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Prince Of Darkmoor

Alrighty

I'm in the mood to read (not participate) in a flame war this morning, so I stopped over to the Adria War Room board and got my fill

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Where is the board located?

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Nope, haven't been able to break it yet. I will definitely let everyone know how much it took to break it when it does manage to snap though. It's deceptively strong!

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No, Templar Bob, I didn't make that one. But it does permeate my most sinful dreams...

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Is that not a beautiful helmet!?!?

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Let's see, all I need now is skill, clientele, and materials.

Hell, I'm halfway there!

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One of our guys actually has a nearly full set of perforated steel armour. It does not give the illusion of maille, except for maybe from 100 ft away. It has withstood many years of abuse and only has a small dent in one knee. It's really sturdy stuff. After cutting it and to make sure the edges of ...

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I rock

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Sarnac 54" is @ 137cm, so you would fit into a size 60/62 which has a maximum circumference of 175cm which is in the neighborhood of 64". You telling me that these dudes could make a welded maille hauberk for me that wore like a 5XL Shirt? And HOW much is this again? Could someone please forward th...

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The thing that still gets me about maille is that I pick up a ring and think, "this hardly weighs anything at all!" 40,000 rings later, I am thinking, "I can hardly move at all!"

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Is there any way for you to take pictures with more light? It was very difficult to see detail - or is that the idea? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif My suggestion for the eyeslots is to raise them over a stake. Brian Price shows the process in his book, but I realize that not everybody ha...

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Hmm, I've got a pistol crossbow with a 50lb pull on it...I wonder if its time for Armour Test II?

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Cool stuff! I'd love to learn how to make a persian weave.

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I can't believe no one's bid on it either. Yeah, I met him. He was commenting on this set of armour. He lives up in Fremont I believe which is a couple hours north of me. I'd love to pick his brain and watch him work though. You want to be amazed? [This message has been edited by Prince Of Darkmoor ...

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<font size="+3">You Kick ASS! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif </font> Thanks a lot! I was looking for those all night and was racking my brain! Anyone else have other sites where these are sold? Man, I would slaughter a small village for that set... [This message has been edited by Prince...

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I found a gorgeous set the other day online, but I can't find the site anymore! The stick had a blue and black handle on it (don't know if that helps) and the site selling them sold them for like $85. It's a quillon and pommel set. I'm also looking around, pricing different sets of quillons and pomm...

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I saw him up at Mission practice once. I was standing there in my leg armour with my torso stuff laying on the ground and Ugo walks past me and stops. He turns around, looks at me, picks up my torso piece, looks at me again. Feeling compelled to say something, I said, "it isn't SCA legal by any stre...

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Look in the pattern archive under Gothic Design Notes. You'll find a nice example there. It may be listed as Breastplate.

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I can rely on Sasha to critique my knowledge like I can rely on Gundo to critique my taste in jeans...

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It's disconserting, to say the least, to have your opponent suddenly disappear in teh fig... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/eek.gif Dude, if your eyesight is so bad that you're seeing people walking into giant figs, maybe it's time to fight WITH glasses http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif P...

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I was actually waiting for Sasha to come storming in and start yelling "THIS ISN'T HOW YOU DO IT, FILTHY YANKEE!" http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/tongue.gif But hey, if all he does is call me a "cad" I guess I'm no worse for wear.

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I realized after I wrote it that I didn't really elaborate on the use of the fork. I'm thinking about just deleting that part for now and working on an articulation essay. Lord knows there are lots of those out there, but I just like contributing http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif There, I t...

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It's not much. It might not be totally accurate. There are many ways to do this, but I decided to try to answer the newbie question: "How do I peen a rivet?" This has some simple pictures and explanation and just touches on the basics. Hope it helps someone. http://www.geocities.com/podpix/pein.html...

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First of all, what is the difference between blued and blackened maille? I am nearly finished with my hauberk (hooray!) and am thinking about bluing or blackening it because it looks cool and keeps the rust away temporarily. To do this, do I just need to let the shirt sit in vinegar to strip the gal...

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YES! That's the picture he sent. I thought it was really funny (no offense!), but appreciated it nonetheless. And I knew that there was an order ahead of mine; Matt kept me well up to date on my order. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I'm mostly done with my coif. I haven't worked on it in...

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I can also vouch for Matt's quality and customer service. I purchased a coif top from him a while ago. I think it took him longer than he normally would take because he had to answer my newbie questions too http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif When the coif top was done, Matt send me a digital...

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Yeah, I'm not figuring on getting anything of super quality here. Not for 15 bucks.

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http://grizzly.com/fcgi-bin/lookup.fcgi/products/lookup.cfg?q=item&kw=G8060 It's a cool set of generic planishing hammers with dollies. You get three hammers and four forming dollies for $15.00. I already have my set in the mail http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ------------------ Professi...

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Those are the wonderful folks who we had the flame war with in the War Room on the Adrian Board....

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One would think (as I tend to do at times) that you'd put them on the side of breasplate, parallel with your arm as it hangs down at your side.

Any professionals concur with me? Or have I lost my gourd?

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POD...the elbows and the lanes are from White Mountain Sorry can't say I have the tools or the place to dish Whew...and I was beginning to get jealous of your first dishing experiment! I wish I could get mine like that. I really like the CoP though - what size plates did you use? 16ga? Any specific...

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Krag's got a pretty good picture tutorial and patterns for a spagenhelm. Steelweaver has made a couple dozen, I think

http://homepages.go.com/~kragaxe/construction/helm.html

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Looks very good indeed. I especially like the quality of the elbow cop. That's become my latest obsession - fashioning nice elbow cops. Does the coat of plates line up properly in the back or is it just the picture that makes it look misaligned? Also, how comfortable is that when its under your armp...

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I just got an oxy tank bottom from a fantastic person (Hi Tom!) and plan on solving the ringing problem by drilling a hole in the sides of the tank and spraying that expanding foam crap inside it. It should deaden the ring quite a bit. I can speak for the effectiveness of an oxy tank in regards to d...

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Sorry D, no dice. If it was NEXT Tuesday, I could just make you a quick and dirty set this weekend and bring them up with me.

Looking at Quillons

My First Contribution Back to the Archive

Bluing Maille?

Feast Thy Eyes Upon This!