The Armour Archive

losthelm

if you want I might beable to find some one to purchase it form you so you can get real leather.

losthelm

I find that using sadle soap helps a lot at elimanating mold oder. if mixed with glycern at about a 20 to 35% mix will leave a nice shine and help repel the water.

losthelm

last time I checked that was a section of the rules devoted to the atlatl. althougth it is a little od in the wording it is fully legal althougth I have not sceen any used.
but I saw a hand full of the tennis ball chuckers at pennsic.

losthelm

rember shipping cost.
I wounder how much it would take to have them cut it for you? in to lamalar plates?

losthelm

when was the last time you had a weld inspected? this ruleing it to provide an out line as to how it should be done. the easy is to weld a bead on the inside of the helm grind the joint and then lay another bead on the out side. or just go with an open root weld its a little tricky with a domed surf...

losthelm

find a big industrial shop with a slip roll on steroids.
ask stevenOforthcastle if they have one where he works. I know alstom has one althought I dont have the contact information for them.

losthelm

send them to aethealmearc shire of hartstone.
where we apreciate the abuse.

losthelm

I use a table knife with a slot cut in for most of mine

losthelm

the gas can evvect a lot in the weld usualy has more penatration and you can change the arc characristics even the metalurgy of the weld slightly. all depends on the shielding gas. co2 argon nitrogen argon helium some times argon is cut with oxgen depending on the mix. there are atachements that wil...

losthelm

there is also the fighters hand book
or any of the best of the hammer books
maybe be even the pleshure book

losthelm

www.zackwhite.com
not so much for leaher but good for the tools and such

losthelm

look for somthing that will also handle regular wire also. the fluxcore is a bit more expencive and requires a lot more post weld clean up.
althought for that price it is a little hard to pass up.

losthelm

do you need a place to store them?
I have a spare closet in my dorm room that they would look pretty in.

losthelm

the concept of misdirection works well. its just uite a bit harder to pull off on the more skilled fighter.

losthelm

there was a pair of them at pennsic
althought I can't rember the exact wording but I think
bob was a little impressed

losthelm

I think there is a pattern in
the pleashure book
form raymonds quiet press

losthelm

I have sceen simmalur decay in some plastic body armour. instead of being abs it acts more like a cheep plastick lawn chair. usualy acompanyed by what would look like termite trails on the surface.

losthelm

usualy taking and incresing the leverage by extending the fulcrum arm. ie using a longer wrench to move that rusted nut.
or excisive use of brute force and ignorance.

losthelm

use a mallet or a cheeter bar.

losthelm

it all depends on your shop removing rust before is easyer but if things tend to gather a little rust you may as well wait till yoru finished. scouring pads work well but I favor the scrubbie drill atachment. I think 3m makes them available at any weld shop or hard warestore. usualy used to remove p...

losthelm

rr spike are handy items to have. expecialy if you know a lot of metal workers that would take care of them for you.

losthelm

I still have scars for my first set of knee cops
straped them down tight to keep the knee covered but the bottom edge rubed a good two inch gash in to my knee.

losthelm

dont weld aginst concreat or cinderblocks.
use proper shade. to light is not good and will leave you with pain but so will to dark of a shade.

losthelm

was gifted with a knife a pennsic. the handle paint was starting to come off trying to remove the rest and repaint. took a wire brush to get a lot of the paint off but some is still sticking in the hard to reach places. wire brush is starting to mar the handle so looking for a alternative also what ...

losthelm

you may want to use rubercement or 3M contact adheasive to paly the leather and then a layer of straping tap.
also the thrusting tips may be a little hard to do because of the proxcimity of the other tips but still do able.
pictures when your done.

losthelm

onager (sp) is what it is called
look for
"a tecnical treties on greek and roman artilery" (sp)
a book on the subject it includes a few pictures of finished models and rough prints and a little to much math than the average person can figure out.

losthelm

for vegitable oils soak it in high proof alcohal use rubbing alchohal.
I have used this process to extract plant oils so it should work for patrolium products but it is untested so let me know how it works out.

losthelm

looking for instructions and regulations on sca legal rapier pistols and musket type weapons. also looking for information on construction of the shiege weapons for rapier battles. the bug bit me at pennsic but at that point all of my funds were tied up in to other things. so now I want to build one...

losthelm

friend of mine is looking for loom blue prints. after getting a little damaged he is unable to fight heavey for a while or even work on leather or chain mail.
so to make it up to him he is looking to start weaving.
any help would be apreceated.

losthelm

maniged to burn off a scrub shirt last year due to grinder sparks and learning to mig overhead.
it was kind of cool to it did not ignight in to flames it just started to glow a nice cherry red.

btw you may want to pick up a pair of insulated carharts if you want to go play in the snow again.

losthelm

the harbor freight one is an aso. I think the best new ones on the marked are made by JET but I have not tryed them. check out farm auction such if you in western NY there are a few seckon hand shops that have them on acasion but also check the abana web site accasionly some one will have one for sa...

losthelm

I think that the chemical properties would not change untill after around 700 but I could be wrong.
you may want to get a mill report or ask the people at lincon. or even youlocal steel manufacture.

losthelm

carbon arc cutting
and the old lazer
the lazer falls in to the if you can offord this by me tools catagory

losthelm

truehart up in canada.
dont have the webadress handy probibly put it up latter.

losthelm

actualy steve if you want I can ask my brother I think his inlaws have a section that they might be willing to sell. its about 20 feet long.

paint

rapier legal weapons

weaving