The Armour Archive

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Jeff J wrote:A long long time ago, a Corinthian soldier stepped through a wormhole and wound up in the third crusades...

I was thinking more Sutton Hoo, myself...

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Gaunts by Sasuke?

Looks like his work -or rather, looks like his old work. He's even better these days.

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North African I think. Maybe Tuareg? Only 'maybe" though, because knives are wonderful trade goods, and get made for other markets all the time.

Could easily pass for something 15th century or later.

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I think I hate you.

Alright, fess up: how did you cut in the long narrow detail on the cross of the arming sword?

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So, anyone know of aluminium alloys which could be hardened easily to a sufficient degree that they're not going to get uttterly chewed up in rebated steel contact...? No such animal. Go with a hollow steel head. Cut strips out of 10 ga plate or so and weld up a nice blunt box. Use aluminum furnitu...

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Words fail me.

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Ha! I KNEW it was brazed! Your results tell me I'm going to have to buckle down and get some engraving tools. I did very much the same thing to the hilt of my baselard, but I had carved the inscription in with a diamond dremel bit. Initially it looked fantastic -very bold and dramatic. But when fill...

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Richard Oram and three other tutors at Stirling University have never heard of it. Please feel free to contact them. They're in the history department. Never heard of [insert name drop], am I supposed to be impressed by his name? I don't know whether or not your fellow knows his business, but you o...

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[quote="Johan S. Moen"][quote="Chris Gilman"]
â€œChain mailâ€

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He's pretty on-target.

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Destichado i forged these from flat stock then ground and filed the edges to true them up. Mainly becouse thats the style of the origional.They will still be punched. Clay Really? Oh. Then you're doing it The Hard Way, too. From the uniformity of your work, I thought you had gone and rough-cut the ...

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why am I tormented today with ideas I should have thought of myself?

Pitbull, we may be talking shortly.

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That's a stupidly good shortcut for making that style ironwork, and I'm irritated with myself to no end for not thinking of it first. All these years I've been doing it The Hard Way, taking round stock, upsetting sections of the bar, flattening and drawing out, punching the holes instead of drilling...

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The longest march I've ever heard of a man making in a day was 50 miles. Five miles an hour for 10 hours with gear? That's flat FLYING.

A rider with a string of remounts could make it farther, but not all that much.

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Cool, where did you run across Merlkir? M&B forums, DA...?

Ornery ol' harg owes me a painting.

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Y'all are nuts. But it's an awesome sort of nuts.

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NICE one, Maeryk. I was thinking there was a demon with a similar name...

Ah, there it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobog

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I was thinking of "Second Skin"

But "Venus de Fer" could be really cool, too.

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You know, you *could* still turn this into something wearable.

But perhaps it's better left as a display piece. Something like a woodworker's tool chest -hardly ever used, always on display...

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Good Lord, that's beautiful.

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As I understand it the only rules I know of that would apply is that (if I understand it right) it woudl be a valid target. That is if someone hit the mitre it would be the same as hitting the rest of the helm.

a) dick move.
b) "LIGHT"

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http://www.quietpress.com/Images/Spurs%20D

I don't know, is that a lion? It might be a lion. Could be a dragon.
Raymond's Quiet Press

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now, link one into the other...

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Toshido, TIG can weld ANYTHING. I weld six inch pipe with half inch walls with TIG, because they're pressure vessels and the ironworkers around here aren't worth a damn and I KNOW I can do it right myself with TIG. (pretty sure I could with stick or MIG too, but... pressure vessel.) If I can but wel...

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I'll take one of the kidney pouches off your hands. Brown by preference.

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This is out of my period, but I recall an account of a Norman lord (around the time of William II, iirc) who was thought to have fallen in battle. To prove he had not, he was forced to remove his helmet because its large nasal concealed his face. That would be William the First at Hastings. Truly? ...

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How big are they and how heavy is the fabric?

Also, how high would you like them to fly?

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This is out of my period, but I recall an account of a Norman lord (around the time of William II, iirc) who was thought to have fallen in battle. To prove he had not, he was forced to remove his helmet because its large nasal concealed his face. That's the first thing I thought of when seeing your ...

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Food for thought...

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They rode on horseback for hours a day, jousted and fought with blunted swords on horse and on foot. Try it sometime. A few hours will wear even a strong man out. At my best I went two hours between a gallop and a canter (with a few breaks down at a trot), and I was DONE, and I am considered an exce...

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I suppose that would all depend on how big your greyhounds are. It takes some determination for a 40lb dog to run around carrying 10 lbs or so. Lord knows they can , but they really have to think about it first. That's a fascinating and very utilitarian concept for a hobble, one I think I'll borrow ...

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Magnificent, Chef.

But could you post a picture of similar hobbles? I've been looking for the past half hour or so, and I can't find a thing.

Re: Hardened Aluminium for weapons. Advice needed

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Re: Hardened Aluminium for weapons. Advice needed

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Re: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accurates&a