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Sasha

My guess, form looking at that pic in a book and not the net is that they would be plain rivets, lightly domed like the heads of coach bolts in hardware stores.

Sasha

Sasha

Sasha, you might wind up very popular on the mace front...

It's because of my blunt personality.

I think I know the mace you mean. Similar to the ones in the Mac Bible?

Can you send me a pic or reference and we can chat about it.

Sasha

Sasha

Get thee hence to the site of Marc Carlson...for all your footish needs.

Just spend twice as long as you think you need fiddling with the patterns. They are sketched and not to scale.

Sasha

Sasha

http://www1.tip.nl/~t401243/mac/mac25vB.jpg This may be a period sheep for YOU! Gives you a fairly good look at the fleece on the beast. Incidentally. since the only way of getting sheepkin that kept it's hair on was to kill the animal in winter, I do not think that skins like this were too common....

Sasha

One of the nice things about being in a state of seemingly perpetual house renovations... Margaret asked me if we were going to set up the brewing gear which we have been accumulating against the time when we owned a house and stopped moving around more frequently then it took mead to ferment. I tho...

Sasha

I gave up on paper templates and patterns years ago. I lived in enviroments where they would get wet and "blah" and die. I switched over to using flooring vinyl. This was a huge improvement, It bends and behaves very like steel in its stretch charecteristics. So you can drape the vinyl pattern onto ...

Sasha

Hint number 1) waste a lot of metal. Steel is cheap. It is much cheaper then the labour time that goes into making armour. Be prepared to fiddle with steel and learn from it...and then THROW THE PIECE IN THE SCRAP BIN RATHER THEN FEELING YOU MUST TURN IT INTO ARMOUR! Then start over and make the bit...

Sasha

I think we just used two names to describe the same beast, Chef.

the manx and Hebredian are the same critter. I just got my sources from a book on life in the hebrideas.

Sasha

Sasha

Most sheep in period were very different to modern sheep. The breeding of sheep that need shearing is less then 500 years old. Most period sheep were similar to what are now called Viking or Hebridean sheep. These are fairly huge critters, some breeds with four curling horns instead of two, who shed...

Sasha

I am one. But I am not taking commissions at the moment and will not be likley to have a set in-stock for a few weeks.

Sasha

Sasha

That man has more stakes then I do!
Throw him to the sheep, Centurion.

Sasha

Ever thought of adding an air duct over your welding area? You have gone to so much trouble to set up a good area anyway that it would really finish it nicely (and you would notice the difference in air quality)

Sasha

Hi folks. As I described in my post to the off-topics board...it seems I am going to be making some pattern welded blades int he near future. Could I get some indications of what hand-forged (as opposed to factory billet, stock reduced) blades are going for and what you would pay for good work. Plea...

Sasha

Death to the axeminster warriors! I feel like I need to wash out my computer after that. Unfortunatly there are quite a few harness that owe way too much to this philosophy not too far away. Now that I am attending training sessions again I get a way depressing look at exactly how many people have o...

Sasha

Luke. Look in the essays section, luke!

Sasha

Sasha

Any iron will do. I use the fillings and sweepings form around my grinding area. The time it takes depends on how much surface area your particles of iron have. The smaller the particles the more they come in contact with the corrosive vinegar, the quicker your solution is made. The other thing you ...

Sasha

That suggestion about cutting short steering wheel covers is a nifty one. I wonder if I should just use sheepskin ones. That way I can have hammer and sheep at the same time!....errr...never mind. Personally I do not wear gloves much and would have gone the way of the all over callus, except that Ma...

Sasha

I just checked Craig's site. He is charging $90 Australian for this mace in bronze or $60 in aluminium (yuk!). That is about $45 US for the bronze. I do not think you are going to do much better then that! I would charge you more for the iron one. Mind you mine are hand crafted rather then cast. Sas...

Sasha

Okay. Dapping punches are NOT for plannishing. If you set them up in a vise and hit on them at an angle then you will snap the head off. This is not what they are for. In order to get the most out of your dapping punches you will need the base. This is an anvil plate with matching hemespherical depr...

Sasha

Back up a little lad. Have you got the stake you plan to raise on yet? That will help determine the best kind of hammer for you. Get a stake (or three). Then try using them with normal hammers. You will be able to do most of the stuff you will achieve with a specialist hammer. In the process you wil...

Sasha

I can do it in iron for you. I know the guy at manning imperial. He gets these cast to his moulds. Can't compete with that in bronze. If that is exactly the style you want then buying from him is a good bet. I can vouch for his quality...though he is a little slow sometimes (snowed under with work)....

Sasha

Honestly, it is a bit of an impossible request. I know nothing about your products in detail (and the devil is always in the details http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ) and with all leathercraft, quality and finish determines the price far more then materials cost. Your best bet is surfing ...

Sasha

There is always me.

I make flanged mace heads in the Gothic stykle with internal cutaways and in the solid flange english style.

Drop me an e-mail and we can talk about it and exchange pictures.

How many flanges? 6 or 7?

Sasha

Sasha

Email me that catalogue, my good man.

akharnam@optushome.com.au

Sasha

You are dealing with two seperate areas. There is making the shield(mostly woodcraft) and there is making the shield-boss (armouring). You can either purchase the shieldboss form someone around here (me, for one) or you can look at the nifty essay on making shield bosses in the essays section and go...

Sasha

Aned if you look across at the thread titled "King Uther's axe" then you will see some pretty pictures of one.

Incidentaly, the shaft is about 5feet long...Uther is just a very tall boy.

Drop me an e-mail if it is similar to what you had in mind.

Sasha

Sasha

Uryen seems to be from from Rowany....and I would guess maybe the College of St. Ursula's...But since he did nto turn up and say "hi" at any point through the 7 plus days that I was at Festival site I guess he just didn't want to have anything to do with me. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gi...

Sasha

Definately not stainless. Just a lot of work. The core metal of the blade is an 80+ yea old sawmill blade. The socket and is mild steel. Given more time it would have been a lot more shiny but even fully annealed the blade metal is harder then all of my chisels. Once heat treated, the abrasives I us...

Sasha

Okay. I have pictures of the axe up at the weapons board. Seems a good place for them. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000373.html Once again. Thanks for the help and advice. Sasha ------------------ "Green Eggs and Hamlet" Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head...

Sasha

Here are the pics of that axe that I have been getting some help with form the locals of the Archive. His Majesty was well pleased with it and had many thanks for his Queen who commissioned it and also for the craftsman (though fortunately a markedly different kind of thanks) http://www.armourarchiv...

Sasha

I like HDPE. It is UV stable, has no chance of shattering and moulds well with readily producable heat.

And I say again. Only use plastic if no one is going to see it. That means inside and out.

Sasha

Sasha

Bronze is not an ideal metal for SCA helms. It tends to work harden and become brittle....So every sword blow you wear is bringing you that bit closer to catastrophic failure. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Gilding and painting are both options. Gilding uses very fine sheets of metal (li...

Sasha

Krag. can I ask you to ship me the same pics of axes, please. Send as many as you comfortably can.

Thank you.

Sasha

Sasha

Thank you.... You have given me....thoughts....

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Sasha

Same vinegar technique as the other article we talked about....but only for about 30 minutes. You can actually see the galv boiling off!

Sasha

Sasha

Well. King Uther took delivery of his axe and spear during Rowany Festival and was ...to say the least....well pleased. Within five minuted of thanking his queen for the gifts and complementing my craftmanship he was down range throwing both spear and axe at an innocent tree. The bastard hit true wi...

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King Uther's axe