The Armour Archive

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Use an automotive trim or weather strip adhesive. preferably a 3M product

PS the battery in my caliper is dead so I don't have the rivet measurements -they are roughly 3/32.

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If I remember correctly Greadwynn was wearing a set of Mac's mittens at Aethelmark 12th night. Excellent gauntlets.

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It's definitely a puzzle I mean to take stab at over the next few months V, your welcome anytime.

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Virtue

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Thanks for the review Bentz. It was a fun project except the part where I sewed the mail onto the wrong side of the aventail band

Definitely post a pic with it on when you can, I'd love to see it worn

Cheers

Dave

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It's likely that in the circumstances described that the halberdiers would hack repeatedly until sure of their result and not singly but as near simultaneously as their opportunity would allow; several blows by several men at once with fear/hatred/adrenaline fueling them.

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Thanks Bentz, Hi Marcus, My Rough from the Hammer rounds welded and ground are $58 for 12ga mild or $88 for 14ga stainless. I do them to order so can make it to your head dimensions. contact me at my e-mail address for more details PS I had never seen John's price eon the cervellier pictured above b...

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No one is making wedge rivet stainless hauberks blackened or otherwise the material is too brittle.. Round riveted stainless are available Ice Falcons stainless pieces are blackish IIRC but not Darth Vader black

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How would you like 70 e-mails over a simple great-helm? I recently started tracking quantity of e-mails by customer in order to see where time was going. The record for a single order is 100+ Assuming an avg time of 5 min to read each e-mail ,and compose a response that comes to over 8hrs . Fortuna...

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I started my business with a miller 180 which is still the main MiG welder for the shop. For armour uses and some light fabrication it is a great machine and totally adequate for your use. IN 10 yrs the only non-consumable replacement has been one on/of switch which waqs maybe $25.00 IIRC. At this p...

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If it's HDPE. like pickle barrel, give up now there are no good glues for that. Check the bottom of the barrel it should have a lette code saying what sort of plastic it is.

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If you mean the lobe on the front plate which covers the ankle bone that is a common feature on English greaves see well into the 14th century/. Aside form the BP effigy it is present on: Ralph Neville, Hugh Caveley, Sir Robert Grushill, and Robert Lord Hungereford among others.

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Murdock has the right of it. If your leg harness is properly made, your knees never touch the poleyn

They may not touch the patella but they will touch the medial and lateral sides of the knee joint.

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Some of the chemicals in WD40 seem to breakdown the material in the scotch brite pads which helps form a slurry of abrasive and lubricant making for faster cutting and a more even finish. I usually use the green scotchbrite over a polished 120grit or finer finish.

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Cantonal Meuseum Valeria Castle in Sion Switzerland MV30-83

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That's the one- thanks!

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Anyone remember an old thread about a liquid rust remover endorsed by Navy among others?

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There's a roughly simialr set in the Cleveland Meuseum of Art (CMA 1916.1613). I may have some pics of others as well, I'll check.

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Love this helmet. Is the patina solely from the the tempering or did you go over it with anythng?

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Windrose does carry them in both stainless and brass but as of speaking to John last week they've had issues with their supplier and don't have any currently available - but call and check things may have changed. I've seen folks use cotter pins in a pinch- no peining just fold the ends in opposite ...

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Absence of rolling mills for steel, I'm sure someone can dig up a reference of the first rolling mills, some time in the 1700's? Randall ,makes the point I was getting at rather cryptically The study of how armories worked,not to mention the different divisions of labor and specialization of the who...

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The billet was the way it was done historically

Cite?

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I've tried it in a pinch and it seemed to work fine. IIRC Adam from Whit reMountain said that he prefers it as it gives him a hotter and flatter bead.

They've got to come up with some alternativeds given the current shortage of helium.

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Try going through Johannes at Windrose- he's local to Knuut and sees him fairly often.

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Mac doesn't make anything in Erie.

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If the opponent gets pissed off you have paid too high of a price

I think rather that if I get pissed off I've paid too high a price.

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All of my ball stakes are straight and I frequently curse them for it.

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I think I do somewhere- remind when you're at the shop next.

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Thanks Joseph! I'll be adding more and better pics- I tend to forget to snap any befor shipping stuff. I will be adding gauntlet pices to the Rough From the Hammer line of parts shortly along with articulated joints (you can articulate the current knee sand elbows but the new ones are redsigned for ...

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Thanks for the kind words- I look forward to seeing finished pics

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The only problem with that is that aluminum is closer to period than fiberglass and epoxy. Doesn't look as period, or as sexy for that matter.

I disagree. Cloth and glue is cloth and glue be it linnen and gesso or glass fiber and polyester ( or whatever resin V uses).

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Very nice! What are you planing for the lower legs?

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Not around here.

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How about we try and make Pennsic more medieval-

That's crazy talk

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Nice job Matt! Each one gets better than the last

Rust remover?