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Louis de Leon

Hot grits!!

What's a 36 x 72 sheet of .040 weigh? Or the .025?

Louis de Leon

WOW nice!

Lots of professional armourers aren't making pieces that nice, IMHO.

Louis de Leon

Here's the thing that I don't understand about this thread. Freiman posts some stuff. Then casually posts a picture of an attractive girl with blond hair and a pretty smile who is a top notch chef and event administrator who happens to be an expert marksman with an M-16 and is an opera singer and is...

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Thanks for the kind words everyone. Clermont, can't dish the lames to match the cops because the cops are hot raised. I could approximate it though. I'll probably do that next time. Edge on the demigreave was done by first hammering from the inside into a wood block with a notch cut into it with a r...

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Louis, what size rivets are you using on the articulation? I ask because it looks like they are 3/16", and honestly, with that many rivets, using 1/8" will drop you several more ounces in weight, and they will still be more than durable enough, and they will (IMO) look more proportional. ...

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Looks very nice. What are you planning for your next spring steel project? What kind of kiln are you using? My next project will be a set of floating soupcan elbows I'm going to match to a gambeson I got from steel mastery. Kiln is a homebrew Frankenstein's monster thing. It's a smoker I bought fro...

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Cedri wrote:Looking good, what ga was the steel?

.040 on the cop, .032 on everything else

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If they have been hacked - DO NOT go to the webpage. It could do nasty hacker type stuff to people who visit.

If you've seen the hacked page update your virus scanner and do a full scan.

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Ok, got my first full piece of 4130 armour done. Learned a lot while making this thing. Warped the knee cop twice. Had to remake half the pieces due to warpage and baking on scale. I did a *lot* wrong while making this. But the end result isn't too bad. Second leg is already fired in the kiln and aw...

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If they're still in the trash can take them out and take pictures. Post them here.

There are hundreds of trained eyes that will see them and tell you what went wrong. And maybe even how to fix them.

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Too good to let it drift off the main page just yet.

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then: So waves have to travel though a medium, light travels through a vacumn, ergo there must be this aether thing we can't measure yet, right? now: So there's this stuff that's messing up our gravitation calculations. Electromagnetic forces can't touch it, but it has to be there. Ergo, there's th...

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hrolf wrote:For something completely silly, look at page 7, near the bottom. This edition was written in pre-Einsteinian world.

Dude, look at my first post! Did I not predict this?

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Don't forget to check Craigslist - here's an oxy rig near me up in Cleveland: oxygen acetylene torch set gauges cart - $100 (Cleveland) Reply to: sale-715925505@craigslist.org Date: 2008-06-11, 10:49AM EDT This is a set of oxy and acy tanks, with steel cart hoses, gauges and torch. Tanks are empty a...

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what looks like a pretty thorough discussion is here (starting on or about page 555) : m. Absolutely fascinating find - many thanks for the link. And I think I understand the differing colors. Thomas was correct - I just didn't visualize correctly what he was saying. If you look in that book on p. ...

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Exactly, the thickness of the oxidation is what is changing the colour of the light bouncing through it. The temper colours are *thin*. Once it gets too thick no light penetrates and returns. Are you sure it's not something chemical? Like impurities in the oxidation or something like that? I mean, ...

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Can't answer all your questions, but I can answer a few. Finishing- how did you handle lining the tent, or painting, making tent poles? I made poles for two tents from Tentsmiths. If you have a decent table saw it's not too big of a deal. You'll need a friend to help you feed the lumber through the ...

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drahcir_dier wrote:Ok, sure, that information was almost completely useless, but hey! its fun to know

No! That's exactly what I posted the question for.

This is the kind of esoteric geeky stuff I live for.

Louis de Leon

When I do my secondary heat treating in my kitchen oven at 500F, my pieces come out purple. A few moments polishing and it goes away.

They get really purple if I've been cooking any greasy stuff recently.

Louis de Leon

Aha! Okay. So it's the outer layer of the metal oxidized. Essentially a quickly formed rust layer that peels off because it's cooling at different rates. That's why quenching hot stuff in water bonds the scale to the piece. It all cools at the same rate. And why a hotter flame makes more scale - mor...

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Always wonderful Eric - thank you again! By the way, my next project will be a 15c vambrace. I had absolutely no idea how to shape it until I saw part 1. I just couldn't visualize it at all. The shrinking you did is brilliant - I can't wait to try that! And for the music I liked the Henry Mancini be...

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Just what the title says. What is it? Where does it come from? Every time I heat up a piece and work on it, I get these very thin flakes that pop off the metal. You can see them pretty clearly in any Eric Dube video, too. Are they the outer layer of the metal burning off? Are they carbon deposits fr...

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He posted a little while back about what he's been up to.

Thread is here:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=82627

Doesn't make it easier, but it does explain things a bit. Hope it helps.

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Baron Alejandro wrote:I usually find 'blocking' to be the most effective.

One day I'll learn how to do it.

Melee practice, dude. Doesn't matter if you're Captain America - somebody is gonna hit you.

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Maeryk wrote:Vas ist?

This.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dit_da_jow

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Kilkenny wrote:Go for the homeopathic formulation taken orally, in preference to ointments that contain it. The ointments work too, but the oral is practically magic.

Ooo - I'm always up for more magic anti-ouchie stuff.

Can you recommend a supplier?

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Strange but true - I'm a believer. Had a buddy of mine pick me up a bottle. Put it on the shelf and almost forgot about it. Took a couple of fairly stout past-the-armour shots last practice. A good shot on my right bicep and another on on the outside of my left leg. So, I decided to try it out. Put ...

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Duke Icefalcon wrote:They do not make thongs.......yet.

Is this a guy who knows his target audience or what?

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Pics and I might order one. A neck cooler at the least.

I gotta get in an order to you anyways for some rattan anyhow. Been putting that off too long.

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Chuck Davis wrote:I use a straight or pin set punch to keep the vervilles from crushing the hole while riveting them in place.

Thanks for the tip - this was always a mystery to me.

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Monday morning bumpity bump bump da

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I gave up long ago the idea that the finish "going in" could be the finish "coming out". I do all but the coarsest sorts of grinding after the piece is hardened and tempered. This tip is worth it's weight in gold. Even if it was printed on granite. I spent some time today grindi...

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I can't live without my angle grinder.

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Here's a picture of the "bubbles" that showed up on these pieces. I'm 99.9% sure it's because I got the piece too hot. Earlier test pieces I only got into low orange - they didn't do this. Or warp, either. I went over a spot with some 120 grit sandpaper on my grinder to bring out a few of ...

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More pics

Spring steel 4130 leg - first one done! Pics

Mill scale - what is it?

Dit Da Jow