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Inconel, I remember that from my nuclear power days in the navy. Damn tough stuff to weld too.

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Here are a couple of pictures of my aluminum gauntlets. they are 16 gauge with stainless steel rivets so that there will never be a rust problem, already strapped out. Also very light, less than half the weight of the mild steel gaunts I sell. $145 if you're interested. Check, moneyorder or even pay...

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Got a nice pair of 16 gauge aluminum clamshell gaunts with enclosed thumb tip. I was going to sell them on Ebay next week. They are made to the same pattern as the ones in the link below. VERY light!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MESE:IT

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Gauntlets
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2267050412
Bazubands
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2267051874
Gorgets
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2267045422
Spaulders
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2267046538
Bid high and bid often, of course, ....buy it now is good.

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After being married 23 years it would definitely be cheaper to keep the wife. By the time the lawyers got through with me I'd be living in a studio apartment, walking to work,giving her half my paycheck and eating shredded cardboard and milk. Not that she wouldn't deserve everything for putting up w...

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I picked this steel up from Frigo design on Ebay. They're in Syracuse NY. They still have a skid of 20 thou stainless and 50 thou AL in case anyone is interested. Very nice clean metal. Anyway, Mike F if you have info on the desicant box I'd like to see it. I have to pick up my metal Monday and don'...

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I just purchase 2000 pounds of 18 gauge cold rolled in sizes ranging from 2X2 to 2X 5 feet long. I'm going to have to build a plywood storage container out behind the shop for this. My question, Do you think the storage container should be totally closed off to the environment or would it be better ...

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I've got a half finished Coppergate that I plan to work on next week. It's sized for my 23 1/2 inch head with an inch of padding. If it's something you might be interested in I'll provide a link to the pic when it's done. I've got a pile of little projects to get to first though.

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Wil, thats exactly what I'm looking for. You say Queens street? I'll see if I can steer my family that way for a little bit. I still need some madder red wool for my kit.

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Lets not be hasty here! How about the fact that the are dishing or work hardening the breastplate using a nearly flat anvil. Perhaps there is a technique here worth exploring. Carefully working the piece all over like this would both planish and harden at the same time,...right? One tool to do two p...

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Ron, thats a great idea, I have a sports shop just down the street that sells boy scout equipment.

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Matthew, I've just spent the last week printing out every page on your site to bind into a book (for my personal use) to help me build my kit.

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Going to Toronto next weekend with the family, is there anything armour or leatherworking related that I should buy there that I can't get in the lovely city of Rochester NY?

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Does anyone have any favorite leather working sites that give tips on cutting, different stitches, tricks etc. that might benefit a leather noob such as myself? I'm working on my personal late first century Roman kit and don't want to embarrass myself by having my kit fall apart and/or look crappy.

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I do some like the leather ones above, but in steel. I will be listing them on ebay either tonight or tomorrow.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2257853144

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Cat spectacles or cat glasses?

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Pictures!!

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I have a bent railroad spike welded to a piece of pipe and ground into a ball for those hard to reach places. Then again you could just put that last rivet in from the inside and after peening, dress it up real pretty with your small ballpeen. Most people won't even notice.

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The drip idea is excellent. I seem to recall something about this from my Woodright shop books. I think I need to break them out for a look. Even if my son doesn't use it much it will look great in front of my shop.

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My son wants to use it in his sword making experiments. I'm thinking about putting a tray of water under the wheel to keep it wet to cut down on the dust and keep the blade metal cool.

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Look what we got at a flee market today and get this, 35 bucks!
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/j ... dstone.jpg

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Just a reminder, tomorrow is the get together. If you might be interested, see the first post in this topic.

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Those laces will stretch a little as you use the armour also.

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Those clips are horrendously expensive also when you figure out how many you need.

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I'm looking for a 1 inch leather hole punch, the kind that has a truncated cone head and is hammered into the material, hopefully cheap. Anyone got an extra one laying around they want to sell. I can get a new one for $28 bucks but have only a limited use for it and would rather get a second hand on...

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The trepanning tool sounds a lot like a large tile hole cutter. I have a 1 inch tile hole cutter, I wonder how that would work, anyone tried something like that before?

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I need to cut a large number of 1 inch diameter discs from .010 brass. Any idea how to approach this. Shears will only create irregular shaped discs. I lack a punch large enough to do this. Thoughts anyone? I'm toying with the idea of grinding a old socket but I'm hoping for a niftier idea. Thanks.

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Hello, I'm looking for white and madder red wool fabric suitable for early tunics, does anyone have a favorite source. Any idea how much per yard this will set me back?

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Anvilfire.com has lots of info on anvils and Centaur Forge sells good ones for a reasonable price.

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Rob, Welcome. A couple of years ago I made myself a sling, man do I suck at slinging. Maybe you can give me a few pointers sometime. I spent a week making it too. Used to throw tennisballs filled with water around the yard, and I mean around the yard.

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Actually we think of ourselves as western NY but everyone else thinks of us as upstate . Everyone is welcome that is willing to put in a little effort into their kit. A slinger would be most welcome. Please, anyone interested join the list and intro yourself. Plent of room for everyone whether milit...

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If you are , take a look at the link below. Thr more the merrier.

http://p200.ezboard.com/fromanarmytalkf ... 1180.topic

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Man! Last I looked a plasma cutter was $1000 dollars!

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What formula do you use to size a blank to a given head size? How much of the blank size is lost in the raising? I'm seriously thinking of trying this.

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My problem is I can roll by hand but I usually put enough marks and dings in the roll it looks like crap and takes a s*** load of time to clean up into something I would even consider selling. (Long sentence) Any tips on ding and mark avoidance or even faster cleanup?

aluminum gauntlets

aluminum gauntlets

Selling a lot of stuff on Ebay!

lots of metal

Storage For Big Pile of Steel?

Toronto!

Favorite Leather Technique Websites?

steel gauntlets

You won't believe this!

Looking for a ! inch Leather hole punch

tile hole saws

cutting perfect round .010 brass discs?

wool fabric for tunics?

Interested in Roman Reenactment in Upstate NY?