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white mountain armoury

Mine are from Wisby, Both plates are nice, mine have a little more overlap and i feel tangent tooling, the company that stamped mine did a nicer job, i hate to try and pitch my stuff, ive always let my stuff stand on its own, but i own 2 cuirasses made from each plate, i prefer mine of course, but i...

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If you read my initial post you will see the part about covering it with leather

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nice lines, and a very nice finnish, excellent

AB/WMA

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The conical helm is stainless, the round is mild, they both have the same level of polish. Neither is realy done untill their camailles are attatched. I was hoping to have the maille on the mild one by now, but i had to mess with some of the welded links, now i have about 35 or so links i need to we...

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bump away, they look nice

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Well Davids hat is pretty much done. I have to rivit the strap on for the maille, do a final clean and polish and done.
[img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/osp3.jpg[/img]
Hope you like it David, and do post a pic when you have the rivited maille attatched

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Very nice, quite attractive, nice shield as well

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Well my personna is not 14th cent, i am just adding a 14th cent harness to my personal inventory. Steve, just look in the hardware store for shelving, these are steel tracks that screw to the wall, shelf brackets with a tab hook into slots in the tracks, a board goes across the brackets, they are ve...

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My wife made me a 14th cent lentner and it is such a shame it never gets worn, so i am building an appropriate harness to wear with it

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[img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/heater1.jpg[/img] It only took 10 min to put this steel edging on my heater, and it only cost about 7.00 to do it Its galvanized steel, somewhere between 14/15 ga. Its the bracket strips for track style shelving, its "U" shaped with an inside diameter of 1/2 inch,...

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Ill let you all know about the pattern, got to give it some thought.
As for making the breaths straight i use fine line vinyl tape to mask of a grid to follow, the breaths are first made with a drill, and then made square with a file, making sure to stay in the tape grid.

AB

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[img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/omg.jpg[/img]

This is quite a departure for me

Im thrilled my wife finnished my doublet.

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Closer Ondart, closer
[img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/osp2b.jpg[/img]

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this thread no longer seems productive folks

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I did not make the helmet from 16 ga, by mistake i made the visor in 16, its on the table in the previous pic. Here is a pic of the helmet with the new visor, made from 14 ga. Odnart i had hoped to get the center strap and the breaths done by today, but the visor screw up set me back. Trick or Treat...

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Ill make an effort to weigh the harness and a pile of scales, i just dont own a decent scale

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The articulation cut you through woll chausses? I hope you are ok

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[img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/osp2.jpg[/img] Well Ondart, i figgured id be posting a pic of yours with the face mounted, but unfortunatly it was not untill i was almost done that i notice i used 16 ga instead of 14, so i had to start over :0 Its looking nice now, ill have a good long day on it...

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Dont it feel great when you make a score like that.
I had similar good luck last year. Gotta love new tools

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Well Ondart, i was hoping to have a pic of it finnished but im still sewing the maille. I had to cut a face opening in the aventail and i cut it to big http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/frown.gif Looks like ill be welding some maille tomorrow The strap worked out fine though so ill resume work on you...

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They are listed on my web site

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Vogeljager, a local fighter has first shot at this helm, if he does not want it ill put it on my instock page and let people here know

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I suggest the leather strap like the avantail spangens on my site.
I can attatch the leather if you want, Im going to attatch the once from you to this mild steel one tomorrow, ill post a pic and you can tell me what you think
Thomas, Ill come up with a price soon

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Im glad you like it Ondart, knowing that ill get right on yours in the morning
And no Otto, there is no slat reinforcement bar, but there will be tomorrow, and a few other finnishing touches

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Im glad you like it, i hope inspection went ok, no crest issues

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Thanks, i missed you at last thursdays practice, im not sure if ill attend this week, being halloween and all.

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I agree Vitus, it would be a wonderful event. I thinks Vitus's challenge was not a challenge with the intent to see whos group is better, but more of a challenge for the groups to put aside diff and accurate/inaccurate notions about each others groups and just get together to do what we love, learn/...

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This is the prototype for a helmet im building for a fellow archiver. This one is mild steel and has a round top. The final version will have a conical top (finnished) and be in stainless. In the morning i will attatch the welded aventail to this one, its made from 13/14 ga, the slats are 12. Once i...

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I dress welds usually with 80, the rest gets put in 120, then i use 150, 180,220, then i use an emery rouge on a sisal wheel. You realy dont need the 150, i just use it to stretch the life of my 180 belts. You can see examples of this level of polish on my site http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/wmahelm...

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Excellent job Matt !!

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Thanks for pointing that out Julian, a very valuable 2 cents worth of info.
I look forward to giving it a try.
On a side note where do you work, and to you do small runs, Ill be looking to have an item cast in the future.

I have not measured it Ideval, But im guessing 12/14 inches

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there is no such thing as a stupid question. As for a helm being more difficult if made from bronze i guess it would depend, If you made a bronze spangen or great helm (both unlikely in bronze http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ) It would be fairly easy, but you cant mig weld bronze, hte abo...

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The helemt is steel Halberds, Its then sealed with epoxy primer, painted in a deep chocolate colored paint, then painted with a bronze based paint, the bronze is then given its patina with copper sulfate/amonium chloride, Unfortunatly some of it managed to get into the primer and cause some rust to ...

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Im still working out a price list. Personally i cant afford to have runs of multiple materials, I definatly cant afford to have another run made in another material. If i do it will be a high carbon steel, i have no real intrest in mild or aluminum. [img]http://www.thegreenman.net/wma/lc1.jpg[/img] ...

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Its pretty massive Wulfgar, its cool, but made from 12 ga so its alot to have up on the top of your head.

Crusade take 2

Fast and cheap steel shield edging

New helm progress pics (crusade !!)