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Gundo

Seems like overkill, to me. I've found that I'm making my flutes more subtle than I used to. ------------------ 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 ...

Gundo

Umm...yuck. My impression is that you're trying to work well above your skill level. ------------------ 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...

Gundo

You want white compound for the stainless. The grey ir the same as the black I mentioned. ------------------ 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 pos...

Gundo

Yes. It is the armet pictured on my site. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by OurDecay: Thanks for the info, Gundo...did you do Joaquin's armet? It looks very similar to the one on your site. Ryan<H...

Gundo

You can get cotton wheels with sisal fibers sewn in from eastwood. Sisal is commonly used for twine and rope. I double up the 1/2" wheels, because the 1/2" width annoys me. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very ...

Gundo

There aren't actually two schools of thought. There is one insane Wombat, and a few beginners who don't know any better, and then there is the entire armoring world, including Brian Price [get his book!] and everyone else who is any good at all. I am not exaggerating. ------------------ Gundobad,...

Gundo

I think Sasha is being over-curmudgeonly. Buffing is grunt work, and it can be dangerous, but I don't believe it requires much practice to pick up. Harbor freight offers an 8", 3/4 hp buffer/grinder for $100. Have your friend buy one, and a minimum of four, 8" spiral sewn cotton buffs from Eastwood ...

Gundo

The welding heat will only normalize the metal that gets red hot. ------------------ 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 w...

Gundo

The essay is old info. I really meant exactly what I said. I would avoid dishing with a 1" wide hammer if the project is bigger than a thumb tip, though. My main dishing tools are about 3" across, so I have two 3" wide bowl shapes to match them. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise ...

Gundo

I can do a stainless armet for the same price as I would high-carbon, but it'd be a long time coming. ------------------ 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. E...

Gundo

Hot rolled comes normalized [maybe even annealed], but once you start dishing and planishing, it work-hardens, and becomes essentially identical to cold-rolled. You might notice a difference on a project with only simple curves, but for SCA stuff I doubt you'll see a real difference in combat. A vin...

Gundo

The faq up there ^ is for the UBB board. There is an armor faq, on the main page. Don't carve a dishing bowl. Just grab a heavy ball peen or your dishing hammer, and beat a depression into the wood, and make it match the face of your dishing hammer. You don't need any more dish than you have hammer....

Gundo

A plastic chopping block, or similar chunk of plastic, works really well. Wood works, but breaks up faster than the plastic. I suppose you could use hard rubber, or even brass or aluminum. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more ...

Gundo

Having met the lady, I will say the picture actually does her little justice...Sarnac is a very lucky man, indeed. ------------------ 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 mad...

Gundo

Try again.

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Gundo

I'd go with a full leg harness, with the brace built in. Given the brace, I, or any competent armorer, could build it in. I'm booked, but there are guys who aren't. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very rare. Ev...

Gundo

This is not engraving, it's repousse. It was also take about 20 minutes with a file to but slight notches between the teeth, and since real teeth don't make straight lines, Steve's effort would look another 100% more real. I'd probably go another half hour, myself, to give the teeth differing length...

Gundo

bumpitty bumpage

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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

Look on Darius Architectus' site, he put up just what you're looking for recently. ------------------ 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 w...

Gundo

What Sasha said, but only the last paragraph. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif ------------------ 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 po...

Gundo

Steve, you're putting the teeth on backwards. Teeth are convex, not concave--turn what you've made around, and it'll look 100% more "real" ------------------ 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 ...

Gundo

Samuel, you really should learn to write more clearly. It's only because I am familiar with your habit of saying exactly the opposite of what you mean that I realized that you didn't mean to say that only SCA armorers could be masters. Brian Price refers to Billy Radford in "Techniques...", and you ...

Gundo

Yes, Otto, inside and outside curves, and a B2 will cut them as small as about .75" radius in 14ga steel. ------------------ 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....

Gundo

Well, 18ga will serve for some pieces, especially if heavily fluted. I would avoid it for "main" target areas, unless you're talking about pieces with lots of overlapping pieces. I would use it for arm harness, other than vambraces and the main pieces of the pauldrons. A gorget would also work fine ...

Gundo

One thing I can't tell from the pic...is there a central leather to keep the lames from gapping, or do they interlock somehow? ------------------ 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...

Gundo

Uh...okay. Well...it's going on ebay tomorrow, barring a last-ditch Arcxhive buyer. ------------------ 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 ...

Gundo

It's actually easier to cut steel on curves with a Beverly, than it is to cut corrugated cardboard on curves with scissors, if that makes any sense. Otto, you literally don't know what you're missing. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts...

Gundo

Cool Gyric, and we'll try to keep Drew from digging around in your car this time http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif There's several motels in Columbus, about 10 miles away. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity ...

Gundo

You're not the last to hear, it was news to me. Yeesh...I could afford the admission, easy...I just can't afford the trip to the west coast. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity is very rare. Every man almost, and ever...

Gundo

It's convincing the marshalate that brass is not light-weight is the problem. Brass *is* more brittle than unworked mild steel. But a solidly peened [and therefore work-hardened]3/16" brass rivet seems twice as hard to cut as the equivalent in mild steel, nearly as bad as a stainless rivet. Brass ri...

Gundo

A b-2 kicks a bandsaw's ass out the door and down the street, and then over a cliff. ------------------ 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...

Gundo

I have no doubt that they would hold up, at a 1.5' interval...but I do doubt that it would pass inspection, because of the common misperception that brass isn't as strong as steel. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of the Day Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more Sanity ...

Gundo

http://wiseogre.members.easyspace.com/misc/X_chute1.jpg http://wiseogre.members.easyspace.com/misc/X_chute2.jpg There's a couple pics of how my B-2 is set up. The stand and chute are scavenged scrap metal, and I built the scrap-box. ------------------ Gundobad, Wise Ogre Armory Wise Ogre Pic of ...

Gundo

http://www.alltel.net/~gundobad/hammerin.htm Here's the site for the Hammer-In, let me know what is missing. ------------------ 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 ...

Gundo

Otto, if you have room for a cutting table [where the shear sits in lower section, on the edge of a largish table, and the metal rides on the table right at the level of the blades] then you will have no trouble cutting large sheets. Otherwise, it'll take some manhandling. I buy new steel cut down t...