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Sasha

I tend to use either my jigsaw (set to slow, non-oscilating) or a jeweller's coping saw. This gives me quicker and more controllable results then filing away all the metal in between two holes. I then take a strip of abrasive and insert one end into the slot I have cut, tug it back and forth moving ...

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There is a thing with owning a commercial armoury that goes so againt the grain of craftmanship that I have been fighting against it for the last couple of years and losing money as a result. The issue is: Not every peice you build can or should be an extension of your craft and a honing of your ski...

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Being on the other side of the world has its disadvantages. I have only handled one item of Fletcher's work. (I do not pretend I can judge craftmanship soley from pictures). The item was a viking or saxon style helm. It was generally well designed and put together. It needed some modification for lo...

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Yes, yes. That fellows work is coming along nicely, isn't it? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif (As an explanation for the challenged, that was "Irony".) Christian does some fabulous work, is a nice guy to...

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Sounds just right.
I will happily put in work and articles towards this.

Damned fine thought, Mr Harold D. Bear.

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Riverforge

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It wasn't even your particular post I was thinking of you Gerbill's Ass. You were a lost cause form the beginning. The only appropriate course of action was to not bother replying to your enquiries. I just wasn't interested in anything you had to say. I am not likley to be in the future. I think you...

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De ja Hedgehog! I was actually introduced to this book last night at dinner with My lady's parents. Margaret's mother has a better collection of medieval books then we do. She had just taken delivery of "warrior Monks. A study of the military orders" and the book you just mentioned. She was taunting...

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Before I became one of "these guys" I DID kill one or two buffing wheels on experimentation. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Of course I was working for someone else back then, and they eventually took the time to teach me properly. (those were BIG 34inch wheels too....not a lot of fun to...

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I think the missing word in your post was "NOT". As in "to make sure my face is "NOT" too close to the helm's grill. But I think I understand anyway.... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Two finger widths between you and the faceplate is sufficient...providing the helm does not move or pivo...

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Almost like the front half of cuisine

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I spome to Gui early on Saturady morning. Explained he would be two toys short. I am shipping them to him via Mc Afferties (they are used to odd shaped parcels from me). I am sorry that it got that way. We literally had the car packed and ready to go and decded to pull the plug at 10.30 Friday night...

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Hi colleen, welcome aboard. Please fasten your straightjacket and observe the "no screaming" sign. We ask you to refraim from taunting PoD or feeding Gudmond. Your inflight movie will be "First Knight" with Richard Gere and we shall be screaning it 97 times during your time on board. We hope you are...

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And having reads further down the page....I agree 100% with armadillo (there is a first time for everything http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ). My first impression based on the angle of the head and stuff was of the japanese blade smithing hammers (abbana were going wild for them a year or...

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I do small drop spindles and lace bobbins 9as well as the seal I mentioned) on a 2 1/2 ton steel/stone/wood/glass lathe from the 1800's. Size of lathe is only an issue at the upper end of the scale. Not the lower. You can make a thimble on a 70 ton monster with a 17foot long bed....if you want to. I...

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Depends entirely on where you are. We have some very fine custom bowyers in Australia. Working with local horn and timber they produce a range of results from the very nice to the "I can't beleive that isn't sitting in a fine art gallery". There are a couple of guys working self bows and the rest ma...

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You only need to worry about it when you start working with precious metals. You cannot buff silver with anything but mops that have been used on silver. Anything else will cause corrossion. Tin and other super soft metals should also be used with isolated mops. I would probably also not use the hea...

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Yep. Correct. getting the depth and "spread" right is the only tricky bit. You do not want them to restrict your movement or to come away from your elbow too far when you straighten your arm.

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"Um, Sir. The picture? She is deaded" Sasha ...there are tons of stuff you can use a lathe rfor (literally) the boundaries are your own imagination, the size of the lathe bed and your skills (which develop and improve). Check out books of period furniture. Make medieval pens. Make bases for seals (t...

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Thanks for posting real info Ceawlin. Wire gauges are different. Actually there are a couple of things to consider. The SCA actually started its gauge from a faulty base. Whoever wrote the original standards was referencing to a BRITISH gauge spec chart. Ths means that 16ga = 1.61mm The US gauge cha...

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Nice work.

The brim does not look too crisp in terms of line. This may be the light doing odd things with the photo.

Have you thought of making the rapier legal faceplate as a falling buffe? Now there would be an "interesting" project.

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Riverforge

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Since I am one of the ones that manages to be "rude" to newbies I will have a stab at it. firstly, I always answer more politely when someone introduces themselves a bit. eg: "Hi, my name is William Marshal jnr. I am from upper Tanzanea but am currently attending college in in the middle of Tokyo. I...

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Gambeson, what gambeson? It is the haircut I need get over! 8 points for the gambeson. 9.5 for the period haircut. I used to have a theaory that a persons hair would eventually reflect their choice of helms. Thus Sir Kurgan, who spent years wearing a later period great helm had a flat-topped mullet ...

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Yes. You can forge weld it http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Or you could make one of the dozens of pole-arms that does not require welding at all. A number of halberds have riveted on plates that wrap around the pole and anchor to the blade. A number of middle eastern pole arms also work l...

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One layer of foam is not enough.

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Hmmm...guess the blaeney has left for the event already.

I was expecting at least one panicked e-mail today.

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Okay.... The spetums are coming along nicely. No time to post pics. I am just heading off to buy dowel. did the vambraces at 4.30am finished the elbows at 7am am now spetumming for all I am worth Will do the basket hilts just after I have lathed the dowel. Buggered if I know when there will be time ...

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We are going to be going down to the wire to have the Spetums finished. I have spent far too much time in the last four days on the phone. Even in death, my mother still manages to be annoying. It was only today that we finally got the forms applying for a death certificate to get posted here. Of co...

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Two principals for survival. The terrain is not the map The disk is not the power tool. I think there are about 12 companies int he world that produce grinding and cutting disks in various qualities...then they just attach the sticker of whoever has commissioned that batch. Cover the labels and I de...

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I do not recall the name of the book. I said I have photocopies fromt he book. I have pages of helms, breastplates and pauldrons (It is where the anime armour I posted a while ago came from) I have a feeling I now own my very own copy of this book...But I will not know for sure until Meisje brings i...

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It was 41 degrees here today....CELSIUS!

about 40% humidity and a really ugly wind.
I had my buffing compound go runny and globby all over the table next to the buffing machine.

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It is too damned hot and I am huddling beside the airconditioner for an hour or two. Anyone want to appear in the chatroom, my brain is fit for picking (by carrion feeders)....

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...the overheated

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Find a picture of a fauld and tassets that you like the look of. Look at them a lot. Try and see the "way" they are made. Try and sort out in your head how you would make them....You know what 20 little basic steps could I do to come up with THAT as a total result. Then come back to this thread on t...

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If it had a sepia like quality to it then it was White Mountain Armoury

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I don't recall the entire thread. But I said that I glue woll fabric into most of my work as both a comfort, rust and noise reducing feature.

The linning of coloured wool also does wonders for the 'finished' look of the peices.

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Riverforge

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Other then the immediate reaction of shock that Gundo would recommend darting armour..... Bad Gundo. No Biscuit! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Realistically it is possible but not practical. The skills and tools you would need to do a halfway recognisable (rather then decent) job of it ...

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