The Armour Archive

Arland

Iâ€™ll leave these rings on here until Friday, the 7th of June for the price of $200 with the buyer paying for shipping. I canâ€™t go any lower than that as Iâ€™m already taking a bite on the price of these rings.

Arland

Arland

Basically it crimping and what not all wrong when I try to roll the rounded edge. The item in question is the brim of a kettle helm.

Arland

Iâ€™ve got another question on rolling edges. How do I keep a round edge from folding and rolling? Iâ€™m just doing one fold on the edge and canâ€™t keep the thing from funking out.

Arland

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How about this hammer?

Arland

The more and more I try to find stuff here in Colorado, the more and more I realize how much I Colorado Springs. After searching Harbor Freight, Loweâ€™s, and Ace Hardware not one of them has a raw hide mallet (weighted or otherwise), a non marring mallet with removable heads or a domed dead blow ha...

Arland

The minimum Iâ€™m going to be able to sell these for is $200, shipping not included.

Arland

Arland

Those are exactly what I need. Iâ€™ll check around for one.

Arland

Thank you all for help on this. POD I did get the dishing form. Thanks. I have to do a bit of work on it first before it will though. The little words engraved on it, tend to mark the aluminum up. This week I'm planning on having it welded in so I can grind it smooth. Sasuke, I've got no idea what a...

Arland

Iâ€™ll try a better mallet or hammer when I get a chance to make one. Iâ€™ve a large ball peen hammer Iâ€™ve been thinking of cutting down to do dishing work with. The other option Iâ€™ve thought of using is the nylon side of a non-marring mallet. Putting it in my drill press and rounding it out som...

Arland

I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s up with tripod. You may need to copy the link and post it in a new browser. Sorry.

Arland

Ok this is my first real attempt at dishing. Off of the kettle helm pattern that one of you nice enough to upload for us. The metal is 18ga aluminum and pictured are my tools, dishing stump and what not. As you tell in the picture the dishing isnâ€™t deep enough for my liking. Not to mention that th...

Arland

Ok Iâ€™ve decided to entertain lower prices for these rings. I was asking $275 for all of the rings (new price is about $336 from ROSCO). There are roughly 28,000 rings. I have good quantity of ROSCO #6 rings for sale. The rings sell for about $60 for 5,000 rings (plus shipping). If you're not famil...

Arland

Iâ€™m just trying to figure what sort of deal $400 is for a 3/8 ID butted hauberk. Seems more like the going the price.

Arland

The ones I use are the short drill bits. That way you can apply lots of pressure with less fear of the bit breaking. The cobalt and tungsten carbide both seem to work well for stainless.

Arland

Do we know if the paid for items have been shipped?

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Arland

Brian Price has a good section in his book on how to make decretive washers.

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Arland

One idea came up from someone in our barony had an idea. What if you take and coat the inside of the metal with clay? Let the clay harden and then quench it metal side down into the water.

Any idea what that would do?

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Arland

Youâ€™re right, I should have remembered.

Drachenwald as much as I loved it, has caused me some issues in the last few months. Something like â€œhe said...she said...suck it up because we donâ€™t careâ€

Arland

Iâ€™m no where near able to reproduce something even as nice as you made.

Besides the etching the shown armor is just about perfect. I canâ€™t see anything wrong with it.

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Arland

That body armor with the articulated legs is almost exactly like a suit I saw in Germany up at a castle outside of Frankfurt, Germany. Itâ€™s the one they have the huge medieval market at every year. Canâ€™t remember the name, but itâ€™s got a Huge trebuchet and catapult out front of it. The only di...

Arland

The last time I was in Harbor Freight I took a ball peen hammer and gave their anvil a good hit. Nothing too hard or too soft. Basically what Iâ€™d use for a copper rivet. The hit left a good-sized dent in the anvil. If youâ€™re working steel, Iâ€™d suggest a chunk of railroad track. ---------------...

Arland

Pam cooking spray also works.

Arland

Ok let me organize my posts. But yes feel free to put this stuff up somewhere. Information from THL Buku I use 18 - 16 guage titanium. I cut it using my beverly shear (#1). I use a drill press to make holes. I tried using a whitney punch and it destroyed the punch bits very quickly. I dish it hot us...

Arland

I guess the top pattern didnâ€™t upload. The link didnâ€™t work and I canâ€™t find it on your file list.

Thanks for your help with the rest though.

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Arland

If you shoot it to me on an email I can up load it to my geocities site.

laughlyn@codenet.net

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Arland

One of the good gentles in out barony works with titanium on regular basis. I was surprised to find some information about titanium online. Though limited. The ways Iâ€™ve found to cut it are as follows. 1. Beverly shear. A beverly #1 (small one) seems to cut 16ga just fine. Even in 8in circle out o...

Arland

That helm is right up there with those â€œHigh Techsâ€

Arland

What size are they?
What do they look like?
What are they made of?

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Arland

Does anyone else want t throw a wrap shot into the back of that helmet?

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Arland

Thanks. I'll let you know how it turn out.

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Arland

I need a good pattern for kettle helm. I plan on making a couple of them. One, for my soon to be 3 year old son out of 18-20ga aluminum and one for myself. Does anyone have a good pattern for one? I check the archives and found no mention of them.

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Arland

Craig I think he means solid rings, not punched ones for riveting. You can use a hole punch to make solid rings. It takes 2 sets of punches and 2 dies. The Whitney number 5/ HF punch will do up to a 9/32. So itâ€™s not really an option unless you like tiny rings. Iâ€™ll use the example of the ones I...

Arland

It sounds like you dulled the punches.

Put the punch in a drill press and sharpen it by grinding it down until the edge is 90deg again. Donâ€™t grind the sides.

You can punch 4 holes with a HF punch in 18ga titanium before they give out. LOL

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Arland

Thatâ€™s the same method I use with all of the maille shirts Iâ€™ve made or bought.

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I need dishing help, pictures of problems

ROSCO 5/16th Stainless 14.5-15ga rings for sale

Good pattern for a kettle helm?