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Uilleag

Those are beautiful! Nice work. The tooling came out nice and crisp!

Want a job?

Uilleag

Uilleag

Torvaldr, I think the problem may be that the scales are far enough down the page of your site that on just about any browser your customers will have to scroll down to see them. Since you have a place to host your pictures, you can post them right here. This may help you some. You can post them her...

Uilleag

Doug, I've made a few of these out of leather. The odd shaped folks are the most fun to work for. I'm not sure that a lorica is the best choice for your customer. With the waist demension being larger than the chest demension, the only way to get it to work is if you over-lap and articulate the lame...

Uilleag

Links fixed!

Uilleag

Pardon our progress......working on site currently....got new gifs

Uilleag

Uilleag

There have been merchants that have provided them in the past, GAA comes to mind, among others. The problem isn't the market, the problem is keeping them in stock because they sell so quickly. GAA was going through resupply shipments so fast that he hardly ever had stock left for the table at events...

Uilleag

You all are quite welcome. It is pleasure itself to share what I know with others. It is my hope that if we all share what we have learned in our own foibles and follies, more of us will be able to avoid them. When I first started learning leather craft, there were few to pass on to me what I know a...

Uilleag

what state?

Uilleag

Greetings all, Please come and check out the changes to House of the Wolf Leather! While you are there, if you see anything that catches your fancy, or if you just have questions about leather armour, please contact me through the contact section on the last page of the site. Take advantage of my "C...

Uilleag

Frank, Torvald, (sp?) sells leather lamellar plates through his online armoury. Check out his web site. He offers all sorts of different shapes with a pre-punched or not option. So, I think the answer to your question is, yes there is a market. Someone beat you to it, but competition is what free en...

Uilleag

Greetings all!

I remember how popular my shovel greave essays were and so I consolidated them and posted them all on my web site. Please fell free to come look at it. I have posted it on my "Gallery Page". In case you don't see the URL on my sig block, its: www.houseofthewolf.com

Uilleag

I have been wearing my riveted maille for about a year and a half. It is made to the exact same specs as SoF's maille, total weight is about 20 lbs. I have incorporated leather trim around all of the edges to keep it from fraying and it has worked wonderfully. I wear a pleated wool liene under the m...

Uilleag

I understand what you are asking just fine, Dmitriy. If you follow the steps for heating as I have laid them out, you shouldn't have any distorition at all. What cause's shrinkage and distortion is too much heat, Or if the leather is too wet when heat treating begins. If you are unsure of the accura...

Uilleag

Uiellag, Are you coming to Kris Kinder again this year? If so, I could shoot some research material your way. I've got a pic of an extant 14th c. rere brace and a few examples of cuir boili from bas-reliefs. If you got really serious about it, I'll bet you could figure out a way to make a mold to d...

Uilleag

Send the pics, but from what you describe I could make that easily. Email me at the address on my profile. Get the leg measurements I will need from my measurement chart off of my web site. Also tell me what color you would like. I think I have seen these with a ridge along the shin bone area when d...

Uilleag

Tex, I'm always interested in learning new ways to accomplish things. By all means please post your techniques. By sharing, we all learn. I learned a lot by posting the tutorial. It really made me think my way through the whole proccess. I was amazed that there were 21 steps involved in what I consi...

Uilleag

Day 4) Steps 18 - 21 Step 18) Heat treating I set my oven at 180 degrees Fahrenheit and place the project on an aluminum cookie sheet. The aluminum doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t transfer the heat directly to the project so there is less chance of scorching. At this point the project should still be damp but not so...

Uilleag

Strongbow wrote:14th century Schynbalds..... I'd buy those.

Strongbow

Educate me Strongbow, what is a 14th cen. Schynbald? Seriously, I have no idea.

Uilleag

My next major research and development project will include, tooled or embossed arms, tooled or embossed legs, and a cuirass. I'm also toying with some splinted legs and arms, to go a little later/transitional. There is a lot I would love to do, but I am a business man. Without a wealthy patron, I d...

Uilleag

I was refering to the silliness at the knighting ceremony. We have spoken about the accusations that happened on the archive in person, I know about that sad situation.....if not first-hand. I thought that you were joking, I just wanted to confirm. No need to start another round of silly rumors. Res...

Uilleag

Your Grace,

I hope that you are joking.

With respect,

Uilleag

Not to disrespect the good man's lienage or heraldry, but the cow print is a bit too shtcik for a Crown List, IMO. I understand that with the most recent unpleasentness in the Out Lands, a certain amount of humor is a good thing, but such displays take away from the seriousness of selecting a Royal ...

Uilleag

Trevor, That's the plan for December / January. If you would like a pair sooner than that, you could of course order them. Seriously, I have been planning on putting a pair of 14th century arms together before the mid-west armourer's guild meeting in January. Just have to get the current load of com...

Uilleag

My roomate/girlfriend and I will be there!

Uilleag

Enough of the praise, lets have a contrary point of view. My biggest pet pieve is everytime I walk into his shop I get this over whelming smell of hammered steel. Feels like I'm in a foundry or something! Of course everyone knows the value of smelling like a leather tannery far exceeds that of a met...

Uilleag

I'm munchin on oreos and drinkin a 'nilla coke. Good enough?

Sides Roderick, what makes you think the misty eyed nostalgic effect isn't what I'm goin for?

Uilleag

Pricing is always hard to do. I feel that I over-price my stuff. Most of my customers tell me that they love my prices. I look at the competition, and I'm slightly lower priced than some. The formula I use is cost of materials x 3. This covers what you put into it, what you need to make more and the...

Uilleag

I've had someone mail me and tell me that two messages I sent had viruses. I never sent those messages. I recieved a message from another list and it had a worm virus on it. Tried to contact the person and the message bounced, saying that the recipient address didn't exist. Most be something floatin...

Uilleag

Paying for a domain doesn't necessarily mean that your sight shows up on search engines. My site was up for 6 months before it got an honest hit from a potential customer. Advertising here on the Archive helped a lot, as did typing up essays and tutorials. All of that helps build credibility. Your w...

Uilleag

I am currently engaged in the final steps of this process, I should the rest written up and posted by this evening. I feel that I must apologise at this point to Mass G. The pattern that I have used for this tutorial is the property of GAA Armouries, not my own design. Massa G has granted his permis...

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V, I can speak for Animal on this one, he used my technique of water casing, work hardening and then heat treating. The over-all project is then sealed with some form of leather finish, either kiwi shoe polish or mink oil, or something similar. Animal, you and Batu make me very proud with this first...

Uilleag

Uilleag, I guess you haven't seen the book "Celts, Europe's People of Iron"...Their iron working skills were better than the romans in weaponry; but the romans sure did a lot better in pumping out huge quanties of iron. Thomas Thomas, Thanks for the info on the book. No, I haven't seen it. Sounds l...

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Sav, The reference is to a video/computer game, called "Age of Empires". Cool game and the strategies / economics of it are prety fun, but I wouldn't put too much stock in the historical accuracy. The 'woad warriors' are a 'celtic' military unit in the game and they can throw axes. they are one of t...

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