The Armour Archive

Alcyoneus

Armoured Air Bear wrote:Cool I just made my first Kestrel today!!!!!

Aaron

How long did you have to sit on the egg?

Alcyoneus

That depends on what you are going to make with it.

I bought some bread the other day, will it work for a feast I'm planning on? That question gives just as much information as yours did, and tells no one anything.

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I never believed in things that I couldn't see. If I couldn't see it, how could it be?

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Made by Master Glendour for Duke Martino a few years ago: http://web.archive.org/web/20050207000718/www.talonarmory.com/products/helms/martino-helm-10.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20050207014232/www.talonarmory.com/products/helms/martino-helm-3.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20050207011759/www.tal...

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The shipping to an APO would be much cheaper, maybe not as fast, but perhaps they can still do something like the Express Mail, and get it to you quicker.

But even shipping direct would save you money over local costs.

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Stone is great for pictures. One example I have heard was that he was in some 3rd world country, and asking a local their name for a knife. He held it up and asked "What do you call this?" "Its a knife", they replied. He held up a different knife, that appeared different to him a...

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Much thanks to our favourite SmartAssNativeSpeaker[TM]

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All steel is carbon steel.

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The English often dismounted to fight, but I don't think they would have done that if they were getting overrun by cavalry.

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Parthians long before the Mongols...

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My guess is that this is a Russian anvil, and much better than the chinese Crap they sell. Grizzly Tools has some nice looking anvils, I just didn't want to spend the money on one the last time I was in Springfield. I have a 220#, and a couple railroad ties...so do I need another?

So what!

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Can you find one of these in your area?

http://dewitt-tool.com/store/deburringt ... on90d.html

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Drop a Bucky Ball on it. Bucky Ball: "It is the roundest and most symmetrical large molecule known to man. Buckministerfullerine continues to astonish with one amazing property after another. Named after American architect R. Buckminister Fuller who designed a geodesic dome with the same fundam...

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I think the transparent alluminum for grills would be more feasible for high-tech armour. Potential uses listed in the article I read including wear plates, bearings and such. Brian Things may have changed since then, but c1986 that wasn't available in the US. It was apparently available only in Sc...

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I'd use one of these:
http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.e ... mid=587176

You can use all sorts of polishing/deburring media (anything from corncob to stainless steel shot).

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Anvils.

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Sir Gaston wrote:There is alot not quite right on that suit.

More than 'not quite', I think.

Alcyoneus

M. Cross is the anti-Ugo, isn't he?

Just do the opposite of whatever he tells you.

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I was thinking it was Monsieur Cross's head, since Ugo is always talking about 'his muse'.

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That is a tremendous idea.

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He is lucky to have a friend like you.

He may not appreciate it as much now as he will later.

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Louis de Leon wrote:Did nobody notice that Ugo has a severed human head in his toolbox?

Doesn't everyone?

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Sir Gaston wrote:ahhh actually reading....

I was having difficulty with speed reading until I started getting books with more pictures.

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Which are depicted fairly often in 15/16th C manuscripts.

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How about shoes? I remember being told by a well known shoe researcher that there was one person in Switzerland making leather using authentic medieval techniques.

No, most people can't afford the 'real' leather for their shoes.

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Use green bone, not cooked. Horse cannon bones are supposed to be about as dense as they come, short of ivory.

Bone dust is bad, yes.

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Go with the red ones, Mac Thamhais, you'll be the coolest kid on the block!

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Ditto.

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It is kind of like Legos made out of canvas.

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Guy Dawkins wrote:Isn't there supposed to be a current set of the rules at the list table?

At least here, the MIC is supposed to have a copy with him. That way he can show you the rule in print, rather than have you wonder if he made it up.

Alcyoneus

I think I was able to force mine through about 5" of 0.050" annealed 4130 before it wouldn't go any further.

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At least we now know that 'neck' means 'neck'. And there were people that argued that it didn't mean the whole neck...

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Baskethilts existed in Europe.

There were quite a few types of swordguards in the late 15th-16thC's that protected the hands, but would be expensive to reproduce, and give the same coverage as baskethilts do.

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There were 16thC Englishmen and women who reenacted Rome.