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- Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New Buckler
- Replies: 3
- Views: 310
Re: New Buckler
Very nice finish work!
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:39 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New 1560's "Augsburg" Gorget UPDATE 7/18/13 COMPLETE!
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5103
Re: New 1560's "Augsburg" Gorget UPDATE 7/18/13 COMPLETE!
Hey, that's my thumb! :lol: Wade and I had a good time comparing the two once I managed to get over there. There are, of course some differences. We picked it apart because that is how I can learn to make something better. Let me see if I can remember them all in their brutal honesty. Capped rivets ...
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:09 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: anyone got any stainless perf plate?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 181
Re: anyone got any stainless perf plate?
McMaster Carr ship to Canada? They had the perf I needed.
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:04 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Softening steel
- Replies: 19
- Views: 317
Re: Softening steel
Johann, It's like these guys have said, but worse. This is a piece of steel that has already broken in service. It might have other cracks in it already. I once tried making a dagger out of a piece of broken leaf spring that I found on the side of the road. It was a total waste of time. It was full...
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:05 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Softening steel
- Replies: 19
- Views: 317
Re: Softening steel
I've used rock drill stock to make forming stakes out of. They are high carbon and if not properly tempered can be very brittle.
It theory it can be done but as ID said I would be reluctant to make a barrel out of it.
It theory it can be done but as ID said I would be reluctant to make a barrel out of it.
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:02 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Gatalop
- Replies: 1
- Views: 270
Re: Gatalop
That was one of my first events and I have good memories of it! It is a great site to fight in.
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:10 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Armored Sport Combat"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1058
Re: "Armored Sport Combat"
i am the guy in the tan suit. my company shot this for luther about 14 months ago . i had a great time fighting sir wilhelm . it is not about chivalry, arts, or anything historical. originally produced as a full contact modern armored combat tournament offshoot of full metal jousting. some of you m...
- Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Show me your..... Belt sanders ( please )
- Replies: 39
- Views: 969
Re: Show me your..... Belt sanders ( please )
Yes, the tension arm rotates about the main power shaft. Good idea, but I could not get to the welder if it stuck out in the aisle. ;-) Wade and Eldrid both have theirs rotated 180 from that. Arm pointing down. It allows you to sight down the big wheel to see the grinding happen easier (to me) and ...
- Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:15 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Atlantian kingdom banner turned up on Ebay
- Replies: 8
- Views: 490
Re: Atlantian kingdom banner turned up on Ebay
Someone should buy it and gift it to their Highnesses upon their upcoming coronation... 
- Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:22 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Atlantian kingdom banner turned up on Ebay
- Replies: 8
- Views: 490
Re: Atlantian kingdom banner turned up on Ebay
That is weird. Looks brand new but made in 03. Said to be made by wife. Perhaps for someones reign but never used. There is no Soffya in the Atlantian OP. Perhaps a name refinement after this was constructed. A about 8 Sophias. Two of them Pearls or Laurels. I've got at least one Queens Guard tabbar...
- Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Cut and Thrust Experiences?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 405
Re: Cut and Thrust Experiences?
There is a lot of fun to be had with C&T. The Pennsic tourney was a blast! To me it is the closest thing we do to period SWORD fighting. Right now is still a period of teething with differening expectations. The biggest contradiction currently is that armour/protective gear is needed for for safety ...
- Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 605
Re: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
By the way I've always had a lot of luck with a single strap going from the web of your thumb to the cuff around the bottom of the meta. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=38076 That way little of the strap contacts the haft. I use 6-8 oz vegtan that's about 3/8" wide. That...
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:20 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 605
Re: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
RIGHT! :) I just don't know what that cost would be. If it would be more than the cost of the perceived value of the Gauntlets, I will just cut my losses, resell them and move on. :) One miilllion dollars! :lol: If I am looking at the same area you are, those are not cracks. The mitten lames over t...
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:11 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 605
Re: Rehab some guantlets? Worth the cost?
The nuts/bolts are the easy part really. You can drill them out fairly easily. Roofing nails are easy to come by and if you have a ball peen hammer, you can do the re-riveting yourself. Slight clarification here. I can do the re-reviting myself. I just don't want to. :) I would rather just pay some...
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Burgeonet cheek pates closure?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 258
Re: Burgeonet cheek pates closure?
Or the visor locks them in when it's closed. I have seen one, where the chin on the visor locked the cheek plates in, and the visor used a spring-button at the forehead to lock down. On an original? It would be neat to see. My Lobster pot is set up like that but I haven't found a good period refere...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:05 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: What tools should I make?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 298
Re: What tools should I make?
LOL, I feel your pain Joe. You know how I ended up with all those tools? Got tired of driving to my Knights house to get stuff done! :lol: You could acrue things in a project specific way or in a general armouring way. I'd make a list of what tools you use next time you come over and start with thos...
- Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:32 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Please read if you have purchased a helmet from Clang Armory
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1657
Re: Please read if you have purchased a helmet from Clang Ar
So you have been wearing this helm for several years (in the East Kingdom) with no dents in the bowl, have been perfectly happy with the performance with it and you are going to broadcast some "warning" now? As the other guys have said metal is generally sold by the sheet thickness it is bought. A g...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:51 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: building my first bastard sword
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1029
Re: home made bastard sword crossguard
I've made them from bike tires, rattan, steel. Pommels from lead, steel, Steel &lead 
There was an earlier thread about this you might want to search for.
There was an earlier thread about this you might want to search for.
- Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:52 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: pricing out the interest
- Replies: 20
- Views: 504
Re: pricing out the interest
FenianArms wrote:Guess its just me then. I don't play enough for any of the "perks" to affect me. I guess when I can only get to 2-4 events a year it just seems like too much.
Don't forget Porta potty rentals and servicing. Those things don't clean themselves!
- Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:46 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Meanwhile, on Ebay UK: hand made topless great helm replica
- Replies: 11
- Views: 332
Re: Meanwhile, on Ebay UK: hand made topless great helm repl
I thought it was so that you could see the Clown mask
- Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:19 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Angle Grinder Question
- Replies: 19
- Views: 353
Re: Angle Grinder Question
Bosch are nice! So are Metabo. But expensive!
I own a Hitachi and a Dewalt I found in the road.
I suggest anyone looking to buy one on a budget try to buy used from a pawn shop or such. Don't pay more than half the price of new.
I own a Hitachi and a Dewalt I found in the road.
I suggest anyone looking to buy one on a budget try to buy used from a pawn shop or such. Don't pay more than half the price of new.
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:21 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: What Modern armorer mark has a crown over a capital "T"?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Re: What Modern armorer mark has a crown over a capital "T"?
Eldrid Tremayne?
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:24 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Stick fighting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 779
Re: Stick fighting
Hey, if it is documented, "its period!"Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Delete this before the serious re-enactors have a chance to read it.
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:21 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Fluting Tutorial?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 661
Re: Fluting Tutorial?
I have worked both ways. At this point, I tend to work from the outside, except when I am working deep into the body of thick material. Then starting with a dull chisel from the inside gets me a start. And remember, alignment of the tooling is important in getting a nice line. Like this: http://www...
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Hanging your legs" question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 452
Re: "Hanging your legs" question
Its a personal thing. Most important thing is what works for you. We hang them on a single point located in line with the hip socket. I've found that multiple points cause the leg harness to ride up and down while walking as the slack of each is taken up with the swing front to back. Try it, you'll ...
- Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:01 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: The War Shouldn't Be Over in June
- Replies: 86
- Views: 2430
Re: The War Shouldn't Be Over in June
"Conceding the war points" has been done and that didn't work either, and pissed a lot of folks off. I'm not sure what the solution is at this point. I'd suggest that for senarios that there are multiples of like Bridges and Field that the first one be for the war point and actually go off ON TIME....
- Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:23 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Stick fighting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 779
Re: Stick fighting
Hmmm maybe we need to reinstitute the Kazub and circle. 
- Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:37 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Pennsic pics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1758
Re: Pennsic pics
Nice work Ursus! It was great to see you at war. Your pictures make me homesick already.
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:25 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: So, who did this?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1287
Re: So, who did this?
I CAN'T SEE MY SHOES!
The loin cloth really ties it all together.
The loin cloth really ties it all together.
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:09 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 16th/17th century horse tack
- Replies: 14
- Views: 220
Re: 16th/17th century horse tack
There was a bunch of horse stuff on a flicker account recently posted somewhere on here. From Madrid.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98015679@N ... 611427266/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98015679@N ... 611427266/
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:30 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Living History Experiment at Pennsic?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
Re: Living History Experiment at Pennsic?
I saw Ercc several times throughout the War. He was very inspiring. It really added to my medieval experience to run into a silent monk on the way to the rapier woods battle. My understanding is that he spoke about 8 words throughout the War. I also heard he went to the hospital for kidney stones a...
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 12:52 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Lots of armor for sale - arms, legs, helmets and MORE
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2913
Re: Lots of armor for sale - arms, legs, helmets and MORE
I will take the SS voiders.
Sending PM
Sending PM
- Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:10 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Big Balls at Battlemoor (Outlands event)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 751
Re: Big Balls at Battlemoor (Outlands event)
Perhaps that is the weight without the hook ?Thomas Powers wrote: I think you can see the 100 cast into the ball; though when we weighed one it weighed in at 106 on the scrap yards "buying" scale (unlikely to weight heavy!!!)
Wish one of those would fit in a "if it fits it ships" USPS box.
Nice find!
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:51 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Fishy listing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 455
Re: Fishy listing
Um yeah, that is not rusty.
Though who ever wore it last needs to start blocking their legs. The centers of the lames apppear to be worn clean of rust from the time spent fighting from their knees!
Though who ever wore it last needs to start blocking their legs. The centers of the lames apppear to be worn clean of rust from the time spent fighting from their knees!
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rust care on mild steel
- Replies: 23
- Views: 562
Re: Rust care on mild steel
As others have said- I use gun oil. All my stuff is blued so I do not want to rub it down with anything that might get grit in it and ruin the finish. But the best thing you can do for your armour is make bags that you can place the individual parts in once you coat them with your chosen rust preven...