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Konstantin the Red wrote:Pasta sauce can be damned dangerous sometimes, eh?

S'wot ya git buyin food at the scratch and dent sale.

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Cool.

Thanks guys.

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The detail work is phenominal.

The plates fit together so nicely.

Well done.

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Bumperata for da salad head!

Don't make me git ninja-hypnotism on ya'll!

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I have this cool PDF I got detailing the saltwater/battery charger method of etching. I'm skimming it, and I'm thinking, and I'm scheming... Has anyone tried etching a welded piece with this? Has anyone tried etching over a weld (assume a butt weld, ground flush on the 'show' side)? If so... what ca...

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I've had good luck with what Mr. Madd Matt said. Trick to that is that you need your burrs/washers to be real snug on the shank of the rivet. I don't clean up the clipped rivet at all after trimming it. The corners left from the bolt cutters or whatever make really good little ears that I start peen...

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Matt when you buy barstock that's small enough (like 1/4") bring bolt cutters with you and then if they want to charge you to cut it do it yourself. I'd love to... but they won't let me... liability.... I'm gonna sue them when I impale myself. They just know it. That's why I'm there. Not to bu...

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A 4x8 sheet is probably going to cost you less then the 4x4. Generally about $70-80 for a 4x8. You can get two full suits of armour out of one. I just picked up a sheet of 14g, cost me $95, and that's with a $10 shear fee to whack it in half (fits the truck better that way) so the steel was really ...

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Demiyqxzurge wrote:I want to get 24x24 because I will save about $12 if i just buy 2 sheets of 24x24 instead of 1 sheet of 48x48;

I could be eating the wrong kind of mushrooms again...

but a 48X48 sheet is worth 4 24x24 sheets, not 2.

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I am not the least unimpressed by the workmanship. That's pretty sweet.

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Cian of Storvik wrote:By the way, It's a great impersonation of Animal in the last picture.

I have never in my life been so honored by a compliment as I am by this.

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Wanted to do something fast cheap and easy (insert yo' momma jokes here). I made this. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/insalata/insalata01.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/insalata/insalata02.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/insalata/insalata03.jpg My camera doesn...

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Angusm0628 wrote: As they say "horseshit", Matt... I've lusted after more than one piece you've put out there for us to drool over..

Fair enough... but how much of that has been demi gaunts?

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I am an old feeble minded fool, and as armoring goes, just a tinker or a hack, so my advice may not be worth much... So they say the cuff isn't flared enough... and you say that you have plenty of motion. Well... generaly I think lots of cuffs geared for SCA use are more flared than they need to be....

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I was feeling fairly sane today and headed out to the garage to finish up the salet. Then this scrawny assed grasshopper showed up and distracted me with his project. After he left I worked on the salet some, but started feeling sick and achey and sniffly again. So I plotted my revenge. http://membe...

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No.. I was checking out the heavy duty welding table and big ball. I'm pretty sure they're both MilSpec. The ball is a genuine cannon ball. My dad found it for me. I ain't made a helmet that I didn't use that ball somewhere on it. It has armor making value, and sentimental value. We lived in a litt...

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Hey PB, That's Sweet Pea. Near as we can figure she's Boxer/Pit mix. I could really care less about her pedigree, she's one of the prettiest dogs I've ever seen, full of piss and wind, and too damned smart for her own good. She ain't much help makin armor, but she does do a fine job of keeping the s...

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I'm not going to say anything about having seen a sparows beak close helm and gothic pauldrons topping a musculata. What that really needs is a kilt and a katana.

I shouldn't talk. I just make shit. Research is for other people.

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Salet's need goggles.

I'm ok....

I think.

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Been out of the loop for a bit...

What are my optoins, and who do you like for free web hosting?

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Depends on what kind of padding you like. But with a 22.5, you would be swimming in it. Yes, this would be for a big noggin, about 24.5 to 25.5 It would be huge for 22.5" head, but I don't think it would go much past 24. Some of the easiest advice I ever got on sizing a helmet. Add 5" to ...

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Bitchin cool idea for the back man. That's sweet.

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If you find some, let me know where too....

Sick of sewing stuff that they wear once and outgrow. Time to stack bricks on their heads.

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Thanks for all the kind words. They are food for my wicked muse and my soul. and with the ermine spot on the forehead Is that what that is? I guess it sort of is isn't it? Interesting. I was asked in a PM about parts of it, and where I got the idea. I don't know. I was told once that when we dream w...

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Sometimes, I get lucky. Luck can't desribe this though. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/rugged/rugged01.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/rugged/rugged02.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/rugged/rugged03.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/rugged/rugged04....

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That's not a weapon! That's a stick!

Oh... wait...

That's a pretty cool assed idea though.

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Are you going to heat blue the hammered plates in the pic and leave the hammer marks? I just might be putting the hammered textured stuff in the oven for a bit to get a nice blue grey color, chem blackening the whole shebangly thing after that, then scuffing it off giving a lot of blue grey highlig...

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Wouldn't hold up for crap, if you could figure a way to get a marshall to pass it... But they are DAMNED handy for temporary assembly and test fitting stuff before doing your finish work. http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/Rugged/ruggprog01.jpg http://members.armourarchive.org/mattmaus/Rugged...

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All useful answers, but again, if you keep your armor in a chest or cabinet, where would you keep the chest or cabinet. Such a piece of furniture must have had a semi-permanent home somewhere in a castle, but where might that be. In the can... because invasions always happen right in the middle of ...

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Time.

Vail=Visconti has the high bid.

PM on the way.

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Yep...

Last day. Ending it tonight when I get home from t3h day job which is really more of a night job.

Vail=Visconti is high bidder so far.

You gonna let him get away with YOUR helmet?

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It's Wednesday night, nearly midnight... do yout know where your Morion is? That's right... it's right here with me.

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That's pretty spiff.

I'm a gaming nerd and half the fun of running a game was always drawing the maps. Till I got lazy anyway.

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PRETTY!

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Nostradamas says: "This post will recieve more replies than the original!"

Re: Sheet Dimensions for Cut-Outs, and Welding Parts

Saltwater etching + welds?

Re: Sheet Dimensions for Cut-Outs, and Welding Parts

Insalata della Medicina - Archers Salet - SOLD

NyQuil is awesome

Free web hosting?

Re: nice

Rugged Good Looks. Spangen w/Faceplate FS

Re: Hi

Aluminum pop-rivets for SCA helmet construction