The Armour Archive

kaiÃ¶

it's a very nice helm but 28inches! it's made for a giant head. Unless thats the outside diameter...

kaiÃ¶

I'm going for something like that

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=72871

that way I can try sewing leather on the same piece too

except the shape will be rectangular and I dont think i have enough room for padding, the collar is already touching my carotids and i dont like that =/

kaiÃ¶

Yeah, my thumb and index are.. darker than usual Altho I found that if i take a ball of cotton and put on a fish-hook shaped wire, my hands remain fresh and clean So i just got my piece out of the oven. Baked it 18 minutes at 180. I didnt put in a thermometer but I have a new oven that allows me to ...

kaiÃ¶

thats good, it's only been 2.5 hours

kaiÃ¶

I decided to work on my leather project today, a gorget I will bake harden. I got it wet until the bubbles stopped, waited about 40 minutes and died it. The dye isn't completely dry yet, but because of the time I have to leave for about 5 hours. Can I bake it when I come back or is it gonna be too l...

kaiÃ¶

Several aspects of his style have changed over the years. He has refined his stance, his shot selection and his mental game. He has had shoulder surgery (rotator cuff I believe). He has switched from a strapped heater to a center-boss because of the shoulder injury. He is considering doing another ...

kaiÃ¶

Kilkenny - that means that it will be slightly wet when you dye it right? Won't that dilute the dye?

kaiÃ¶

What if it hasn't been tanned? I have a piece of cow that's still natural color, will that be dish-able?

kaiÃ¶

inside brow

kaiÃ¶

What are the measurements on the helm?

kaiÃ¶

I saw this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTZVsaKhrY

where duke Brannos advocates only a shoulder shrug to block. However I saw this video after, and you can see that he extends his hand forward to block on several occasions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2NPV5u92I

The latter video was made 8 years after the first one. Has his technique changed?

kaiÃ¶

double dibs

kaiÃ¶

How wet? I soaked a strap of leather overnight and it was kinda like a noodle...

kaiÃ¶

I found this on the internet, rivetted aluminum chainmail for half the price of everywhere else.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-appare ... eous/9080/

Anything wrong with it?

kaiÃ¶

http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturin ... 967-1.html

This doesn't look like something you can just do at home...

altho this looks promising

http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/black.htm

kaiÃ¶

I was told that Torvaldr uses a baking,waxing and baking again process to harden his stuff, I figured I'd try the same thing.
Tooling eh... How does that go exactly? I bought a swivel knife, do I just do the outline and then hammer whats in between?

kaiÃ¶

I'm gonna try my hand at hardening leather and the first thing I'm gonna do is a gorget, seems simple enough. I want to sow a softer leather liner on the back of it.
I'm gonna be baking it then wax hardening it. DO i need to pre-punch holes in it before I do that or is there another technqiue?

kaiÃ¶

96 cents is pretty expensive... you can get lamellar plates for 55 cents each and use that.

kaiÃ¶

This is a scrap piece, just happens to be a good scrap piece I can re-use

kaiÃ¶

I used parrafin on a piece of leather I have, just to make a test. I wanna test something else now, and the piece is otherwise very good. Is there any way to remove the parrafin from it?

kaiÃ¶

I bought two pairs of these pants at Pennsic however because of the heat I never got to use them. I bought them for 29$/pair, selling them for 20$ each + shipping. They fit upto a 52inch waist, the waistband has an adjusting mechanism so you can make them smaller (fits my 32inch waist pretty good). ...

kaiÃ¶

it's cow shoulder I think. I used strips of it to make a roman skirt-like thing which I now have no use for. I noticed that one of the strips has become extremely maleable, however others have not. It would make great edging (for my lamellar) unfortunately that one strip isn't enough to edge all I n...

kaiÃ¶

I have a strip of leather I need softened so I can make edging with it. What's the best way to do that?

kaiÃ¶

In some pics the gun looks much different, is it because it's modded? I always wanted a paintball gun that looks like the real thing, some of those pics are pretty damn close

kaiÃ¶

what Vasilii means to say is that he accepts your offer, however because of his obligations with his family he wants me to have the drinks.

Yuengling, Black and Tan, that kind of stuff will do.

kaiÃ¶

show a model picture please, google comes up with many different ones.

kaiÃ¶

Hey Nissan got the number right

kaiÃ¶

duude your hands are HUUUUGE

kaiÃ¶

I would worry that the lames on the fingers aren't deep enough

kaiÃ¶

OK - extend the top of the bargrill, remove the nasal, spangen top, lobster tail.

kaiÃ¶

no

I'm currently pulling the pictures from the camera, ill post them soon.

kaiÃ¶

It's based on a helmet my friend has, that was made by Tearlach the Profane with some modifications made to it that I think will improve efficiency (lobster tail, more peripheral vision, etc).
He does the phrygian cap thing.

kaiÃ¶

custom design, i have the option whether to have it rivetted or welded at the brow.

kaiÃ¶

In a helmet, what advantage does one method have over the other in attaching the top to the bottom? Specifically in the areas of durability, longevity and noise.

kaiÃ¶

Kronos Weretiger here on the archive makes them, best ive ever seen. Cost less than 400 too

delay before baking leather

Brannos blocking technique

Thinkgeek aluminum chainmail

sewing hardened leather

removing parrafin from leather

Period pants for sale

softening leather

welded vs riveted construction