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It's irritating how good you are.

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yeah, don't worry about it.

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In what context would you be wearing this helmet?

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I went on a dedicated search of paintings, looking for half greaves in the 15th century. I viewed more than 500 images, and found precisely ONE image -low countries, post 1450- of what one might call a sort of half-greave, but in actuality was a exceptionally long and decorative example of "arc...

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Oh boy.

Brace for impact.

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I can see why you'd think that, but I'd quite seriously stake a lot of money that if you removed the grip you'd see signs that the wooden and/or leather grip core itself had been deforming and compressing. It happens. But it's exacerbated by making the tang a straight bar rather than a tapered wedge...

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Nooooo. Softness of tang has nothing to do with looseness of hilt. There are little problems with using Del Tins. They're unsharpened, rather than rebated, so the edge is thin to begin with. The heat treatment and the steel both tend towards flexibility rather than toughness, so you're unlikely to s...

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I know. But do you think an Englishman would have gone?

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You may well be right.
But when you see a 14th or 15th century effigy with its legs crossed, you can be pretty sure it's not because they had gone on crusade.

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Depends on when the effigy was made. Originally it was meant to signify that the deceased had died on crusade (or otherwise abroad?) but it later seemed to loose its meaning and became artistic.

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So you're looking for artificial aging, then? To establish a patina?

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Why the hell do you have to live across the pond? -_- I love making blades, but I lose interest and drag out the project when I have to mount them. And you're so damn good at it! I think it would be nice if you had a spot for in-stock items, but I certainly don't think it's necessary. If you're goin...

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So the Tinker line is really Hanwei, but the prototypes were all made by Tinker? In that case you can expect your proportions to be dead on, and the weights look good. Durability may be a crapshoot. Hanwei's certainly big enough that they ought to be ABLE to do their heat treating right, and the ste...

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No, it's perfectly fine. Go to your bank and tell them that someone overseas wants to do a wire transfer, and ask them what all information you need to give them. It's never cost me a penny. IIRC, you need your routing/account # (can't remember which, I've only sent them, never received them), the n...

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Very, very well done. It's *so* well done that, one bladesmith to another, I feel comfortable giving you a little hell over it. So seriously, what's with that choil? You make this awesome weapon that looks like a period piece ...until you draw the blade? Nah, you know your archaeology of weapons too...

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Looks fantastic. I have been, and definately will be taking notes. But I'm curious. Why SO MUCH EDGING? You have... what's that, four discrete layers of edging on your shield? And any single one of them ought to be sufficient. Or, rather, has been considered sufficient on other shields. It's very at...

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Wouldn't a capacitor be better for that?

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Pretty much anything else on your list, even the serving set.

A 15th century fellow can "get away" with horn flatware, but a drinking horn? Nuh-uh.

PM me with whatever you think is a fair substitute and how you want paid, and I'll bite.

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Orc definitely no good.

Would you be willing to swap the drinking horn with something else?

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Look at the arms. If the splints were on the inside and the artist was using *more* lines to replicate the look... explain the arms. And the noted absence of a few particular lines.

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So true, so true. I once made a "sword" (looked a bit like a dacian falx) out of mild steel just to prove the point that no, they *won't* just bend over -not if you design them not to! And yes, they'll take a razor edge, and yes, they can cut just as deep or deeper than any quality arming ...

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It's the way the motor's built to run. Any motor more than, say, 2hp? must be 3-phase as a practical matter. In non-technical parlance, it means it uses industrial electricity. You can't (yeah yeah, there's always some exceptions) get it at home. God, Do Want. I've got to run 3-phase into the shop f...

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from the umbrella tent thread.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg[/img]

A good half of them look like generic carny tents.

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All such searches will be ultimately doomed to failure, because the impetus that prompts one get a chase longue was as alien to the mind of the medieval peoples we're recreating as glass tables and wrought iron patio furniture was to the Genghis Kahn's mongols. "But laying down outdoors is tota...

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Take a fine mill file and start working on the flat of the edge. Once you get rid of the forge scale, what does it do? Does it bite well and move metal, as it would into a nail or a piece of bar stock? Does it skate off, almost like glass? It will be somewhere between those two extremes. How much it...

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And grocery stores. Which is where I got mine. Meijer, to be precise. You'll have to pick your butcher shop carefully. Almost all use boxed beef, and won't have many longbones around commonly. They'll almost certainly need advanced notice to set them aside for you as they get them. Do you have a par...

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*facepalm* I was thinking about the iconically-german Lohengrin and Parzifal, and forgot about the most important germanic myth. A very coherent telling of the myth just came out recently, in J.R.R.Tolkein's Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (lookit the price!) Tolkein composed the whole thing as one big ...

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Oh don't torture him with Von Lichtenstein. I am all down with our cultural differences, and half the time I like their decisions more than ours, but Ulrich is just creepy. Personally I think it's no wonder the lady disdained him, but maybe it's just the whole 13th century was a little weird like t...

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or hit it hot.

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also, if you're scared of pinching the leather, use a piece of shim stock or a feeler gauge under your washer, and pull it free when you're done.

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Oh don't torture him with Von Lichtenstein. I am all down with our cultural differences, and half the time I like their decisions more than ours, but Ulrich is just creepy. Personally I think it's no wonder the lady disdained him, but maybe it's just the whole 13th century was a little weird like th...

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As it happens I'm making a trammel right now. I don't intend to use it, though; it will be a donation.

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Remind me to tell you sometime about the time I tried to buy coal from that big depot on the riverbank.

Turns out, there are much much better places to buy coal.

Excellent work for your first time out the gate.

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No, they're getting polished (micro-wearing) because you've used them.

When you see a black crack, then you'll know they're breaking.

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Why the cutoff?

Also, I'll spring for that. 125 offered.