The Armour Archive

Galileo

PPE - Eyes, Ears, Hands. Safety glasses (or face shield), hearing protection, gloves. Before starting anything in the shop, I put on my safety glasses and ear muffs, then put on my work gloves. Clean your workspace. Metal filings, wood chips, saw dust - all these things muck up the works at best - a...

Galileo

Dang. if I only had the $40 (plus shipping)

Galileo

The website FAQ page wrote: Where is Baileigh Industrial products made?

They are made in our manufacturing plants all over the world. We currently have plants in USA, Portugal, Italy, Poland, England, Germany, China, and Taiwan

Probably still better than Harbor Freight.

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Galileo

And the blade bent badly just hitting the bale after the downward angle cut on the watermelon.

Creative editing to heat the blade to make sure it bent?

Galileo

Looks like what happens when one uses a wall-hanger as a "real" sword

Galileo

Looks interesting.

Galileo

I've gotten both already (and use them) -- shipping is not bad at all.

Galileo

Can't return it for the right size?

It won't shrink enough to make that much of a difference.

Galileo

Mac (and Wade) - was Henry really that short, or is that an artifact from the photo?

Galileo

He has pictures on his Facebook feed. They are rather spiffy.

Galileo

I don't have the image online anymore - but there's 2 books with pictures posted here -- maybe your library can get them for you to look through.

Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight pops up on Ebay quite often and is worth having in your own personal book collection.

Galileo

Welcome to the board! The reason? Cost and expertise - that would be a very high precision area - something that would cause serious armor bites if not correct and also can get messed up with impacts. If buying from an armourer - cost cost cost. the more they have to fiddle with it, the more it cost...

Galileo

Round rivets or wedge? Flat ring or round?

It would fit me quite well, but alas, no fundage here and none for hobby stuff for quite a while.

Galileo

Well your first picture is a picture of Hal's "Carlos" helm kit. (Halberds, if you don't know him already) He's poking around here on the Archive and it usually quite helpful if asked nicely. What helm are you going to be putting the face plate onto? The helm shape fairly well dictates what face pla...

Galileo

I use this - titanium

But it doesn't address the quick removal the OP was looking for.

Galileo

That's pretty. It needs a bag all its own.

Galileo

Galileo

Ebay for a cheap 18g India-made helm?

Galileo

I know ya'll like coins (I know I do)

Finding myself in need of funds for medical bills.

Have 4 coins up on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/amateurcoincoll ... 7675.l2562

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Galileo

Icefalcon does that on some of his Kettles, I believe.

Galileo

I have a pair of the stainless - they are light and rock solid. My only complaint is my poor attempt to install the gloves

Galileo

Ceramics - http://www.reannagteine.com

Though their most recent stuff is updated more on their Facebook page.

IF you don't see what you like (but have a picture) - you can send it to them and they'll get you a quote to make it.

cutlery and other assorted tableware - dunno.

Galileo

Elyas - Check with your large-scale food service places (or the local college restaurant and hotel administration folks) -- they usually have to pay someone to haul off the 30-50 gal plastic barrels. They usually had pickles or jalapenos in them - hence the "pickle-barrel plastic armour" term. If yo...

Galileo

Said he's not home nor has access to his computer - selling at a LARP event

Galileo

He's rarely on the archive anymore. I'll ping him on Facebook for ya and see if that works.

Galileo

Pinterest is blocked from work. I can see the other photo servers though.

Galileo

There's also Polar Bear Forge's Grinder in a Box kit - http://www.polarbearforge.com/grinder_k ... kdown.html

You said you have a grinder, but specially-made tools are quite handy.

Galileo

That looks like a Ring Lord kit - which would mean they are closer to key rings than jump rings (hence the need for the pliers).

The scales work their way off a standard jump ring.

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Galileo

I have a pair of stainless gauntlets already - so I'm not in the market.

However, listing the size of the glove inside might generate more specific interest without blowing up the thread with "Size?" posts.

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Galileo

Anyone else finish theirs? Mine is still in progress, haven't had much armouring time in quite a while.

Galileo

Wish I had the fundage - could totally use a set like that.

They are pretty.

Galileo

I used a 1/16" drill bit to drill small holes in my leather before stitching it. It was smaller than the smallest punch that I had.

Galileo

The knock-off will break. My dad always tells me (regarding buying tools) to buy one step better than the best I can afford - it'll be cheaper in the long run. The cheap punch will not hurt the pocketbook today, but you'll end up buying more of them in the long run (or suffering production slow-down...

Galileo

http://www.roperwhitney.com/store/shop/no-5-jr-kit/

$80 - brand new, straight from the manufacturer.

Galileo

you don't need an account - I don't have an account and could read them just fine.

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Re: Well, someone finally went and made damascus armor.

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Re: Caring for a Blackened Helm

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Off-topic, sorta -- coins on ebay

Re: Design question

Re: Murdocks Gauntlets- Anybody use a pair?

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Re: Splinted Plastic Legs

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Re: Murdoch to the white courtesy phone please

Re: Check out the micro-mail

Re: Long arm (arbor?) bench wheels - where to find them?

Re: FS: Scalemail kit

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Re: FS: 16g mild fluted gothic couters

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Re: Whitney Hole Punch

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