The Armour Archive

Baron Conal

I'm kinda hoping I can get some useful opinions on the value of a maile shirt based on a description I do not want to make an insulting No photo sorry.... It fits a 44 to 46 inch chest before the gambeson. knee length elbow length sleeves round ring riveted stainless It was purchased a while back be...

Baron Conal

The open front is no big thing. There are examples of that from the middle east. The snug fit may not work all that well. Tailored maybe, but not snug. Mail does not stretch. It's "stretch" comes from the links moving around. So, if you fit it snuggly, the rings will already be stretched ...

Baron Conal

I just messed myself.

Baron Conal

One of the guys I work with wants to discuss the possibility of having a mail motorcycle jacket made.

Snugly fitted like a modern jacket and open in the front so it is put on like a modern jacket....

I'm not fluent enough in 'mail' to know if it can or cannot be done.

Who does he need to contact?

Baron Conal

I'll volunteer to make a plaster cast of my legs if anyone feels they would
benefit from more practice in the cased greaves making area.

Baron Conal

Just back from Quad-State where I sold 23 hammers and a dishing form (bottom of an oxy tank) And bought 5 different types of refractory, old top tools, Ti, 1095, H13, 2 sacks of coal, hammer handles and wedges, various steel for projects, a swing arm fuller that fits my anvil's 1.5" hardy hole...

Baron Conal

I've been thinking about getting a second ( third - see below ) bandsaw for cutting metal in my shop. Steel and brass probably... occasional aluminum..... I REALLY do not want to use my current bandsaw for metal, keeping it just for wood and occasionally plastic. ( I bought my wife a small benchtop ...

Baron Conal

I'm looking for 'fancier' ways to do it.... I can make a simple joint. I want something
that is a joint that may not look quite so utilitarian.....

Baron Conal

I've been collecting books on medieval/renaissance cooking equipment as part of my sneaky plan to get more people cooking medieval/renaissance recipes *medievally/renaissancally* Do you want some others? Fully aware of the potential damage this could do to my book buying budget...... Sure I'd love ...

Baron Conal

Now I have another book to look for... lol

thanks!

Baron Conal

Anyone own this book?

http://books.google.com/books/about/Iro ... 5HAAAAYAAJ

Irons in the fire : a history of cooking equipment

Author: Rachael Feild

Any thoughts on it from a re-enactor's point of view?

Baron Conal

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... RL:US:1123

Baron Conal

Nope, that is a pretty one, but it is made from much heavier stock, probably not as easy to have in a pouch or dangling from your belt as the little 1/4" sq stock ones I make. If I was to make that style I would make it with a quite short handle terminating in a good sized ring to cut down on ...

Baron Conal

The new house doesn't really have a good place to store a one piece center pole for my pavilion. I already had to make an extender for it due to the top stretching some. That extender was supposed to be a temporary solution.... 5+ years later I am still using it. So now I have a good ( better.. ) ex...

Baron Conal

That was what I had already..... I have not been shopping yet.

The Landshark Lager was left behind at a prior party.... I didn't buy it.
So was the Miller GD on the door....

Baron Conal

Wishing Texas was not so far away

Baron Conal

I hate it when the answer is SO STUPIDLY EASY you do not think of it because of the subconscious thought " It can't be that easy." 3" long 3/8" bolt with an un-threaded section at the end. a 3/8" t nut with the teeth cut off. a washer or two for spacing. Thread the t nut ont...

Baron Conal

So you have a bracket that is actually bearing the weight. The washer on the pin is just to keep the pin from sliding through, and as a bearing place for what I assume is a nylon or HDPE washer that the door rides on, right? _IF_ that is correct, then the pin only has to fight gravity, as the washe...

Baron Conal

Does the hinge pin need the spacer attached to keep it from dropping through? Yes.... unless I can come up with another way to hold it in place. Hmmm.... a Chicago screw with the flange on the upper side ground off? The part with the slot for the screwdriver down... a little Locktite... That might ...

Baron Conal

Agnarr wrote:maybe go to the scrap yard and buy one from them for pennies?

assuming I wouldn't spend forever trying to find something that would work....

Baron Conal

Do you think I could set the rod into a hole drilled into a block of wood and tap the washer down around it using something hollow big enough to accept the rod? Like setting a burr on a rivet? How much size change can I expect? How quickly am I going to have to work? How much size difference between...

Baron Conal

See if you can find the right size in drill rod, and a washer that fits. Set the washer at the right height (middle) and peen it into the drill rod with a punch on both sides. Not sure how to draw it, but basically, you hit it right near the joint with a punch at the cardinal compass points to mush...

Baron Conal

I would say that would be ok. IMO The belt would be 50% not white and of an obvious medieval heraldic pattern. and would not be 'a cheat to get around the white belt restrictions' to appear to have a rank you do not deserve. But I am not a Knight of the SCA and my opinion might not be the one you ne...

Baron Conal

See if you can find the right size in drill rod, and a washer that fits. Set the washer at the right height (middle) and peen it into the drill rod with a punch on both sides. Not sure how to draw it, but basically, you hit it right near the joint with a punch at the cardinal compass points to mush...

Baron Conal

AwP wrote:Of course you realize that as soon as you have a workable replacement you'll find the old one, right?

Yeah I know that. Looking forward to it. But I figure I'll have to make at least one part
that does not work quite right first.

Baron Conal

In the move I seem to have misplaced the hinge pin for the large door to the beer fridge*. A tragedy made worse by the fact Frigidaire wants $20 for the part and shipping when I would guess that it costs them less than $1 to make one. Its fairly simple but I do not have the metal working tools to tu...

Baron Conal

you probably need to be more specific to get a useful answer.

Baron Conal

Why the really really really long handle?

Wouldn't it just get in the way AND make the pan tip in the direction of the handle?
Or was it designed to be constantly held?

Baron Conal

looks great.

what's next?

Baron Conal

Was I incorrect thinking that these were supposed to be intro level books?

Baron Conal

Daily Life in Chaucer's England and The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century ( I'm gonna list these two as one. They compliment each other very nicely and fill in gaps the other one leaves. ) Daily Life in Medieval Times - Frances and Joseph ...

Baron Conal

more attempts have been made using old files and I find myself wondering if I have picked what might be classed as an advanced or intermediate project instead of an beginner's project.... On a 1 to 10 scale how hard is it to make one of these? Maybe I'll try something simplerbut still useful for now...

Baron Conal

I made some a while back...... profit margin was too tight then.....
Maybe I'll rethink them as a small item to make while larger stuff
is in progress...

Baron Conal

Gauging interest levels currently Who would be interested in one ( or two... or... ) I'm thinking it is about time to do more red oak fauldstoles. I'd need to check materials cost but I'd bet they would be in the area of $100 each ( or maybe less ) My version looks like this... http://i147.photobuck...

Baron Conal

http://stores.ebay.com/Matchless-Antiques

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 103wt_1301

That is a lot of stuff.

I need a money tree...... maybe some of you guys might want to look at this guy's stuff.

Price check? Maile Shirt

Re: NOT ARMOR- modern 'cut' fitted mail motorcycle jacket?

Re: Teasing like a rich widower's attention starved daughter

NOT ARMOR- modern 'cut' fitted mail motorcycle jacket?

Re: Cased greaves fit

Re: Looking for starting blacksmith projects.

Bandsaw for cutting metal?

Re: Two part center pole for my pavilion.

Re: Irons in the fire - looking for book review

Re: Irons in the fire - looking for book review

Irons in the fire - looking for book review

Forge and tools on ebay ( Arkansas )

Re: Looking for starting blacksmith projects.

Two part center pole for my pavilion.

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: New tools for a member.

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

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Re: The White Belt

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

making a fridge hinge pin to replace lost part?

Re: The White Belt

Re: Medieval Fry Pan

Re: Bad carpentry issue - Update

Re: 14th Century Books. The Five

Re: 14th Century Books. The Five

Re: My first forged 'tool'

Re: WTB mini-marshmellow crossbows

Considering a fauldstole production run

I need a money tree ( blacksmithing equipment )