The Armour Archive

Gundo

I live near Columbus NC. That's just over the border and due north of Spartanburg SC. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang, walla-walla-bing-bang - the Witch Doctor A position worth taking, is wo...

Gundo

I did have intermittent problems with my ISP's mail server for about a week, and that is a recurring thing. Every time they 'upgrade', the service goes to shit for at least a day or two. I'm also sick as a dog [taking a day off from the day-job, today, even], have been for the past few days. Feels l...

Gundo

There's a beautiful house down the road from me, sits on 10+ acres, has a 40x60 concrete-floored heated and insulated shop building [with an efficiency apartment in it as well], and a couple acres planted in 200 varieties of daylilies. They're asking $320,000 for it, and I bet they'd take 300k. It'd...

Gundo

Explicitly: brazing will not do. You can weld quite prettily with o/a with enough practice. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang, walla-walla-bing-bang - the Witch Doctor A position worth taking,...

Gundo

It's no problem to pull off the top blade and radius that sharp offside heel. This will eliminate the scratches. I use a hacksaw or jigsaw to cut barstock, depending on whether I'm cutting one ot two bars, or a stack of them. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day ...

Gundo

The place I'm dealing with has a set fee per "heat", plus a per lb. amount. In addition to the post above: They need to know if the metal has only been work hardened from an annealed state, or if you've normalized or annealed after working it. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Og...

Gundo

You can also cut a triangle out of a spun top to rehape the skull, which will give you more of a sallet-like shape. Un modified spins are basically safety equipment, butt-ugly but not any more likley to get you killed than any other crappy-looking helmet. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Ar...

Gundo

None of the helms are particularly similar to the styles they're named after, and all of them are on the ugly side. But they are hella cheap. The basic and churburg body armor are terrible, the peascod and pigeon aren't nearly so bad. All the 'creased style" stuff looks shitty to me, but I did note ...

Gundo

I'm running MSIE6 as well, and there doesn't seem to be any active content on the portal page or on the two pages linked from it. I didn't dig any deeper yet. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang...

Gundo

It looks a bit as if the succeeding lames do not line up at the ends all that well, but the pic may be deceiving. I'd pattern them oversize, shape them, then trim them all to fit. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, o...

Gundo

Do you have a substantial whitney-type punch? The HF #5 knockoff will likely not be sufficient to put in the mounting holes for your splints. Annealed stock, heat treated after it's ready for attachment, is the way I'd go. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wis...

Gundo

Good on ya, Konall. If it's me, I want to know, right out in public. I'd prefer to see pics of the peices in question, so we can assess how to improve them. It may be that a little judicious filing on a rivet hole or two will do the trick. But then, if they're decidedly unmedieval, they may not be w...

Gundo

Even the low temp kinds strike me as kind of spendy *by the gallon*. What was difficult about welding a cap plate after filling with sand? ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang, walla-walla-bing-b...

Gundo

I just got home form a long day at an event. I'll post an answer to that question tomorrow. Right, no flange. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang, walla-walla-bing-bang - the Witch Doctor A posi...

Gundo

If you have a Fastenal outlet or similar company near you, you should be able to get a substitute dowel pin. They come in standard sizes. I'd [without going out to the shop] guess it at 3/16" in diameter, and probably 3/4" long, but I might be wrong. You can check the thread depth by running in a fa...

Gundo

There should be two adjuster screws for the lower blade, as well as the clamping bolt/bracket. The rearward adjuster should have a small dowel pin in there to push the blade. the one on mine does, anyway, as the threaded portion of the hole does not reach all the way to the blade. The frontward adju...

Gundo

You didn't post a list of candidates...but I'd give you a critique. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ching, chang, walla-walla-bing-bang - the Witch Doctor A position worth taking, is worth defending.

Gundo

What are you going to use them for? If they're for a costume, the weights you've listed are fine. If you're going to participate in any sort of combat, I'd go with a minimum of 18ga. If you're going to be in SCA rattan or other hard-hitting combat, better up that to 16ga. ------------------ Gundo...

Gundo

It's been a while since I've seen their catalog, but CS used to feature one of the worst breastplates I've ever seen. The full gaunts looked pretty miserable, as well. All the helms looked like spuntops, and none of them looked good. All in all, I'd confine my CS purchases to "soft" goods, if they h...

Gundo

Hey, I'm not the one who titled the thread, but according to my 6 yr old son, we don't watch nearly enough BC, seeing as how I won't actually let him play his tapes 24/7. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ...

Gundo

A clue! I see a clue! How closely fitted are your curves? If you can stick a screwdriver between the lames and cop [or even if you can't], try setting the entire joint over a ballstake and swatting it with a soft-face mallet [remove the screwdriver first...it's a test, not part of the correction] to...

Gundo

I'd like to clarify that what I regret is only my lack of explanatory comments in my first post, and only because that lack provided an opening for the ensuing frippery. As to the confrontation itself, no biggie. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Arm...

Gundo

I'll drop back over there sometime soon, and try again for some hair. Yep, I'm still going to need that aventail eventually. My scedule got pushed back over two months due to a finger amputation, but I'll get to that helm early next year. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pi...

Gundo

NOOOOOOO!!!!! No Comet Cursor! Deny permission! Uninstall! [and really make sure it really did, it'll lie to you!] Comet Curso is spyware. It does what Alladvantage and such do [report on your web activities to a third party], but it does so without the coutesy of paying you fo...

Gundo

First thing: your page takes approc\ximately four millenia to load. Please break things up a bit, with some sub-pages for different categories of pics. Second: Your knee cop doesn't look deep enough to function well. Looks like when you creased the center line you flattened it back out a lot. You ca...

Gundo

Yup. As far as I know you can't buy them. Here's how: [img]http://www.alltel.net/~gundobad/misc/springpin.bmp[/img] ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very rare. Every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of ma...

Gundo

Saw it last night, it is in fact Merlin's helm, or a very close replica. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very rare. Every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness - R.W. Emerson A position worth takin...

Gundo

I cheat. I tack-weld the cap on, on the inside, and tap the edge down while it's still hot, then rivet it down. I support the corner on the inside with a small stake as I'm tapping down the edge, and I use a slightly domed hammer to do the tapping. Welcome back? You settle things? ------------------...

Gundo

I was the one who said "yuck". That's what came to mind when I looked at the picture posted [by Iohne]. I was rightly called on it, as without explanation it seemed purely pejorative, and I elaborated at length as to what made me think "yuck," which is what I should have done in the first place. Ioh...

Gundo

Feh. Were you perhaps hinting about your broadside vs. Alan Bauldree on Arador? No, that didn't offend me. I don't know which of you two is in the right on that, and I don't know anyone else who was around there at the time who could confirm one of the versions of events. Your condescending tone ["t...

Gundo

What a load of shit. As I recall the exchange, what Jeff said was that sallets with articulated tails were not common, and my reply was along the lines of 'yeah, but I like the ones with articulation, so that's what I'm making'. If he did point out flaws in my execution [I don't think he actually di...

Gundo

I'm glad Bob got here before me. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very rare. Every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness - R.W. Emerson A position worth taking, is worth defending.

Gundo

I choose not to be that kind of "professional" Pauly. As I said, I present myself as I am. This is the same image I have always presented on the Archive, through every incarnation of the board over the years. If you don't want to deal with me, no problem, because I'm not exactly short of work. As to...

Gundo

Okay, I'll clarify: If I happened to go blind, then I might find it useful to dish from the center. This is because it takes metwice as long to dish out a given piece, if I have to keep chasing wrinkles. Then, because even only par...

Gundo

Okay, if for some reason you can't actually see your work, and the shape it's taking on, I suppose it might be easier to spend twice as much time [fighting wrinkles while] dishing. As to the thinning, I didn't mention it, because I don't see it as a significant factor. 25 years? I'd certainly never ...