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Sasha

What is the cut-off date for this comp?
I might encourage someone to articulate some thoughts on the topic.

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I'll try and catch up a couple of points here (okay. a lot) I used the de-walt industrial grinders. Started with a 4inch, it died in a day, had to drive for an hour each way to exchange it. that died in a day too. 6 grinders later they upgraded me to a 4 1/2 inch because they were out of my model to...

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20ga is wat to thin to bend the plastic...even at near liquid tempretures. If you want to use forms....old street signs work a treat. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Aluminium forms for plastic and leather moulding are what I use, and so far (about 6 years) I have no complaints. Sasha Riv...

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Two solutions. One period and one practical. Period. Spend some time with a file and take a standard rivet of appropriate shank and then take down the bottom shank by a ga. or two. Practical. Take a rivet of the appropriate shank lenght. Make a hole that allows it to just fit. Fit the rivet as far i...

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I have made a cxouple of designs. Never been fully happy with the results. My considerations for a third version would be: Minimum finger seperation by plate thickness, rivets and articulation. weight Blow-bridging abilities across a greater-then-mitten-gauntlet diversity of angles. What this means ...

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For all that mrks and I have different approaches to stuff. He is exactly right and has put it succinctly enough for me to steal the entire post. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif The one other possibility is that your helkm has the chinstraps anchored in the worng place and it is allowing ...

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What you are thinking of is a peascod breastplate. A bit later period. A [idgeon breast can be anything that has that forward "keel" effect with a clearly defined centre-line. They tended to be highish in the chest and flattened out towards the belly. This is why many women like this tyle to fight i...

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It's a pig of a job isn't it?

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It is not really "pidgeon breasted" in style. It may look nice when covered and stuff....but if it is meant to be the pidgeon breasted style then I suggest you get a butane torch and a good book and do some further testing. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Needs more bulge. Needs a clear c...

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Most mill balls (yes that is the curect term) are cast steel. They come in a variety of sizes starting at "grape" and moving up past "grapefruit-on-steriods" Idealy you want these straight from the barrel (new) rather then catching the ones that come flying out of the mill-chutes. Used ones tend to ...

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Exactly what Gundo said.

Follow his suggestions ansd version2 of these will be really great.

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The makita angle grinders tend to be slimmer and longer of body. This improves the grip comfort...but some of them have switches int he dumbest places and also do not have user-replaceable brushes. (brushes for the electric motor. You should see a plastic screw-head on either side of the angle grind...

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I use either my set of slip-rollers (which is closest to the "steel ring-maker" that harbour freight has. or a portable plumber's tube bender (which has no trounble with anything up to 8mm barstock and costs $20Aus.)...Though when I am feeling slack and lazy...I just use my dishing form and get cosi...

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Some people are odd around here. The photos are not cloeups or in very good focus. From what I can see though, It looks like a well maintained and polished (how manny of you are rustier) transitional kit. I am sure that you will improve to the point where you will think on this stuff and say "Oh god...

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Needed some help navigating the Isreali Government website (none of the English sections leading to governenent departments was working. You got to choose between hebrew and error404). I needed to find the department that handles estates and issues death certificates for foreign nationals resident i...

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My suggestion would be a Bosch. I am not familiar with a few of the other brands , but have had nothing but trouble from De Walt. Things I look for in a small grinder. Good one hand grip. The handle off the side is all well and good, but there will be applications where you need to hold it just by t...

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Most likely vertical steel or horn straps.

The thing is that just breaking up the surface of boiled leather with rivet heads is sufficient to render it far more resistent to cutting edges anyway. So perhaps many were just leather and rivets.

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Riverforge

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Knighthood. A dweem within a dweem.... A loose collection of thoughts on the topic of knighthood within the SCA. A knight. Warrior, Courtier, Defender, Killer, paragon of virtue. To be all five at once is no mean trick! Knighthood is an impossibility so obvious that the attempt becomes glorious. No...

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Ballistic ceramics is a whole feild of research engineering. Normal ceramic tiles will not stof a bullet unless you are hiding behind a whole pallet of them. If you are this worried about getting shot, then I suggest you move to a quieter country. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Te closes...

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There are some helms where 16ga is "okay". These helms usually have overlaying peices and a rivetted contruction. For helms requiring deep dishing and which are for SCA heavy combat....go with 14ga or better. Steel is cheap, time is expensive, 98.9% of the costs of the helm will be your time to make...

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Gundo, my friend. I am afraid I will have to agree, it is either the photgraphy or the pig....but something has gone ugly. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I am not a huge fan of these at the best of times. I think that catching the fleeting subtle beuaty of these visors is rather like win...

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Tommorrow I will post pics of "Spetums So Far"

Coming along nicely...thought the local specialist metal supplier is closed till the 10th.

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Harbour Freight has them in the cheap version. They keep torturing me by sending me online catalogues (just because I went through the hassle of ordering one thing from them and getting it shipped out here). The catalogue before last had a rectangular shaped gauge card for about $4. We get charged a...

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Very cute. If you want really nifty results, duct tape a watermelon to the inside of a helm. Suspend it form a chain form a tree branch or something and then pummel it and look for the amount of movement as well as the impact damage. ...And the pics taken just as the watermelon EXPLODES inside the h...

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Plastic has its uses in armouring. Plastic can be good. I like having plastic as an available resourse when it comes to selecting the best materials for a job. The problem with Gumby Gloves is not that they are plastic. It is that they are Gumby Gloves. They fail on both safety and asthetics. To my ...

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The packing bands have the advantage of being spring steel. I have used them for a number of armouring applications and find them to be very nifty indeed. (including their use as a spring return on a two stage bevor) I would definately go with the heavy duty packing strap, by preference. It will not...

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This is not the authenticity part of the forum. We can talk about designing sports combat armour too. If you re-read the question you will notice that he mostly wanted to know about how to extract the surprising amount of comfort-value from gumby gloves and get the ssame degree of good stuff in his ...

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Surgical stainless and implant grade stainless are NOT the same thing. Neither contains nickel...but the other trace elemtns are radically different. Surgical stainless is usually tempered, and so has a much higher degree of chomium in it. Drop a set of forceps and watch them shatter! Not a good ide...

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The Sasha RANT on GUMBY GLOVES. First and foremost. These hockey gloves are unsafe. Even the ones that have a plastic re-enforced thumb-plate. The trouble is that the there is an area of webbing at the tip of each finger, between the leather palm and the padded upper. This is so the wearer's skin ca...

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Implant grade Stainless contains zero nickel. It is stress relieved and x-ray tested. I remember that it also has one of the other ingredients treated so as to be absolutely stable (so that whatever produces that white, dusty look on normal old stainless does not happen). I might suggest that buildi...

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the "valley" is a simple bit of stepping. You use a single sides chisel and a hammer and away you go. Should get a gaunt like that stepped in about 45minutes. I get to paint a house tomorrow (well, the inexcessible bits that no one else has painted in about 15 years). If I survive that, I shall post...

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Okay. Finally here. Firstly, Do not make the pipe too long. The metal really will not go much past a hemisphere before it start trying to tear and and pipe much in excess of that is just going to make it less comfortable to hammer and also introduce another problem. Regardless of wall thickness, I h...

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Csarbon steel is not "much lighter" then stainless or mild. It weighs near enough to exactly the same so that it doesn't matter. It IS a lot STRONGER then either mild or stainless, and that allows you to go down a gauge or two without losing any strength. This saves you a lot of weight....but it is ...

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Real barge cement is unavailable in this country, so it is not much help to blaeney anyway.... But I can see how it would work. That stuff is amazing! Getting it off your fingers is pretty amazing too..... Try putting one little leather speed rivet through the glued patch. It will do wonders for re-...

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What Norman says is very true.
But he forgot to mention that for really good, deep embossing and detail tranference the plate should be glowing orange-hot at the time.

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