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Sasha

I have never seen anything quite like that before.

Could be interesting. Bound to be worth bidding $5 on.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

I could do a small double-bearded axe-head for $100US + Shipping.

It would be plain spring-steel instead of the hi-carbon stuff.

5 week turnaround.

Shipping will work out at around $20-35US

That is the rock bottom best I can offer you.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

Just thopught I would mention that the one of these that I had lying around in a state of "3 hours form completion" has now found a nice home. If your friend wants to order one form me it will now have about a 5 week turnaround on it. On the brightside the blades are made form hi-carbon steel salvag...

Sasha

You forgot to add "and enjoys....Horseriding, usually on the way to pillaging neighboring nations"

Definately looks like a pillaging kind of girl.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

By the way....we just shipped 5 or 8 sticks of rattan down to tassie at the time of coronet a few months ago. What the hell have you lot done with it all????? Have you been feeding Osric on a diet of rattan splinters again? Is Hrolf using a 3m length of it as a swizzel stick for mixing cocktails in ...

Sasha

Hi Bjorn. The canton of Krae Glas (eastern suburbs ,Melbourne) is selling skin-on rattan in 2.9meter lengths for $28 (This is the GOOD stuff) Sword length (1meter) will set you back $10. Contact me at akharnam@ihug.com.au or call (03) 9544 1662 Sasha Riverforge (this rattan is non-profit for riverfo...

Sasha

Having learnt my chainsaw technique from a man who was commisionned to go along after a tree felling crew and carve the stumps they left into ducks (no, really!) I would say that if you have the skill for it, you can certainly use the tip of your chainsaw in this way to dig holes and trenches in stu...

Sasha

Waterbuffalo are ferrel in north queensland and the northern territory. They are about as aggressive as wild boar (depending on the time of year) and do a lot of damage to the enviroment. Tom Lehrer's image of "a half a ton of angry potroast" takes on somewhat new meaning when you see one of these t...

Sasha

Okay. Your on. Two pairs of scales (or rather enough horn to make them)? For what it is worth. This waterbuffalo was killed in period fashion. This is one of the two that I bowhunted when I was young and stupid. I did use a compound bow though. Send me your address details to akharnam@ihug.com.au Ma...

Sasha

Drill is roughly equivalent to denim but is softer to the touch and does not have that "Jeans" colour. It sounds remarkably similar to what you folks call duck cloth. Though you could just use duck skins and leave the feathers on. It would certainly be a good "look". Japparra is an incredibly high t...

Sasha

Most of my hinges are either integral (made as part of the armour plate) or hand made. ALL of my latches are. I watched a commercially fitted latch I had added to a helm blow out once (fortunetly there was another on the other side of the visor) and swore that I would only use my own product there-a...

Sasha

Just checked out the guy's other auctions and found this. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=545499631 Much more sueful for armouring type stuff. A metal cutting disk can be fitted in place of the saw blade. Wish I knew how badly "deprived" the lathe was of its components. I woul...

Sasha

Slitting shears are sort of like an infinite guilotine. What I mean by that is that they are designed to ONLY cut straight lines. A normal straght-jawed bench shear allows you to cut outside curves. Slitting shears have gaurds (which may be removable) which are designed to continue exactly whichever...

Sasha

It's a nice machine for a boilermaker to own. The shear will cut rod and angle iron as well as strip and sheet. The punches make rivet and bolt holes wherever you like. The scary thing about these machines is that before rota-broaches came into industry use, these machines would frequently be crane ...

Sasha

Going with cotton is a good idea. However I would suggest a drill weave on the outside because of it's wear and abrastion resistence. The inner layer can be any number of things. I have even used calico successfully. The very best thing I found though was jappara weave in a very light fabric with a ...

Sasha

I concur.

Talk to the police, talk to the school.

Body armour will not help if they slash his face or stab him in the leg.

Nowadays, any blood incident poses further threats. It is not a game.

If you know that the problem is looming then you MUST report it to the authorities.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

The valves are set with a metal-epoxy.

You need to heat the little stand up collar bit of the cylender before the brass valve will turn and release.

Is your friend using a gouging tip to cut these witha gas-axe?

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

You may find a long bottle-brush to be of good service. The outside can be polished and re-polished by using a loose-leaf colico (or softer) buffing wheel and the white fine-finishing compound. Sasha Riverforge ....I just un-earthed (not literally) one of my waterbuffalo horns in the junk room. Look...

Sasha

You may wish to take a look at my "using G-jawed clamps for articulation" in the essays section.

It will help you to do protoype articulation.

I do not use a mulktiude of push-pin latches with these.
I use one swing latch through the brim of the helm.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

WHO are you placing an order *with* form Hobart???? Blackwoods swears that such things do not exist (and that the picture I showed them was "wrong") Who were you planning to get to order one for you? Were you going for B1 or B2 size? What was the final figure you got quoted? Sasha Riverforge Reinhar...

Sasha

Okay. okay. I am awake. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Oxy bottles are not just mild steel. They are a somewhat stronger alloy that does not work-harden. For this reason, you will have much more success with cutting abrasives rather then cutting blades. Put another way,angle grinders : g...

Sasha

the second rod may be a track for the cutting jig. I want to see pictures of this puppy!!!!!! Lots of pictures, lots of details!!!!!! If you do not have a digital camera....we can locate an Archiver in your are who does. Pictures, man. Pictures! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha...the...

Sasha

This is one of those threads that has required a bit of abject boredom on my part to even open. The contents, I find, are every bit as bad as I feared they would be. I cannot even claim to have managed to read all of the posts to date. I will however interject a couple of facts. Butted mail is perio...

Sasha

No why didn't I think of selling a strip-scaled jerking as armour for that price?

I am a little bit speechless.....

If it was maybe just a little bit accurate to a period style other then "genric SCA".....

erk

Sasha

Sasha

That is exactly the sort of ugly nonsense helm that I find really detracts from the SCA battlefield. You can cover plastic armour....but I would pour fast setting cement over all helms like this.

Period style : Early SCA incompetent.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

Thanks Tom.

Given that my tech level for computers still involves water-wheels and mice running around inside tubes.....the programming you describe sounds impressive. Good luck.

Sasha

Sasha

Okay. I emailed you the pic. Host it host it host it! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Just kidding, no rush, I don't mind losing aa sale cause your taking your time....no rush at all.... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif sorry. Hassling you makes a nice change from hassling the g...

Sasha

Two points. Rev george. When RW says a "set" they mean 1 punch and the matching die. That is a "set" Thus, since there are seven standard sizes that come with the kit.....seven sets is...? (but don't panic. you really only neeeed 3 or 4....and there is a discount price for buying the standard sets i...

Sasha

Well done, George! Now just hope that the threading they use in the dies hasn't changed since they made that model (that is an extra old one). You caan get a new set of punches and dies from a number of engineering supply shops. They should set you back less then $30. This will mean you get a RW pun...

Sasha

I just sent it to you as an e-mail.

Bloody awful server.

and the company thaat hosts my pics for Armour Archive has a screen up saying "we are now defunct"

Anyone know of who a good free pic hoster is?

I do not want to use geocities.

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

Well spotted http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif You take a short length of spring steel wire and wind it into a flat watch-spring type thing that sits beside the nut. Anchor one end near (near, not ON)the hub of the nut. Anchor the other end so that the nut always swings back into the loadin...

Sasha

Not all gas welders that can cut steel can also weld it. Cutting is a process of pre-heat and oxidisation. The steel actually catches fire and burns in the narrow band that the oxygen is hitting. In ordere to melt steel together requires considerably more tempreture and a carbon nuetral flame. Butan...

Sasha

The one that I *remember* for sure as tlaking about it and having pics of tinned items was ffoulkes.

Go check your copy of "armourer and his craft"

I am going swimming to try and cool down.

Bye

Sasha

Sasha

Here is one of my offerings

[img]http://www.riverforge.homepage.com/thumb/w_bigaxeandring_t.jpg[/img]

Check out www.riverforge.homepage.com

The axe in the pic is $450 australian dollars (about half that in US dollars, plus shipping)

Sasha
Riverforge

Sasha

NO don't ask me.
I am in another country with different money systems, minning and processing companies and taxation laws.

What would I know about how much YOU should be paying for tin?

Sasha
Riverforge