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Heehe
Luke I iz yer fadda.
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Bill first you need qa job that will let you away to go to Pennsic!

You realize you are on the path to the dark side...
Easier, quicker, more seductive yes.

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Ba Da Bump

Hey Gaston, Whats the expected delivery date?

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I was wondering about a layered approach with umhw or something similar at the core and the crepe material Captain Jamie uses on teh outside. The UMHW would provide mass and the foamed crepe/sole material some resiliency and maybe reduce the tendency for the umhw rod to dump all of its inertia into ...

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Alan we would all like to see your process. Please post it.

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You may also be executing your returns improperly. Pay attention to whether or not you are letting the point of your sword whip out on your returns, which is particularly easy to let happen if you use a trigger. Be sure that when returning the sword from a blow your grip is solid and firm with the b...

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Gotta agree with Sasha, It looks pretty good and as a climber I know the stuff is bullet proof, just try to find something NOT in a neon pink.

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Wow!

Kind of resets the thinking on the 'standard' for tournament armour

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No Pooftahs!

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'ello Bruce!

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He he

Happy April 1st!

Spring is here, snow is in retreat, soon we will have Black Flies!
mmmmmmmm. Breakfast on the wing.

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It's hard to say without seeing it in person but it looks to me like the ventral plate and the two lung plates are lightly overdished in comparison to the original. Your overall shape appears to be 'fuller' and as others have mentioned the bottom lookes uneven. On the whole it looks pretty stellar, ...

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The sabs are mild iirc, just wish they werent so damn tiny...

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Cool, so I guess hitting you up for a job is sorta barking up the wrong tree?

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The downside of Bill being 'rich' is that we never see him at practices because he is working all the damn time.

Beautiful stuff. can't wait to see it in person.

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Yeah thats exceedingly sweet.

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Just got My ti in today, it was sent to work and the receptionist brought it up to my office with a rather quizzical look on her face. Gawd! Cant believe this stuff will work as armour. I have some .040 and some .035 I figure the .040 will be arms and legs and the .035 will go into the cop. Now I ne...

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Even a reproduced sketch book of this kind of technique would be invaluable. I can clearly see what tools and forms I need, at least to start with. Given the shapes being made I can extrapolate and experiment from there.

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Mine is strapped in a method very similar to what Cailean perscribes. The low end of my fore arm strap is mounted below the intersection of the two 45 degree lines scribed from the corners. This intersection tends to be pretty close to the center of gravity of the shield. The goal is to get the cg t...

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Unless I am greatly mistaken that is a typo on the part of ther Arma chaps. It is a middle/late 14th century piece of artwork. I will have to dig up the reference when I get home however. I know I have it one of my Barber volumes.

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Those are the ones. They arent perfect, but if the piece is going to be a combat harness, you probably dont want to spend hundreds of dollars to have exact duplicates of the original carved and cast. I think they give a good impression, I got the idea originally from looking at photographs of Philli...

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You used to be able to get some drawer pulls that looked pretty similar, try your local hardware store or super sized corporate monster chain. I havent seen them in a while, but the pair I put on my first lamellar are still going strong after almost seven years of constant use. If you cant find them...

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I use a curry brush (stiff bristles for brushing horses) and it takes the tape and dirt off my harness pretty effectively.

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Do you mean this? http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/images/crecy.jpg This image is from the Chronicles of Jean Froissart and was painted in the 15th century to illustrate his work. Some passages pertaining to the deeds of the battle of Crecy can be found here m For more illustrations from the same a...

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A high carbon steel will have sparks that are a streak with a star on the end, it will also tend to be whiter in color than a low carbon steel. This is pretty well described in 'The Complete Blacksmith' iirc of course it could be one of the other smithing books in my library. Chances are a crow bar ...

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Bascinet with globose klappvisor Pros: Super clean glancing surfaces, thrusts tend to slide off unless they catch the hinge. Looks eeeeeeeeeevil. Cons: Vision limited somewhat. Air exchange very difficult, running any distance is a real challenge. Extended exersion sucks. <img src="http://home.armou...

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I particularly like the plushy toy ducks, very authentic looking

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Buy armour from Gaston, get your exercise fighting off the Dukes.

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Err Gaston something smells fishy there.

Lookin good Matt.

No one goes stomping around in boots like Gaston...

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What Effingham said!

So thats what you were talking about when you said you had a couple of big commissions ahead of me and it would be a *while*.

Wow!

Can I be next?

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I have also heard second hand of the tonal qualities of their bascinet. I have a friend who owns a sallet from them, pretty nice lines, maybe a little 'chunky' when compared to the nicer reproductions that are being built today by some of the better helmschmieds. He has had trouble with the catch pi...

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Dmitriy, it needs a caption like "geez I dunno, I thought it was kinda tippy, whaddya see we refight it?"

My very first Potrero War I saw a helmet lofted high over the line. Things pretty much stopped for a good old fashioned evaluation of the situation/military style 'safety standown'

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Nice stuff!
Mark are you working on another harness

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I also have a blockade runner wall tent, and there is another one in my Barony. For good quality on the cheap you are going to have a hard time beating them. Mine has withstood 40 mph winds, and the rain of last Pennsic. No leaks or strains. Unfortunately for our tent living experience we are now th...

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The order is still in flux afik. I talked to Sinric at Birka about it. Sounds like it may be moving forward in the next month or so. We were talking about larger 10mm? nails, something more suitable for a CoP. Although it was a long day and I spent most of it shouting at fighters or being shouted at...

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