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Konstantin the Red

Yup, the vertical leathers. Their ends go down past the bottommost lame instead of stopping at it. Weren't you doing that already?

Konstantin the Red

Can you explain this "I can't" and "I won't" and "impossible" you are mentioning? I'm quite confused. No SCAdians. No hobbyists. Just me. . . . Creative Anachronists tend to concentrate in college towns and the large population centers. With people like these around, you don't have to labor alone. ...

Konstantin the Red

Konstantin, did you see the spaulder-type item Illusion sells? If I were to try to emulate 14th century wear, would you find it acceptable to rivet that onto a rerebrace? Have that integral, one-piece spaulderoid we see in the effigies, that you've mentioned here. Riveting the spaudleroid to the re...

Konstantin the Red

...Except from Walla Walla, Wash., and Moscow, Idaho. Road trip! -- which you'd be doing to get to events anyway, so... I think you ought to get off the "not possible" note in all things: it is what it is, and you'll just have to deal with it well enough to accomplish a solution and photos would be ...

Konstantin the Red

http://www.eplastics.com/polyethylene-adhesives-glue There are people who offer stuff to stick, tape, or weld HDPE together. http://www.tapplastics.com/product/repair_products/plastic_adhesives/tap_poly_weld_adhesive/435 http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/sg_plstc/overview/Loctite-Plastics-Bonding-Sy...

Konstantin the Red

As far as this post, and rivets, I believe the point is moot because these rivets don't need much strength. I might use some of those snap rivets because they look decent, and don't have any sharp edges if done correctly. Yeah, I figure jiffy- or speed-rivets, two piece and tubular, are okay for st...

Konstantin the Red

Likewise. Seems to be better now.

Konstantin the Red

Ernst, see also Ulrich de Werdt, +1346.

Konstantin the Red

Ernst wrote:What makes black jacks waterproof, and black?

Brewers' pitch. If cracked, it can be melted back together with a candle flame.

Konstantin the Red

Oh, you're in excellent shape toolwise. Especially with A small Ace Hardware At first I was going to laugh and say "A small Ace Hardware what? " and then... oh, he means, like, downtown -- available. Those guys have their whole company structure behind them, and can order things in for you -- more i...

Konstantin the Red

I plan to make a liner for a sallet from several layers of cotton terrycloth sewn together, put in pockets made from linen. Basically because I have it lying around. Anyone any thoughts on that? For a particularly ugly Low Countries winter, perhaps. I think I would save the linen to make an arming-...

Konstantin the Red

talaananthes wrote:How much improvement is the total bamboo over cotton/bamboo?

Believe it's cooler. They found a way to make rayon or something generally like it from bamboo.

Of course, some finely pleated layers of 100% linen would serve even better for a cooler head.

Konstantin the Red

Geographical note: Slippery Rock PA is on one side (north west) of Pennsic at Cooper's Lake; Butler PA (a smaller town I think) is on the other (southeast by east). Both are close by and are a short trip by car. Something well worth eating in either town is the "Philly cheese steak sandwich," a long...

Konstantin the Red

With rivets? Probably not; we put a *lot* of structural load on our rivets. We need solid shanks of steel or brass (about no one makes commercial bronze rivets in our sorts of sizes) and these call for upsetting the shanks with a ballpein to make the shop-head. Order by mail unless you live in eithe...

Konstantin the Red

Most of the artwork shows a thong holding the cop-pad to the bottom end of the cuisse, run through both pieces. The thong probably did not use a point-type knot anywhere; its ends may have been sewn down around the back of the knee, with cuisse, cop and pad all slid on at once. Its ends may have bee...

Konstantin the Red

Varnish or laquer would seal the hardened stuff. Not so useful if the leather actually should flex, where wax is more your friend. A wax coating is not the same as wax impregntion by soaking; don't be confused. Otherwise, a sufficient number of coats of wax, basically that another layer compensates ...

Konstantin the Red

It's a northern European word root, Ernst. The word is... damned old. From English in the west to Russian in the east, the B-R-N root signifies "armor." In every dictionary sense, too, including the tracklaying. (Vowels move around; consonants seem more fixed.)

Konstantin the Red

Yes, a hat for cool temps and another hat for hot, with sun. American SCAdians both men and women are noted for wearing very large straw sun-hats -- which are also available nearly anywhere. They may SCA-ify them up with ribbons and Society badges of one kind or another, from the "SCA w/Wreath" on up.

Konstantin the Red

It's kind of like planting citrus seeds. You end up having to wait around to see what sprouted. You could end up with grapefruits or with limes, and there's no way you can tell. You can't tighten polearms down, as you say, to the species level -- genus is about as tight as you go. The ingenuity of s...

Konstantin the Red

Okay, so Rus/Great Polish. No surprises there, eh?

So, hence, a fairly generi-hood liner for shape. Perhaps Eastern-Europeanized with a bit of ethnic decoration.

Konstantin the Red

For long-reined setting tongs, try reworking farriers' nippers and similar nipper tools.

I have a pair of these which I plan to rework: http://www.harborfreight.com/media/cata ... _17022.jpg

Konstantin the Red

Bhaiduk hasn't been back to this thread to tell us... maybe he's on a trip; the above post was his most recent. The previous day, 27 Aug, he was putting a helm up for sale, so presumably not that one.

Konstantin the Red

Considering there are four or five complete turns there, this seems more a job for two vises hanging on to either end, and tongs with a bridle for the middle of the twist.

Konstantin the Red

Sliders' slot lengths ran to seldom more than 4x the widths, and 3x is likely more practical for you. Mostly a hand metal punch is a good tool for the task, punching three slightly overlapping holes in a short row, OOO. If you haven't a chainsaw file, nibble the inbetweens out of there with two more...

Konstantin the Red

Yet Another Helmet Padding Q. 2012.

Helm Headache -- Common? 2011.

Best Helmet Liner Batting? 2011.

All on "headache" in Design & Construction. Definitely more the desired use of the word in a helm context than any metaphorical heaaches that are more Pains In The... elsewhere.

Konstantin the Red

Sounds like if you're shaping deep you should not work 301 cold. It isn't red-short or anything, is it?

Konstantin the Red

If you meant trace out the left side on your metal, then flip the pattern pieces over to trace out the right side, then yes. In the Pattern Archive I'm seeing Sinric's highly symmetrical patterns for 15th-c. arms (you'll want an Italian style spaudler or something too; that early in the century is e...

Konstantin the Red

So, next year, big one, 45 to be more specific. And me, Swedish student, somewhat of a beginner still . . . Third, lots of underwear and lots of linen shirts. I'm not saying pack 14-15 linen shirts, but at least enough so that they can air out or get handwashed often enough not to turn you into a s...

Konstantin the Red

I think Ernst's middle pic may not be of mail coifs at all -- but of the quilted arming coif beneath the mail coif, not presently on those depicted. See how far back on the sides of the heads they are, and how square they hang, with a perpendicular join at that headband? Note they do not hang like m...

Konstantin the Red

Myself, I know little, so caveat and all that. Modernly, I would use rattlecan spraypaint -- Rustoleum brand being the go-to -- inside, where scratches matter little. On the public side of things, a very light rub of nearly any oil does a lot. Since they didn't have spray paint back then, I figure t...

Konstantin the Red

What kind of helmet will you make with this breast & back?

Konstantin the Red

It's all good; particularly shelf arrangements that get things up off the floor. Even if you have to hang large projects up on pan hooks like so much cookware.

Konstantin the Red

Designing lightness into the staffweapon is always good; it becomes swift and nimble instead of over-heavy and logy. Wicked quick!

Konstantin the Red

Sounds time to make the foam spangen thinner -- more a last-ditch shock layer -- and go quilted linen between you and the thin spangen and steel. Some of it can be a linen coif of two or three light to lightish layers, both a bit of padding and as a launderable sweatcatcher, so have about three of t...

Konstantin the Red

How's the price of hempen canvas?

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