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mattmaus

Trade ya a pair of magic spaulders for it....

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mattmaus

S'coo man. I'd rather not sell you stuff that wasn't gonna fit how you wanted. Call me crazy... but that just seems to be bad form.

They'll fit someone else, and they'll buy them, and we can all be happier for it.

mattmaus

Very quickly, on my way to work and in a hurry. USPS quotes me at a base of $27.95 for the same box to Canada. That's without insurance, and tracking. Don't have time ATM to put a tape on them, but as a guess I'd say 5.5"-6" across at the points of the cop. Middly to small sized. prototype...

mattmaus

Baring restrictions on thickness for needs... some of it is preference that you'll only get from doing it.

I like working with 14 and 16 gage mild.

Thicker stuff is... well... hard to move...

Thinner stuff... does weird things, especialy in stainless.

mattmaus

Spaulders of Armorer Discontent They're magic... like in Truncheons & Flagons, in that whenever I see them I have an irresistable urge to wander off to a hiding spot grumbling under my breath. I never said it was a great enchantment... Anyway, http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/14thspauld...

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late... because you know... I'm dumb... but...

sold, paid for, and shipped.

Elias, watch your mailbox for Santa Klause in the USPS truck.

mattmaus

Garick wrote:Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. Now I just have to decide if that's enough of an upgrade to be worth the effort of doing a new mounting...

Beauty is painful....

but you're worth it.

DOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEET!

mattmaus

I was also wondering if I should you leather speed rivets or solid steel rivets. Speed rivets have their place, and in my opinion, this would be a good one for them. Thing is, I don't care what you make your shell out of, the way this style armor works, it is going to wear. Using speed rivets over ...

mattmaus

Good luck with this. Thing is... I don't really foresee stainless responding well to the puching process used for wedge rivets. I'm no expert, but my experiments with mild and aluminum with wedge shaped rivet hole punching gave me about a 3 to 1 rabbit ear/usable link ratio. That said... Ice will so...

mattmaus

Temple wrote:Those thumbs ground out ?

Either barely, or not quite depending. But I'd honestly lean more to not quite.

If I flip the leather for them inside out I can squash them down on my thumb enough that they would ground on with sides of a flat surface, but it's TIGHT.

mattmaus

They're right about 4" across where the first finger lame and metacarple plate join. I'm the easiest model I ever have for making stuff for, and they fit me just like I would want them too. I recenly bought a pair of mechanics gloves at harbor freight, size L, and those gloves fit me as well as...

mattmaus

These are: 0.70"- ish Aluminum of a legaly obtained recycled DOT variety. No idea what grade but it's damned springy. Thumbs are steel of an anorexic 16g breed, probably closer to 18g AFTER shape and polish, but still plenty sturdy, especialy since they are designed to ride under the last finge...

mattmaus

I dig the lines on your prototype. They're subtle, but a notch or two better than par.

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So... Sigurd Fjalarson sends me this picture of some byzantine armor, and asks me if I thought the shoulders would be terrible hard. No... I don't think they would. And they weren't. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/byzspauld01.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/byzspauld02.jpg 1...

mattmaus

To my eye,

The knees look deep enough.

The elbows could use a bit more depth.

To be fair, I'm basing that purely off of what I like to see, and not any article of reference or documentation.

mattmaus

From what I remember they're pretty reasonable.

I will say that they might not ship from the location close to you.

I once put in a fair 'big' order (like 10 boxes of various materials and styles) and got 3 boxes, each from a different place.

mattmaus

To better control and maintain your speed... You might could try a hose clamp around the drill handle and trigger. Tighten the clamp for faster loosen it for slower. Pull the plug for your on/off. Do be carefull though... that kinda gets into something that may be best prefaced with "hold my be...

mattmaus

You're making hats? I thought you retired! In that I make what I want, when I want, and as close to an order/comission as I get is sometimes I will have someone say "I want <whatever>" and I reply "Yeah... that might be a kick in the head..." Mr. Pheifer arrrived today .... all ...

mattmaus

Again... picking nits, but you posted mesh, and not perf steel.

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http://www.eastwood.com/greaseless-comp ... -of-4.html

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Actually, there is no specification that I can find for the Max open area or that it be staggered. I actually found some stainless wire mesh that has 44% open area that I think should easily pass. I can't say anything about the rules... been a long long time since I read them. But... I was under th...

mattmaus

the lines look blackened, are they? Not so much as just dirty. One of the things that has led me to doing the chisel cuts like that as often as I do is that it's really pretty easy to do. A side effect of finishig it is that if I do a satin finish or a full on polish, the crevaces get a bit of buil...

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Like Hal said, no fee to transfer it to the bank account. It does however take 3-5 bidness days. It's been a while since I did it, because I got sick of waiting and got their debit card, but it always seemed like it was fewer bidness days if you did it over a weekend. I'd transfer stuff to the bank ...

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Aaron wrote:Maybe next year. This year I've got thesis and studying for the Certified Health Physics exam (tough exam IMO, 10% pass rate).

-Aaron

Wait what? Since when were you in CO? Not that it's a bad thing that you're here... just... I thinked you were somewhere... not here.

mattmaus

Sounds like mostly same old stuff. Was hoping for maybe a new trick. I've been using Eastwood's greasless compound. It's decent, but kind of expenserive overall, and very messy. They make a scotchbrite flap disk for an angle grinder. Also expenserive. But I might order and try one. I also learned to...

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In theory, maybe, but 1/8" is the MAXIMUM allowed by the SCA rules. Picking nits, but for C&T not heavy. For a STRICTLY heavy helmet, you could use 7/8" diameter holes. Some local guys ran into some 10g perf with like 1/4" or better holes in it. Under a mail drape it fades out pr...

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Did you use the chasing method to get the ridges into the steel? Not sure I really understand the question.... The flutes in the face plate, and the flutes in the bowl were done by hammering on a very blunt, soft (and by that I mean shape, not so much the material/temper) and slightly rounded chise...

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Alexander of Derlington wrote:lastly medium and fine 8" satinising wheels.

What are those?

mattmaus

What do you use for your finish work?

mattmaus

Dibs situation and all that has been sorted out according to schedule more than not...

I've been paid, and will be shipping in the morning. (Sorry T-bone)

Thanks again all.

Onward to the next one. Anyone got a favorite shoelace supplier?

mattmaus

Cool deal man... I don't spend much time at facebook. In fact... I emptied my friends list, and only keep the account so I can get to my robot copyright infringement game.

mattmaus

I've got mine bunched into a couple good ones too, mostly back on the heel. Near the horn, there are deep angry scars where I do chisel cutting. Very handy. Ain't messed up a chisel or a good anvil yet. One of the long edges got started with an agnle grinder, and over the years has made a very nice ...

mattmaus

Thanks for all the kind words.

Randy, still waiting to hear from Omar.

PB, what are you doing buying helmets? Go make your own!

mattmaus

I use a chinese made cast iron anvil shaped opbject.

Poor thing looks like the surface of the moon.

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I should probably point out too... that you can see in the 3rd pic, several rivets on the bottom side of the brow band are missing. This is intentional, the holes go through the slats too, and it's so that you can tuck a leather strap with mail sewn on it between the browband and the slats for a dra...

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