The Armour Archive

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I post just to say that i have no words, with just a bit of aging, it could pass for a original piece.

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Those are all gold rules that will keep me far from make armouring more than an hobby, probably i could make it fulltime when i will be hold and out of a regular job from long

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It's nice to read them sometime to remember me why i don't wanna be a professionist.

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I think that many times the armourers that make this bad end, are good guys that love armouring.. and i think this maybe part of the problem. I mean, doing business mean that you must charge a product in function of many factor, accept only works that worth the time to do them, and stuff like that. ...

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Metal can be stretched and compressed.. paper can't, but give an hand understanding what you want really. Instead pay for paper pattern, try paper armouring. I do it while developing pattern as i'm totally new to this. You can do it scaled down so you don't have to waste a full forest for each piece...

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I have some small balls of mild steel, i left it rough so it's black coat preserve them from rust, they work ok, they don't need to be so perfect, so the small damage they receive is not important.

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I can melt brass in few minutes with only two or three punch of coal, it's funny, i can warm me in the winter, why i should toast me with microwaves?

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I agree with Thomas, i've never seen a real piece of such kind, but if i have to make it, i would dish it a bit deeper.. 1 or 2 cm maximum.
But considering how it was weared, probably this shape is deep enough.

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We need side pictures and one of the inside my friend, so how can we enjoy it fully?

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The bullet mark in the first example is common in such kind or breastplate, the armourer itself shooted at it for a sort of warranty. About the hammer marks on it, well, this is a mass produced item, and some of the last armour weared on the battlefield, so is not a good example. The second example ...

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Here in Italy carbon steel is avaiable in sheets useful only to make a main battletank..

nothing to make armours.

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Many years ago, i've made a calcutation to see how many times a blade could be folded before the thickness of every single layer will be less than the dimension of an Atom of Fe, in other words: totally omogenized. Assuming a 5mm thick blade, was not a number so high, but i don't remember it. Any id...

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I love it! (The harness, what do you think?)

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Uhm you are probably right, could be just to have a larger area at the right temp.

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I was thinking: what if i preheat the air that i blow into the forge? For example sucking the hot gases that raise from the coal and the blow it again into? I don't think that all the oxigen is spent in a "single passage" and i don't think to use 100% recycled air, but less. Or maybe i could force t...

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My first dishing form was a ring of metal, so rougly same of a pipe but with rounder edges It work fine like a deep dish, with just only a difference: you probably will need pipes or rings of differend diameter, because if the piece you are working is too small, you can't support it over the ring, a...

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I just made some calcultation (take it with tongs, because i worked on a 2d model non a 3d one, but this is what i desumed: I've "made" the same helm shape starting with 2 circular patterns of different radius, the first using as radius the length from the lower edge of the finished helm and the top...

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I'm using 1.3mm to make mine, and is ok, very light. (I can't say if it's sturdy enough, i have not tested it).
http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armat ... maglia.jpg

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i FIND IT VERY VERY NICE, I LOVE MUNITION GRADE STUFF MADE WITH STYLE.

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Is the brim a simgle piece without seams?

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Depend on the quality of the product, yes the AA is an invaulable source for many kind of info, but if this give more, give better.. it could worth the money.

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The arm is very nice, but the support should appear stronger, i know it's just "simbolic" and is very suggestive in this, but the support look too weak to sustain a charge. Why don't made in a thicker metal? Same shape, just thicker metal.

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Today i made myself a gift, a roper n.5 junior punch.. it rocks! Well, in the box there is no a datasheet that help me to know what are the maximum gauge in function of the hole i must made, i've seen something like that on the web, but now i'm unable to find it again. I know that a lot of you have ...

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Thank you for the kind words, but the picture blend and smooth some errors on it. About the welds... I hate them, welding and grinding an rewelding for removing small bubble in the welds (i used argon, but it bubble sometimes, probably i must raise the pressure) i thinned a lot the metal around the ...

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I think that the only solution is try to bend it more with a rubber hammer.

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Wood cutting machine are different from steel cutting machines, you can't do the job of one with the other. Usually there are 2 kind of steel saw: belt saw and disk saw, usually disk saw use a large grinder disk, cut fast, cut hot, disk is suppose to wear during use. Belt saw cut slower, and cool, s...

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Many years ago i played with stuff like that, what i can say is that: 1) if you don't use a extra powerful power supply, you don't need any lamp, a lamp is a resistor like the water solution, so it waste energy. 2) if the salt in the water is too little, conductivity will be too low, and you won't s...

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I think it look good, go ahead, next one will rock!

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Eheh no barfs this time, but in the back the bascinet is not so ok..
and no, it won't have any visor, i've made it for payment of two dishing forms a friend made for me.

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I think it took 20 24 hour, but i could be wrong.
This week i will cast the verveilles, i will take pictures.

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Here is my first bascinet, it's unfinished, vervelles aventail, lining will be added this week. I must Thank Sinric and the AA for the skull pattern, and the idea for the skirt (is a 3 piece welded). From the blurry picture seems to be cool like hell.. in reality is not so cool, but i hope will fit ...

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I didn't mean that one was good and one was evil, i was just suggesting, that some things learned or done here or there could not be applied or done. They are different, both funny and hard if taken seriously, no bad or good, just different.

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Remember just that sca and the kind of combat you saw, have almost nothing in common.

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I must say the same:
Ars? You get what you ask for!

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If you leave only the part that you want to fold flat, it will be easier to convince it to do, while the dished part should be less prone to straigthening due his dome. This is what i think, but i never done such operation on a piece large like a breastplate.

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I think that could not only be a "weather" problem, everyone of us is different from the others, what i mean is that, for example, i can touch the piece of metal i'm working, for weeks, without rusting it, while there are some people that leave rusty fingerprint on iron just touching it for few seco...

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