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Konstantin the Red

It's as if the visor were supposed to swing up to and stop on the brow, and not to swing above the very tall summit of the helmet. That point is broken away, but reasonably extrapolated as rising an inch or two yet. Suppose the visor might be intended as a shovel-face visor? The curvatures to those ...

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Enisey = Yenisei. Same same; Russian E is iotized as is typical of close to half of Russian's vowels, 5 pure vowels and 5 iotized, and a "yeh" sound is the regular E. The letter that looks like a reversed Euro sign is "eh," and less common -- higher russkiy Skrebl letter value too. Only fair, da? Ye...

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The yellow pitchur above is from Age of Armour. Here is more: http://ageofarmour.com/education/index.html In the 16th-c. gorget gallery, front is to the right in this profile pic. Seek out also Eric Dubé videos. Here's one on sallet-bashing. https://vimeo.com/85219807 Eric is very well thought of.

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Neat-o. Can we see the pic too? Might be fun.

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Building barrelhelms is pretty thoroughly illustrated on the Net, though only occasionally step by step. What may be achieved I'll try to organize here. Barrel helms may be of as many as five plates basically, or as few as three. Here is a Kirby Wise 3-plate somebody had on auction a few years ago. ...

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And so, you're somewhere in the Woodlands of the Kingdom of Northshield, whose SCA chapters are fairly regularly distributed from Inner Sea and Darkstone in the north to Caer Anberth Mawr and Jaravellir in the south. You ought to be able to find both stimulating minds and playmates easily enough, si...

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For the above, read Raymond's Quiet Press . Paul Blackwell's PDF you may as well download; it's free and an excellent basic ref, designed to be simple for the kid who never took shop, but gives you something of the sort of shapes that make middlin' quality SCA harness, from the neck down as I recall...

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Indeed. I would expect to see drifting, not boring. Lots more smiths than machinists then.

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Three pages on the first go-round at barrelhelm building. As well equipped as you're starting out, you could tackle helms very soon.

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I indeed didn't say helmet, that is far beyond my skillset (for now :D ) D'you know, I wouldn't fret too much about helmets being beyond. They're actually not. Because there are about a double heptad of workarounds and they're all effective. At SCA weights of metal -- so, 14ga to 12ga, either mild ...

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If you weld, you can weld a temporary handle on the piece. Remove and grind smooth again when you're done.

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He didn't say helmet, so I don't know exactly what we'll see...

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Pester us with questions, Frogtizzle; we're here to be bothered and we like to talk.

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First, welcome and well come! You're in the right place. Short answer: Apprenticeship the way you're thinking so far, unlikely to hell-no. Longer answer: Mighty goddamn few of us did apprentice. It tends to be too hard on the guy with the shop you want to apprentice at, and gets his tools and equipm...

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I suppose you're asking because you have a quantity of strips (or sheet) of 16ga (.059") 310 stainless lying about the shop? If you've material yet to get before you start, I'd go for heavier in the woven helmet bits too. Even doing spotwelds or rivets on each crossover in 16ga strips would have me ...

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Neesayer told me he is doing a late 12th-c. harness, w/visible mail and tunic beneath it, hiding his anachronisms. He's laid hold of an aventail already, and has a new helm on the way. So I'd expect it's a pot that is styled like a 3/4 helm, a skull and a faceplate/ventail, w/concealed nape. Saltsha...

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Dinggoo wrote:Are these still for sale?

Welcome over here, too, Dinggoo. Any chance you might now tackle making a pair yourself?

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Dinggoo wrote:Looks very nice. I'd love to get a one of these.

Welcome and well come to our buzzy little hive, Dinggoo.

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You can get along with three and a quarter inches overage and stay Lists legal, but there's not a lot of difference between this and four. By that standard, that helmet would fit a size 6 1/2 hat size head, and you take a 7 1/2. http://www.villagehatshop.com/content/38/how-to-determine-your-hat-size...

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How's the price of hempen canvas? Finally did that moment's googling: Hemp Traders offers a range of about twice to thrice the price per yard of cottons, various weights. http://www.hemptraders.com/category-s/1903.htm The cheaper end is comparable to good woolens. Not quite as tough as I'd expected.

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...And the bartender looks up and says, "Hey! Is this a joke?"

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Wolf wrote:two brits and a jap walk into a bar.......

due to the Geneva convention, I had to remove pictures of the scary soldier as to not to frighten the women and childen

"Oww."
"Damn!"
"Kusu!"

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Will Phillips wrote:Helpful info here, guys.

What's going to be the most low-profile material option for vambraces? Kydex? Steel?

How about glue and canvas laminate, formed to your forearm? (It's like making something in papier-maché.) Low profile generally means fitting your personal contours closely.

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Some particular drying method perhaps? Like, not nailing it to a last when drying it off after a tooling, but just let the whole piece move where and as it will?

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The pair of holes at the extreme elbow end suggest suspension points to a sleeve beneath. The piece would need something like that to hold it up off the ulnar bump positively. A lining of light suede or other rough finish leather glued in with Barge, or nappy cloth with the lay of the nap pointing d...

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Does anyone have a simple vambrace pattern for leather I could use? My vambraces are on their last legs so might need to build some new ones pretty soon here. Wot they sed about prototyping it around your arm. First attempt in fairly heavy paper -- paper bag is good; next, a more finalized try in 1...

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At least try to grind it, if you see that the damage is too extended and deep you can always scrap it, otherwise you can cover it with leather and sell it ... even in the gold ages they did those things. ;) An illustration -- as really this entire thread is -- of "We spend metal to buy knowledge." ...

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I'm also new here and I'm looking forward to learn from you guys about armour. Then welcome and well come! This is the place. We confine all our internecine fighting to the Political Conversations forum -- primarily US politics, with considerable international chatter on wars, alarums, excursions, ...

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What we know is the leather shouldn't reach 100C internally, that 167F + damp does the trick and we need no more. For our SI correspondents, aim for 76-82 Celsius. I don't think even back in the day the water in the kettle was at full boil, for it's too easy for the process to be suddenly overdone, ...

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The thing about extensive use of foam is foam is an insulator, and an efficient one. "Foam/pad the crap out of the helmet itself" is likely with foam to mean your head will gently poach in summer fighting in its own heat. In a bad case of that, it will addle you. In a normal case, you'll have to tak...

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What's the source for impregnation hardening using rabbit-hide glue?

Having established the source, should it not be read as a variation on hot-water-bath hardening in any event?

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Moving into find-solution mode -- spauds can dish into a packed sandbag sufficiently, and they are a small and manageable project. Remember too the split head rawhide face hammer. The method will deliver any depth of 3-D curve you could want. Well-fitting mitten gaunts are tougher. In gauntlets, wha...

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Interesting. Very interesting. Does the MS have a dating, and how tight is it? 1310 w/5 years either way? More like 1320? 1330?

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Do you know of a way to get attention? Is there an LFF function to this forum or the SCA site? The SCA site makes me... Hesitant. I usually end up talking to matriarchs that actually believe they are royalty. You may be a lot more sensitive to that than I am. I'd just tune that part of it out and i...

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