapering weapons. I'd suggest a re-write of the rules to (bold is the change): section A line 9 "no part of the weapon shall have sharp edges or protrutions with any cross-section of less than 1 1/4" in diameter." This way, tapered edges wi...

Keegan Ingrassia

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:A 1.25" round stick has a striking edge below 1.25".

To be entirely anal, a perfectly round stick would have a point of contact approaching 0".

Keegan Ingrassia

Gunthar wrote:So I take it you are gluing the four pieces together but leaving the tangs unglued to wrap around the
haft?

Nnnno. He'll cut a hole in the rattan and fit the tang into it.

Keegan Ingrassia

the subtle line of a bascinet.. like full hips..... You like big bascinets and you cannot lie? you other brothers cant deny.. when a girl walks in with an itty bitty Mace and a round shield in your face you get sprung!! Wanna snap that tough Cuz you notice that coif was stuffed Deep in the metal sh...

Keegan Ingrassia

The double-edge sword cuts two ways. But the 100-blade swordball cuts the sh!t out of everyone.

Keegan Ingrassia

Its a fine distinction....

Keegan Ingrassia

Eww....

Keegan Ingrassia

Yer sarcasm meter's on the fritz again, II.

Keegan Ingrassia

Yessir. That even seems to be a deliberate tactic that many on the board use. Just sand between coats, and you should have a strong, smooth surface to paint on...and you won't use up all your paint filling up the surface.

Keegan Ingrassia

Yup. But don't forgo a tunic under the mail! Knew a guy who did that at a ren fair one weekend, during the scorching Texas August. Had a gridwork of second degree burns where the metal cooked his skin, and between that a sunburn in all the holes. It's like wearing a radiator. Full of holes so you ge...

Keegan Ingrassia

In answer to this question, I will post a picture of my recently completed portfolio book. I will be using this to both secure a job, and to transport and showcase my other artwork. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5635284937_bbef7479a1_z.jpg So, as an artist: Is armour art? In my view, yes . It ...

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