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losthelm

I have 2 dozen tent stakes.
Standard J shaped 3/8" square stock.
14" long
$45 per dozen shipped in the USA.
Images are up on Facebook.
Losthelm industries should bring the page right up.

losthelm

A few other resources
http://yamakaminari.com/make-it.html
And
Tousando.proboards.com
One being a large sca household with class notes and handouts on making stuff.
The other being the sca Japanese intrest forum.

Those two and effinghams site should get you pointed in the right direction.

losthelm

I would look at the draw vs the plug rating.
Was the outlet on the same circuit?

It looks like there was an overload or a short.

It may help to tin the wires before adding the plug.

losthelm

Torvaldr at skaldic.com may have something.

I know his production level has dropped a bunch after pennsic.
Now that he has finished PT production should pickup.

losthelm

Gobae At this point I'm just playing around with steel and seeing what I can enjoy making. I sold a few shield bosses to a guy in southern California in October that madmatt made. He ended up using them as lamps based on "The Viking" by Tre. Tryckare and asked me to make a few more in varying sizes....

losthelm

There are a few patch options, but at some point your going to want the plate replaced. epoxy, backer plate, fillers, and such are really just temporary fixes that may last for a while. Its either going to be harder and break when the plate flexes or not bond well with the sheet. Eventually your goi...

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Well the archive limits image sizes, it can help to use an off site host like imgr or photobucket and link to the image or use thumbnails. Details help, Who made it if known, material, size and condition. If its a helm for SCA combat thickness, material and diameter are important. Your location, how...

losthelm

Any other good sources for someone wanting to build various pieces of camp cookware?

losthelm

There was this post a few months back...

https://www.facebook.com/KibethsBark/timeline

losthelm

Sometimes you can find other split head hammers as well if your looking on Ebay or yard/estate sales/auctions. An alternative is to use a plastic hammer like those used in shaping body panels and fenders. I use a larger 2.5" Teardrop plastic fairly often, At one point you could find wooden mallets i...

losthelm

Try tousando.Proboards.com

Its an sca specific message board for using on Japanese.

losthelm

There are a few you tube videos that may help. Parker brown, Erik dube, and wintertree craft have a few worth looking at. Most use of them are working hot but you can get an idea on forming techniques and some of the tools used. A lot of us work cold, its a bit slower but works. Welding can be helpf...

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Welcome to the archive. For materials look through your local businesses and see what's available. Fab shops, welding supply, arcatectural metal shops and such often order material weekly or monthly. Adding another sheet of steel on the truck is fairly cheep. Some sell excess materials as "drops" Yo...

losthelm

I would start with pulling up the rapier/cut and thrust rules.
For the mask portion you need a little more material for the perf plate.
Thinner material can be a littler hard to fabricate.
Boughing and associated processes are much more likely to crease or fold.
With heat treating it may cause issues.

losthelm

Its the first time in years I have had coal to use. In the past its all been charcoal made from pine, willow, and pallets from the local monument works. So far it looks like I use 10# for 4 dozen tent stakes. I'm just glad I had enough arm strength to move everything back to the shed. Between workin...

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Setting up the forge on subzero days makes for an intresting work session. As the temp warms the anvil tends to sink into the mud a few inches throwing off the hight. While the space between said anvil and forge looses traction through out the session. My arm is about dead after picking up said forg...

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F your doing a lot of these types of enlargements there are a few tools that can help. An opaque projector or a pantograph. Pantographs a fairly easy to make but with larger pieces you have to reposition both images all the time. An opaque projector really needs a dark room and a wall you can hang y...

losthelm

Start by looking at your resources. Space, cash, somone with experiance to mentor are the big ones. Building a bow vs making arrows/strings. For most I think your better off making arrows and strings. Tools, space, and mentor are a lot easier to come by. Scraping $1 in materials for a short string o...

losthelm

What are your measurements?
I have a corrinzina that's a little small on me.

losthelm

Have you considered heating the shop?

Working in a cold shop with cools tools makes things cool down a lot faster.
Expecialy if you have air flow or ventilation.
Just like wind chill air movement will pull heat a way from the piece.

losthelm

Or you could simply mount the stake in the plate the other way and hang it over the end of your bench.

losthelm

What's the gap width and cost for something like this?

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How large and how deep?

losthelm

http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/

if you want more of a tutorial Talbot and I think madmatt are worth looking at.

losthelm

Updating your profile with a location may help.

Nugg out of northern aethelmearc was selling shield blanks for a while.

losthelm

You'll likely want vervells of some type and a piece of leather. Talbot has some budget aluminum ones that are fairly easy to finish. You can also use copper or brass wire and make cotter pins. The chainmail attached to the leather makes care a maintenance a lot easier. The vervells work a lot like ...

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Posting an image or link to image will help.

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Do you have a rough sketch or image?

losthelm

I have been told that the thickness on the brass findings varies a lot depending on when and where the piece is attributed to. The thinking is that the Rome legion dealt with the same low bid contracting issues as we see today. It may also be a point of quality of materials can be over come by simpl...

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Mathew you may be able to access some of the lost content via archive.org and the wayback machine.

Its saved me more than once when doing research.

losthelm

What type of punch are you using? I have decent results with my whitney 7 and using truss head rivets and burrs to cover any fuzzy bits with the leather/metal chad. Ideally you would be able to have a stock numbet pre made. This would let anyone with a tape gun to pack and ship while skilled labor d...

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I tried but listing and selling are two different things.

I will hope to list more items once things start showing up in the mail.

losthelm

In the past I have gotten some from torvaldr.

I have some as well if you want to send me templates I can cut some leather and mail it back.

losthelm

The price per square foot drops a bunch if your ordering full sheets.
most suppliers are also willing to cut the sheet into 4x4 or 2x4 sheets free or cheep, makes shipping and transport a bit easier.
Its often worth splitting the cost with other locals interested in metal work.

losthelm

How thick is your shield? the 3/32-3/16" should be ok for most metal shields and the 9/16 seams to be a good length. Notice how the price drops a bunch when your ordering more than 100' I would look at what windrose and iceflacon are charging to see if they have something comparable. Depending on ho...

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