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Sasha

Hi folks. I am trying to track down pics of crowns and similar ceremonial headgear (rank hats) from 750 back to about 600. The more Northern the better (Byzantium is no help)...but I would happily look at anything. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Any assistance or references much apprecia...

Sasha

TIG gloves. The only choice I would consider in preference is that tghere is anow a local company making work gloves and welding gloves form Kangaroo leather. These thigns are incredibly tough but very thin and sensitive. The problem is that they are $45Australian for a set of riggers gloves and soe...

Sasha

I went and bought a polystyrene head the other day. The reason for this being that I wanted to be able to see the fit of helms under construction better then by just sticking them on my own head and gazing at a mirror. The foam head is lifesize, no real features but with nose and ears and brow etc. ...

Sasha

You are missing the *best* bits.... Visit the rest of the site.... You will see wonders of science and nature like these: [img]http://www.bokalosarmoury.com/images/price%20list%20pictures/HE020.JPG[/img] And this (Is it just me, or is he only about half way into this helm?) [img]http://www.bokalosar...

Sasha

Well, Mr and Mrs Spearz loved eachother in a very special way and.... errr...that wasn't what you meant, was it? Okay. Spear sockets were forge welded shut (inot a cone) over a mandril that was also used for shaping them. basically a cone shaped piece of barstock that is considerably longer then the...

Sasha

I just followed that link! I think I am gratefull that the lighting is so bad on so many of the pics on that site. The horror, the horror. There are worse things then plastic! Take particular note of the Roman/Gothic helm.... Special. The beginners kit and the knees....errr....I cannot think ....bra...

Sasha

Thank you.

That was very useful. May all your sheep be very fluffy and polite.

Sasha

Sasha

...There is a chance that you were just speaking with a twit. Build your protoype pair and test them. There is no other way you will find out if they offer long term reliability. I have met a numer of gaunts that have been very pretty and protective looking when new...but which deform and twist into...

Sasha

Hi folks. I am trying to work out how much it owuld cost to get a human head cast in solid steel. sure I have a few nominees for whos head I would prefer to use...but I have a polystyrene one (in ADDITION to my own, thank you), and will probably go with that. My question for the more esoterically mi...

Sasha

Can you clarify the question a bit? What is specifically driving you insane? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif By th way. I tend to use flooring vinyl for prototyping my templates becasue it bends and "dishes" in a way very similar to steel without then having permanent creases. You want it...

Sasha

Well....You may want to consider a suit that lest you bookend your knight and his other squires, New-Viking-Boy. There is s some good stuff to be found in migration era. Hiding the leg defences is going to be the trickiest part of the process. On the bright side, it means the leg defences can look l...

Sasha

No. But like a good Viking, I hummed runelessly to myself while I built it.

And yes, I know more then doubling the price is a lot just for some writitng on it....It may even be runesly expensive!

urk....too many puns before coffee

Sasha

Sasha

You already have the trick. I would rather scribe and cut/grind off a little bit then not have enough and end up with either a patch or a "dip" in the helm at that point (or a beaten and over-stretched bit of thinner metal as you make a little bit go a long way). There are "better" curve patterns bu...

Sasha

You can certainly improve matters with the choice of cop shape....But you really do need to affix the thing to yourself in some way. If you use strapping around the arm then it stands to reason that the only way this is going to work is by being tight enough to apply friction (unless your forearms a...

Sasha

Your kidding! In mild I would charge about $150US for those...and I would make them a bit nicer. (maybe it is a just a bad photo). It also needn't be a floral shape. Depends on what you wanted, but that price is way too high. Sasha ------------------ The larger the island of knowledge, the longer th...

Sasha

Yes to doing the runes. Probably not to payment by installments because I am in Australia and you do not want to pay Western Union any more in transfer fees then you have to. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif The original price I was going to charge for the axe was $220US with a good Austra...

Sasha

YES! I forgot the purple/black/twisted little mutant carrots that I saw in South America. I did have it pointed out that they were one of the few domestic vegetables that made the New World journey the other way.... Sasha I will post the links to the Lochac food sites in a day or so when I can dig t...

Sasha

Ah....I will have a great axe very like that on the board for sale in about a week. Hang about. If you find http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000373.html The axe will be very like this except for the rune work. I made two axes when I was doing that one, in case one of them suicided in the...

Sasha

Brazing rods bought from a hardware store are likely to be STANDARD grade and are composed of copper, tin and a small trace element of manganese. Sasha ------------------ The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of monumental screw-ups. - Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970),

Sasha

Yeah...that lost looks like it has been pretty badly bastardised. Rabbits were raised in structures looking strangely like beehives form pre-roman timesand the rabbit is an incredibly important part of the period food economy....Unfortunately this does not help them atste good. Havening eaten just a...

Sasha

btw, is important in that design... you can smash through a helmet, but it makes a big enough hole that you can always remove it afterwards...

In that kind of intense relationship I think that is called "knowing when to let go"

Sasha

Sasha

I got the pics. Pretties..... There are some very cute little axes in there. I just need to know if you want sqaured or conical spikes for the #1 or #5 mace head? By the way, T bob....I was "playing" with your not quite completed mace....it is...errr...authoratitive! Mind you, I fitted it to one of ...

Sasha

Sorry, but I no longer have the big green boojk of fun and mayhem. It evaporated about two moves ago.(although i think my copy was actually blue covered). If you want to scan in and e-mail me the pics you want to talk about.... I will soon be posting pics of the in-stock maces, as well as the one be...

Sasha

You can be appointed the "speaker of sanity" with attitudes like that. And you wouldn't want that, now would you? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha ------------------ The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of monumental screw-ups. - Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970),

Sasha

Jigsaw.
An ocillating jigsaw and bi-metal blades by preference....But a $20 jigsaw will do the job well enough for a while. Just use a cutting compound and good quality blades.
(and safety gear)

Sasha

Sasha

Tell me what you need My accuracy is as great as your budget http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha ....who is doing a lot of weapons at the moment....

Sasha

Okay. I know the helm. I have seen one of that shaped pictured with a pig face visor and the helm looks very much like a piggy bank. Oh well. I suppose there had to be someone that loves them. I have used the pic for years in showing that "look, sometimes in period, they built ugly stuff too" http:/...

Sasha

Margaret's sister had her thighs warded with a "STOP" sign.
....Virginty's last call.

I think I might accidently have made a commission fighting codpiece out of a "give way" sign...but the paint had been long since stripped off it.

Sasha

Sasha

I go with the kitchen foil pattern on this one.

Wrap your calf in several scrunched layers of kitchen foil and then cut where necassary.
Cut a bit bigger then required and away you go. I find this lets me do a nice shaped greave instead of a stove-pipe.

Sasha

Sasha

I am looking at the book "the royal armoury at greenwich 1515-1649: a history of its technology" by alan williams and anthony de reuck. Brilliant book! Cheap too! There seems to be no transitional made (which makes sense given the date they started). And his imported armourers were Milanese not Germ...

Sasha

Let the armour find its own date! Sooner or later a harness like that is going to hook up with a blue plastic smurf harnewss...and then it will get a sufficient shock to find a nice steady maille or wisby harness to hook up with and settle down. You get nowhere trying to force the issue with making ...

Sasha

Yes. Everyone used bronze for quite some time in fact. Some celts a little longer then others. The chinese used brass, bronze,copper and CAST IRON long before anyone else got the nifty idea and long before the chinese came up with carbon steel. Just goes to show. The vikings seemed to use copper swo...

Sasha

That system tends to produce stuff that is exactly two sizes too small. The foot gets compressed and the patterns don't allow for movement at all. It also doesn't allow for any double layering or under-tabs (which were used lots in early period shoes) what I do instead is tape a sock onto someone's ...

Sasha

where are they??? how can i contact them <sigh> Okay. Follow closely. go to www.sca.org.au and got o the lovely map of Lochac (australia). Click on where you are and they will give you lovely up to the decade information regarding both the Floppsies and the Fluzies (I DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT!)...err t...

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In which case, go to Agro's armouring workshops if you want quick and legal (and looking like a shoebox) armour. Or go to St Floppsies st Floriens) if you want stuff that approaches art....but will take you longer.

I recommend the floppsies for the results and agros mob for the conversation.

Sasha

early period crowns and coronets

Solid steel head