The Armour Archive

Sasha

Thanks Galileo But I sent Sean an e-mail all his own...Passed on from Glen, of course. As for you AG.........I am going to weld some "surprise" spiky bits on the inside of those knees and then re-glue the sheepskin! You told me to hold of sending them for a few weeks, now you are picking on me.... M...

Sasha

Hi. Bob, I have a message for you from Glenn at Hotblack regarding your order. Glen is not computer-enabelled at the moment and I shall be relaying his messages. Please e-mail me and I shall reply his message. All other folks. If you have outstanding orders (payed for) from Hotblack that are overdue...

Sasha

Hi folks. I just got an odd request from a customer that has bought so much stuff off me in the last few years that I am about ready to make him the Riverforge poster-boy. Having built him (and his friends) some really nice harness.....He now tells me he wants a travelling harness for when he flies ...

Sasha

That is a matter for whatever stars guide the courses of Marshals. The "book" states that thye should accept it. My experiences with the stuff have given me good cause to beleive it to be not only accpetable but superior in performance as well as comfort and appearence. I do not have enough respect ...

Sasha

9/10's of the smoke produced by a coal forge is at the beginning when you light a small woodfire and then add the coal. After that the "smoke" is an invisible heat-haze sort of effect. I would recommend the coal fired version of a forge. Especially for beginners. Take a truck-wheel (no tire). Get a ...

Sasha

Chrome tanned utility sounds okay. You might want to ask them whether they were hot-washed to reduce the lanolin. The price seems very high. I pay no more then $10aus per hide. This is achieved by contacting the tannery directly and asking them to put aside X number of seconds for a while. It can ad...

Sasha

I use sheepskin in all padding applications with the exception of helms (and I know someone that uses it *there* too). The sheep is not as hot as closed cell foam because air can circulate between the fibres. It also doesn't get slimy the way that closed cell does. You will not smell like a wet shee...

Sasha

ummmm....The metal has to go somewhere. All you are doing by countersinking your rivets is setteing them so that the hole is in the centre of a stamped depression of the same depth as the rivet head. The amount of room it takes up is the same....it is only whether it bulges on the outside or the ins...

Sasha

No. In my opinion they aren't worth it because the depth of jaws means that you cannot always put a slot where you need it. I just use the round punch to punch either end of my slots and then "connect the dots" with a jigsaw or coping saw. I prefer having the rounded ends on slots because the rivet ...

Sasha

Thanks! Just checked my copy of wilkinson and you are right. I do not think it is the very same helm....but it is similar enough to be a twin. The pic I have came from an armour catalogue that I no longer have. All that remains is the photocopied pics. I was planning on heading down to the state lib...

Sasha

Disregarding the stuff that goes on at the neck of both styles *most* of the time (in other words it is not a defining characteristic), An armet has a single visor and two trap-door cheeckplates that swing outwards (on the hinge at the side of the helm pictured). If you look at the point of the chin...

Sasha

That is a repouse hammer. It is designed and tempered for lots of little, really lightwreight, hits. It is to tap on chasing tools (like blunt chisels of various different shapes). It would not survive being used for hitting armouring metal directly. The temper on these things is very hard bit very ...

Sasha

Just wanted to say a quick thanks to Bob Reed, who has emailed me about this helm and project privately (all far too scurilous for the board, you know

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Definately some good points that I have been pondering.

Sasha

Sasha

They have said such things before...But only when Vasily was trying to pick up mainland women.

Sasha
Riverforge

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I see it going with the subtle end of maximillian plate (there is a such a thing, but you have to look hard). I have seen pics of a harness with a similar style of helm in an illustration of great-hammer combat. No ski-length sabotons, no elbows with droopy points. Pretty much a very deadly and busi...

Sasha

Okay folks. I am obsessing about a helm. [img]http://www.freepichosting.com/GalleryImage/20816.jpg[/img] I have been wanting to build this thing since I saw it a little while ago. What I likely want to do is build two of them at the same time and keep one for myself. I thought I had a commission to ...

Sasha

What is Sven going to do with an aventail...he has a visor on his helm (and one I bled on, too)

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Riverforge

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Ball bearings of that size tend to come form heavy industrial suppliers or ship-yards. I recommend the use of mill-balls...but you may not have too much more luck finding those. The rpoblem with an equaly weighted ball-pien hammer is that the ball on those hammers is still too small a diameter to sp...

Sasha

Actually...while we are talking about that site.

Does anyonme feel like mailing me Item-no 13133 ?

I can either arrnage payment or we can talk about doing a deal regarding getting Riverforge armour built....

Anyone?

Sasha
Riverforge

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I have.
It lists the item (the RW 5jr) and then the individual punch sets...but no side plates or punch kits (range of 5 sizes).

Grrr....

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

Ummmm..... People are just soooo stupid. It is easyier to understand why so many people are turnign into wolves and preying on others. The majority seem determined to be utter sheep. This suit is available from our local disposal store for just a little over $800 australian. Same manufacturer. They ...

Sasha

The reason to change the side plates sooner rather then later is that as the side-plate holes stretch you start to introduce the punch to the die at odd angles. You basically need to work too hard and are killing the punch by driving it into the side wall of the die. This means that your punches wil...

Sasha

You took me where?????

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Riverforge

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Like a small linisher or belt sander that is as portable as a 4" angle grinder. It uses narrow belts and spins them form the motor in the hand-piece to the wor-wheel on the end of the arm. This wheel is replaceable so that I can have differnet shapes when smoothing fullers in blade-making and such. ...

Sasha

I use a small powerfile that plugs onto a cheap angle-grinder. Sort of like a cross between a belt-sander and a pencil. Very mobile and gets into tight places. It is very capable of seriouse stock removal and has a number of fornt wheels which can be fitted to the arm to utilise different widths of ...

Sasha

DO visit the pattern archive and essays area and READ everything before you start. DO consider visiting somoene who knows what they are doing and getting some help/tips DO work carefully and steadily through the process without trying to skip steps. DON'T assume. Measure thrice, cut once. DON'T dril...

Sasha

Bjorn sent me an e-mail that I haven't replied to yet because things hgere have been too busy. I do not suppose any of you guys have found a black de-sexed femal cat wandering around tassie have you? Ours has gone missing and she was quite fond of swimming.... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile....

Sasha

I think he mentioned that it is a display suit. Properly chisel raised features from one plate. The lower lying areas are painted black. Your idea of over-rivetting a plate to get a similar effect is trickier then it looks. Try it on some test pieces frist. You will find that matching dished curves ...

Sasha

Something strange about the japanese armour. I have seen it on display in the Queensland Museum about 8 months ago. None of the little brass signs telling you that it was on loan from a private collection were in evidence. Can't put my finger on it....but there is something odd going on with that on...

Sasha

Deacon. We suggested you try ONE of the solutions we proposed, not ALL of them! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Your helm is now the audio-resonence equivalent of a black hole! The other solutions were to paint the inside of the helm (several coats). To use a contact adhesive or spray adh...

Sasha

Well. I am back form Adelaide, phoning animal shelters looking for a missing cat and in the chat room.

The cat was not armoured.

Sasha

Sasha

Hmmm...well, that's different....let me think about this a moment..... No. I'm sorry. We are still going to have to have you burnt at the stake. Terribly sorry, but I am sure you see the neccessity of mainting THE ONE TRUE WAY of dishing. Next heretic, please. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile....

Sasha

Not bad at all!

Death to the centre-dishing heretics!!!!!!!

...oh hang on....You dish with a wooden mallet, don't you, Gundo?

SPLITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sasha
...back at my own computer

Riverforge

Sasha

Well...I start from the edges and work inwards. It gets rid of the neasty ridges that can start up along the edges (kills them before they get a chance to grow), it moves the steel more evenly and lessens the vibration once you get started, it reduces the chance of working under an "overhang" when y...

Sasha

[img]http://www.members.nbci.com/_XMCM/mareschel/otj9281.jpg[/img]

Was that what you were trying for?

Sasha

Looking for Templar Bob and any other HotBlack customers

Armourers selling at Penssic

Looking for a commission...and general advise

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