The Armour Archive

Dwarlock

Harold don't feel bad, everyone here is learning, I've been here since the beginning, and every day I come here I learn more. Ocationaly I'm lucky enough to be able to help someone, or correct a misconception, sometimes I unintentionaly misinform someone and get corrected myself. While I do like hel...

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I can't tell without looking at the the rolls, (and perhaps not even then) but as a wild guess combined with the fact that it looks almost sorta like somthing I once saw when I was realy young. Could it be for making wire? or for shaping wire? half round square, etc? I'll print off these pics and as...

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oops that should have been anneal before heating and quenching. quenching a cold annealed sword would insure it not warping, but wouldn't do much in the way of hardening. Yep scrap steel can be fun, I've gotten everything fron nicely spiraled blades (they look nice but not even vaguely swordlike) to...

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It also seems to help if you make sure it's fully annealed before quenching. I've seen a lot of swords, even those not differential tempered warp badly if this isn't done.

note if case hardened since you are not going to quench the sword annealing isn't needed.

Dwarlock

Cap'n Atli, I've got #12, a very good artical, I keep thinking someday I'll build one in my back yard... The complete Anachronist back issues are still avalible from the sca marketplace at roughly $3 per issue, and is still published bimonthly. [This message has been edited by Dwarlock (edited 02-01...

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Glen I'm afraid you simply arn't heavy enough.

However It is a good price, and having bought/traded things with Glen before, he is actualy very easy to deal with. Unless of course, you sell him a battle ready sword that can be tied into a knot.

Dwarlock

sounds about right to me. 16 gauge stainless is a bit tough to bunch with a stock HF punch, like gundo mentioned the side peices can open, additionaly the bolt bt the side peices will bend slightly making it tougher and tougher to punch, you'll end up adjusting the lower screw up higher and higher. ...

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I get my stainless scrap also, it runs about 40-80 cents a pound depending on type. luckaly the guy at the scrap yard I go to knows what type is what. The least expensive I get is 305 series stainless and is fullly hardened,(that's why it's cheap, not a lot of people want hardened steel scrap) great...

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well take me off the possable list. I just generated several thousand dollars of medical bills. I won't be buying any new armour for a while, no matter how good a deal it is.

Dwarlock

you bastard, do you know how many things I have on my "to print out list"?!!!? sigh now I have to add another.

nice work however.

Dwarlock

bigger than my first one. And I did a lot of good work there. The biggest problem with small workspace is that you spend more time taking out and putting away tools than you spend making armour.

Dwarlock

sigh Havn't checked the finances yet, however

BUMP

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I'll try to shoot you an e-mail tomarrow, Gotta check and see what big bills are comming up soon.

Dwarlock

Pictures to be posted soon, as well as answers to the many e-mails this has generated.

Dwarlock

If you'll use the band saw for wood as well, by all means go for the band saw. When I first started I concidered one, but needing it only for metal I then started looking at cheap plasma cutters (runs about the same as a good band saw) and then the guy at the store convinced me to get a less than ch...

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the biggest advantage for me of the shear over the jigsaw, is that it doesn't drive me friggin nuts.

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yes that is quite nice.

Dwarlock

Ok here's the deal, I'm offering up one commision slot, with the completion date of april 3 2003. This slot will be only for work in the price range of $100,000 to $250,000 usd. Any material costs over and above $2000 usd will be paid by customer. This commision slot can be filled by either one peic...

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no throatless shear but they do make a very heavy set of hand shears that can be put in a vice, and put a long handle on them at they work great.

gotta love that lifetime replacement

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a padded coif will work sometimes, It depends on who's inspecting it. Everyone has a differnt opinion.

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yep the hole is it.

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sigh, good thing I have the plasma cutter and the hf shear then,

oh well

Dwarlock

nice very nice.
However I'm wondering How welldo you like your spring winder? What did it cost, and would you recomend one? I've been concidering one for a while, but keep putting it off because my home made thing works reasonably well.

once again very nice.

Dwarlock

Actualy the complete kit they mention is set at that exact price on their website. Yep it cuts plastic prety well if you have a sheet of steel under it. If you dan't use the steel the auto spark wears down the consumables prety quick, and cut quality goes down big time. Sigh I burned out a full set ...

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Just wanted to bump this back up to the top, it was in danger of falling off.

So am I completely nuts to think that the pic I posted might be ringmail?

(in just kidding mode)
Come on guys I've got almost 3 miles of 9 gauge wire what am I supposed to do with it...

Dwarlock

not a bad price, too bad they don't make a complete system with the powermax 350 I own... Still I've concidered one of those tables, just think set up your patterns on the computer, and they are all cut in minutes. or making 2000 scale plates with holes already cut in 10 minutes. If someone has mone...

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Don't know how the quality is, I'm hopeing for better than Norman reported, but I just ordered the first shear, I've already got a hf fake b1 and a good plasma cutter so I won't be hurt if it doesn't work, But for the price I just couldn't not order it, with the hope that it will do somthing that th...

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very nice, very nice Indeed, This is what's great about the archive. Someone posts a question, Someone else (me in this case) posts somewhat iffy information, and several people pop in to correct me and educate me. The origional poster gets his question answered fairly well, I learn something, and I...

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White mountain, ahhh, well I suspect the dishing is fine then, It's just a trick of the camera.

Still nice stuff and well done.

Dwarlock

I'd be interested in 1 or 2 of each, If a deal does occure.

Dwarlock

Roofing tin is used at the edge of a roof it slides under the shingle and bends down into the rain gutter. It is also used in places that get a lot of water on a roof (corners & such). almost any hardware store should have it. It should be sold in a roll, and be fairly cheap. (note they make this ti...

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I owm the pig face, and the other helms are made by the same company, the pig face I have is 18 gauge, however I bought it as 16 gauge. All of the prices on those peices are higher than I generaly see those particular peices sell for. In particular the "SCA legal" Burgeont generaly sells for $90-$10...

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looks great, particualy for a first attempt, actualy looks good for a 5-6th attempt, one minor suggestion, and it's not a magor thing, and many armouring pros don't do this, but It looks like you might get slightly better proformance out of your arms if the lames that attach to the elbow were dished...

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I can't remember the title but ther is a book at amazon .com theat runs about $9 that has some great patterns for paper helms.

Dwarlock

sigh, with all of the armours that can be made out of plastic and look good. Brigs, jacks, lamalar (assuming a good color for the plastic or paint), scale (same assumption), CoP, etc....

oh well, can't say that I particularly care...

An amaizing deal from Dwarlock's armoury.