The Armour Archive

losthelm

as far a rebated steel goes never by aluminum. stick with either an artist that is known form quality or a large comercial make that is aproved by your group.
the older starfire swords are good. and I think its hewnway or somthing like that is another good one deltin also makes good pratice blades.

losthelm

as far a being knightly I doubt it to be used in trial by combat or a duel.
But probibly during the crusades.

losthelm

if you mean the clamshell varity I can't say much about dealing with them but all of there baskets I have sceen were shiny and scared form combat with ducktape and gouges in the aluminum. Althought if some people would keep there basket hilts clear of each other or my helm then it would not be a pro...

losthelm

probibly the easyest way to do it would be to find some one with a cnc mill and a very small bit go over it once and then a quick dip in the acid to polish everything up. althought a few minites at a small buffing wheel would have a simalar effect.

losthelm

one spundome bargrill in stainless with a nice bronze/brown oxidation color. literaly some it brown some is bronze. with a galvanized chainmail drape off the lowest bar.
It lookes like galvanized even at ten feet.

losthelm

if you want to count tridents in that group it goes back a bit farther then that.

losthelm

do you have a picture?
I have sceen around at least a dozen different paterns for plastic basket hilts

losthelm

if i rember right lexan can be heat formed but will become cloudy after shaping. I would think good epoxey would work well. It sounds like the pvc would work also. lexan is kindof odd the way the numberw work out when it comes to strenth if I rember right there one area where it is conciderably week...

losthelm

the stone bow had a picture next to it that looked a lot like some of the newer combat legal crossbows at pennsic with the prod made out of three peices of fiberglass. In the book the cross bow it is shown as having two torshion bundles instead of the spring prod. so both designes are probibly perio...

losthelm

I think there might be some in the fighters handbook and posible the knownworld handbook also. I know there is one also in the iron rose book. pells are probibly one of the most indavidualized parts of training. there is a webpage that sells wasteres and rebated steel with several pell designs altho...

losthelm

lammalar I would think. I know some one that fights with one it folds flat. using single piece cops that tie in. so all the metal bits fit in to the helm. and everything folds flat. I think last I knew he was carying the helm in a reinforced hat box and the rest in one of the fold-able suit things.

losthelm

its a bit of a drive but not to bad
I think it would probibly be around 4 1/2 hours to pennsic though.

losthelm

it is a real weapon. althought in game's they are often misrepresented.

losthelm

it works well for decorative bits dice bags favors and dags and can be used to add an immage in dubble mail.
find a copy of the compleat metalsmith. in the local library it has a instructions on how to get some wonderfull cullors our of coper.
copper can also be cast or worked in to flat ware.

losthelm

what is the shape? and how flexible is the leather? if you are able to get good contact to the matereal I would try 3m spray adheasive or contact cement. spraying a nice layer first on the steel and then on the leather wait for it to start getting tacky and then wrap one around the other glue to glu...

losthelm

I find the retail price a bit high.
but now its not to bad.

losthelm

I think there is a local place that sells some with almost the same efect of the aluminum foil tape. the only diferance is it is duck tape reinforcement and wears as such. also have had it pased at pennsic a few times. I think im paying 5-8 bucks for the super big roll. usuly ends up geting ues more...

losthelm

it will work for strait lines but curves are out of the question

losthelm

I hae found that hair blowers tend to wear out rather quickley.
if you can find a good ray-O-stat and a cheep motor and a propellor.

I think it was on harbor freight or some other tool catalog that I saw a foot pedal ray-o-stat for a hand drill

losthelm

work on the weave teknek work slowly kind of in a zig zag patern. the rest will come with pratice. if you can find a welder that will let you do mig as aposed to the flux core it may help a little. started with co2 before flux core and the co2 would look better everyday of the week. the price in wel...

losthelm

getting some of the odd shaped stakes made and tool construction is always a good place to start.

losthelm

I use a small ish ball pean it's less of a swing and more of an athoritative whap. and then tap tap tap to dress it. some people go the a very large industrial hardware store or junk yard and find a piece of steel or bar to saport the inside and beat the out side. but that takes a little to much tho...

losthelm

have to say find a pair for either the shooting range. or my favorite place to shop for safty equipment is you local chain saw dealer. they should have a nice selection. your local welder suply usulay has a good selection as does most hunting good or farm supply places. althought I think the best wo...

losthelm

not quite shure if it would work for finger gauntlets.
But with my mittins I have paded them with foam and then add a layer of 4 ounce leaher stiched to the back of the gloves.

losthelm

the work well for the cost but leave ribins of steel all over the place and usulay wont handle any thing over 18.

losthelm

in period it was usualy an acid base for flux I have a list of diferent mixes of flux used in later history.IE 1800 if you want.

losthelm

38 for 14 guage 4*8 in mild
no minamum

losthelm

the temper will not be evvected untill you reach around 700.
when the blades chip it is usualy due to maxing out the thickness or the blades working there way out of line.

losthelm

if you want I have a copy of the complet metal smith I cna let you barrow at the event on saterday. also there is a jewler in almond that may be able to help out.
if I can find his contact information.

losthelm

adding a bit of chain mail is probibly the fastest. althought a better bet modify the helm to fit you head. once my helm was padded it had the same problem in order to see out of it about half an inch of my chin is exposed. a chain mail beard fixed the problem and I have been pased a pennsic sever t...

losthelm

the price varys a lot with who made it and how much they value there time. pod makes some good stuff and so does charles and I think matt makes some also steven makes riveted chain that is quite pretty althougth for butted there is a fellow that may beable to help you out. his name is ray and his em...

losthelm

find an older style hardware store or a farm supply place get a pic handle with strait grain trim to size and it should work for strait handles.

losthelm

have any scraps?

losthelm

if I rember right you can cut off the antlers mash the brain piss in to it then smother the contence all over the hide.
but my memory has been a little fogy lately
there is also a tanning process that uses alum. there are comercial kits available but run nearly 20 a peace.

losthelm

it still meats minamul thicknesses althought when paded you would have to be a midget with a small head to wear the thing