The Armour Archive

Louis de Leon

Ok - I'm sure this is a really really dumb question. But I'm going to ask anyways. Not the first time from me, right? In this thread I was asking about what sander Eric Dube is using, what the discs are, etc. So I go out and buy a similar sander. So far, so good. The discs though. They are a problem...

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critter wrote::twisted: HELL!!!!!

Always was my favorite party at Pennsic. Fun fun fun fun fun!

I don't go to the large parties anymore, but if someone resurrected the Hell party I'd be there.

Louis de Leon

Maeryk wrote:Actually, I was thinking more Tazmanian Devil.

EVeryone get your "lure Vitus out of the house kit" ready.. you need a mop, a curtain, some lipstick, and a bear trap...

And an instructional video.

Louis de Leon

For the first time since I've joined the SCA, I really wish I was at playing at this level.

I'd fight like a demon for the opportunity to take a knee before my King.

Louis de Leon

I had a blast. I'm sitting in my cube right now, still sore with bruises up and down me. Still grinning. I only wish we'd have fought another bridge battle, darn it! I loves me some res battles. PS: Thanks for the invite Nissan, and I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to stop by your camp and hang out. ...

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Actually, I do not believe this is accurate. My understanding is the only reason this is happening is due to the freak timing of this event between Coronation and Crown Tourney. Otherwise, the Prince & Princess would become King and Queen and finish the reign off. But I'll have to double check ...

Louis de Leon

I've spent most of the day thinking about this, and figured I'd post my opinion. In the interests of full disclosure, I'm a near-nobody in the SCA politics-wise. But I have had some similar experience in other areas. Anyways, in an earlier part of my life a long time ago, I was once in a similar pos...

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Fantastic job. You should type this up as an essay and submit it to the AA essays area. Seriously - what you've got there is inspiring. You have the right amount of pictures, and it would be something we could point people towards who need it. You took ugly non-period looking plastic armour and mad...

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I'm an amateur, so please take my comments with a grain of salt. Gauntlets - best work you've shown. Your cuff is particularly nice. The articulation around the fingers is a bit gapped, but still very good. I doubt I could do better. Helm - nice shape. You should finish the face with some boughing a...

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Wow Jehan...just wow. It's like you were channeling Froissart. Fantastic.

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Already have a good hat but I had to drop in and say that your kit is awesome. Shame you're busting that up - you look great.

Where did you score that Churburg? I'd positively *love* to find that pattern somewhere.

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That's great news! So glad things worked out well for you both.

My mom had a triple bypass a half a dozen years ago. You'll be surprised at how much better she feels, how much more energy and vitality she'll have.

Louis de Leon

I'm guessing Syr Theo will be at Baron Wars this weekend. If you're having a difficult time getting a message to him, I could print something off and just hand it to him when I see him.

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Agnarr wrote:so basically space invaders?

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Josh K wrote:We just had two people recently authorize at the Gwyntarian practice

Cool! I might bring my new guy there sometime soon to authorize.

Louis de Leon

I love this site:
http://www.vitaporten.se/default.asp?pa ... s&pageid=1

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Nissan needs to chime in here. He's the man for destructive testing.

Louis de Leon

I'm going to be a bad guy here and say something unpalatable. The phrase "only the person in the armor should call the blows" is an excuse to allow cheaters to win. Yes, sometimes shots that look good aren't and sometimes honest fighters miss good shots. There are also fighters who have b...

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Can anyone point the way to it? What can a newbie trying to authorize in the Midrealm expect?

I've poked around the Midrealm website looking for it and I'm just not having any luck finding it.

Louis de Leon

Really, really fast! Google maps says you're 2 hours away. That means to make it in an hour I'd have to drive at about 130mph! Two guys with a trunk full of armour doing 130 in a Prius. Thanks for the invite though. I just don't think I could manage it with a four hour round trip time. IIRC, someone...

Louis de Leon

There's always the Cleftlands, but what do you do when it's the last week of the month and there's no practice? Or if your new son keeps you up until 4am every lousy Tuesday night like clockwork and you're so tired on Wednesday you can hardly stand, let alone fight? Plus, I've got a newbie. He needs...

Louis de Leon

Thanks everyone. Bout how long did it take you to do that? All told, maybe 7 or 8 hours. I work slow and my torch solution takes too much time to heat up the piece. Two hours of that was me fiddling around polishing it with my angle grinder and flap discs. 120 then 240 then 320 then 400. Most of the...

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Dishing is stretching, and thins the metal near the center of the dish. Raising scoots the metal uphill and thickens the metal near the center point, so I'm told.

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That bungee-bowling ball setup is brilliant! Nice work on the breastplate, too

Louis de Leon

Ok, this is my fourth attempt. I widened Sinric's pattern because I kept cracking the cop where it starts turning into fan. Seems to have worked! All I had to do was cut off the extra bit once I got the raising done. This is the first one I've completed that I like. The fan shape is off, but I had a...

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My head cannot turn per se since the helmet is bascially locked to the cuirass but I have some movement inside the hat. It feels quite protective! I seem to recall a few posts that may have been lost in the Great Purge about people who need this kind of rigidity due to previous neck injuries. This ...

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If you ever want to stop by the shop and do some work let me know. I can show you how this works and answer any other questions you may have about the fluting/planishing /raising process. My squire, Gwydion, who lives and holds an office in the Cleftlands will vouge for me. Yeah, Gwydion and I are ...

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Notice that the crease is deep and has a inward curve at the outside that decreases as it moves inwards to the body of the cop. Thanks. Yeah, I thought it might be something like that. So what I did was hammer a crease in (which I messed up - it looks bad) but it is shaped nearly correct. It's not ...

Louis de Leon

Always awesome Eric - thank you again!

Louis de Leon

I'm just not seeing it. Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at? I'm working on Sinric's 15th cent. legs. Pattern here. It's the pictures...I just can't tell the shape of the fan. Here's what I'm seeing. So in this pic: http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/legs_15thC_sinric/images/leg_15thC_back.jpg...

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Been all over the site, but I can't find directions. Any help?

http://www.blackstoneraid.org/

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Whenever I need to dry a tent I put it in my attic for a week. It's dry as a bag of popcorn up there. Maybe something like that would work for you.

Louis de Leon

Thanks for the update and for the clarification Alex. Hearing about how you handle your queue helps.

BTW, do you have any pictures of this custom order that you would be allowed to post here? I would love to see some steel-mastery custom work - you folks really do make beautiful armour.

Louis de Leon

I am so jealous I could explode!

Thanks for the videos! That had to be a lot of fun.

Sanding disc question

Midrealm authorization procedure?

Fighter practices near Akron, OH?

Knee cop raising - picture heavy. Comments welcome

Need help with knee fan shape