The Armour Archive

Thomas H

I noticed it was quite smooth. strange.

Thomas H

aww shit, that's just magic

Thomas H

Damn, a fraction of the raising ability Patrick has would do me fine

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Thomas H

Hows about placing it neatly under contact on the right hand menu, slip in nice and neatly.

Thomas H

SO that's what Jorge looks like.

Thomas H

if in doubt, make it huge and trim back as you work.

Thomas H

still AND video pics, and lots of em too, you could do someting over here next year, like, say... MOVE HERE, the lot of you

Thomas H

Thats what got me itnerested in it, theres somethign about roman glass that is very appealing. Thanks for the hint anyway

Thomas H

K, thanks for the correction.

Thomas H

oo, a question about japanese armour i can answer. Whilst at the RA there was a small table with some idian crap on that i tried on. inside the helmet there is a long cord that runs isnide the brim, this hooks into the mempo by two hooks either side and all pulls tight under the chin. the tighter yo...

Thomas H

Sure, that would be super, mail away. it's thomas.hayman@gmail.com.

Thomas H

True, Christmas did come early this year

. The hand is fine, twitches every now and again but apart from that, all i have left is a lumpy scar

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Thomas H

Are we still eligible if we weren't going to go to pennsic anyway?

Thomas H

Cool, Thanks Hugo, interesting bit of history there.

Thomas H

i mean roman style glass at the end of it not the making part. nobody has moved it yet and you two seem to be the only people complaining. i'm sure if someone such as JT wished it moved, he would.

Thomas H

I see, thats kind of what i had in mind, i'm sure i can salvage some old victorian cat iron firegrate for the grate. does the glass sit dircetl above the charcoal or is it in some kind of pot?

Thomas H

Thanks for the help, a drawing would be super

Thomas H

Like.....? if i put it on off-topics its going to fall to the bottom, if i put it in the R&A boards, it won't fit beacuse it won't be historical research. its not fighting.

Thomas H

I know this is off topic but it is building stuff and i know many of you know about building kilns and furnaces. I recently gained an interest in blowing some glass, roman style. i have room for a decent sized kiln and would prefer to use wood/charcoal. Anyone got any ideas on kiln designs, basic te...

Thomas H

Ramona is sandy huh. just puled it up on googel maps and its house, sand, house, sand.

Thomas H

Jeff hedgecock is out in Ramona too i believe, he's over here at the mo though. You could try contacting his wife Gwen through www.historicenterprises.com

Thomas H

ignore the thing about holding the pein adjacent. meant to remove that. you'll see when you come to it

Thomas H

i'd try a cross pein from the inside and place one side of the V on a flat T stake. slow hammering with the pein adjacent to me and slowly turning the piece the way you want the curve. do this 8 or 9 times and then repeat on the other side of the V. bet that made no sense, right.

Thomas H

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/

Thomas H

i'd have introduced you but i assumed you knew each other being in the same town and on the same forum

. heres little ole me oop norf on me own.

Thomas H

you can if you want, don't have to though. i'll try and rustle up somehting to show this time

. Come in August to the jousts, you know you want to

Thomas H

Very cool, looks like a lot of work went into it. Regarding the liner, a stuffed linen liner sewn to a strip rivetted along the brow is the period solution.

Thomas H

oo, oo, Gothic miniscule. Gothic miniscule looks very cool if you get the right phrases. its just learning how to paint miniscule(s?). If you look at the writing around many pavises, that is gothic miniscule. Some good religious (because thats pretty much all they are) inscriptions (written in czech...

Thomas H

email the images to thomas.hayman@gmail.com and i'll put them up for you.

Thomas H

i'll get my sister to snap one of me to put up. so your a bun man then eh

Thomas H

well, not THAT huge. my meatloaf hair however is coming along a treat.

Thomas H

old enough to be around the original set of hippies then?

Thomas H

good idea, i'll try and get a pic of me in kit end of august. the only thing that changed since i had that photo done was to grow my hair and le me tell you, that image is much better.

Thomas H

aww, come on, that photo is like 2 years old, so old in fact, i no longer have them (or a soundcard).

Thomas H

i wish i had anything of value to take into one

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Slightly off topic - Glass blowing.