The Armour Archive

Mad Matt

18ga mild is plenty for all but the coat of plates types that have very few plates with the plates being large. That said I'm making a wisby #7 from 19ga 1050 which I'll be heat treating.

Mad Matt

"ah, well....One should pick a style and revel in it."

Well written I could hear his voice as I read that part.

Mad Matt

I've got two pairs. Will fit up to about a size 12 foot. Just like the ones on my site but they're made from 19ga heat treated 410 stainless. $400/pair. These are in stock and ready to ship. Also have a couple pairs of splinted cuff spring stainless fingermittens that are near completion $1,200/pair.

Mad Matt

WOW can you tell i posted that with my phone and it autocorrected the hell out of it. I have a pair of spring stainless sabatons in stock. $400/pair

Mad Matt

I do have a pair of supporting stainless sandstone in stock

Mad Matt

I'm accepting orders for delivery in person at pennsic save the shipping cost. Also taking orders for regular shipping. Prices on my site are out of date so e-mail for a quote with what you want plus material and finish. I also work in 1050 and spring stainless. 50% down and the other half plus ship...

Mad Matt

Plate sets are finished I'll be getting a shipping price today or tomorrow. The instruction sets will be done maybe next week sometime. I have the following (this counts the already ordered ones) Small 40-46" chest 5 sets medium 46-52" chest 5 sets large 52-58" chest 5 sets. I've also got a small se...

Mad Matt

Just finished making the patterns for the plates. Will be doing the shell patterns and instructions after the plates are all ready to ship so that the kits can get shipped before the instruction set is finished

Mad Matt

I've got the steel. She's still in the hospital and yes she is my priority.

Mad Matt

Use a flap disk on an angle grinder to grind the weld down. Bench grinders are useless at that sort of thing.
I should take a pic of my 8 inch grinder next to the big one .

Mad Matt

No historical reference for them here. Covered faulds on the other hand are easy to find. They're easier to make than a regular fauld is too

Mad Matt

Spent the day in the hospital with my fiancé Soooooooo want able to pick up the steel. Hopefully get it tomorrow

Mad Matt

I'm doing #7 kits there will also be a finished one for sale it will be the example one. The kits are $65 not sure what the price on the finished one will be yet.

Mad Matt

Close the gap right tight. Weld it with a lot of little tacks. Its not too difficult it'd you've got your welder set right and you don't let the piece heat up too much.

Mad Matt

Picking up the steel tomorrow. Contemplating doing the instructions as a YouTube video in addition to a pdf.

Mad Matt

I can do it. Prices on my site are out of date. I can also do spring and spring stainless. Let me know what material and finish you'd like and I can give you a price

Mad Matt

Sorry about the slow reply things have been nuts. I'm going to work on the patterns today and hopefully be able to get the steel ordered.

Mad Matt

Oh and wire handles that hang outside the kiln to pick them up with. Don't use less than 16ga though at that heat if you've got a heavy piece three wire will break if its thinner

Mad Matt

I wear welding gloves and if I have the presence of mind to put it on my leather welding jacket. Otherwise its a sweatshirt in which case I trend to smoke a bit.

Mad Matt

I'd really like to make it to this one. Wouldn't mind looking at the black and white stuff you've got a bit to see how far off I am. Other than that I'm not picky.

Mad Matt

I've got two pairs of spring stainless sabatons for sale. Will fit up to about a size 12 foot with a pointed medieval type shoe. $400/pair. They look like the ones on my site http://madmattsarmory.com/inv_legs.php I've also got 2 pairs of wisby fingermittens nearly finished in spring stainless for $...

Mad Matt

Rannulf what kind of hammer have you got now? I've got to replace the spring on my helve that you built and is had modifications but I'd really like to upgrade to a tire hammer I want something that hits harder and faster

Mad Matt

I've never worn it so I couldn't say really

Mad Matt

Aluminum arms tulip shaped vambraces and integral spaulders. $400 Aluminum legs with slightly shaped cuisses $300 Globose breastplate $300 Riveted aluminum shirt fits about a 50" chest $350 The whole set weighs less than 15 pounds. Fits me give or take a bunch I'm 6'1 and 200 pounds. Really need cas...

Mad Matt

I've got an apprentice. A pretty one (my fiancee) she just started today but this is probably going to be a project that will get handed to her before too long so a set of 10 will likely get done in the near future regardless of how many orders are in.

Mad Matt

I'm using 301 full hard in the gauntlet cuffs and the rest is heat treated 410

Mad Matt

I'll be finishing up some spring stainless wisby fingermittens and sabatons next week hopefully. I'll have two extra sets. Calling dibbs means you're willing to put a 50% deposit down till they're finished. Gauntlets are $1,200/pair Sabatons are $400/pair Gauntlets are like the ones in the picture. ...

Mad Matt

Haven't tried that but it's definitely not as brittle as 1050 is right out of the water quench. So it's entirely possible it would work but can't say for sure. I've got a pair of black and white gauntlets to heat treat. I'm gonna air quench them but I can toss a test piece in with them and water que...

Mad Matt

Ok so after tempering tested it out with a cross peen. Doesn't snap till it's been bent back and forth several times and dent resistance of 20ga is about equal to 14ga mild So I'm definitely liking air hardening since it doesn't try to warp so much. On the downside there is more scale to clean off o...

Mad Matt

Did a test piece air hardened without a temper. It doesn't snap easily. I had to bend it back and forth twice to get it to snap but it's not quite as dent resistant as I'd like it to be. Running the temper at 350 anyway just in case it helps.

Mad Matt

Are you guys doing an air quench doing anything to control the quench? Ie room temperature or air circulation? I really like the idea of getting rid of the warping that happens with a water quench. Guess I'm going to have to do some testing today. Heat treating a pair of black and white gauntlets to...

Mad Matt

There's tons of different black and whites. New commission slot would be for a full suit of any variety although I'm enjoying the black and whites

Mad Matt

I'd definitely do that.

Mad Matt

And in other news I learned today that 410 requires an immediate anneal post welding while still hot from welding. Man this stuff is a bitch to weld. If anyone has a source for 410 mig wire in a small spool (all I could find was 30# spools) the info would be greatly appreciated.

Mad Matt

So it air hardens quite a bit. I learned this by working it hot and then finding out that once it's been worked hot it either needs to keep being worked hot or annealed. The material data sheets also state that's it's air hardening. What I can't find is what the results of air hardening are specific...

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