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- Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wallace Buckler A318 Wallace visit shots and thoughts 8/26/1
- Replies: 28
- Views: 939
Re: Wallace Buckler A318 Progress UPDATE 8/12/15
The images on the Wallace drive give some clues on the fabric but much of this is supposition. I happen to work at a museum so I asked our Textile conservator to squint at them and give me an opinion. She thought it might be what is called a "Rep" fabric. This was a new one for me. https://en.wikipe...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wallace Buckler A318 Wallace visit shots and thoughts 8/26/1
- Replies: 28
- Views: 939
Re: Wallace Buckler A318 Progress UPDATE 8/12/15
Now on to the liner leathers and fabric. Here I was kind of shooting blind with only the pics from the Wallace USB drive to guide me. I had to make some assumptions on leather thickness, rivets and washer size, fabric choice. As with every step I go back to my test pieces and try some things until I...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:09 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wallace Buckler A318 Wallace visit shots and thoughts 8/26/1
- Replies: 28
- Views: 939
Re: Wallace Buckler A318 Progress and musings
Got this complete before Pennsic and am just now getting to process the photos running up to its completion. Here goes! The hook was made out of some 1/8" plate I had lying around. The original was probably drawn out of larger stock and flattened where it was needed. The details on the hook are cut ...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Study Session 2015
- Replies: 125
- Views: 1844
Re: Study Session 2015
I am currently renewing my passport. I don't know that I can (emotionally) pay $1400 to ship things that will fit in free luggage on a flight. Assuming I do book a ticket, sure. I am happy to look at things. Wade I understand completely! I'm shocked at the estimate. Does it get an "Art" designation...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:43 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Kydex wisby gauntlet kit
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1095
Re: Kydex wisby gauntlet kit
It does explain that there is a market for plastic out there in HEMA though. I'd be wary on 1/8" ABS having the rigidity to do it without some introduction of heat formed ribs or edge shaping. Too much flex is a bad thing when trying to protect hands. And lest I sound too fussy, my first pair of ga...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:28 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Study Session 2015
- Replies: 125
- Views: 1844
Re: Study Session 2015
I will have all of the new stuff. I really will. At the moment, I don't know quite how... The estimate for shipping came in at just over $1400. For shipping. If I agree to be part of a consolidated shipment to save on costs. Really? $1400 for shipping? Wade Sounds like a plane ticket budget! :lol: ...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 3:30 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Kydex wisby gauntlet kit
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1095
Re: Kydex wisby gauntlet kit
You are not allowed to wear metal armour in HEMA because you are allowed to grapple your opponent. Imagine getting hit in the throat with a 16ga steel gauntlet during a tumble... I and my 1560s articulated gorget are fine with that ;) I think Sean M's description of tribe recognition is pretty clos...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:58 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: FS Small Stakes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 323
Re: FS Small Stakes
I'll take #1 if it is still available. Rob Don't you have enough stuff Rob. :P That is a nice snag! Al, you are a very bad man for tempting us all with these before Pennsic. I've turned away as best I can but it has been hard! Hopefully that means that they will get to more needy homes rather than ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weight of the 'go-to' general purpose raising hammer
- Replies: 24
- Views: 485
Re: Weight of the 'go-to' general purpose raising hammer
The hammers in question seem to come from here http://www.metalsmithing-tools.com/#!metalsmithing-hammers/c5ov Mac He does beautiful work! Of which I am completely unprepared to pay him for. :lol: Those are art pieces to me. Not work horses. I'd cry the first time I dented it on a hardened weld.
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:09 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weight of the 'go-to' general purpose raising hammer
- Replies: 24
- Views: 485
Re: Weight of the 'go-to' general purpose raising hammer
Valdred Those hammers are very beautiful, but like everyone is saying, they are too heavy for the job. I also have grave doubts as to the suitability of that style of handle for a hammer of that size. I think you are setting your self up for trouble. Mac I agree. Those handles look like they may wo...
- Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:00 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Interesting & Fun Tourney Format
- Replies: 16
- Views: 404
Re: Interesting & Fun Tourney Format
Sounds good!
I love round robin or bear pit style tourneys where you get all you can fight. Conditioning really shows by the end.
Nothing worse than a double elim and done.
I love round robin or bear pit style tourneys where you get all you can fight. Conditioning really shows by the end.
Nothing worse than a double elim and done.
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Finally finished my spun top
- Replies: 6
- Views: 257
Re: Finally finished my spun top
Sasha_Khan wrote:Okay, that is really cool, and I **LOVE** that you have it set up in the 'resting pushed up on the head position.
Yeah, I do as well.
Clever Schreiber!
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 233
Re: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
Booooo! It is the Devils metal.Iain mac Gillean wrote:Stainless
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 233
Re: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
Harry Marinakis wrote:Fluid Film
I've heard good things about that product! Have not gotten a chance to use it myself. Gun oil, I have in spades...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:29 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 233
Re: Storing Armor in Plastic Vacuum Packs / Bags
I have a fair amount of success keeping my blued steel from rusting by keeping them in terrycloth bags (old towels) sprayed down with gun oil inside.
Fight, lay gear out in the sun to dry(if possible), mist with gun oil, then put in oil bags.
Fight, lay gear out in the sun to dry(if possible), mist with gun oil, then put in oil bags.
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:54 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Sales Morion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 267
Re: Sales Morion
wcallen wrote:Only four? I have more than that. Mostly somewhat different shapes.AlvarGuerrero wrote:That is a beautiful piece! If I didn't already have four of them this would be way more tempting!
Wade
Yeah, but yours are really old and some of them are rusty.
Nice work Greg! Is the bowl welded or raised?
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:41 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Introducing Myself + Pics of Completed Armor Projects
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1103
Re: Introducing Myself + Pics of Completed Armor Projects
Welcome! Looks like you have been busy. Wish I had the internet when I was getting started. All the info is at your fingertips right here on this site. Looks like you have access to some decent tools for cutting and welding but the work featured is devoid of much of the curves we are used to seeing ...
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:53 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hans Prunner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 239
Re: Hans Prunner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
You have made the big time! Front and center. Congrats.
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:52 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Study Session 2015
- Replies: 125
- Views: 1844
Re: Study Session 2015
Wade, Would love to come down again, depending on the date. Going on a real vacation with the wife the week of the 21st. So earlier in the month would be cool. Does anyone have any objections to Labor Day weekend? Rob We have a local event that I need to be at to support some things my household is...
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:02 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1580s Spanish/Continental harness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 320
Re: 1580s Spanish/Continental harness
I like where you are headed with that rig! Very nice garb underneath as well. I'd offer a couple observations if you want some suggestions from afar. From the wear pattern it looks like your shoulder armour is conflicted on whether they should be munions or spaulders. Munions would ride under the ed...
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:21 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: WTB Garb in the Maryland / Arundel area
- Replies: 2
- Views: 97
Re: WTB Garb in the Maryland / Arundel area
You could contact the Chatelaine of Dun Carraig. They try to have garb at events for folk who need it. Barony of Dun Carraig Mistress Mary Isobel of Heatherstone (Leesa Marie Orton) 301-872-0030 (before 9 pm please) Here is the roster of all of them just in case the event is somewhere else in Atlant...
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Selling wedge riveted stuff
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1523
Re: Wedge riveted stuff, checking interest
So I've got some wedge riveted maille supplies that I'm just not going to use. Lack of time and all that. I have about 10 pounds of riveted rings, 10 pounds or so of solid rings, the yoke and start of a sleeve to a hauberk for a bigger dude and a standard that just needs some repair work. Setting p...
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hardened and Hardenable Metals Suitable for Making Armour
- Replies: 120
- Views: 8591
Re: Hardened and Hardenable Metals Suitable for Making Armou
I redid the whole process, seems to have worked on a pair of elbows. I also had a set of splint hand plates in the pile of things I was treating. They still didn't seem to take a good temper, I can bend them easily by hand. I think I may have figured out the problem. I made a set previously by plac...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:09 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Questions about this site
- Replies: 15
- Views: 456
Re: Questions about this site
It is a bit of a pain to upload pics to this site but MANY sites have limitations on this to keep from overloading their servers with other peoples content. I keep a photobucket account expressly for that purpose. Thumbnails fit the AAs image restrictions and drive the actual views of the big pics t...
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:46 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Helmet for heavy rapier conversion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 144
Re: Helmet for heavy rapier conversion
The morions and burgonets I have converted trended on the small side. The Burg I rebuilt from the ears down to accommodate my neck length. One thing to look out for with morions and cabbasets for C&T is back of the head protection. Depending on neck length and how it sits on your head it may need a ...
- Wed Jun 03, 2015 11:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 15th C. Italian rerebrace question...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 270
Re: 15th C. Italian rerebrace question...
I used to have full-wrap rear-braces and cut a lot of it away for SCA combat. They would collide with the breastplate and while minor loss of flexibility might be acceptable in life vs death protection, it's not so important for sticks. I do prefer then to go at least as far forward as the edge of ...
- Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:07 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Hobnails and Cleats, how dangerous are they?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 476
Re: Hobnails and Cleats, how dangerous are they?
Anecdotally I know several people who have damaged their knees when cleats gave them too much traction while twisting. Kept the foot pointing one way while the rest of the body tried to go the other and POP. One stepped in a hole on the field while swinging his sword and the other got tangled up in ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:21 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Hammers For Sale
- Replies: 5
- Views: 249
Re: Hammers For Sale
Seconds if the sale doesn't work out for any reason. 
- Sat May 30, 2015 6:44 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Advice on Hiding Ugly Plastic Bearpaws?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 651
Re: Advice on Hiding Ugly Plastic Bearpaws?
Now with ugly-ass pictures! http://i.imgur.com/StKkjDT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fwff9gc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/F1FeUxu.jpg Yep, those are ugly! :lol: Starting with black plastic would help as Losthem said. But that shape combined with hockey/lacrosse gloves will never have a period silhouette. Coveri...
- Sat May 30, 2015 8:51 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Looking for hammers.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 392
Re: Looking for hammers.
Well would prefere to not modify anything to begin with ^^ Clang: send you a PM, dunno if you've gotten it. Then expect to pay for what you cannot do. ;) Probably 50% of my working hammers are altered from their original form. Many ballpiens have been sacrificed to the armour gods. I love finding o...
- Sat May 30, 2015 8:41 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Torch recommendation for hot raising?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 284
Re: Torch recommendation for hot raising?
Time to look for a gas saver... :) -Jeremy It will pay for itself quickly! Make a secure stand that will hold up to the leverage of the hose and torch weight. Mine is a tube upright mounted on a brake rotor. If I was going to make it again I think I would put it on wheels though. The gas saver gets...
- Wed May 27, 2015 11:54 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Inspirational Equality" returns
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1867
Re: "Inspirational Equality" returns
(This IS the guy who has banned fencing as a Crown a couple times, no?). Isn't doing anything but individual combat with rattan specified for Crown at the BOD level? I don't care who fights for who. Seems like non romantically involved couples outnumber the romantically when it comes to Crown appli...
- Wed May 27, 2015 9:24 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Inspirational Equality" returns
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1867
Re: "Inspirational Equality" returns
(This IS the guy who has banned fencing as a Crown a couple times, no?). Isn't doing anything but individual combat with rattan specified for Crown at the BOD level? I don't care who fights for who. Seems like non romantically involved couples outnumber the romantically when it comes to Crown appli...
- Tue May 19, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wallace Buckler A318 Wallace visit shots and thoughts 8/26/1
- Replies: 28
- Views: 939
Re: Wallace Buckler A318 Progress and musings
Thanks Guys! It's been a fun project. On with the show. The standoffs used for the center oval are pieces of brake line. Disapointing, I know, but I had it lying around from when the brakes failed on the Grand Cherokee... I'd imagine the originals are probably just curled metal strips. The Wallace p...
- Tue May 19, 2015 10:52 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wallace Buckler A318 Wallace visit shots and thoughts 8/26/1
- Replies: 28
- Views: 939
Re: Wallace Buckler A318 Progress and musings
Wades right. The weights don't lie. I had always assumed they were solid as well until I put the bare buckler on the scale. Without the catchers and the belt hook it weighs 2 lbs. I only have around .65 lbs to work with to stay in the range of the original. All that bar stock would add up in short o...