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Mykaru

The Jingasa available are smalls. $130 plus shipping, please bear in mind that I AM overseas.

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*bump*

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Really?

I DO still feel most SCA coppes are too big. Mine are smaller than correct for this though.

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Here are the 14th century legs I just completed. (For sale, see the classifieds board).
[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/mykaru/14thfrontn.jpg[/img]

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My interpretation of 14th century legs. 15 ga, stainless coppes, 17 ga. stainless on the balance. Note the nice tulip shape of the cuisses. These should fit someone 5'7-5'9 roughly 175 lbs. Price is $450 + shipping. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/mykaru/14thfronta.jpg also links to larger pic...

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Ray,

No website yet, but if you run a search, I'm sure you'll find something.

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IIRC, Ugo posted pics of a sallet with the bevor attached a while back. Search should turn it up.

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Eff's helm is coming along nicely.

No, Eff you may NOT deduct the cost of the keyboard you just ruined.

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The problem is simple. The ratio is the same as for the picture. Unfortunately, that ratio is appropriate for someone 4'11.

Run a search for suneate and look at the ones I did for Guillaume. Same style but for a modern person.

Mykaru

Win the lottery, then make armour when money isn't important. Actually, read the link JT posted, then read it again. Everybody loves your work AND offers to buy it if you'll go into business. Unfortunately they want to BUY it at Walmart prices while you work at less than a 1/4 of what you'd make at ...

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They are bent over the anvil horn and rough dished into either my lead block or my pitch. Final shaping is raising on my big T-stake then rolling the suji.

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The tool is a broken drill bit ground down to a chisel point. As for the color, rust and color shift from heating to normalize it (torch). It will be sand-blasted and powdercoated.

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Well it's coming along... slowly. But as THIS one is for Eff, I certainly don't want to rush it. Note: the ribs will be filed down a bit before it's finished. I made them higher than I want so they can be filed uniformly when the top is done. Anyway here is the top before welding, koshimaki or mabiz...

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It looks interesting. One suggestion. The inside piece is always short (about the length of the calf muscle only). It doesn't extend down to the ankle. The outside piece should be wider however.

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Eff, I've always done western as well. The onion is a piece of junk I decided to rework practicing shrinking and raising techniques. It WAS an extremely bad high point that I was considering junking. It's actually coming along nicely. I should have the top on yours finished sometime next week. Are y...

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All four are spoken for.

Matt Stanley
Don Frazier
Toastygawa
Adam

I'll start another run after I finish the current queue (Eff's hat, an onion top bascinet, 2 sendai dou, 1 Ogekawa munitions dou, my nuinobe dou.)

Mykaru

Actually, I HAD forgotten about you.

But I will be taking 4 tomorrow, so I still have 1 available.

Mykaru

I am taking 3 large jingasa to the powder-coater's Tuesday. 2 are already spoken for but the third isn't. If you are strongly interested in said helmet please contact me soon so I can make a color determination before they go.

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Guillaume,

Nice haidate. I had wondered why I hadn't heard from you about a set. Now I know.

Good work btw.

Mykaru

If you think there aren't armourers in that part of the world perhaps you aren't looking hard enough. There are a few right here on the archive.

Mykaru

Did somebody call?? Your Grace. There are some very good pics (better than I took) of a pair of my kote in May's AOTM. Here are some other pieces: m m m I'm working on a webpage but haven't decided on where to host it yet. I might talk to JT about using my Archive storage space. (not having a webpag...

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Well I don't ONLY do Japanese so I thought I'd post pics of one of the other projects. 14th century legs based on this pair. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/mykaru/LEGS.JPG I don't like the 3/4 greaves however so I haven't decided on a demi, 3/4 or full greaves. http://home.armourarchive.org/m...

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The title says it all. Specifically rear views if possible. I am most interested in rear cuisse plates (wrap plates). Altar pieces, illustrations? (Effigies unfortunately aren't much help).

I am working hard to raise the level of my work. I need more reference, however.

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*Bump*

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Dalewyn,

here's that side pic.

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Alcy,

Translated an ogekawa 2-piece dou with decorative scallops on the top.

(yokohagi is actually pretty redundant. Unless a tatehagi was specified, yokohagi is assumed)

Mykaru

It works out to about 13 ga. I'll shoot and upload a side pic tomorrow.

Mykaru

I have 3 Jingasa available. 1 red and 2 black. They are all smalls ( 22.5 or less ). All are constructed of 2mm mild steel and powdercoated. Cost is $130 plus shipping. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/mykaru/SmJin.jpg Note I will have mediums and larges available in about 3 weeks.

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Ray, I know you've been studying hard and have learned alot since this one was made. The 1 thing I would do with *this* suit to improve the appearance is.. ..(deep breath) re-lace. Anything other than that, you are better off starting a new one, but re-lacing with a wider flat braid would really imp...

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Mike, Good start. As Eff said the glaring point now is the leading edge of the dorsal plate. The front center is right where it should be, so when you trim the corners it should be just right. *I* would work the dorsal plate over my stake a little more for more of an arc (side to side). Fitting the ...

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Hmm, most of the chain did look butted, however I believe Liam's WAS rivitted and flat ring. Guess I'll just have to go see it again. (slightly off topic) I may watch the History vs. hollywood segment on my Last Samurai DVD tonight. I should wait for my wife to come home first..... I might die of ap...

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Ok here are links to the prototype after powder coating. They messed up. It was SUPPOSED to be sandblasted before coating. I'm currently having it redone, but I was anxious to get some pics up so.....

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/m ... laJin1.JPG

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/m ... lajin3.JPG

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Not bad Mike. The profile works. NOW you want to roll or at least flare the edges on the muneita etc. 20 ga. without lips or rolls will cut you to pieces. Do EVERYTHING you want to do before the heat treat. Every hole needs to be drilled (otherwise those nice cobalt bits will last about 3 holes). Vi...

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It's a zunari ( a hineno zunari to be exact) but it's not mine. It was built for Guillaume. The nose and eye areas are rod. The rest is 2mm steel. the pictures posted by Otagiri-san are much better. The first is a Hineno zunari, the second an Etchu zunari. This is a different one with better lightin...

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There are slight gaps behind the mabizashi. It is hammered down to touch the lower plates. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/mykaru/ZunBIn.jpg *Sorry for the poor quality of the pic I didn't own a digital camera at the time* As for metal. for SCA combat you should not go below 14ga. in mild stee...

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