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Pretty much anything you can use to shape hard woods. Belt sander, bench grinder, angle grinder, rasp, file, dremel... I've used all of them. I'll be honest, I used to be -hell, I still am- very skeptical of most health hazard claims. But as far as this one goes, I did a lot of shaping on some bone ...

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Maybe it's just me, but I think we've seen this helmet before on the Archive.

Don't ask me who made it. But I seem to remember seeing it maybe five years ago?

Perhaps it was just another burgonet, but... *shrug*

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Well, it did and it *didn't*, exactly. You can find the odd example in art scattered throughout the middle ages, with examples becoming somewhat more common (if still apparently rare) in the late 14th and 15th centuries. [HistoryChannel-esque Speculation/thread hijack] Based on medieval art, scale a...

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Oh YEAH!

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*cough* I once made rivets out of carriage bolts with the shank turned down on a lathe. Biggest Rivet EVAR! And for my hinge pivots, I routinely turn down the head of a 1/4" bolt so it makes this nify semi-decorative domed hexagon. Much bigger heads on the "rivets" that way. The origi...

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I am in awe of that spoon. That's amazing!

I suppose I'll throw my hat in the ring, too.

click for larger pic

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Damn fine work.

So, what you should do is get a DeviantArt account. Have your picture scanned professionally at HIGH resolutions. Then offer prints through DA.

It's quick, laborless on your end, there are a host of sizes to choose from, and it's reasonably inexpensive for the buyer.

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I used an industrial degreaser and tumbled it in a cement mixer. This probably is not a viable option for everyone, but by damn it worked.

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Not those as such, although I knew a couple guys in the Corps who started using them after they shaved their heads.

I had plenty of experience, though, with other padded do-rags. If you soak a bandana, you'll soak this. The only solution is regularly changing your head-covering.

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I'd also say that armor formed like a brigandine but with exposed plates may well be considered jazerant, based on Stone's glossary definition - JAZERANT, JAZERAN, JAZERINE, JESSERAUNT. Armor made of strips or plates of horn, leather or metal fastened to cloth or leather. It is similar to brigandin...

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Sooo... any further observations?

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...because it's not shaping properly. It won't dish. It won't raise. The best you can do is smush it a little, making tiny baby steps towards what you want, but the next time you heat next to it the smush goes away. I am *this* close to slapping shaped metal on top of it and bolting the crap down. B...

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Don't sharpen it, just make it really pretty. You'll be happier with it that way.

Trust me on this one.

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What's awesome is a hood like that is pretty easy to make. I made one for myself out of a weird shaped, small piece of polar fleece I found sitting around. I hand stitched it together at work. I just haven't worked up the gumption to wear it like a hat yet. You wouldn't happen to know of a picture ...

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I've not searched exhaustively, but I have searched extensively, and as yet have been able to find only a single example of one piece greaves in contemporary art. And event these may or may not count as "greaves" proper. m front and slightly right of center. These seem to be more an exampl...

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Raising is soooo much easier than dishing... Quoted for truth! I'm way too lazy to dish. I'm at the point where I don't enjoy it at all if I'm not working hot. Made a pair of demi-pauldrons (no, that *doesn't* make them spaulders!) and floating elbows so far this weekend. I'm not sure that it's *fa...

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Welding supply place.

Some home despots have them.

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No no, minivans work fine for towing, they just can't tow MUCH. You MUST keep your weights down. You have a vehicle with a max load rating of 1190 lbs. That's six athletic guys, and no gear. Period. Anything more, and you're overloading the car. It doesn't take much, does it? The rule of thumb is: t...

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Nope. Not without a liquid solution.
You'd need... Heck I don't know. What wouldn't freeze on you? Probably an alcohol bath to dump the stuff in.

Oh, and despite the name "superquenching", you don't use the cold treatment as the "quench" step. Dooooon't do that.

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What are you going to do for the hammer and anvil faces? Also, watch the threads on that joint between the hammer and your pneumatic arm. Even though you're letting gravity do the work, that's still going to be a failure point. If possible, pin that sucker down so something other than the threads ar...

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I would strongly suggest a thinner materiel.

20 gauge would be good for this. Even 24 gauge wouldn't be too terribly horrible.

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Make a new one, or have someone braze the old one back together.

Pretty sure you're not going to find much in the way of HF compatable replacement parts.

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What do they all think they're doing by preventing oxidation? http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/smilies/tk2a-eyebrow.gif Yeah, if you take some 300 series stainless barstock and grind a knife out of it and that's ALL you've done, I guess it'll save you a bunch of work skipping the passiv...

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http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/a ... -melt.html

It's WAY before our period of interest, but as the article says, the possibility has opened, and we may be seeing some real treasures uncovered in the future.

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You know, you COULD use a muscled metal upper leg armor. Not to mention upper arm armor. We have finds and art that prove they existed.

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Once the scale is gone, will the stainless keep eroding, or is it resistant to acetic acid in that concentration? OH no. It'll keep going until the acid neutralizes itself. After a while though, it WILL slow down unless you keep changing the acid. Oh and anyone know what makes the big black scaley/...

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When a studio buys it. Or when they give up and put it out for web distribution.

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It DOES look like a good film, doesn't it?

Unfortunately it's not distributed.

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Get thee behind me. Did you read nothing? Every challenge contest, no matter what type, hazards reputation. A valuable thing to risk. More valuable than life and limb, to some. You seem unable to get beyond the idea that a duel must result in physical injury: odd when many historical duels did not. ...

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What about brazing the tips? Or peaning them on? While not now they were constructed originally, both techniques would have the virtue of being known at the time.

And honestly, it ought to be possible to weld a lug on in the forge, and shape it from there, if you wanted to go that route.

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We are countless specks on a half molten speck hurtling through a vast emptiness so stupendous it can only be fathomed by the mind of God.

Against that, what challenges can possibly matter save the ones set to us by our God and our own conscience?

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That explains it.

I'm starting to notice a lot of common differences between smiths who use coal from ones who use gas -at least before grinding/finishing. I think it has to do with the size of the heat.

How long did it take you?

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But you'll get surface rust nonetheless from all the free iron floating around, deposited by tooling, hammers, shop dust, wire brushes... and those WILL leave a rust layer unless you eat them off with acid-alkali baths.

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Just one question, really.

Coal or Gas?

Plastic SUCKS! (help?)

late 15th C. greaves - exclusively cased?

Re: Raising is soooo much easier than dishing...

Ancient weapons emerge from glacier melt

Re: buckler