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Prince Of Darkmoor

FWIW, According to Steve Sheldon's FEA Analysis of the strength of butted rings (which is now on my favorites), 18ga 1/2" rings will deform sufficiently under only 8.9 pounds of force.

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Heh, this is only like my second post in this room in two years... Anyways, I want to make a sugarloaf like the one in the pattern archive, but I want to add an aventail to it to protect my neck against sticks, since that is how we score points in our group. What I'd like to know is (1) will it just...

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Before a dozen Archivers jump on you and say "it's not strong enough/it'll pull apart under its own weight/try ___ga instead" I thought I'd actually answer your question.

I think a quarter mile of wire should be sufficient.

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Very nice work Gundo! Can't wait to see the finished product.

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I think it would thin the metal too much unless you started with something really thick like 8 or 10 gauge...

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Any reasonably sized lead fishing weight will do the trick.

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And if you want some really, really solid stuff, I've got about 200lbs of 12ga mild annealed wire that we'll never use

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Fancy that. I was just looking for an 8' length of 3 or 4 inch diameter rattan...thanks for the leads folks.

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I've got a crapload of 14ga copper. It's very soft.

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Yeah, you can watch that rust take hold right before your eyes, can't you?

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Now, Euan, would you serve a white or red wine with baked armour a la vinegar?

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

That is just TOO FUNNY! Thanks for posting that. Now I won't be able to look at a fectbuch again without thinking of this...dammit...

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You're right, my analogy of the sun was quite off. I'm glad someone with a REAL IP background is here to clear these things up! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif To that end, what about slightly modified versions of the pattern, like what Stoffel did? And what about my many-times-revised pa...

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DAMN! And I just found out Uncle Sam owes me some money ...

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hmmm... care to distribute if the price is reasonable?

You know it! If I find it down there, I'm alerting the Archive and giving everyone the store's phone number.

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The best I can tell you is to picture the outer ring of a bullseye target. You're going to probably need a big leather circle with a hollow center. The center should be as big around as your helmet itself and the outer edge of the circle needs to be the point where you want the aventail to end.

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This is something I've been thinking about recently. Thanks for reading my mind Rainald! The way I see it, putting patterns up on the net is like putting up a photo essay, or any of the other essays the Archive hosts. They are there to help other people. On every pattern, JT has put "These Patterns ...

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I talked to my dad tonight about this and he brought up a very good point: We're going to Disneyland this weekend (fourth time for me in less than a year) and in Downtown Disney, the mall-like area between the parks, there is a GIANT LEGO store that has just about everything under the sun. You know ...

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Richard, something in your earlier post bothers me. You said that you hit people who wear the minimum (for lack of a better word, "sport fighters" - my words, not yours) armour in those unarmoured spots as hard as you would if they were armoured fully, right? This I can understand. You're not being ...

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Also, I don't know if it actually helps, but we always throw a sprinkling of rock salt into the vinegar. My dad says that it is to speed up the process, but I don't know any better and just go with what he says because it always seems to work.

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Very cool. I'm really starting to appreciate finger gauntlets more.

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We've always had great success with leaving the pieces overnight in vinegar, taking them out and wiping the crap away, then dunking them in water and drying each piece. Ask William of Almaden how well the mill scale came off his pieces that he left in the vinegar for a week http://www.armourarchive....

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Usually, just a 120 grit workout and a few moments on the buffing wheel brings the hammer back into good shape.

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If I may make a recommendation for cutters, the Wiss brand aviation snips, model M3 and M5, are ideal for cutting links. The produce butts like // and will last a while if you don't abuse them on lots of thick ring/small ID combinations. Yes, plastic sucks for a mandrel and steel definitely rules. H...

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Yah mon, I tot you waz sellin da blunts ya smoke!

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That's a great idea! It seems to take a lot of the grunt work out of dishing...

Okay, time to start gathering materials.

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Nice work! You better not show too many more pictures off or else you'll start picking up comissions for them

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I have to admit, I'm impressed with the picture of those gauntlets. The leather and brass rivets contrast nicely.

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Couldn't tell ya. It's such an odd market that it's really hard to predict what is going to sell well.

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Clay, what are you doin this weekend, a few of us are going to be in Capitola on Sat. for a day of Fiore, you wanna come? Dang! I'll be out of town. Okay, I'll be in Disneyland...again...my fourth time in less than a year. They must put something in the ...

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See, the beauty of our group is that the entire body is a legal target area

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This sounds to me like vanity talking. You're right, and I should have worded that sentence better. What I should have said is that if someone is purposely wearing less armour to fight because they feel they don't need it, then I take offense to that. In...

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Okay, you guys wanted a petty rant, here we go: So, I'm looking through the few pictures of muttman in his new gear (on the Armour board) and in the first couple of pictures he is fighting some guy with bare arms and seemingly bare thighs. My mouth started watering at the thought of stinging those l...

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Very nice. One day I will have a pair of those high boots...oh yes, they will be mine.

Aventail on a Sugarloaf?

The LEGO Blacksmith's shop

Unchivalrous to hit unarmoured spots?