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I'd also recommend 5160. Admiral steel has all the prices on-line for blade steels. You could also forge one down from 5/8" round bar. Pricewise for a finished piece in that size....a lot. Where did y'all get "cold forged" from the original post? Stock removal refers to grinding down from an oversiz...

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Every now and then I see people looking for pics of these. I ran across an illumination which has a whole group wearing the round top ones. If there's interest, I'll scan it in and post it here for copying.

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Actually, "Death" is the other big monstrosity and was the first helm I ever did. This one was called the "Condom" because it looked like it had a resevior tip! (I left that tidbit off my website.) This was the second helm I ever did...but it looks far worse than the first! What you can't see in the...

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I guess this would have to be the ugliest... http://www.100megsfree3.com/kragaxe/helms/kraghelm.jpg (you have to do the stupid "?" thing at the end to see the image) I think the black and white captures the mood wonderfully! It has a 12 ga section over the front of a 14 top that was bent into a cone...

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Reading books about armour, Drawing/sketching armour, Maille (baby blanket, childs hauberk, etc...) Visit some museums and take some pics of armour, Aviod reading the off topic section when you get to those moody times http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . Congrats! ------------------ Krag vo...

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Bex, I got it. I had another of you, but that one is much better. The Viking guy rocks! Drake, Our 3 yr old liked barney for about three months. Same with teletubbies. I feel blessed! Now he's a Bob the Builder fanatic..which is ok. He was shooting the russians with his laser gun too while we watche...

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Under one Shaku, between one and two shaku, over two, etc... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif Here's a cool site that answers that and anything else... http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/nihonto.htm ------------------ Krag von Berghen KragAxe Armoury Member's Pics

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Well, it's been raining for about three weeks straight now. I haven't had a chance to work on blades and/or armour. I tore my old shop down the first weekend in October and still haven't finished with the new one due to weather... Since I haven't been able to do fun stuff, I've been doing admin stuf...

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Looks good. I wouldn't have used a hollow grind for a sword. Aside from cutting issues, a hollow ground edge is more prone to chipping and wrinkling and such. I would have put a wider, shallow fuller and a slightly convex grind for a Viking sword. With that narrow of a fuller, I'd have put a flat gr...

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Not bad pricing depending where it's shipped from. For the 0.032 1050, it came out to about $24 per 26" x 48" sheet if ordering 200 lbs or more. the only small quantity lots I found on 4130 were about $50 for 2' x 3' sheets!!??

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I usually get the "don't even think of sitting on the furniture until you clean up" speech. I'll be sure and bring the digicam to the ren faire next weekend! I'll be sure and tell my wife it's strictly a research endeavor for the archive http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif ! ---------------...

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Sheet metal hardens pretty easily since it is thin. I use oil for 1050 and still have to temper it. I'd start with oil on 20 ga sheet, even for 1040, and test it. If it isn't hard enough, try plain water, still not hard...do it in a brine solution. You can also add a few drops of dish soap to plain ...

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I host one every other Thursday. I tore down my old shop a couple weeks back and haven't been able to finish the new one due to weather, though. We should start up again thursday of next week if anyone in the Central TX (Bryan/College Station)region is interested. P.S. I plan on bringing some sheets...

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Seeing as how the electrode heats up quite a bit along the whole length...I can't imagine anyone holding it under their arm! I'm guessing the point was not to have your heart in the path of the current. If welding at night in high humidity watch where your grounds are. Kneeling in damp grass with yo...

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Nice job!Is that mild or stainless?

I had originally planned on having several sets made from spring steel for Three Kings...unfortunately, it's been raining for two weeks down here!

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Alcyoneus, I'm not using solder. As the copper and brass come to their melting points (actually brass is first), it will form a thin film of bronze as it starts to diffuse into the copper. As it diffuses, it forms a thicker and thicker layer of bronze. Bronze melts at several hundred degrees cooler....

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I have some silver sheet as well, but am waiting until I get a little more practice before that! I have a ton of scrap copper and brass. The prepwork is a bitch. With steel, you need it fairly clean, but the flux will take care of some stuff. With these, you have to have it absolutely smooth and cle...

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Hmmm....how about banding made from this? It's a real pain to make, but looks cool. You can actually heat the piece and turn the copper portion blue while the brass remains the same! http://www.100megsfree3.com/kragaxe/as/damascus/Damascus.html ------------------ Krag von Berghen KragAxe Armoury Mem...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Arundel: ..., even after I filled the handcannons 11" barrel half full of black power all I could get was an really deep dent with an ocassional small rip at the bottom... <...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Steve -SoFC-: Sounds very cool indeed. Bet it smelled like utter ass! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Would the udders smell like udd...

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I'm looking forward to the knife cd!

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I use venturi(atmospheric) burners. This way my forge is totally portable since I don't need electricity for a blower. Anyone who says you can't get to forge welding temps without a blower is full of crap. Check out Ron Reil's site for all sorts of burner designs. They're a bit tricky at first, but ...

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Look close and you'll see that it's a rotary shear. The "U" on it has a sliding mount used for positioning sheet metal. This was probably an add on. I'd guess it's only rated at about 1/8"-3/16".

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We could win a war with an army of noncombatants and never actually firing a bow/seige weapon. Of course, we might only be winners within our frame of reference...but if we set our boundaries correctly it shouldn't be a problem. In fact, we might not even need to show up. Hmmm...we could just procla...

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If it's T-6, it's already hardened/tempered. I don't recal exactly what the different T-XX treatments are though. I think T-6 is heat treatment and age hardening...the equivalent of "spring steel" hardness. Most aluminum sites will have the treatments listed (try alcoa and ryerson). 6061 should be t...

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Steel, brass, bronze? Where would they be getting mailed from?

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You can start with a deeper curvature, it just tends to wrinkle up on the edges more. My forms are worn to about 1" deep so it bends up the steel rather than stretches it unless the piece is already dished a bit to fit in the form better. Bending back the flares is no problem with mild steel. With t...

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If I had the money and space, I'd get the big spindle bore lathe he has and start cranking out gonne barrels!

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Shane,
Cool site! I like the 5-lobed set.

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Any knifemaker supply carries them now. Pick up a copy of blade magazine or knives illustrated and you'll see ads for them as well.

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Possible that the thieves knew what was in it? Was the place near the event? You're probably right about the snatch and run, but it couldn't hurt to keep an eye out at events. I had some stuff stolen back when I first started and it showed up three years later at a war practice left behind on the fi...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by diogenes: Just a minor correction. e=mc(squared) would be useful if you were going to achieve critical mass at the target, but what you want is ke=1/2mv(squared), where ke ...

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Breaking my nose with the grinder and getting road rash up and down from a wire wheel would have to be the stupidest!

Always make sure your bench motor driven tools are bolted down!

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Have you looked at the photo-essay that goes with the pattern? There's a few "tricks" to getting them to turn out right and you have to do things in a specific order. I dish into a 9 1/2" diameter of curvature form first (a basic helm dishing form). Next, I go to a 6" diameter of curvature form and ...

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With all those flutes in armour...does it whistle in the wind?

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pics of round top bacinets

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