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Keegan Ingrassia

A rondel dagger, in a sheath.

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Yeah, as long as you won't weld or heat it, you'd be fine. Good for practicing your shaping and planishing.

Keegan Ingrassia

Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.

How'd you attach that leather backing to the tassets?

Keegan Ingrassia

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... highlight=

Another thread talked about this a little while ago.

Keegan Ingrassia

Hiya Andy. IceFalcon here on the Archive sells very affordable gambesons and padded coifs. m An easy way to protect your thighs, is to make some pseudo-gamboised cuisses. Instead of stuffing the tubes with cotton batting, however, stick sections of garden hose in each tube. In the end, it will still...

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ThankyouthankyouTHANKYOU!!!

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This is fun.

Everyone is arguing the exact same point, but using different words to describe the same position.

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Pick up a sword. Hold it. Is your palm facing up? No. Your little finger is closest to the ground. Your ulna and radius will be rotated, one over the other. Which puts the clasp and hinge, once more, over meat. Which really is unimportant. See the line of rivets on that arm harness? The hinge and c...

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Galleron wrote:The Brian R. Price Wikipedia page has been updated, and no, it wasn't me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_R_Price

Keegan Ingrassia

Pick up a sword. Hold it. Is your palm facing up? No. Your little finger is closest to the ground. Your ulna and radius will be rotated, one over the other. Which puts the clasp and hinge, once more, over meat. Which really is unimportant. See the line of rivets on that arm harness? The hinge and cl...

Keegan Ingrassia

*whimper* So nice...and the right size, too...a lucky, lucky person, who gets this.

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I do. It certainly can give you a better idea about a lot of things, if you have a framework to work with. A resource that I've found interesting was this one from An Tir, which is rather extensive and thought provoking: m That's a pretty sweet setup, I must say, but is far too in-depth for my liki...

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I've just recently begun creating my persona, but I've got the date, country, and particular sect of people I'd like to be a part of. Anglo-Irish, living in Ireland in 1380. Which means nobility, but only tenuously, with the political landscape in flux. Fascinating time, which I look forward to lear...

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Looks great! One thing I would change, on a future piece:

The slot on that last lame, to allow the vambrace to rotate...next time, have the slot on the vambrace, instead of the lame. That way, its hidden, and you just see the rivet head on the outside.

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Right. Every review but yours, good sir. You seemed to have gotten either a bad batch, or from a different manufacturer.

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I'm pretty sure there's an earlier review of someone beating on a steel pipe that was embedded in the ground, and filled with concrete, with one of these. And every review of this material has shown it to last many times longer than rattan, though the same reviews say it handles heavier. Which works...

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How is this stuff for pell work? How durable is it for this type of thing. If the weight is similar, and it handles similarly with the guy doing the striking, would this be something I should look into for doing work at the pell? My logic is that if this stuff is going to cost me ~$30 for one of th...

Keegan Ingrassia

Yes. If you make any kind of hole in the fabric, definitely pierce the holes, and -definitely- sew eyelets.

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The two layers, in my experience, will definitely rip out over time. My suggestion is to sew the leather tabs to the inside of your pourpoint, then lace through both the leather and the cloth. This way, the weight is spread over the entire surface of the leather tab, pulling through the cloth. As op...

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juan wrote:
Hrolfr wrote:
Baron Alcyoneus wrote: I can say that I'm President of the Universe, and it has similar legal bearing at the moment.

You mean you are NOT??????????

The extra head and third arm weren't a giveaway?

For you.

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JT wrote:http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8328

That was a delightful read.

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It'd be nice if someone could post some links from the WayBack machine, so those of us who missed out on the hilarity could finally read up on this infamous thread that gets referenced now and then.

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Glaukos the Athenian wrote:Does anyone work in brass?

Yup.

And here's where I get my brass, bronze, copper, and fine silver from.

http://store.metalliferous.com/

Square brass rod
http://store.metalliferous.com/products.asp?dept=2887

Round brass rod
http://store.metalliferous.com/products.asp?dept=2883

8ga. brass sheet
http://store.metalliferous.com/products.asp?dept=3189

Keegan Ingrassia

Baron Eirik wrote:Guess he could no longer roll with it.

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zachos wrote:
Suzerain wrote:

Am I the only person who read this, and just had a sort of mental image of top gear's The Stig?

Some say he knows three facts about heraldry, and that none of them are true.

All we know is, he's called Nissan Maxima.

I see a new AA meme on the horizon...

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The one of Saint Michael is a corrazina though, yes?

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Then why is this thread here? To warn buyers and investors away from a man who has repeatedly proven to manipulate, lie, steal, and cheat. A man who has relied upon his longstanding status in the community to shield himself from reparations and consequences. If this thread, and the myriad testimoni...

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Somehow, from reading the testimonies of injustices over the last two decades, I get the feeling he already doesn't care about making it right...

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...wow, just...wow.

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Personally, I like using the softened for that very reason; it feels more comfortable to me, less stiff. YMMV.

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None of the effigies I know of show this but there is no way to get it on with the tighter look otherwise. William Hastings (1340) John Leverick (1350) John Swinford (1371) The first two aren't late 14th century but still decent examples. Swinford on the other hand is pretty much a perfect example....

Keegan Ingrassia

Fighting surcoat - 7.1

Gambeson - 2 layers of 5.3, outer of 7.1

Coathardie - 5.3 - 7.1

Shirt - 3.5 - 5.3

Braies - 3.5 - 5.3

Chauses - wool

or 5.3, if you're making a linen pair

Keegan Ingrassia

Lan Of Red Spears wrote:Does he have any threads with pics and specs of his works?

Absolutely. Just do a search. *points up*

Keegan Ingrassia

Hjalmr, on the Archive, sells inexpensive helmets, built like tanks.

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Another thing that hasn't been explicitly mentioned is, by sewing a bias-cut gore into a seam, such as a shoulder, the clothing gains a greater range of motion. Fabric cut on the bias will stretch further than straight-grain fabric, and using that property of the cloth allows you to get a closer-fit...

Re: How do you carry your back up weapon?

Re: Galvanized sheet metal?

Re: 1470's German Cuirass commission completed, lotsa pics!

Re: LF: Thick brass strips.... shaped