The Armour Archive

losthelm

proper set up of the shop and posture.
lighting also helps with eye strain and other acadents.
think about how the body is designed to move.
Invest in good pliers and aproperately sized hammers.

losthelm

looking for an old movie THE POINT nelssion
aparently its a bit hard to find. find it on ebay but it goes for a bit more then I can spent does any one have a copy that they would be willing to trade?

losthelm

just rember you have canadan tire.
william

losthelm

I think harbor freight makes that one. althought I found this to be a bit intresting Nahum Hersom Golden Pheasant Artmetal 3011 Innis Street Boise, Idaho 83703 208-345-9163 Has plans for a shear similar to a Beverly shear that works better. I got that off of the abana web site. althoug it list no pi...

losthelm

as for blacksmithing check out the abana web site
I think it's abana.org
you can also check out keenjunk.com

losthelm

once you have it dished just put in your hands and bend it to the right shape. atleast thats how POD does it.
post more pics and take your time.

losthelm

there was a book seller at pensic that was selling them I believe near the food if that helps if not you may be able to get them off of the pennsic site.

losthelm

R over S times 180 equals D
R equals radious
S equals hypotanuse in side view

take your protractor and set them to the slant on a strait line draw circle.
measure out the degrees to equal D
cut it out and check results.

losthelm

according to socity hand book jointed weapons are a no no. the force that it would genarate would be nasty let a lone wraping around a limb or the throat causing grevious injureys.

losthelm

get in tuck with ron simons and truehart
ron sells shaped pieces and trueheart sells assembled pieces bot do good work and the prices are very reasonable
this comming for a dirt poor collage student.

losthelm

the harbour freight model works ok good for mig stick tig no good for o/f or lasers if you are planing on doing a lot of welding go for optrel the most versitile helmets out there althought a new company advertised in the AWS magazine offering a 20square inch display but those will probibly start of...

losthelm

silly EO. you going to the meeting on friday?

losthelm

becareful with construction adheasives. it took half a year to figure out that the adheasive when used to keep helm pading in had eaten throught some of the pading and made hard lumps of construction adheasive scatered throught out the helm. so if you use adheasive use silacone and make shure you pu...

losthelm

it sounds like some fighters are not meating the current standards. and this is just a note to remind people to check the rules and make shure that they are doing what is required. althought the way I'm reading it it sounds like you can fight even if you don't meet socity minamums. but after sead da...

losthelm

hear are a few legiodraconis.com stormthewalls.dhs.org I also believe that there are a few other links off the sca home page. you may want to check with your kingdome siege marshal about what is leagal in your kingdome. Also check with the pennsic marshal last year my group could not use our treb be...

losthelm

lexan is listed at 25 if that helps any.

losthelm

try and get a hold of andy ward at
gauntlets.com
I beleave that he is still producing them. but now in his spare time.
last time I saw him he was able to resize his patterns rather quickly.
hope this helps

losthelm

saw it once done to cover carchers knees with the cheepest fake fur you ever saw. better then the catchers knees but not much the fur in question was almost shit brown tied on with white nylon. very ugly. although I have sceen simmalar done well with soupcan knees under size to large pants with leat...

losthelm

rockwell hardness ranging from 10-125 depending on the material used.
teflon balls

losthelm

ok your trying to fix two plates together that will not rust? and there is no articulation.

Weld it. being thin probibly gmaw, fcaw, or gtaw. aka. mig fluxcore tig
after you have it welded have it painted, powder coated, or just keep it oiled and polished.

losthelm

I guess that it's a good thing that I have a supply for tungston carbide scaples.

losthelm

how well would plastic work for hammers or forming stakes?
found this site with lots of information on sphears up to 8 inches
http://www.plasticballs.com/

losthelm

I recently purchased a strap cutter off Ebay. but It lack the blade easly fixed but I do not see how it is held in.
the strap cutter is an older varity made of wood with a sliding stop and a thumb screw to hold the stop in place.

losthelm

i alwasy wanted to do a jingsa for sca combat, but i'd imagin that it would tork your neck something awfull if you got hit on the edge.

I think you could just make a small helm and cover the top with one made out of starched coton, leather, or woven out of wheat/grass.

losthelm

last year there where four types of blunts exceptable for combat archery. gulf tubes baldars, and phitsralphs. gulf tubes are cheap and easy but fly like a POS. baldars are better but cost about 1.50 each the phitsralphs can be made at home. and fly very well. I find them to be a bit less tip heavey...

losthelm

I beleave that the tuchucks also have a very close fighting style to the SCA but include more kicks and punches. there is also haca and a few other groups that incorparate some of the more traditional european moves but they for the most part move at half or3/4 speed.

losthelm

if I rember right spork involves grecoroman wresling a goat a way form POD.

losthelm

pratice hit and run striking on a pass and work the diagonals. great sword has a lot more foot work the sword and board I find that I move more with great sword then with glaive even. keep the weapon moving switch grips and guards often in single. try not to give a way your range. and don't be afrai...

losthelm

I thought 7.5 was glaive
althought I could be wrong
I like mine around 4 or so for for single
for group orge I prefer around 6
but thats just because I have to reach over a few heads to stab any one.

losthelm

builder enginer

losthelm

I bleave truth heart has a pretty quick turn around. I think they carry a lot of stuff in stock so probibly could get the stuff shipped a bit quicker then most.

losthelm

I have sceen some shops use a cement mixer to debur mass cut plates. throwing in the plates with about a gallon of bb pellets. check the speck on the cnc plasma cutter it seams that abotu every 4 months there is a group order for lamar plates. or some such that would probibly be the quickest way to ...

losthelm

want to come but scedual is still up in the air.

losthelm

not shure but it was probbly hideandfur.com

losthelm

buzbands apear to provide a lot of protection to that part of the arm. for torso armour japanes armour usualy does well any thing from the lamalar to the DO style. this covers a lot of period. lortice segmata also does well. But finding the brass bits is a little hard in my area. as for a helm stick...

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strap cutter