The Armour Archive

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Vladimir: anyone know how I can get some of that pierced steel that they use on fencing helmets (as opposed to masks) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> http://www.newmetals.com/perfor.htm From their site: "Nearly any malleable ma...

Garridan

Melchior, what do you charge for those cross guards (style 1)? How long are they?
--tom

Garridan

wow... those look really great... especially for a first project...
--tom

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Prince Of Darkmoor:
am I losing my mind?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hardly... you already lost it years ago.

Garridan

Gallileo -- that's a great idea... use copper and brass squares for a chessboard...

Apoc -- gauntlets are always cool for display, but a nice vambrace is wearable, and if you etch or flute the piece, it'll be good for display too.
--tom (dishing copper is fun... feels like clay compared to steel.)

Garridan

whaddya want for the boots? take paypal?

Garridan

Hey, cool... Welcome, sterlingswords... Always love it when a person/armoury we're so heartily roasting comes to talk... Love it even more when they come with an open mind. Do you guys make your helms? I see a few that are from magazines I've seen... If you make them, I implore you to look at authen...

Garridan

Matt, I think you're really onto something here... you've made baby clothes that you can get the stains out of really easily (boil it, if they're still there, replace the links), and unlike all other baby clothes, it can grow with the baby! Just add a few rows to it now and then, and she'll be able ...

Garridan

Acetone is the smell that you get from any quick drying glue, dye, etc. Anything that smells like that is acetone soluble, so can be cleaned up with/dissolved with acetone. Keep in mind, acetone is highly flammable (very fun stuff), kills brain cells (thats why kids sniff white-out), and will melt m...

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Templar Bob/De Tyre: Period shirts of mail usually didn't exceed the thirty-pound point <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> People were smaller back then, too... Lisa, I think you may be on to something with the ringmaille-ish idea...

Garridan

Ya know, maybe if I ever decide to cut my hair (get away from me with those scissors, Leda...), I could do that in a better red... be longer, too. Hell, maybe I'll make a frame for a spangenhelm, leave the dished panels out altogether and just throw my hair through it... Owynn, that's a GREAT use fo...

Garridan

*sigh*
everything one could need but quillions...

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Prince Of Darkmoor: They are thin, probably 18 gauge <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Says so in the description... I'd really stay away from these for anything other than boffer combat. --tom

Garridan

the cutoff disk makes a pretty small slit... not as good as cutting with pliers, but still good.

PoD, you should put a name on there, of some sort... we all know who did it, but joe maillemaker stumbing accross it won't...
--tom

Garridan

We're talkin about a guy wearing a freakin YAK on his head, Sasha, and you're worried about the foam?

Garridan

Kicking the beesnest will get you stung... why did you bring this up, owen?

Garridan

um... would that burst into flame if I wore it over my plastic body?

looks kinda... SMURF-BLUE to me...

Garridan

Don't do curls with your left, PoD... do your heavy dishing with your left. You'll eventually get it caught up to your right in strength and control, and then fighting florentine will be as easy as pie...
--tom

Garridan

how'd the initial production run go? Have 10 helm tops waiting to be made into helms?
--tom

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Lisa: Hey Garridan -- you're going to have a s-l-o-w connection (since it consists of a slaves running back and forth to the Forum with wax tablets!). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Could be worse... http://www.landfield.com/r...

Garridan

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Craig Krohn:
OK. I'm stuck in 76AD...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So I hop online, and ask my friends if they could sell me some brass fittings for my armour.
*ducks, runs away*

--tom

Garridan

I think the tanning is important... has to be veg tanned to wax-harden it... I wouldn't put any solvent in it... that seems kinda pointless to me. The point of solvent is to dissolve laquer... if you mix the laquer and the solvent, the laquer won't set. Or it might, once the solvent evaporates (whic...

Garridan

Ah... remembered one thing I was thinking about a while back...
Little dished plates for tatami do, like in this picture: http://www.geocities.com/sengokudaimyo/katchu/GRAPHICS/illos/do/tatamido.jpg

--tom

Garridan

I think it could be done. You'd have to search for these rivets, but when I worked at boeing, I had to use countersunk rivets about 1mm shank diameter, and about 3mm long (not exact measurements; Boeing works in imperial). The countersunk head would fit into I think 20ga... 1 problem: the rivets wer...

Garridan

*grumbles*

guess I can't swing it after all... gotta work...

Garridan

mmm, but not of the chainmail vest you describe as the "full monty". But pics of everything else.

Prices look good, especially for those welded tops...

--tom

Garridan

PICS!!!!!

Garridan

that's a beautiful nasal on that helm, Seamus... did you make/buy that? where?

Garridan

*sigh* that bonus is slightly less than I make in a year as a programmer... unfortunately, I have ultimate job security (I leave, and my company's internet venture folds), and I'm moving in a few months, so I can't quit...
--tom

Garridan

I totally agree with Jake. The only part of my helm that I didn't buy is the spangens... I got the back, cheek plates, and top from Ron Simmons.... If everything already fit together, and had holes in it, I'd have payed probably $70 for it, instead of the $40-45 I payed. Also, something that I would...

Garridan

Morgan, I'm going to have to ask you what you do for a living... and please don't be offended if I fly through your window screaming, holding a large swingable object of some sort... and possibly swinging said object at you...
--tom

Garridan

Those "nanner" tops look really cool... I want one now, but Jake outbid me

(don't have much business buying a helm anyway...)

Garridan

I'd use pretty heavy brass for a structural piece... think 10 or 12ga. The rules DO state that helms have to be made of steel, 16ga or better. But, I see spangenhelms made with brass spangens all the time, so it shouldn't be a problem.
--tom

Garridan

Hey, PoD, do you need a stick welder? I've got one, and no place to use it...
--tom

Garridan

I'd be interested in a welded top, too.
--tom