The Armour Archive

Mad Matt

Looking for small spool so far have only found 15kg spools which don't fit in my welder and I really only need one of the tiny ones. Preferably .030 Anyone have a source?

Mad Matt

Lucien's got em. Can you please send me the length of your shoe or a tracing. I don't mind waiting a couple days to put them together.

Mad Matt

Any interest in selling all your hammers and stakes in one big lot to someone who would come pick it up and save you shipping everything? If so lets talk.

Mad Matt

$210 in satin finish or $265 in polished same as on my site. And They'll be finished today or tomorrow with no money till they're done.

No extra charge for them being the famous sabatons in the pics in the instruction set

and I'll throw in a copy of the instruction set when it's finished.

Mad Matt

I'm making a set today for an instruction set. If you're quick and post it before they go together you can specify the heel to toe length.

Mad Matt

I only make stupid things when they come to me naturally.

Mad Matt

I'm at $500 minimum.

Mad Matt

Where was the auction I never saw it

Mad Matt

The splinted vambraces/rearbraces set is nearly done.

Mad Matt

Not sure if I got the e-mail. The instruction set is step by step instructions including patterns for $10 just send paypal to thepurplesock@vianet.ca if you want it. To answer the original question though #7 is really easy to make functions well and can be designed to work as a side opening coat of ...

Mad Matt

I am willing to take advance payments on the new ones this time around. It'll get me to put them out sooner if I have people's money. So if you would like to pre-order Splinted vambraces and rearbraces set is $10 Does not include elbows but does include how to attach them. Tapered 14th century spaul...

Mad Matt

Also I have a pair of stainless wisby fingermittens and a pair of hourglass fingermittens available $550/pair and will have a pair of stainless sabatons available next week $210 for the pair.

Mad Matt

Just finished taking the pics for the splinted vambraces and rearbraces instruction set. Need to get the patterns scanned and make up the pdf and it will be ready. Will also be doing 14th century spaulders that have a proper tapered shape and are short and attach to the top of a rearbrace (these wil...

Mad Matt

I'd like one of those along with the hershies kiss if you've still got one. I'll put a stake on it myself.

Mad Matt

Kenwrek beat me to it. I need one. I'm also kinda poor. But this is exactly what I need. So finding out the price and stuff this went at would be handy.

Mad Matt

If you're interested at that price send me your measurements will need chest waist and navel to collar bone and I can see if it's gonna fit. I can tweak it a bit still.

Mad Matt

What size are you?

Mad Matt

Well it seems bidding has stopped. At way too low a price. So I'll just put a price on it. I can let this go for $700 plus shipping if anyone's interested.

Mad Matt

What everyone else said. This is always gonna happen. With everything. Stick one end of something twisted between two immobile objects and twist. If you're not strong enough you can use vice grips and get some extra leverage too.

Mad Matt

Yeah that's the one. It's a sort of common thing to happen on these though so being original might not be too far off.

I have some bad pics of it I took last time I was there.

Mad Matt

They have one with a crucifix on the left side of the breastplate too.

I'm gonna be in the city on monday morning so might go then.

Mad Matt

Yeah but not for a while. Been meaning to go since I know they've got some black and white stuff just haven't got around to it yet.

Mad Matt

I was gonna mention about tensile strength. It has zero relevance for armour unless you're talking about rivets. 6061 t-6 really really doesn't like sharp angles. If you try to do any shape that has a sharp angle in it it's going to snap unless you heat it up. When I worked in a custom aluminum fabr...

Mad Matt

Works for me but I posted it then deleted the pic and posted a different one so might have not worked for a couple minutes.

Mad Matt

You can hot work it at a pretty low temperature. A barbeque or oven will do the trick. Hot working temp is around 500-600 celcius. It's going to loose some of it's heat treat in the process but not all of it. You could have it heat treated but you might have a very hard time finding a place that doe...

Mad Matt

Here's one of the images for anyone who's at work and has the pics on facebook blocked. This is quite a bit higher end than anything you've seen from me before.

Mad Matt

Burgonet gorget and shoulders added would be fine. Just to be clear though this auction and pricetag is just the breastplate. I'm happy to complete the suit for the winning bidder but each piece would have a pricetag.

Bidding is still really low but I'm enjoying watching how it's playing out.

Mad Matt

Ok so this is a prototype for a spring stainless suit I'm making. Since it was a learning project I'm not really sure how many actual working hours are in it. So I'm going to run it as an auction with a reserve. Don't know exactly what the reserve is but the auction will end when someone posts a bid...

Mad Matt

www.sliceofstainless.com

Mad Matt

I got lazy and didn't feel like heating the gussets to get the flare on the roll at the curve but will be doing it on the real one. I'm not particularly keen on the round things at the top but figured it's a learning project so copying the one you kindly provided all the reference material for would...

Mad Matt

I can do a pure cash set for you. $550 in mild $650 mild blued or stainless and if you want an enclosed thumbtip add $100.

Mad Matt

Ordered some 20 and 22 ga 410 stainless from them. They have an online chat thing on their site and the sales person I spoke to with that was really helpful. I placed my order Monday afternoon and it showed up today. That's two days from placing the order to having it at my door using the cheapest s...

Mad Matt

I want to know the cost of this. I'm not sure because I did a lot of learning and research and made new tools while making it so not sure how much actual working time is in it. The 3/4 spring stainless suit this is a prototype for is $7k though. Haven't decided if I'm going to do the back plate or n...

Mad Matt

Ok so this was a learning project for the suit I'm doing but the breastplate is finished. Would love to see what people think and get some constructive criticism. Pretty happy with it though.

Pics are here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 6453330869

Mad Matt

Cet has used it. Talked to him about it when I was at his place a while back. He said it works better with a little heat and also for some reason it also works better if you've got it sitting on a ferrous ball stake or something.

Anyone have a source for 410 stainless mig wire?

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Anybody want stainless sabatons?

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New instruction sets coming very soon.

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Re: vambraces/rerebraces coming out twisted, so annoying.

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Black and white breastplate auction.

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Review for slice of stainless.

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Finished black and white breastplate

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