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by mattmaus
Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

Apollonian wrote:L'Shana Tova, my Hebro!!


Life is sometimes truly bizzare, in that my herritage is predominantly of German ancestry with deep running Lutheran roots. Yet, the entirety of my family casualy tosses out yiddish slang on a somewhat regular basis. America is awesome for that.
by mattmaus
Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:12 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Is there a gas saver for propane forge?
Replies: 12
Views: 331

Re: Is there a gas saver for propane forge?

Mine has a ball valve on the gas line.

If I get the box up to heat, and the firebrick starts to glow, most of the time I can shut it off and come back to it 5 minutes later or so and the residual heat is enough to relight the burners when I open that up.
by mattmaus
Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:48 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Anyone have a use for... very fine brass wire
Replies: 13
Views: 291

Re: Anyone have a use for... very fine brass wire

You should use it to make a wig for Sif.
by mattmaus
Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:36 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

With new and improved Schnoz-Guard technology. I think "Bretache" is the word I'm looking for, but that might be the methamphetamines talking again. In a breif moment of lucidity I realized that the nasal of this style is probably way too early for a skull this late. Then I went back to do...
by mattmaus
Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:37 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

Alum tawing is an ancient technology used from pre-history to the present And for the sake of my own curiosity, and in the interest of clarity... I'm working with the notion that "Alum" means just that (the stuff in Tom and Jerry cartoons that makes them pucker up real good) as opposed to...
by mattmaus
Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:39 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

Interesting information Maelgwyn. Do you know how the alum tawed stuff compares to modern leathers in terms of stiffness and texture? I'd picked out the chrome tanned because 1> it's cheaper than the veg tan and 2> I like it better for some things, it's more supple and 'floppy'. Veg tan is sometimes...
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Finished these today
Replies: 12
Views: 623

Re: Finished these today

Too bad I ain't got no creek near by.

Need someplace to chuck my hammers now.
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:33 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: It appears that The Mercenary's Tailor Is Out Of Business
Replies: 31
Views: 1137

Re: It appears that The Mercenary's Tailor Is Out Of Busines

Suck.

He's a good dude. I never bought his stuff on account of I like to make my own, but when he had something that he didn't want/couldn't make/whatever he sent someone my way with the project. I'd bet he did that for other guys too.
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:00 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

The hat, in craptastic-5-year-old-phone-pic-o-vision. Terribly uninspired I'm afraid. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/pthat01.jpg Note the worlds awesomest fathers' day card featuring a ninja and his pet chupacabra in the background there... http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/pthat0...
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:10 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

so I had this idea... I could dye the edges black, and then use my little seam gouger tool to cut a border around the dags, but it didn't cut deep enough to get the grey middle bit real bright. So then I thought I could do that and paint it. But I don't really have any good paint. So then I thought ...
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Some new tools, and a new project - hourglass gauntlets
Replies: 189
Views: 8227

Re: Some new tools, and a new project - hourglass gauntlets

Very nice.

Thank you for the pictures.
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:22 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

Well...

The consensus seems to be that the edges need colored. I shall experiment and see what works.

Helemt forthcoming. Possibly progress shots tonight.

Gauntlets are in 3rd generation prototype stage and giving me fits, so likely won't be included.
by mattmaus
Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:03 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

James Anderson III wrote:Spare yourself the shame of wearing that...


These aren't for me.

James Anderson III wrote:and just mail it to me.


Sure... for a price, but not till I get the helmet done too.
by mattmaus
Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:37 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

Gerhard von Liebau wrote:Lookin' good. Dye the edges!


I kinda like the contrast meself.
by mattmaus
Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:23 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.
Replies: 61
Views: 1568

Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter.

Call the gendarmes!

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by mattmaus
Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:16 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: WTB Kabuto...
Replies: 3
Views: 291

Re: WTB Kabuto...

Half or just under that, of one sitting on the bench, patiently waiting to get finished.
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:25 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: A (dumb) point on pointing armor with points.
Replies: 5
Views: 271

Re: A (dumb) point on pointing armor with points.

Bad me, no references here... I have seen some 14th c. brasses/effigies with laces on the front of the cop, but they appeared to be to secure the rondel. 15th c. German elbows were laced in the front, but a 100 year later example isn't any better than guesswork as any kind of "correctness"...
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:50 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Shipping Preferences: USPS Tracking
Replies: 22
Views: 326

Re: Shipping Preferences: USPS Tracking

Tracking with USPS kinda sucks. As stated, usually it doesn't give you anything until after the package is delivered. I got the "no information available" stuff for like 2 months AFTER the stuff had got where it was going once. But... Much like insuring a package, it covers my ass a bit, s...
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:43 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: A (dumb) point on pointing armor with points.
Replies: 5
Views: 271

A (dumb) point on pointing armor with points.

So if I make a pair of couters, with the intent that they will be pointed to a foundation garment...

Do I put the holes on the inside (closer to the body) or the outside, or both?

14th c-ish rondel couters fwiw.
by mattmaus
Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Cutting 14g mild steel
Replies: 21
Views: 296

Re: Cutting 14g mild steel

For trimming stuff after the fact... My $10 harbor freight 3" air cut off tool has been worth the price I paid several times over. But it does require a compressor. Straight cuts are very easy, and you can get really curved cuts with it if you approach it more as score & snap like you might...
by mattmaus
Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:59 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Torvaldr's Open Shop Policy
Replies: 4
Views: 349

Re: Torvaldr's Open Shop Policy

Open shops are cool.

Even if nothing gets done, it's fun to have guys over to talk shop and muck with patterns and stuff.
by mattmaus
Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:56 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Stainless lance rest wanted
Replies: 5
Views: 250

Re: Stainless lance rest wanted

You might try Pittbull. I don't know that he's done a lance rest, but he was selling add on stop ribs for a while. Some of his projects have given me the notion that he likes taking on projects like this to push his own skills into new areas, so he might take it on.
by mattmaus
Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:33 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Price Drop: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch
Replies: 8
Views: 469

Re: Price Drop: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch

Arrived today. :D

Just like advertised.

Thanks much for a smooth deal man!
by mattmaus
Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:48 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Problems with zweihammer's site?
Replies: 5
Views: 236

Re: Problems with zweihammer's site?

Don't feel too bad Zwei. Sigurd might start a pair, but then they'd sit on a shelf in my garage and collect dust. :P
by mattmaus
Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:59 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Price Drop: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch
Replies: 8
Views: 469

Re: Price Drop: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch

$50 +$10?????

I shouldn't. I got no clue how this sat here that long...

Done.

PM inbound.
by mattmaus
Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:33 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Review of ChloetheEvenhardt embroidery
Replies: 8
Views: 177

Re: Review of ChloetheEvenhardt embroidery

Is t3h purdys.
by mattmaus
Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:01 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS
Replies: 20
Views: 1021

Re: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS

Paid for and shipped.

Sweet Pea is happy with it. She got to ride to the post office with me.
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by mattmaus
Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:32 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS
Replies: 20
Views: 1021

Re: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS

Bumperatiuppage on account of I'm figurin thems wot went to war aught to be strollin on home about now.
by mattmaus
Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:20 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: I need a helmet.
Replies: 25
Views: 802

Re: I need a helmet.

hjalmr wrote:How long are you willing to wait? I ask, because I may be willing to give it a try after all.


Do it man...

order or not.

Burgs are a hoot to make, and if he don't buy it, someone else will.
by mattmaus
Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:16 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS
Replies: 20
Views: 1021

Re: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS

You keep giving away your work I am going to take a dump on your work bench Can I gild it then? And put it in a clear resin globe like they do with scorpions for the tourists in arizona? Keep it on my bench forever and ever and ever??? I'm sorry. I know the price is kind of stupid... but they are f...
by mattmaus
Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Brass rivets
Replies: 13
Views: 314

Re: Brass rivets

FWIW, I've done several helmets with either brass or steel rivets having 1/8" shank. To the best of my knowledge, they've never had problems passing inspection. The trick to that is that I overbuild the hell out of stuff. I've sent out several helmets that LOOKED from the outside like they were...
by mattmaus
Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:19 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Get You Some Soul! Er...Sole! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 17
Views: 828

Re: Get You Some Soul! Er...Sole! (Pic Heavy)

Nice job on the shoes!

I love the clamp job.
by mattmaus
Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:10 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS
Replies: 20
Views: 1021

Re: Spaulders of Armorer Discontent - magic armor- FS

HA! PB if you buy these I would send you not one, not two... but THREE of the little copper rivets, and probably a couple of the hidden steel ones. I would however want an additional $0.35 each if you wanted spare grommets. Cian, you are of course right about the timing. But they were done, so I lis...
by mattmaus
Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:29 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Price Drop: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch
Replies: 8
Views: 469

Re: FS: Roper Whitney No. 5 Jr. Hand Punch

I didn't figure. But it's what I had to offer just at the moment. Got 'back to school' shopping wanting to devour my wallet.
by mattmaus
Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:01 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Where is this specific picture from?
Replies: 25
Views: 772

Re: Where is this specific picture from?

Baron Alcyoneus, the paragraph on tournament swords is very entertaining. Thank you for that.

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