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- Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:54 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: He Wept, For There Were No More Worlds To Conquer
- Replies: 52
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- Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My father in law *rocks*
- Replies: 11
- Views: 755
Stilgar and Uryen, thanks for the explanation. It seems...well, counter-intuitive. Hit something and it should get thinner and move away from the blow. But it wouldn't be the first oddball piece of info I've come across in this hobby. Makes me want to try it. I think I'll experiment over the holiday...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:26 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Yurt Update! (finally)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 352
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:07 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Yurt Update! (finally)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 352
Yurt Update! (finally)
I actually have been working on this. Honest! I've had a few problems with my design. I'd get to work on something, think of something I hadn't thought of...have to start over. Had another run with some bad math that screwed things up. And I decided early on that I couldn't in good faith have even s...
- Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My father in law *rocks*
- Replies: 11
- Views: 755
My father in law *rocks*
Why you ask? Well - because he just gave me this! http://members.armourarchive.org/louis/anvil1.JPG A beautiful antique anvil and a half a dozen auto body hammers. Most of this gear was his father's. I'm a strange mix of happy and honored. Closeups of the hammers: http://members.armourarchive.org/lo...
- Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: If you could do just one drill..
- Replies: 42
- Views: 881
Ye oldee hitting a pell with your arm tied in with a bungie cord. For beginners to learn power generation from hips/torso/legs rather than arm. Could you explain this one in a bit more detail? Specifically, how you tie the arm up. Sounds like something I'd like to try, so if I try it I'd like to be...
- Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: If you could do just one drill..
- Replies: 42
- Views: 881
Ye oldee hitting a pell with your arm tied in with a bungie cord. For beginners to learn power generation from hips/torso/legs rather than arm. Could you explain this one in a bit more detail? Specifically, how you tie the arm up. Sounds like something I'd like to try, so if I try it I'd like to be...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:47 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need help with elbows
- Replies: 21
- Views: 595
The problem with the way you have described is that those shoelaces will moving a whole lot - loose when the arm is straight, tight when it is bent. Nah. The elbow pad has elastic in it on the inside. It'll stretch before the shoelaces will. Just tie it down good and tight and she won't budge. When...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need help with elbows
- Replies: 21
- Views: 595
This is ugly, non period, etc. And I feel dirty for suggesting it. But this is something that worked for me. Find a set of elbow pads. The cheaper the better. Something like this maybe. Can't be neoprene - it won't last. Has to be cloth-like. Neoprene will tear. Knock two holes in it at the top, two...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:29 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 14ga capacity electric shears $100 shipped limited time.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 274
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:48 am
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- Topic: Marketing email from Steel Mastery
- Replies: 6
- Views: 481
Marketing email from Steel Mastery
Hey everyone - I just got an email from Yurii. Looks to be a mass mailing/marketing thing. I am posting it because I think it is interesting. Here's the letter: Subject: news from Steel-Mastery From: Yurii Zaharchuk <steel_mastery> Date: 11/11/2008 9:45am Dear Richard! Steel-Mastery team has good ne...
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:30 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 14ga capacity electric shears $100 shipped limited time.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 274
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:38 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: First project, a bit stuck...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 605
First off, welcome to the archive, Aergis. I'm a newbie as well, but I have raised a few things. I can offer a few (but not many) pointers. First off, go watch every single one of Eric Dube's videos. You can find most of them here. Seriously - they are the absolute best thing on the net for a beginn...
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Stretching warmups may be bad for you
- Replies: 14
- Views: 573
Stretching warmups may be bad for you
It sounds counter-intuitive, but may be true. [quote] Stretching: The Truth WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching...
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:16 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hot working aluminum?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 325
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Soon to be FS BAS 1370-1400
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1185
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Midrealm Crown List
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1896
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New vambraces, and an epiphany
- Replies: 7
- Views: 520
Do that bouging; you'll never regret it. Don't mess up your nice work so far with a case of the hurry-ups. The problem is that I'm not very good at it. Once I get the major lumps worked out and I'm left with the smaller ones, all it seems that I do is to move the smaller ones around. I can't make t...
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:13 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New vambraces, and an epiphany
- Replies: 7
- Views: 520
New vambraces, and an epiphany
Ok first off, the picture. Here's my new vambrace I made. 4130, .040 construction. She goes into the oven this weekend. Why .040 instead of something lighter? Because I got gorillaf*cked in the arm at Aethelmearc war practice this year. My fault, but it still happened. I was sword and board in the l...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:17 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 4130 heat treatment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 395
Wire wrapping can work to prevent edges from flaring- think of a greave wrapped like a cocoon. If you lace wire through the rivet holes you can reduce twisting too. It's not as solid as a bar stock frame, but for thicker pieces it can work well. Ah, ok. I get it. Sort of a quick-and-dirty brace. Th...
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:28 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 4130 heat treatment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 395
- Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:29 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 4130 heat treatment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 395
There can be some issues there with warping because the quench is pretty fast, but if you're careful about how you insert the piece and brace it the warping can be controlled. For thin pieces of plate the warping appears to be more a function of the force of the quenchant against the piece than it ...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 4130 season again
- Replies: 76
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- Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:44 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Favorite Melee Pics
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1404
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:35 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Favorite Melee Pics
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1404
This one is my favorite. Pennsic, 2003, field battle. I'm out there somewhere. My wife took this pic.
Large, but that's part of what makes it great.
Large, but that's part of what makes it great.
- Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:16 pm
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- Topic: REVIEW -- Steel Mastery Helm, shoes, and buckles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 373
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:00 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you pad bazubands?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 501
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:28 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hinges?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 761
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:38 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Cutting Designs Into A Helm?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 772
you drill out the bulk. To get, say a rectangle your drill holes do this 00000000 (but overlapping) then you use the file to take out the ^^^^^^ along the side that are left over. A good description. You can see a bit of that technique in Eric Dube's hinge making video, here: m He also does it a bi...
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Full body complex.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 691
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: propane forge re-visited
- Replies: 11
- Views: 411
Maeglin Oronar wrote:I nabbed this image a while back...
Interesting idea - I think that's what Eric Thing is using in his Norman helm tutorial.
Head to page 2.
http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor ... _index.htm
Edit: More pics in the Eric Thing's Shop thread:
http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor ... _index.htm
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:38 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: WTB Master Knutt aventail
- Replies: 5
- Views: 233
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:14 pm
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- Topic: Review wanted for Tentsmith
- Replies: 20
- Views: 387
I dislike Tentsmiths immensely. Two campmates of mine bought pavillions from them two years ago. They show up with *no poles* - those are extra if you read the fine print. Surprise! And with only two weeks to go until Pennsic. Ok. So we make poles and set the tents up. Not a bad design, fairly nice ...
- Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:52 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 4130 season again
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1840
- Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:42 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 4130 season again
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1840