The Armour Archive

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If you want it straight black, and even all over, you're looking at chemicals, and some nasty ones too. But there should be a place to do it around Denver at the very least. I've oil blackened with various degrees of success. I've used motor oil and propane torches and had it go great, sucky, and ev...

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I agree with others that there is another sense to the phrase "People should actually try to act like the knights they pretend to be on the weekends I figure." That sense is that the knights they "pretend" to be are fantasy ones that meet the ideals of the modern conception of c...

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There are a few folks out there who wear padding as armor. If you take two layers of cotton duck canvas, 10 oz or so, and stitch 1" apart in that canvas, and then stuff the bejeezus out of those channels with dryer lint, then what you end up with is every bit as protective as 16 oz leather and ...

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People should actually try to act like the knights they pretend to be on the weekends I figure. You mean like rape the women of lower station, burn the opposition's houses and crops, murder any "infidels" they can find... I'd actualy rather they tried to act like reasonable, modern, world...

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So, if I could ask a couple "just wondering" questions... Do you still wear the minimal gorget on your neck, or something different? Why did you get rid of the broaches? What about the ring belt? What do you wear on your feet? What's on your knees/ thighs? How much did splitting the mail h...

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You want a 30 lb sword, go to someone like that, and get a foam one - don't argue with people who make and learn to wield real armour and weapons, and don't get pissy when someone tells you that your fantasy blade is unweildable, or who ask you for what you are really looking for, when you incorrec...

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So did Wolf ever get his question answered? How do you keep a mask-piece from bashing your face in when it takes a hit? I ask because I'd like to build a kabuto one of these days. (Might be a bit beyond my skill level, but I can dream.) I was trying to think of ways to keep a mask firmly in place t...

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I didn't follow the entire assassin thread, but I've followed the scimitar thread. I will be the first to agree that ignorance is not a vice. But willfully staying ignorant is a terrible character flaw. And I think it's a terrible thing when people who are getting kicked in the nuts for offering a f...

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Ezrith: go look at
http://www.therionarms.com

He's got tons of stuff to look at.
Bear in mind that you will WANT to check out the falchions as well to see if he has what you want listed as something other than what you expect it to be.

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It's like we ignore all manner of little things until some poor soul hits the hot button that controls the lid on an ever filling Pandora's box. Jumpin' Jehosophat, man, you oughtta check out a little site called 4chan.org - if you think that this is Pandora's box then you have no idea what people ...

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Actually.. I'm curious as to what you're talking about. Here I was just talkin a little smak. And I don't believe I have crossed any lines elsewhere. Iffin ya gots a problem with something I say, just PM me about it and we'll hash it out, out of the public view. I, for one, don't believe that speak...

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I don't normally make blades, but Ezrith sounds like just the person I want to custom make several hundred dollars worth of merchandise for.

By the way, 1997 called, and it wants its internet etiquette back.

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Heinrich H wrote:Have you seen this : Nailmaking

Awright, who here speaks Swedish?

WTF were the leaf-blade things they make in the middle of the video?

And what's with the name calling at the end?

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The Iron Dwarf wrote:the 4 holes in the top... are slightly smaller at the top than the further down.

Yet what you guys describe is a tool where the 4 holes at the top would have to be slightly bigger at the top than they are further down.

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Vermin, the nail headers I've seen were plates that you place on top of an anvil if I remember correctly. Thus the shank of the rivet would be hitting the anvil face. If there's nothing supporting the shank of the rivet/ nail, then how does the head get formed, without driving the entire piece throu...

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I was going to go with punching, but I'm hard pressed to think of a punching operation that you'd do that big with heat. Anything that big is going to be drifted instead of punched, right? I wouldn't go with nail/rivet tool, because you need something to support the shank if you're going to be headi...

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Please. Stop. The man had emphysema. He was burning metal in a closed room. This is a shitty plan regardless of what metal you are burning, what the condition of your lungs is, or what the current internet urban legend is about the toxicity of zinc. I have personally welded galvanized steel many ti...

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m This is the thread that has a pic of my helve. Mine isn't just loud, it's &^*%ing loud. I think having the 45 degree offset, and having a wood frame, somehow make it louder. I look into the hydraulic idea once in a while and always come to the conclusion that the only way to have it quiet is t...

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When I was first starting out, I had the idea to grind a channel around the outside diameter of a sledge hammer head, wrap wet rawhide around the rounded sledge, and tie it on, wrapping heavy wax thread around the rawhide, pinching it into the channel, so it didn't come off. It didn't work, since as...

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Hi there, I posted a pic of this a couple months ago.... m Go back to Horror Fright and get a 4 to 6" vise, bolt that to a Harbor Shite tool stand, and mount your Bottom-of-the-Harbor Freight shear to a 6" length of 6" angle iron, which is held in the vise jaws. Then put a D ring in t...

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Mine have been made of cotton batting - the 100% stuff. You can't get 100% cotton batting quilting fabric - it's all poly batting, or at best 50/50. The 100% cotton patting works well. It gets really wet with sweat really quickly, which is a good thing - keeps me nice and cool. But it doesn't bleed ...

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Nowadays... I still think that, but will add that it would give me something to do between heats instead of lighting up another cigarette that I will only get to enjoy smoking about 1/3rd of. Man, that is why I finally quit after 17 years. If you smoke, and you're dealing with red hot metal, there'...

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Um... why?
You're one $25 rheostat pedal away from it doing everything a hand crank would do...

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would a large hose clamp work better for getting the wind tight? Doh! should've thought of that. I think it would help a lot, yes. I just wrapped aluminum wire around them, and where the wire was tight, it's bound pretty tight. I still have 11 bones to work with, so if it doesn't work as-is I'll gi...

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Just one man's opinion.... If you're going to go the custom helm route, I would suggest that you have a plan for making it look more authentic than you want it - preferably by having the work done by someone who knows how to do that. It could take upwards of two years to get a custom helm done, and ...

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Y'know, Vlad, I'm sure between us all we could fix any problem you've seen -- if only we had something more to go on than "it was craptastic." Hopeless stuff like this just makes steam jet alternately from each of my ears. Yeah, I didn't think about this at the time, but jeepers, Vlad, yo...

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the microwave should be the easy part - the rest of the stuff may prove a bit trickier to come by. then there is a application of said products - and i could melt sterling in the old forge in about 15 min using propane. we regularly melted gold in an open curcibel with an oxy/ace torch in a few min...

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Then, cutting strips and winding. Don't tell my wife I did this on the dryer. They were wound as tight as I could manage. Lastly, a wound head installed in a mallet. Rawhide shrinks when it dries. I was hoping it would shrink into a tight ball, but it also shrinks along the thickness. Thus this isn'...

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Here's a minor project I'm almost done with. Making new rawhide faces from dog bones. First, the package of 14 bones I got for $10 at BJ's (which is like Costco or Sam's). Second, soaking a bone in a tub... Then some bones unwound. They are "glued" together and need to be pulled pretty har...

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Pic 4 shows a tear where the fabric is sticking out. This is the fulled wool section. I remembered incorrectly: apparently I only put 4 layers in the main section of my bevor pad, with a roll padding the upper half. This is all that's between me and some pretty serious spear thrusts two weeks ago, a...

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Here are pics of the helm liners I made.
Thanks for helping me to figure out that I got cancer to deal with.

Pic 1 is the bevor attached.
Pic 3 is with the bevor detached.

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The Dude wrote:Schreiber, could you possibly post some pics of this?
Thanks.

Yeah, I was going to put up some pics of a rawhide experiment anyway. We have company but I'll see if I can get to it tonight.

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My helm is mild. I painted the inside with rustoleum hammered finish paint. This seems to be more diesel than the regular rustoleum. The outside is currently naked... I don't know what's going on in with the humidity in PA, but here in VA I have to wire wheel/ 320 grit sandpaper/ emery compound it (...

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My liner is made from natural materials - actually I have an armet-style sallet, where the bevor locks onto my chin in lieu of a chinstrap, and the padding on my face is natural as well. So no matter how I get hit in my head, natural padding is what is stopping me getting hurt. A couple weeks ago at...

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I believe you got your hands on some cratex. m I got four wheels a while back when I had more money than sense. The coarse is the only one I use - and then only for specific things, like taking hammer marks out of creasing / fluting, or blending a weld after I've hit it with an 80 grit disc. They ar...

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Dog bone mallet faces