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Sasha

What. You mean "coffee...need coffeeeeee"

I nearly always agree with that paragraph.

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Sasha

You have a couple of iinteresting questions....and my vocabulary is sadly lacking this morning....okay here goes. Top Lame : This is usually made so that it "rests" on the flare at the bottom edge of the breastplate. Thus the fauld is made of a size so that the fauld overlaps this flare (or shelf). ...

Sasha

The schedule seems awfully light on content to me. Not that I wouldn't sacrifice 2 dozen goats to get there....but it seems more of a tourist/promotional thing then a serious armouring thing. Oh well. I guess we have now had the "practice run" fpr the oz hammer in..... I should start promoting the n...

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Hi folks Sasha and mykaru writing from the (sort of) Oz Hammer-inn... Me first. HOT rolled steel is what has the black coating. Why? because the stuff gets that colour when it is cooled! Important point that is so obvious that no one seems to have mentioned it yet. When using Vinegar to strip scale....

Sasha

Contact adhesive is good. I find most leather products that are not too heavy will degrade and tear with time and wear. I have had good success with theatre curtain weight wool. It looks like felt but is way way tougher. Of course i get the stuff for free.....Shudder to think what it would cost to h...

Sasha

Don't worry too much about the rust unless it is in the screw mechanism or badly pitting the jaw-faces. These things are hard to kill with rust. Advice number one is to take the thing apart and check for the stuff that Armadillo mentioned (whether the screw has threads on it, whether the box has thr...

Sasha

I have an Edwards shear just lying around at the moment. This is an old English throatless shear that uses disk shaped blades. We haven't got three phase power at the new house yet so it is standing in the workshop being a very large and heavy paperweight that cannot be used as an anvil http://www.a...

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This tool only cuts straight lines and siort of hacks around outside curves. It absolutely does NOT do inside curves (the whole point of a *throatless* shear like the Beverley). This particular example looks geared for fencing contractor jobbing (cuts re-bar and mesh-stock as well as 16ga sheet in s...

Sasha

Armadillo (has anyone ever seen an armadillo dilloing in its armour?) I have used, abused and re-built quite a number of leg-vices myself....and I just found your post nothiing short of fascinating. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif It is plain that you love your work. keep it up. Sasha

Sasha

There are no hard and fast *best* machines. everything has its merits based on what you want to do, the main type of wheel you will be using, your space limitations to set the machine up. Whether noise or ventilation/vaccuum extraction are an issue....all that kind of stuff. No one but you can answe...

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<B>Get on those sun god robes, boy! There'll be pickle throwing tonight!</B> Well done, JT and thank you. Actually I should confess that it was all my doing that the boards went down. I knew I would be offline and didn't want to miss anything. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha

Sasha

I am on a borrowed computer in the middle of moving house (the workshop is done, so it is all easy form here) so I have not been able to keep up with e-mail and stuff. the news of weapons coming in is GREAT!!!! (the news that the weapons are all that you could have hoped for is even better). Here's ...

Sasha

Firstly...A note to Helmut. Helmut, I do not wish to offend, but I have now read a couple of your posts regarding welsing. May I ask what ,if any qualifications or experience you have in the field. You have some answers that are "original" about the properties of welders and metals. Now on to the qu...

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Definately good advise. I admit that I am nowadys pretty okay with spotting the big errors as I look at the measuring chart. You can usually get a sense of proportion...so if one measurment is just way off the scale you can pick it up and give the customer a call. I have on several occassions return...

Sasha

If you are planning on clay linning your forge (you will need to ask Clay's wife, she might have other uses for him)...Be really selective about the type of clay you are getting. When I was young and stupid I decided to build a forge and be all outdoorsy and self sufficient. We lived on a property t...

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I always favour a light travelling forge made form two truck wheel-rims. You cut the lip off the bottm of one rim and then weld it into place inside the other. This gives you a double skinned forge that is still portable as all hell.

Sasha
avoid the habatchii of doom

Sasha

whereas my question was along the line of was she wearing the helm when she got pregnant???? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Best of luck for the intended small terror. Give the lady a hug and tell her that she is now the armour-archive cover-girl. Sasha ....I will answer your e-mail from...

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Good morning. Pre coffee warning. Yep, I make them. Mostly because I wanted some unusual weights and also a couple of hammers for hard to reach places (that were still rawhide tipped). No reall mystery involved. I take a blocky's hammer (sqare lump of steel on a stick) or a sledge or a cheap chinese...

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I do have a bitch about it, because you won that contest over me fair and square (grumble grumble, mutter mutter). As far as I am concerned it is as valid an outstanding order as anything else. Besides which I know it is finished and that it exists. I could only hope that his ethics have not so slip...

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send it all as one doc, but with the dates and headers included for each individual e-mail within.

I am not postive that e-mails are hard evidence in this country (I think they might be), at the very least they are strong corroborating evidence.

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Sasha

The traditional set up for leg armour is mostly 1lame up then cuisse, two lames down then greave. This is just the "most common" approach, iit is by no means the only way to go. I usually do a two up, two down for knees. What it all hangs on is the shape of the cop and the width and curvature of eac...

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This is one of those "special" e-mails that one occassionaly gets when running an armoury. has this guy written to anyone else here? I can try to explain why chainmaille is not what he needs....Mostly I just want nothing at all to do with this job. Enjoy the oddity ___________________ Dear Sir/Madam...

Sasha

Yeah, I'd love to, but it is probably cheaper to pay my transportation then it is to feed me

When is your gathering?

Sasha

Sasha

Just recieved the slew of corrospondence and filed it. thanks Bob. By the way, the falcion looks amazingly like the one that I built for the Ynys Fawr monthly bash trophy http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif except mine had a bronze eagle head as the pommel. Who's next????? Sasha

Sasha

AAAAARRGGGG!!!! stop it, the lot of you. You are none of you in my debt in any way shape or form. I am doing stuff that I think needs to be done. So please stop being grateful and go back to arguing with me about the kinds of rivetting used in the construction of Eskimo armour. http://www.armourarch...

Sasha

Most period armour that was made for the field was rougher and iincluded more hammer marks then the stuff that our better armouries turn out nowadays. They did not have angle grinders. That having been said, do not use it as an excuse to be lazy in your finish http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile....

Sasha

You do not really need a general pattern for lamed tassets. You need a specific one for you, fortunately this is dead easy to make. get a bit of card (A3 size works well) and basically put it on where you want the tasset to hang, Use the edge of the card as the top edge of the tasset. Mark how far a...

Sasha

Having built a lot of armour for the fighter-hospits around the place I can share with you the advice that "armour works as a variety multiplyer". This means that you can build one suit which can adapt to maybe 5 people. But if you have two suits then you can adapt to 20 people....Get it? What I nor...

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Gosh. My first topic BUMP.

Don't any of you have some ideas?
...besides me going over there with an axe and a bottle of scotch and applying whichever is most effective.

Sasha

Sasha

I would go with manganese bronze instead of brass. It has charecteristics similar to spring steel armour (just heavier for the same protection and not quite as durable) Avoid sulpher bronze at all costs because it goes brittle as soons as you look at it. Do not bother buying de-stressed brass or bro...

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Okay. Time for another update. Margaret and I were out looking at some metal jigging machinery near Glenn's place and decided to drop in today. At this time he has still not returned any of my phone messages (since the very early ones when I agreed to act as go-between siince he had no e-mail access...

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It is not a bad book. If you can get it cheap then by all means buy it. Basically it is the "same" as all the other coffe-table armour books. Most of the same pics (but just enough different ones to make it worth buying), mostly the same topics covered in the text. the text in this one is actually a...

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I'll offer mine as a voice of dissent. I got a chance to take a closish look at it during Festival at easter. I was not that impressed. It was not as comprehensive on tequniques and procedures as a "how to" book ought to be because it went and tried to put things into contexts that it didn't devote ...

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That would be great, Gawaiin. beleive it or not, we thought that the refernece to "armouring" in the booklet was meant to indicate our meeting.... So the majority of us "armouring types" didn't turn up to listen to Corny, Fabian and Mark. Did Ii feel stupid when I heard about it later? I think I did...

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That would be great, Gawaiin. beleive it or not, we thought that the refernece to "armouring" in the booklet was meant to indicate our meeting.... So the majority of us "armouring types" didn't turn up to listen to Corny, Fabian and Mark. Did Ii feel stupid when I heard about it later? I think I did...

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