The Armour Archive

Jeff J

Piers Brent wrote:
brewer wrote:This. Oh, THIS.

Mind if I nick this?

Bob

What does nicking mean?

Brit slang: steal

Jeff J

"Viking" Wooden streets:

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ ... ation/DBBC

Ya know - if you are going to make the floor wood, you might as well go the next step and make the walls wood as well.

Jeff J

Shortcomings of the written product aside, it's a decent effort at the physical product and demonstration of the effectiveness of cloth armor alone, and in combination with mail. Perhaps someone with writing skills, a modicum of tact and an innate sense of helpfulness could write her and be encourag...

Jeff J

Yeah, I have one of his viking ones. It's actually Swedish Jasper, I think. Great for a final touch-up on my carving knives. I also have a nice Czech hone for a scythe, which is really handy for touching us swords. I need to do a bit more research, methinks, to find an english source, or document im...

Jeff J

Does anyone have a source for European (preferably UK) whetstones?

Jeff J

Interesting... Hot wax... hmmm...

I just tried Keegan's hot-wax technique with the Renaissance Wax (microcrystaline). Will see how that holds up.

Jeff J

She should have done a little research. Into the customer base, here, I mean. Any Website with a "Historical Research" section is not likely the best place to be selling a product named "Medieval Celtic Viking Lord Surcoat".

Jeff J

losthelm wrote:I like my dewalt.
It took some time getting use to the speed control but it cuts like a champ.

My Dewalt had the (apparently common) problem of the switch going bad. Foot pedal is really the way to go with a scroll saw.

Re: Scroll saws in general - go for a small bandsaw.

Jeff J

Cat wrote:Oh, you didn't know? He ordered a $10,000 coffer. Said you wouldn't mind.

Cat

Shhh... It was a secret.

Well, at least I can stop hiding gold straps and gems, now.

Jeff J

Cat wrote:Thanks! I will be starting on Jeff's next.

Cat

Cool! If it happens to be here by the 20th, I can use it at MTA. (No pressure, though...)

Jeff J

No changes.

Size.

How big?

Centimeters

Jeff J

Egor,

- What are the measurements of this piece? People might be more interested if they knew it fit them.

Jeff J

+1 for Ragweed Forge.

Jeff J

[quote="Chris Gilman"]

I was going to cast faux wood beams, but as I want to fully paint and decorate them, I settled on the gutter material as it is a cheaper â€œskinningâ€

Jeff J

Wow there's a new Pennsic business right there. Rent a house for 2 weeks. just add a propane water heater, stove, and oven and a generator to operate a small washer and dryer and people would probably pay big bucks for that. Forget Pennsic. If you can fit it in a shipping container, with the suppor...

Jeff J

Yes, leather wears out. Shoes have always been a semi-durable item. You wear them until they are too bad, then you get a new pair. Well - not quite. You get them re-soled, or have what were known as "Clumps" added to the bottom - essentially a leather patch. Ditto on all Brewer said, as w...

Jeff J

However, they look a lot like the slip on crampon we see sold over here for use in the winter. I agree that on a semi-solid surface these won't last...yet on packed snow? I'm thinking they would work a treat. Still this is useless without tests... Yeah- on smooth ice, but still very short lived. I'...

Jeff J

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294/russell_smith93/forum%20source%20pics/nails.jpg I'm betting that they have never tried this out and that they have them it upside-down and the spikes actually go into the sides of a patten. There's no way that those thin cleat spikes would last more than a fe...

Jeff J

There's also a single strap cleat that is often found attached across the bottom of pattens, just under the ball of the foot. I don't add them because they'd really tear up a floor.

Jeff J

So don't relax. Go do some dangerous stuff at the resort. Go do some dangerous stuff OFF the resort. Take a diving class (sky or scuba), go into a bar and piss off some natives if you want a fight.

Jeff J

last I saw it displayed was back in a little niche - no rear view available. Maybe the museum has something if you contacted them.

Jeff J

One of my music teachers buys all of his wood here in the states (he used to live in LA and moved back to teach music at one of the technical colleges) - he said that even with the shipping and import tariffs, it was cheaper than he could get the same woods in Turkey... even the African woods. Migh...

Jeff J

An oud would be interesting, but I have no musical talent. My youngest seems to, though. Some period music pros were showing Char & I some ouds over the weekend that look very much like medieval lutes, and we might pick up an inexpensive one over here for him to play with, but buying one over th...

Jeff J

Is this the first time you've gone to Turkey and shopped? Yup! It's a work trip, but taking an extra day or two on my own nickle is allowed. If I can go elsewhere in my schedule, maybe I'll do so, but Ankrah is a big city, which I doubt I'll exhaust quickly. I talked to some friends who've been the...

Jeff J

Piers Brent wrote:I'm undergoing surgery to have a foreskin again.

Taking the extra skin from?...

Jeff J

If a fellow happened to be in Ankara for a few days, what reenactment goods might one want to look for? Silks, rugs, metalwork...

Jeff J

Sweet!

Jeff J

Cat wrote:You know, I've had pressure treated lumber give the same blackening effect. (was an accident - I hammered a piece of leather on the closest piece of wood to me - happened to be pressure treated - and I got the black mark) I wonder what chemical in the wood caused that?

Cat

Probably the copper.

Jeff J

Hey, what objects do we have documented for Goose wing bones? Flutes & Needle cases.... Anyone have images of objects?

Jeff J

Wear respiration protection.

Can't think of anything off the top.

Jeff J

E. Both A & C. I've had good luck with burnt boiled linseed, which ends up like a coat of brown/black paint, and I've had good luck with brownell's cold blueing, which leave a coat of black oxide in the metal. So, I'm doing my hackbut with brownells, THEN a coat of cooked boiled linseed. The lin...

Jeff J

Can't recall the source, but I recollect that these work better if you add a strip of leather between all of the seams when you put it together.

Jeff J

A wood worker, unlike me? Patten finds are generally of a wood type that's not much in demand for furniture or many other objects. Alder being one such wood, common in pattens, basswood/linden being another. What about the possibility that since so little furniture of the medieval period survives m...

Jeff J

radially split wood is very stable. MUCH more so than any sawn wood. I'm just looking at it from the point of view of a woodworker and I'm betting that while some small items were crafted from the start ( ie a tree) most were probably made from a stash of leftovers from other projects. I'm not sayi...

Jeff J

Euro-oak is supposedly easier to work than white. If the lid is hewn out as is being done in this project, then it's a whole lot better to be working it to approximate final dimension while still a bit green. Aside from the eas of working aspect, it'll dry a whole lot faster when thinned. Rule of th...

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