The Armour Archive

mattmaus

Fault or blame =/= obligation =/= responsibility =/= ethics =/= customer service. Just like I sleep better at night knowing that I have not taken money for a product I don't have i.e. deposits... I sleep a lot better when I have insured my shipments and know that when someone sends me an e-mail that...

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The Beverly shear knockoff has worked well for years. Their 4x6 bandsaw, sale and coupon price at $150, My shear never worked "well". But it works, still. And I have abused the hell out of it. The bandsaw has been a friggin champ. I won't say it was the best $150 I ever spent. But I got t...

mattmaus

I'm not, and never have been much into the classical stuff...

But thems is perdy.

I dig the hardware. Strap/lace rings. Little touches go a long way.

mattmaus

I have the 4 head plates formed and now I am having problems forming the cap. I am using a 1/2 inch diameter round steel bar as a stake but flaring the steel down 90 degrees in a circle is proving difficult. I'm using a propane torch to attempt to anneal between each pass. I was wondering if anyone...

mattmaus

you are quite right about the chemises even in the 16thC it looks like the chemise was the basic foundational garment for women, night shirt, under dress etc etc... and for those of us that are textile challenged, winning even half the battle is a big deal. a good chemise, and I'm halfway there, st...

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I'd bet there are lots of squires that start courting women outside the SCA or re-enactment crowd. They get to the point where they're ready to start sharing that part of their life. Decide that for the next "date" the new girlfriend can come watch them in a tourney or something. Then they...

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it never occured to me that girls wouold want off the shelf stuff cause most of their clothes are fitted. or seem to be anyway. You know... it's a good idea. I pretty much hate sewing. But I'll do it. I go to events and stuff VERY rarely, and it almost always involves making new dresses for my kids...

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mattmaus, he is looking for stuff to make and sell Adric, "apron" dresses appropriate for most earlier period Scandinavian/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon women Well... Then that was pretty much what I was going to say. Keep in mind I'm looking at this from a DAD standpoint. When you say girl, I'm t...

mattmaus

I'm sometimes a little slow on the uptake.

Are you looking to buy stuff? Or are you looking for stuff to make to sell?

mattmaus

It is now, one of the ongoing sagas in the corporate world is the founder of HF, who is in retirement, coning out and publically blasting his son for switching over to poor quality Chinese knock offs, seems HF is still privately held in the family. I had the $20 HF punch of 10 years ago, worked fin...

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7 cents? wow! Does it really only last 20 punches? No. I broke one of the handle parts off after about 7. The green ones suck unholy ass. The cheap chrome looking ones are better, but still suck. I'd never handled a real roper whitney. Then this new guy I have brought one over last week. Brand span...

mattmaus

Spin steel wool into yarn and knit a cover.

mattmaus

As close as I've ever given to giving someone the OPTION of insurance was asking how much I should insure it for, as parts of it were not made by me, and I wasn't gonna guess the worth. Otherwise, it's been insured for the nearest $100 ammount exceeding the price I sold it for (because UPS charges t...

mattmaus

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Price?

Your eternal grattitude.

Your squires have been good to me.

mattmaus

What style you looking for?

I have one of these collecting dust, and never much cared for it myself.

http://www.windrosearmoury.com/zc/index ... cts_id=243

mattmaus

Insurance.

You has it, or you doesn't have package.

It's damned near an extortion scam, but it covers your ass.

mattmaus

all i have is a 6x6 hammering stump and a ball peen hammer so im trying. You know... Learning to make shit work with exactly what you have is a damned fine skill to have for armoring. Pushing it into all aspects of your life is survival, and human ingenuity at it's best. What Sean said about heat b...

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I suspect His Grace Kilkenny has one eye that is very dominant, and so loses depth cues when it is obstructed. That could well be. I am WAY right eye dominant, to the point that I really only loose peripheral vision by covering my left eye. I've got very little loss of depth perception at all. I ca...

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Murdock wrote:hammer eating crap!

I give a damn about the hammers. It's ME the shit kills. 1 day working stainless feels like 5 days working mild.

mattmaus

Several stainless alloys are magnetic. and some become more "sticky" as they work harden. The nickle content and how the metal has been treated can leave portions more suseptable to rusting usualy welds, the surounding heat effected zone, can cause the nickle to migrate. Usualy not an iss...

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Domnall wrote:You know its true.

I call the shit "Devil Ore".

I hate it.

mattmaus

Rats....

mattmaus

None for sale. But... If I had money to blow on one I would get a J&G G-36. If I had fucktons of money to blow on one, I would get I J&G G-36. If I had ludicrous fucktons of money to blow.... same. I was given one, and it was what I was going to get when I saved up my pennies. Unless you wan...

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Actually you are probably talking about normalizing rather than annealing. Annealing is taking above critical and letting cool very slowly. For rings it would have to be in conjunction to a similarly heated mass of metal to get it to cool slowly enough in an insulated container. (you'd still like i...

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WendallVonDerEisenstein wrote:Welders are one of the highest paid skilled trades, in my area they have a base salary and benefits of about $100,00 per year.

Did you forget a zero? Or do you live in colorado springs too?

mattmaus

2nd dibs on the hilt/pommel.

Or... whatever place in line I end up being.

If all other deals fall through I'll take em.

mattmaus

True dat.

There really isn't a "top end" on the price range here. Other than "How much you got?"

mattmaus

Very interesting, as the tops were very round to me. Also under cut with the onion look. I did my best with my helm halvs. I agree for the price, they are a lot easier than dishing 12ga. yourself. I'll ask for clarity, and give my own answer to maybe help with the confustion. Did you order unwelded...

mattmaus

$30K? Not unless you get some fu*ktard crazy to make it. Realisticly, I would GUESS (and he may sound off and laugh at me) that you could probably pick up a fairly BASIC harness from Mac for this price. No bells. No whistles. No exchange pieces. Heat treated, gilding (or as close as can be done, as...

mattmaus

For mail rings it would probably be easier to just get a hardware store propane torch.

mattmaus

It amazes me how much people won't pay for the good stuff...

It amazes me more how much they will pay for.... less.

mattmaus

How many itterations of adjustments, tweaks, and adaptations before I can consider a pattern "mine"?

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I also do custom work if you cant find the form you want I can probly make it custom Yeah... I'll probably end up just tossing a chunk of the 5/16" armor plate stuff I have into the whisper-lowboy and bashing it out myself. Just been too lazy to drag the 100lb chunk of plate I have over to the...

mattmaus

Thanks for the info. Not really what I'm looking for then. Sorry.

Still... doubtless very darn cool.

mattmaus

Kilkenny wrote:Of course, they might still better have been called "sowbug" gauntlets.....

Heat blue them.... yeah....

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