The Armour Archive

knitebee

nice crisp flutes, beautiful lines = awsome

Brian

knitebee

It is a great helm. It is not devastatingly period so I have plently of freedom to do whatever I want. I don't want to paint ANYTHING if I can aviod it. I am a horrible painter. I have some brass but I don't know what to do with it as far as lettering it. ETC Go to a local stationary store and get ...

knitebee

Aaron Schnatterly wrote:Hey, this *might* be the search for the emerald tablet... but it's the journey more than the outcome.

Exactly, thats why I'm going to think about it for a few days.

Brian

knitebee

Going to take me a little time to think of something new, I've dabbled in so much over the years.

Awsome challenge Aaron, and double awsome for everyone taking up the challange

Off to scratch my head....

brian

knitebee

For obscure and unusual, you have me. Who else armours not only people but also teddy bears and rocking horses. You wont find a website for me yet. I've only been doing this for more than a hobbie for a few months now.

Brian

knitebee

very cool, thanks for sharing

Brian

knitebee

personally I gain far more of my enjoyment in sharing what I have (shortfallings included) with others than in having those things, so I have to go with Experience over Material. Then again there has been more than once where I've only ate one meager meal a day so I could do both.

Brian

knitebee

Destichado, yes I built a make shift vacuum chamber that I can hook up to the house or shop vacuum, but it doesn't pull nearly enough vacuum to be worth the effort of using. Slaine, for resins and RTV for molds look at www.micromark.com under there casting catigory, they have a couple of different r...

knitebee

did your dad get you their bigger 3/4hp machine? My dad got me one last year, works great.

Now to your question http://www.caswellplating.com/ check the "Pick-A-Buff Helper" on the left side of the page.

Brian

knitebee

[img]http://members.armourarchive.org/knitebee/wax%20tablet/wax%20tablet10.JPG[/img]

knitebee

an update, I've made many more molds and casting refining both the details and my casting techniques. I've just a little bit more to do on the latest casting and I think I'll be ready to make a final mold and start casting. Also made a master, molds and castings for the pages that get wax, far simpl...

knitebee

I used to submerge my lead and pewter miniatures that had terrible paint jobs in some kind of goop... Very corrosive, then I tooth brushed the last bits off. It would eat the plastic bases away as well as the paint, wish I could remember what it was... smelled terrible, and gloves were kind of impo...

knitebee

Aaron based of the drawing you posted m the butt cap is attatched via a peined tank extension. Actually probably to big of a tang extension as I ground down the extension to about 7/16" diam, and wound up having to use the torch to pien it down decent. As I had allready attached the horn scales...

knitebee

Glad to hear you finally recieved the BP. Nice to hear good things happen.

brian

knitebee

Kelly, blade is 6 1/2in long, hum meat fork, interesting idea, next time I need a break from armour I might give it a try. Aaron, Thorpe and Jehan, thank you both for your compliments. Aaron the butt cap is actually a piece of 12g mild steel scrap. Yes its has an apple seed cross section, I think sm...

knitebee

heres a distributer of the rubber flails http://www.gunsandswords.com/flails.html

and heres ARMAs construction instructions for a flail http://www.thearma.org/Practice/construct10.htm

knitebee

There is a British outfit that makes a flail with cast rubber heads designed for WMA use. Sorry no link and my dial up is acting up to much at the moment to search it out for you.

Brian

knitebee

After drooling at all the sweet knifes Aaron has made and posted recently I got thinking I should try my hand at it. Then today I was out in the shop when the power company showed up to replace the transformer at the pole and the line to my property. So I was witout pawer for a while and while enoug...

knitebee

a few things that will help #1 the width of the cop where the articulation rivets go, the inside of yours is far narrower than the outside. If its say 1 1/2in between the rivets on the inside then it needs to be fairly simular distance on the other side. #2 You've got it dished to much at the point ...

knitebee

SWEET, damn spiffy even

Brian

knitebee

It looks to me that its a articulated bevor where the chin plate is a sepperate plate that is held up by a spring pin and in the painting the pin is released and the chin plated dropped down. i'd find you a picture of an original but my dial up connection (arghhh no other choice here) is acting up a...

knitebee

Yep no wasp waist or deep chest, but when you've a 6ft2in 280lb client you aren't going to get either that will fit. Besides this particular style was chosen as the armour was far more flat and blocky. I'll try to get the scanner hooked back up and post a picture of the original that is based off of...

knitebee

BUMP

still looking for some input

Brian

knitebee

I'm working on a breastplate loosly based of the Infrantry or light calvary officer armour pictured on page 26 of Imperial Austria (with custmor requested consecions and changes). Here is the progress so far. [img]http://members.armourarchive.org/knitebee/bp1.jpg[/img] Close ups of the file edge wor...

knitebee

http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/prod ... p?dept=371

Brian

knitebee

I've used such leather for shoes, it makes for comfortable shoes that wear out sooner than ones made with thicker leather. Thin leather like what you are looking at works really well for more form fit shoes. But like I said they WILL wear out sooner. I think it would be perfect leather for gloves be...

knitebee

I personally think the bumps are for the bone in the wrist. To small you say for that? well remember that a guantlet gets lined with a glove inside it. With the space the glove takes up the bump doesn't need to be as big, just enough to relieve that presure on the bone.

Brian

knitebee

Thanks guys. now to get it set up and get some 1050 to play with. RalphS that book is going to take me a few days to digest but is going to be of great help. Kenwrec, thank you much for the information on quenches, what do you use and why? As to the circut feeding the kiln allready looking into that...

knitebee

I live in AnTir which has the idiotic convention of "No arm hunting", it is even writing in the AnTir Combat Manual but as a custom not a rule with full warning that not all agree with it. That being said I've seen plenty of arm shots given and taken in tourneys, so personally I dont think...

knitebee

So I fell into a sweet deal for a kiln that I couldn't pass up. So now besides finding an outlet for some 1050 steel what else do i need to know? What do I need for a quenching? Inside deminsions of the kiln are 24in dia and 27in tall so I'll easly be able to heat treat full breastplates. From what ...

knitebee

Look at the photos, see how the hammer dents the metal. This denting will cause the metal to strech without having to do the "hammer on air" technique that KtR discribed. The streching in this case is what causes the curvature. Try it take a couple strips of metal about two inches long and...

knitebee

very nice. looking sharp

Brian

knitebee

finally taking shape, a lot of the asymetricalness that you guys pointed out what just the result of unfinsihed pieces. This helm is being made for a steel fighter so the perf for the eye slot, there will be a piece of perf installed behind the breaths. Still need to cut the breaths in the other sid...

knitebee

You are thinking of Jeff de Boer m but since you looking at simular, I'll throw in a couple photos of my work. my chihuahua all dressed up to hold his own against bigger dogs http://members.armourarchive.org/knitebee/poco.jpg rocking horse http://members.armourarchive.org/knitebee/rocking%20horse/ho...

knitebee

Aarons Tomans video of hot raising a greave is a great visual of the process, the shaping isn't as extreem on vambraces as it is with greaves but the technique is the same.
http://www.armourguild.org/images/video ... nternet.rm

Brian

Re: Goooop

my turn to do a knife (I blame Aaron Schnatterly)

Current breastplate progress and question (pics work now

got a kiln now what?