The Armour Archive

coreythompsonhm

Exactly what Samuel said, you are ordering a rough shaped item needing finishing unless he has stated otherwise. I have ordered a few times from Cet and never once had an issue. Yes, communications are a bit slow at times, but if he was sitting at the computer waiting for customer emails constantly,...

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Sculpt nouveau japanese brown is probably what you're looking for in chemical petinas. Can be applied hot or cold. The smallest bottle starts at $10. For maintenance I would imagine it would be fairly easy to reapply when needed. I have only used the oil blackening process for, well, blackening. Oth...

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Yes, I am very excited to get a copy of the two volumes! It will be great to finally take a look at all the sketches.

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Yes that worked, thank you Tom!

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Racaires hood is very nice! It is also the same color of my CdeB. The red and gold is a nice combination, but I'm still deciding on the hood color. All of those links have very nice examples that I like! I think dags will have to be a consideration as well. The most common colors off the top of my h...

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I think Christmas came early this year!!!

Mac, is there an online archive of the images from Thun Sketchbook or a previously published book?

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Yes, I'm planning on lining it with fur! I'm just not sure what I want to use yet. Thanks for those links Char! Its a possibility it was my connection when I wwent to the larsdatter site, the links appear to be working for me now too. Do you think embroidered decoration was used during that period a...

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I've seen two guys get zinc poisoning in high school. Both thought it would be a great idea to make a pipe to smoke weed from galvanized water pipe while we had a substitute in metal shop. They were in the hospital for awhile. Granted, they were directly inhaling the fumes, but they almost died. Of ...

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Some of my friends have been pointing me to this as well. Then I email them pictures of rough plans and they go "oh... So you've seen it?"

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So, I found out that my Christmas present this year will be an embroidered hood. She asked what I wanted on it. So now the search is on! All my saved links are now broken, as well as a huge majority provided by the search function here. I don't know if I got links to old pages on Larsdotter, but all...

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Simple spaulders are a good start. You will learn how to dish simple shapes and curling flat lames, as well as how to set rivets and simple leather working (cutting straps). You will only need a dishing form, a dishing hammer, drill, and something to curl the lames over like a section of 4" steel pi...

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Zetheros, if you are using swimming goggles as safety glasses, please make sure that they have the correct impact rating. Otherise, if something hits them hard enough, shattered platic will be in your eye as well.

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Plus you should suggest your area of interest. German, Italian....

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I believe Brand+ ankle shackles + all tools and materials within reach = no more back log

Oh, and food, can't forget the food. We want him to stay alive so he can make good on his back log

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Awesome!!

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The wire I get is .047" and has a very thin layer of copper. Got a pretty hefty discount buying a 50 lb spool through my work. It tends to be a pain to work with until its annealed. If I have a minion for the day, I have them coil the wire

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I use "18 gauge" welding wire, have used 16 gauge rebar wire. When I dealt with galvanized I bought a small charcoal grill specifically for annealing the galvanized stuff (will never be used for food). Filled it with charcoal and tons of cut rings, lit the charcoal, put on the lid. Got away as quick...

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I usually get CO2 Argon mix for welding steel. I bought my bottle from my local welding suplly house. Also get it refilled there. I just use one of the smaller ones, comes up to about my waist.

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Wow, thanks for writing all this up!

Bookmarked for a later date

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Ahhh so tempting!!!! And I need new shoes too

I'll have to see if I can buy some or not.

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Those pics are great! Thank you so much!

So, did you enjoy your trip?!

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Thanks Browin!

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Any pics of this?

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/se ... t=*&pos=54

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Glad it healed up nice! Still looks like it was painful as hell!

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Maeryk wrote:Who gets closer than 10 feet to bagpipes by choice?

I do

And its even worse, when I was around bagpipes, I was a side drummer. 2001-2007

Might get back into it, was thinking about it today oddly enough

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34 lbs isn't bad at all.

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I love my air tools but lack the space for a bigger tank. The die grinders are really useful for hard sand areas. I have both a 90* and straight grinders. Sanding drums, disks, and carbide bits are your friend

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Might want to update your profile with a location. It is pointless to suggest a supplier in the UK if you live in the U.S. or a U.S. supplier if you live in the UK

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Ehhh at least from the price on the website, the money used for a plasma cutter would be better spent on a o/a setup. It would be way more versatile than a plasma cutter.

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I already told him to start looking for a piece of rail. Was thinking about it on my way to work and decided I just plain don't have time to help him out.

Oh by the way, he's getting into building flintlock mechanisms, he was going to use this ASO to do some of the forging work.

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One of my friends picked up one of those ASO's from HF and quickly realized its very soft. He was asking me if its possible to attach a hard face on it. My two thoughts were A) braze some hard steel onto it (probably 3/8th 4130) or B) go the welding route and using a hardfacing rod and mill the surf...

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Browin-When I said it was a little more shallow, I meant a little

I know its splitting hairs.

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I might have to take the train down there soon and make a weekend of it.

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Outside of here, no. I placed an order with him, asked for his paypal info so I could send a payment, then he pretty much disappeared. He DID NOT take any of my money, he owes me nothing.

He hasn't logged on since January 2013.

I hope he's okay

coreythompsonhm

Last visited: Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:04 pm

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