The Armour Archive

Arland

The problem is, that the titanium doesnâ€™t hammer real well when itâ€™s not red hot. You can slowly force it into shape though. I figured with a slip roller you could crank it though with a difference on each end. Like the left having a bigger gap than the right.

Arland

Well if anyone has access to a slip a roller I need some help. Iâ€™ve a got a coronet that Iâ€™m trying to make out of 18ga titanium. Iâ€™ve got the pieces I just need them rolled. Rolled at angle so they flair out. Anyone?

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What shape should the brim on a kettle helm be? Overall round or oval with the shape of a head?

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The way Iâ€™ve always tried to look at new people buying armor is that no one is rich beyond their wildest dreams. In order to buy a set of armor you need to invest some serious cash. That being said, unless youâ€™re buying plastic armor and a spun top helm, itâ€™s not going to be cheap. I always te...

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Thanks for the link.

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I know the problem your having. I also know that bringing it up in the Outlands is just about a waste of time. Some people listen and most of them ignore it. You see people with any form of armor out there, with anything else they want. From Gothic with a Vendel helm to an Eldar with a mohawk.

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A spot welder will work, you can find them most places. Youâ€™re better off looking around before you buy one. As the prices range from â€œcheapâ€

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Does anyone have a good pattern on how to make a segmented and angled coronet? I'm going to try and make myself a nice one to go drinking in and I don't want to cut more titanium up without a good pattern. I found in place in town that will gold plate it a decent price. Put some silver "pearls" on i...

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I donâ€™t see the Indian armor even competing with American armor. Well except for the stuff Steve gets. All itâ€™s do is filling in the niches of off the self armor. What does that do to the American Armorer? Well if he makes off the shelf armor it hurts his business if he does that mail order. If ...

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You know there canâ€™t be that many Mavirikiâ€™s in Cheyenne WY. If I had known you worked on armor I would have asked you this weekend. Oh well. Do you have Duke Olafâ€™s email address? Iâ€™m trying to get a hold of him about those welded maille shirts. ------------------ Baron Arland the Bastard m

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Iâ€™m not trying for a mirrow polish on it. I just want to get the marks out and put a basic finish on the helmet.

Thanks for you help, Iâ€™ll head by Harbor Freight tonight and see what they got in stock.

Hopefully on Friday I can head out to the scrap yard and get some thicker gauge aluminum.

Arland

Polishing Aluminum and finding flap sanders After recently dishing out part of an aluminum helm and trying to sand and polish it, Iâ€™ve noticed that I canâ€™t go from a 60 grit flap sander disk to an emery polish with a muslin wheel. It just makes the aluminum skidder around and look bad. Iâ€™ve fo...

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Is this a munitions grade helmet weâ€™re talking about? Or a really nice one? Considering how deep of scratches that put on your helm, Iâ€™d either suggest a sanding/buffing, not to worry about it, or sand by hand. I say that for a few reasons. If the scratches arenâ€™t that bad, youâ€™re work may b...

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A friend of mine uses a B-1 shear for all of his cutting to include 16ga titanium and 14 ga Stainless. In the last year heâ€™s not re-sharpened the blades.

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Iâ€™d feel comfortable waiting for long as I was originally quoted.

Iâ€™d fell comfortable as long as my emails went through and I was contacted monthly or if the wait list on the armorerâ€™s web was updated at least monthly.

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You can pick it up a scrap yard. Typical steel goes for 19 cents a pound.

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That site is just bad for ripping things off. One year we had to pull security there because a whole box of nice pewter tableware went missing.

Donâ€™t camp near the woods.

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Iâ€™ll see him tonight and let him know you liked them.

Arquelle is in Pueblo, CO. Right down the road from the Barony of Dragonspine, Colorado Springs, CO.

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Hmmm, well nevermind then. If you can get them in cotton let me know.

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Iâ€™m interested. I put me down for 5.
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http://www.isd.net/cdavis/images/charles_vi_arm.jpg

Have a look at this picture.

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Also if you look on Master Cadâ€™s site heâ€™s got a picture of the Black Prince arm. Done with just the vambrace and elbow cop.

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Sure it can. It does look to be part body armor.

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And what price range are we talking here?

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My wife asked me if it really sounds like that when you fart in armor.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1739202771

Buy now for $100.

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Wasnâ€™t the sword that was used also an extra beefy one? That it wasnâ€™t your typical katana?

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Period as in a 12-16 mild steel center seam welded piece of armor? Or period as in stainless steel? Or maybe a 18ga aluminum kettle helm? LOL what ever makes it look better.

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Again, thanks for the help on this.

Iâ€™ll go out and look for a big chisel when I get a chance. I need to try using the wire, too.

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The metal in question is dead soft 18ga aluminum.

Ralph, Iâ€™m going to try the metal fork thing. That sounds like the best way or at least the easiest way.

The chisel, do you mean shape it as a round chisel like a coin edge? Or a round chisel like a maille ring?

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What the article doesnâ€™t address is how to do a roll on a curved edge. When I start the curve with a 1/4in chisel it comes out like crap. Anything larger and itâ€™s not round.

If it was just a small round corner I think I could pull it off. But this is a large brim for a kettle helm.

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Ok this weekend I tried to roll a round edge and came with results ranging from pathetic to really bad. How is that you roll a round edge? I know I need a round chisel, but what else? Any advice on how to go about it? Iâ€™ve read most if not all of the recent posts on this, but still canâ€™t seem to...

Kettle brim shape

Is this shear worth the money? Need fast

Polishing Aluminum and finding flap sanders

Shear on Ebay cheap.

Rolling an round edge, how to?