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Hi. Remember me? No? Yeah... don't blame ya. Presenting the best helmet I've made this year! If you have to ask, don't bother, the joke's not that funny. Hugo Pheifer. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/hugo/hugo01s.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/hugo/hugo02s.jpg http://members...

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:It looks like someone had too much fun, and nearly had the last fun they were ever going to have!

I was gonna say that I could damage helmets like that with my peen... but I think you covered it.

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I want to build myself a set of clamps for spacing and holding bars while I weld them up and shit. A lot of the while I shit because everything falls apart when I leave it on the bench and run to the toilet. Take 2 pieces of scrap bar stock, say like 3/8" square. Put a brass shim a twixt them, ...

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In my list of somedays is a list legal helmet bowl made from 18g.

64 plate kabuto

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Thanks for the tips on the jewlers saw guys it worked like a dream. Be careful with it... it's a bit like crack rock with it's addictive-ness. The first time it feels kinda like a bit of a PITA.... but it works.... Then it gets easier.... and you do something cooler... pretty soon it's whispering i...

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It is easier to 'turn' your shank down square.

It does mean you have to make the hole for it square with needle files, but that's not hard....

and look at it this way... then your pin won't spin, and you don't have to worry about it losing alighnment with your other stuff.

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Happy kids are the best kind of the best thing in life.

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Vitus von Atzinger wrote:What's the best way to soften them up?

Flowers... candy... sweet nothings...

if that fails...

hard liquor.

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Sebastian K wrote:Maybe a look into the essay section would be helpful?

HEY!

I didn't pay $5000 for this computer so I would hafta READ!

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1-1/2" inch ball on a 1" pipe.

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That's what new guys and apprentices are for. If you feed your grinders the fingers of inexperienced people, then they get full, and won't eat yours. All of my new guys are too smart any more. I say "Stick your finger in here!" and point at a tool, and they look at me like I'm fuckin crazy.

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none. but he's going to wake up from a strange dream-like state in the next few days with a fever, and book a cruise in the South Pacific... Happens to the best of us. I did it probably like 14 years ago, and when I came to scribbled THIS on a scrap of posterboard I was using for patterning plastic...

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Yeah...

that's kind of where I get stuck with it.

I mean...

I could break it... but I would need some tools... and I'm very creative and my imagination doesn't really ever shut off.

I usualy worry more about the items inside destroying the package before it gets to where it's going.

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Pack tight. Crap bouncing around inside your box is more damaging than if your box bounces around. Don't forget if you're using peanuts or whatever they can settle. Pack tight. Your box should be slightly bulging when it leaves you. I shipped a lot of little golfers and firemen for Michael Garman wh...

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How many sanity points did you loose making it?

Looks good.

I bet it was all kinds of fun getting stuff to line up right from lame to lame.

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Chris Gilman wrote:Lorenz & Kolman Helmschmied

I don't know the others on your list at all... but these guys were kinda sick in the head, and made some damned cool shit because of it.

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Maybe I've been misinformed, but I thought chin straps were required throughout the SCA. Did that disappear in the last rules change? No, and they honestly haven't been for a while. Like Finn says, just something to keep it from coming off your head. I guess if you were REALLY hard ass you could pr...

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Favorite is a hard word for me to deal with.

It's really hard here. I can't really disagree with much that anyone has said about any other armorers.

The Archive is a bit of a talent magnet it seems.

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That's purdy.

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InsaneIrish wrote:You might also try a 4 point chin strap:

Who's picture is that?

Can we get it stickied, or put in the essay section or something like that?

Because it really is the best "How not to put in a chinstrap like an ass monkey" that I've ever seen.

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Mattmaus That lid he did for Adamo was a stunning achievment. It was ambitious in scope. I'd have liked to execute it much cleaner. Like.... Adam at White Mountain, or Johanes at Windrose. Their shit is CRISP. Always. They don't need bling, the basics speak volumes. Ugo and Chris Gillman. They don'...

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if this wasnt something Ive been a fan of since I was a kid, Id be building some historical goodies right now. Most of the time I do stuff to pay my bills. Whether that's armor, or pushin my broom at work. Some of the time, I get to do stuff that I really want to do. Very rarely, those two things c...

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How much padding, and where is it in those pictures?

Thing is, it's always been my preference to pad my cheek bones and jaw to keep a helmet off my face, rather than rely on a chincup and suspension.

Can you shed some padding in the back side to make room for some up front?

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What happened to "I don't do fantasy stuff any more"?

Lookin more than good dude.

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Hey Nathaniel, Randy here, we met at matt's shop. And YOU left blue plastic all over my floor! I know... with the rest of the clutter and crap, and random bits of shrapnel (the belfry is not for the faint of heart) it seems trivial... but it's the plastic man... I can't abide.... Also... I should p...

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wcallen wrote:His right shoulder opens. Just like the real ones I have seen.

The way it works is:

I mostly thought that's what I was seeing. I just wanted to make sure what I though I saw was really what I saw.

Thanks.

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wcallen wrote:http://www.allenantiques.com/R-34.html

Click and the images get really big.

Which side of his gorget/shoulders opens?

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Ace hardware store brand semi-gloss black.

cheap, not nearly as toxic as chemical bluing, not nearly as toxic as chemical bluing, much easier to put on and control than heat bluing, and easy to touch up.

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Mandrake maybe?

I was under the understanding that Windrose bought them out. That would pre-date windrose then, and explain the similarities in appearance. But I was also under the impression that Mandrake stuff had marks/tags.

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Nissan Maxima wrote:I use Ace hardware store brand "safety red".

I used thair satin black on a couple. Not samurai stuff.

I've also used it on some iron work.

Seems to hold up ok, and going with the "cheaper is better, because it WILL need touch up" theory, this fits the bill.

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Is it the ecomomy? Do I need to try again when we get closer to warm weather? Yes. Armor and helmets have a cyclic market. In September stuff starts to taper off a bit. By November it's really slow, peoples heads are on buying gifts and turkeys. December you can sometimes make the x-mas sale, but t...

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HA! I have a friend that has a helm in the shape of a bird's head. He doesn't wear it because it was made for someone with a much bigger head than he. Anyway... the lower beak is fixed and doesn't move. The top beak is part of a visor, it pivots on the side and closes like the birds mouth would. Wit...

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Usually the kind that the EPA has outlawed.

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Believe me, I've considered that. Especialy with a Daughter that has no interest in anything that doesn't have to do with horses, and prefers boots over tennies any day. But I don't have a safe. It's in a hard case, locked, in the rafters in the garage. Probably going to hide it in my bed in the not...

Hugo Pheifer. Big fluted cool crusader helmet thing.

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