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Konstantin the Red

http://home.gwu.edu/~jhsy/tc-wife.jpg He's on the left :wink: . There are some more or less bad line-art copies about the Net, and I wouldn't trust them implicitly. At least one is mirror reversed. There are also versions of this pic about twice as big as the one above. I've had a silkscreened repr...

Konstantin the Red

Getting edges of lames/cops into the same curvatures -- and one nesting inside the other -- involves temporarily bolting them together and hammering the joined parts over a stake. A soft hammer is particularly useful in pushing metal layers neatly together.

Konstantin the Red

All I've got is what I already said here: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=180598&hilit=make+stake Medium carbon is good if you're sure you've got a piece of it -- buy new steel or spark-test your candidate pieces. Low carbon of course welds easier, though you should also b...

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Ulrich Halfdan Ulfsson wrote:Would this helmet work for this time period? Thanks for the book suggestions, I will be looking them up.

The 12th-century end of it, yeah. It would fade out whenever the Phrygian did elsewhere; the Germans kept up on armor fashion equipping noble young scions for the Baltic battles.

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Gerhard, that is mostly how I do it with one intermediary step added: transfer film. It has a matt side and a polished side; the matt side takes the pencil line or ink too and the glossy side contacts the cased leather. A stylus is then used to transfer the drawn design through the transfer sheet an...

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Good braies that don't droop or try and migrate out of your hosen tops and don't bite you about the waist are a joy, I gather.

This wasn't the issue with the article on the siege of Malta that we just ripped apart, was it?

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Welcome and well come, Alex4626, and Happy New Year. So, sounds like you are working on some arms and legs, right? For which group? If it's SCA or anything about that level of a)tech and b)hitting, Paul Blackwell's "How to make Armour" pdf is probably useful to you at least as a starting point. But ...

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Reason I don't want to raise my own- In SCA combat, I don't really trust my hands to make something to protect my head jello at this current time. :) We get this one from time to time. Those of us who have used a hat we built have found our worries way overblown. That said, having a central nervous...

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The top quality wooden ply shields we see now are of birch wood ply, which outperforms exterior-grade good-one-side pine. Inexpensive interior grade plywood, most would tell you not to even bother. The type of glue making the ply sandwich has some effect, and covering the whole front and back with f...

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Since I carve in cased leather, I always assumed the drag I'd feel after a little bit was from the edge getting corroded. The force levels in using this tool are low when carving cased leather, comparable to using a pencil. I have never observed a wrinkle in the leather grain either perpendicular or...

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Gothic and cusps go together like a horse and carriage.

Welcome and well come. Post pics!

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The thonging chisel you mention is not quite the tool for stitching, but for thong edging, teamed with your thongcutter tool. It's also an entirely modern type adornment, unknown in the middle ages. But thong in application other than edging is still at least structural! But your wheel, or pouncing ...

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Upping your game? Probably means getting particularly good with that swivel knife. If you've put steel blades in it, you should also have/make a strop which could be the classic strop or just some vege-tanned tacked onto a small board. Charge the strop with tripoli. Metal swivel knife blades run smo...

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Tobias Capwell has made a considerable study of "heroic style" armor as artistic marker for illustrating Ancient/Other/Wonder-tale/generally Exotic characters. He's dredged up some late-era samples in metalwork too, most especially romanesque lions' masks as a favorite, dramatic, emblematic motif. V...

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Afterwards, the Bedel sings, "One boy//Boy for sale//He's going cheap . . . Only seven guineas . . ."

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The thread lash (is that a thing? like necessary backlash in gears? what do they really call it in the trade?) on those pivot bolts must have way exceeded specs.

Of course, bolts come out...

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Hand-stoning some off that part of the lower blade where the yellow rectangle is may be easier than hogging metal out of the base casting, once you've seen to whether or not the hinge joint got tweaked and is out of perpendicular with the blades' cutline. The blade back is just straight there, right...

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"Hrolf-gaga, I think that's a small young monk you've got there and not a woman." "Really? Oh well, he came with this big golden jeweled cup, the cloth of gold with all the embroidery, and this pretty silver cross thing. All in a package. And I'd have to feed 'em, one or the other, anyway." "Somehow...

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That said, about any era style SCA harness can be built of about three thicknesses of sheet metal at most. Plus a few special-case modifications where a generally overlapping plan of scales/plates is followed, like a 15th-c. brigandine, where the metal used is thinner, and tempered -- keeps its all-...

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Find your local group. He done it. STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD. All right, gotta work at that yet. Go to every practice you can. Fight as much as you can. Wot S_K sed. There's every chance young J. Hilliard will make one heck of a fine SCAdian as he grows and matures. As with shop tools, so also wi...

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All the above. Joust Do It, baby. And go to events, to revels... and post revels. I met my wife in the SCA, and at a post-revel at that. Before her, one of my better lovers -- at an event. At the least, the Society is unparalleled as a dating pool for nerds of both sexes and apparently all orientati...

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Studying business and marketing will be profitable to you -- self-help, or class, or selling Cutco for a year, which amounts to a hands-on class. You're a year young yet to sign a contract of yourself -- our independent contractors are 18 and over -- but Cutco's marketing arm, Vector Marketing, will...

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Maybe I would if I could for sure...

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it's called SCABOMINATION, and run. It will eat your soul. Now, CTrumbore, how 'bout you deliver something more constructive, something more useful, than that, hm? We know what it is to be a fighting church mouse. Who the FUCK asked you? SEriously, KTR.. go fuck yourself. "It will never serve us il...

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You won't experience that at anything up to 1% C. Cast iron has more than 2%. There are red-short alloys... I think that's a matter of manganese content. These will crumble under the hammer at red heat and should be worked at orange-yellow or white. But simple steels won't play such tricks. Generall...

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Acrylic paints shouldn't be affected by Super-Shene once they dry thoroughly. Alcohol ink should be treated like a dye and I'm not sure I'd want to try it with a leather dye; I should think it would run. Useful in a graduated tinting/shading of the kind modern leatherworkers can do and I never heard...

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And you can enjoy watching Battle of the Nations. Bearing in mind those guys also have short fighting careers on the field before they've got too eroded, or their neurologist tells them they've taken enough head hit effects to start talking like Ozzy Osborne. Rattan fighters can last decades hammeri...

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The throat depth of a hand metal punch is not that much of an issue: nine holes in ten in armor pieces are within two inches of some edge of the metal piece being punched. The holes are done in seconds rather than a minute, are clean and finished. It's a good tool for plate-armor work. Don't scrimp ...

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Wood doesn't last well enough to give lots of extant examples, and shields were consumables in combat anyway, not much preserved. Art's good enough, really. Those will fight mostly like kites. You might give that modification of the heater, a crossbreed with some historical basis to it, the "bunny-r...

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Rebated Steel is your topic. Yes, there are such groups. They're not especially numerous, but the steel players here can name and give contacts for them. The realer the weaponry gets, the more fake the fighting, though, as they try to limit the force of the strikes and not cut down the membership. C...

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Sounds like a thing to look for is what your shield is doing as you strike with your sword. Somehow you are leaving a head-shot open by having your shield droop or drop a mere inch, and your opponents recognize your pattern and take a shot at your left temple by default. Don't play "counterweight" w...

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On the topic of cutting metal, anyone know of some good metal hole punches?? :) Yes. :) How big, and how much $? You can click Search on "Roper Whitney" who makes excellent hand/bench punches: portable, fairly portable, and hydraulic and huge, so not portable... The brand has a hyphen, but the Sear...

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Thanks much for the info and visuals! Also, wicked bat hammer ;) And in Pitbull's bench pics, do you see those hammers with the green heads and the tan faces? Those are Garland Mfg's split-heads with the rawhide faces. The first ones you'd want to get would be either the middle size (2-lb head I th...

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You'd really want something with more solidity than a stool, yes. Bang on it too much and the stool will start giving way and there's 75# nice new anvil headed for your toes. You don't have steeltoe boots yet... ? Pity the art-room floor. At this stage you won't be a lot the worse if you just set th...

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Everybody else who's spoken of blade gap here says 0.25-0.20 the metal's thickness is called for. Punching is very like shearing in this.

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