The Armour Archive

Sean Powell

Although this thread has been mostly about rope beds, it is titled "Beds," so here's a question about a different kind of bed, Does anyone have evidence of this type of bed earlier than this 1720s painting: boards or a table top on benches, with a mattress on top. Seems easy, practical, and well wi...

Sean Powell

I thought they were called a "torse"?

Sean

Sean Powell

Saw it on Facebook Earlier. It's an amazing piece.

Sean

Sean Powell

For something intended to be modern/post-apocalyptic I think it is more authentic than a number of SCA kits I'm likely to see at Pennsic.

Thank you for sharing. You have good skills and a fine eye for scrounging.

Sean

Sean Powell

A 6" diameter solid steel ball would weigh 32lbs. Even at $0.50/lb recycling value of mild steel it would be worth $16. They are selling for $14.95 including precision grinding and polishing. Thhere is no way these are solid or they would have sold them industrially for their scrap metal value. Stil...

Sean Powell

If you decide to go 2-wheet, I bought a hockey bag from Dicks Sports and it has been a godsend. I think it packs better than the folding wagons. YMMV.

Sean

Sean Powell

Seeing as how my sword arm is still jacked up with tendonitis I really shouldn't be fighting. I will try to make it to marshals point as frequently as possible.

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Sean Powell

Sean Powell

I believe that the CrMo is for Chromium/Molybdenum. There isn't much data on 25CrMo4 on Matweb and none on 30CrMo4 but there I tons on 4130. The 25CrMo4 is actually a manufactures designation from ThyssenKrupp so you may be able to get material properties and quench data directly from them. The carb...

Sean Powell

Those are both damn nice anticlastic stakes. Great for shaping the flair of greaves and similar shapes.

Sean

Sean Powell

Jewlers frame saw will also work. Great for brass, OK for steel, not so much on stainless.

Sean

Sean Powell

---They frequently have a ridge on the underside of the head. This is a tool mark from the "gripper" of the heading machine. You can flatten this ridge out by dropping the nail into a "header" and giving it a whap with a hammer. The header can be a loose fitting hole in any old piece of bar stock. ...

Sean Powell

10th C -- I'm Byzantine, but my wife and daughter prefer the 10th C Viking stuff. Well outside of my normal range of research but lets see what we can do. Quick google search shows a few 'box' chairs for possible solutions. http://www.exmoorantiques.co.uk/History%20of%20Seating.htm http://iammodern...

Sean Powell

http://i.imgur.com/JLkQLjJ.jpg A makers mark! Mac, I'm confused. Now for posterity: Were you playing around with a candle and a Mantis? Or are these someone else's that have been attached? - Pete Thescorre House Three Swans ** All pictures taken with iPotato** Most likely the candle from the Domini...

Sean Powell

Galileo wrote:I particularly like the chair in this picture from Sean's Pinterest link above.

I need to come up with seating for at least 3 (family of three here) that will fit in the trunk of a compact car

What time period and nationality?

Sean Powell

The percentage of leg wounds varies from pit to pit in the Wisby record. Many of the figures with leg wounds also have parry wounds on their arms as if they were knocked down and covered themselves in a fetal or MMA "full guard" position. How this can possibly provide inference in modern combat rec...

Sean Powell

I've had very good luck with stair-treads as well. Sean Where are you getting the stair tread? Is it unfinished? Home Depot, Lowes and once a real lumber contractor. They seem to come in 3' and 4' widths. I'm not Norse and I camp with a plethora of different personas: Norse, German, Hospitaler, Sco...

Sean Powell

Johns plane lands at 12:35 presuming good weather. Unload, walk to baggage claim for pickup, drive to Met (45 min plus traffic). I hope to be there 1:30 to 2:00 and the Met is only open until 5:30 but you are welcome to get there early and I'll call when we get close... Or just look for the wierdos ...

Sean Powell

Hello, I meant to post this weeks ago but kept forgetting or being distracted. (Oooh! Shiny!) John Gruber from Surly Anvil is coming to visit after Wades armor thing and I figured after I pick him up at the airport we might as well head to the Met and look at the pretty shiny stuff. Talking about ar...

Sean Powell

When you said Norse I assumed something like this: http://www.historyinthemaking.co.uk/images/fullSize/vikingBench.png Or this: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/37/ae/30/37ae3002028b71c2ed1905c59d111517.jpg Or even something like this but with a back: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/ab/...

Sean Powell

Sean, you are correct. The use of the terminology in the firearms and knifemaking disciplines is wrong, but that is the terminology they use, thus my caveat. Yeah I found a lot of mixed info on case coloring. In essence it is used by post-medieval reenactors on guns they have had to clean as part o...

Sean Powell

Case hardening (the coloring process, not the hardening process which was similar before modern methodology) gives these colors, but the problem is, as stated, it is very thin. Unless you can find an impact resistant varnish, it will wear off in fairly short order under impact and articulation. For...

Sean Powell

Cast pewter dodads? A lot of artistry in the first mold but after that it's the cost of propane and the cost of pewter.

Sean

Sean Powell

Got a picture of what you currently wear? Lets face it, >90% of armor is intended to be used from horseback. The saddle protects the groin and a maile brayette serves for the rest. Suits intended for foot combat are noticibly different like Henry VIII's articulating ass plates or his Tonlet suit. Fo...

Sean Powell

Wel I'm also trying to think of a way to tin the nails in batches instead of one at a time. STeve If you don't mind tining the shanks I don't see why you can lower a metal basket full of nails into the tin and then dump them outbefore they fuse to the basket. It's the equivilent of hot-dip galv but...

Sean Powell

Keep in mind that all the soldiers in this scene are caricatures, sloppily dressed. Perhaps the toggle on the braes is meant as a "poor man's buckle." Showing off that the man is too poor to afford a real buckle or too slovenly to do something other than a stick. Yeah that could make sense... but i...

Sean Powell

It means that it was earmarked for the fabrication shop to be cut with a laser. That's not particularly helpful. The problem is you are comparing to 'straight up stainless'. last I checked I couldn't find a straight up, straight down or even bendy up grade of stainless. Are you used to 301 or 302 or...

Sean Powell

I do not understand the toggle thing. I first thought it was a toggle button, but clearly it won't fit through any hole in the hose. It doesn't need to be big enough for the toggle, just for the loop holding it. Pull the loop through the hole, and lock it using the toggle as a key. Tension should k...

Sean Powell

Thomas Powers wrote:Perhaps it would be best to not talk about left hand and right hand; but hammer hand and tong hand as some folks are sinister forgers!

Point taken. Writing fast and didn't think. Typical rightie mistake.

Sean Powell

For hot work I try to wear a very loose glove on my left hand. If I ever touch something hot enough to scald me through the glove it's a quick flick and hot glove is on the ground. Makes holding tongs a little difficult some times though. I have worn thin tight gloves while clipping and peening hund...

Sean Powell

I would have assumed that for transport of ceramics or other fragile objects they would have been packed with straw because it is cheap. Fabric is rather expensive to protect goods especially as clay is fairly cheap... but it's speculation.

Sean

Sean Powell

I messed up my arm not with hammer grip but with workpiece position. Pay attention to body posture, workpiece height, strike angle and even what your are standing on. Compensating for one will affect the other. No one wants to hold their body in an uncomfortable position so we cheat with our arms an...

Sean Powell

Dumb question: can you post a pic of you or someone else wearing it. I need a better sense of scale. Also front and 3/4 view would help understand the style. You are obviously unrestrained by historic armor for this project so lets see what fantasy elements are worth expanding upon.

Sean Powell

Gustovic wrote:I guess he is confusing with Ulysses. He is the guy with the sirens, not Jason.

Sorry, I need to re-read my classics. Also, my memory is as bad as my speeling.

Sean

Sean Powell

sounds to me like a perfect opportunity. Take the meta-carpal with the crack near the rivet hole, set it on your anvil, duct-tape it so it doesn't shift and whack it hard a few times with a stick. It's a torture test. 10 strikes against an anvil vs hundreds in the field supported only by an hand. If...

Sean Powell

There is a blade gap you need to set based on the material thickness you are cutting. I can't remember the formula now. Something like the gap should be 30% of the material thickness? I'd Google it. Mine cuts 16GA fine. I have not tried cutting anything thicker. Steve I was taught 25% but close eno...

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