The Armour Archive

Sasha

This is a straight cut slitting shear. it does not like going around corbners much and is completely incapable of inside curves. The only reall application in armouring would be to slit the sheetmetal into more convenient sizes so that you could work it with a set of powershears or throatless shear....

Sasha

Ouch.

My deep sympathies.

Sasha

Sasha

If you mean the kind of protection in general then the Normans are wearing them (maille) in a rather well known tapestry. If you mean as a plate thing, there are articluating bevors for some italian salets that work like a falling boufe. If you mean the thing that we call a fallinge boufe then Gundo...

Sasha

Sasuke....we have all done that. Getting the rose coloured glasses smashed off your face is just one of the services the SCA provides...

Sasha

If you can get it for less then $50 then it is probably a good bet....otherwise I wouldn't cry over losing it. It looks like a russian built one (we have got the generation after these flooding the market in second hand tools here) They are heavier then you think! It does not even compare with a dec...

Sasha

Actually, I asked Dragon to host those pics for me. The frustrating thing is that my comp won't show pics form easyspaces hosting (I think they pissed off australian servers and have been cut-off). Anyway, those three are my work. All Baronial coronets for the SCA. One is a Byzantine ten-panel crown...

Sasha

Having gained your Baronial title upon the field that way, you are indeed entitled to display it on your helm.

Note: Your Barony is sadly an exception and not the rule. Everyone else just has to lump it.
Anyway, I didn't write the rules.

Sasha

Sasha

Displays of rank upon the field are limited to rank won upon the field. Or something like that. basically if you want to wear a crown on your helm then you have had to earn it on the field (prowess). This means a landed or court Baron may not wear a coronet on their fighting helm but a Duke or Count...

Sasha

There is a guy that sells specialised aluminium welding filler rods at the local tool swap market. I have never needed them but I have watched the show and these things are pretty amazing. If I was going to weld aluminium I KNOW I would be giving this guy $20 for a packet of these rods. No external ...

Sasha

I'm with the well groomed orangutan gentleman on this one. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif (sorry, Alail) I alos like the feel and control of using an oxy rig with SS flux and scrap material off the same sheet as filler rod. I figure it works out about 5% more expensive then when I usd a ...

Sasha

Yep. that post of Harold's was every bit as insulting as it was advertised to be. Krag. I would opt for the fexible LPG/propane gas lines that you can buy in any hardware store that are encased in steel mesh. I get it for about $12 Aus a meter....and it means I never have to worry about it again. Ar...

Sasha

that is about the same power and specs as a medium size washing machine motor. Suitable for a drill press. not nearly powerfull enough to drive a buffer or linisher. Sounds like it is fairly clapped out too. I would consider not bothering with it and just procuring another 1/4hp motor from the neare...

Sasha

OKay. Managed to find a whole three coronets in the dissarayed shreds of my files. If somoen wants to host them then I shall show pretty pics too (though one of them is a long way from being pretty) http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Drop me an e-mail if you are volunteering Sasha

Sasha

Mike wrote: However, the most serious injury that I have ever incurred was being verbally abused by Tim Dawson at Gundaroo in 1983 or 1984 for jumping up and down upon his banner like a child without the sense it was born with, after we had stormed and taken the great straw-bale fortress." Ahhh, Tim...

Sasha

Hi. My name is Sasha and I make coronets. It all started innocently enough, I built a circlet for a lady i was fond of. Then some of her friends wanted circlets too. The circlets started getting complex and I began doing research. Then I built a set of Baronial coronets, but pretty soon that just wa...

Sasha

Matt, with all due respect, your post does not make a lot of sense (diplomo-speak for "you are talking crap"). It all comes down to time and money. The market currently bears $25 or better for your bosses. the machine can help you produce more bosses every hour of the day that you work. This means y...

Sasha

It is way to expensive at that price. A fire is useful, though that particular kind of portable forge is about the least useful kind to have as a beginner (at hotwork). Hand crank is bloody awkward for most things to do with armouring. The shallow pan needs a fair amount of attention to get decent r...

Sasha

Hi folks. Since A-Bob and a few other are doing nifty repouse work around here at the moment... Where do you guys source your pitch from? I have one block that I have used for years...but then Bob told me about the joys of filling the helm with pitch to do shaping from the outside! So now I want mor...

Sasha

Speaking as someone that used to shoot nitro glycerine out of water pistols (it does not explode when compressed, thus the cylender of the water pistol didn't make it go bang...it would however explode a brick nicely when a stream impacted on it) ...And then one day an airbubble got caught in the co...

Sasha

OKay....now I am going to have to play with this! I have just given away our spare microwave.... hmmm....Do you think Margaret would mind mne experimenting on our new one? I have a graphite crucible....so it is just a matter of insulation materials.... And I would prefer to do open cucible casting a...

Sasha

Actually, the Earl Marshal of the West was at Rowany Festival in Lochac this year and there were two of these basket hilts lurking around the Royal encampment. He had a good look at them there and we both said nasty things about their authenticity and balance. One of them was showing a crack develop...

Sasha

I think the price is a big part of it. Also, I have always had far better sales by making pole type weapons in pairs and then offering them individually. Sounds odd, but it opens up the market to peopel that want a matched pairs hanging on the walls (and lets face it, that is what the toy will spend...

Sasha

Okay. Just got a check thingy in US dollars made up and will be sending it tonight. I spent five minutes grumbling about the fees charged to make up bank-checks in foreign currency...and then went and drowned my sorrows with sushi. Raw fish makes it all better! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile...

Sasha

Hey, that guy is having a good day!
Quick, GET HIM!

Sasha

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The larger the island of knowledge,
the longer the shoreline of monumental screw-ups.
- Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970),

Sasha

You do not want a drill, you want a punch. A roper-whitney will be your best friend. Trust me. Failing that...have you ever heard of sharpening drill bits form time to time? And not going too fast? And using a cutting compound or just a couple of drops of oil? And marking your holes with a square ce...

Sasha

Let little frogs play golden trumpets! Rhys and I agree on something totally and without reservation! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Yep, I have built and used things like this for many years and find them to be some of the most mobile and free flowing armour. Mine are built with either ...

Sasha

I would love a picture, thanks.

akharnam@optushome.com.au

Put me down for two at the moment (I would like to see the pic)

Sasha

Sasha

Bad Gwen! No biscuit! You just made me snarf a perfectly good cup of tea. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ...hack sheetmetal worker indeed. (obviously your beloved husband has just not chosen to reveal the secret that the rest of us armourers know....We cheat deliberately you know. It is ...

Sasha

Well done, Volund. Yes, there is indeed. I have just told him that we mostly want B2's, but that I would see if there was any takers. He is in St Paul. Shipping should work out at about $17. I can put you in touch with him if you like. Sasha ------------------ The larger the island of knowledge, the...

Sasha

Harken now to the words of Sasha Grinder Bane, Darkest fear of all cheapish angle grinders! He who has slaughtered dozens of small deadly appliances! I can tell from the explanation just exactly what has happened. One of the brushes in the motor developed a crack and started shedding slivers of itse...

Sasha

He has just told me he can get hold of a B3 at the same price $425 if anyone is interested. "I just bought a B-3 beverly Shear at lunch time today come out of a high school I got everything except the handle I would take $ 425.00 the way it is. seems to be in good cond. other than that and it has be...

Sasha

He said that USPS would sharge $75US to deliver it to melb or Syd...but that does not take into account any number of charges that the Oz customs may decide to put on it. Being a second hand machine it should be able to avoid sales tax...but having imported a few large tools into the country, my con...

Sasha

You NEVER see them on the feild Hah! Come to Lochac. There are nine of them running around the field as a unit of the flying Hussars and there are about 4 other individuals that wear the English versions. Come to that....There will be a large man with a beard and blue gambeson who will be wearing a...

Sasha

I think those may be floaters with the rerebrace and vambrace lapping over the edges of the elbow cop. I build a lot of mine this way. I like the speed and movement. If the part is obviosly hard articulated to the cop then it may have a lip that is designed to keep lance tips form finding a way in t...

Sasha

An armour that instantly gives you the powers of a japanese manga cartoon. You can fly, morth into demons and your sword suddenly catches fire and starts spitting laser beams of magical powers! Very desirable attributtes on the SCA tourney field, as you can see. Unfortunately many SCA dukes have sta...

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