The Armour Archive

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Thanks for the help... it's looking like it will be easier, faster, and cheaper to punch it. Really the only reason why I was thinking acid was the amount of printing I've been successful at... but I guess this is an entirely different bird.

HELMUT

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No, this doens't have to do with dosages. This is a question for all of you etchers. I need some advice as to which acid to look for. I'm trying to make a coin mold out of stainless, but I may try to find high carbon at some point. I'm also trying to etch the steel enough to make a good impression. ...

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"Also, what is up with the comically enormous shoulder armour" Hey, now, you're ripping on Samus Aran too, and thats not cool... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif I think the inherent problem with fantasy armor is that it's never going to be put to any practical purpose. Every instance of...

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I'd go with "early 13th century pot helm". Actually, "Sterbenkampf" would be death battle. "Totenkampf" would be kill battle. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif There's a guy in Atlantia who wears one like this. It's pretty sweet. I've never seen a name for this specific type of helm, every t...

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In SCA combat? The answer I'd have to give is that neither is going to protect you from direct blows, but either is going to protect you from yourself. I have, on the other hand, actually seen gambesons that were legal as rigid body protection: in Atlantia, no less. It was a stuffed tube arrangement...

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I'm in Woodbridge, which is a fair bit closer ( North on 95 about 90 min, depending on where you are). However, it sounds like Jacob has a lot more in control than I do right now. I can barely find time to finish building my stake bench, let alone welding together the stakes. Still, if you're intere...

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http://www.mindspring.com/~lbudzier/gmaw/uglyhelm.htm Here it is folks. Yes, this is combat legal. I've seen it leagally fought in every season since Pennsic 23- probably for a long time before that, too. It is, in fact, not a freon can helm. The top is an old air conditioner compressor cap: it's a...

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I'm getting pics hosted, don't want to lose the thread...

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That would be "The Known World Handbook", or, as some veterans like to call it, "The well intentioned book that has several project ideas that will fail miserably". Are they even still making it? I don't know. I bought a copy back in, um, '95, when I was green and didn't know any better. To do it ju...

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The exact wording was "They've got FINGERNAILSH!!!" http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif Actually, I think those were a special project, but I don't remember who made them or if I met him. I don't know of anyone who's making production spring steel armor of any kind... if there was, word would ...

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<img src=http://www.roperwhitney.com/images/m4-1.jpg> It looks a lot like the one in the lower part of this pic- not much throat depth or height, although the linkage on the top is a little different. It's the same baby blue color w/ medium blue tool dip handles that I've seen on a lot of other port...

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Need a little tool help here. While helping my brother in law move this weekend, I scored a lot of stuff he's not going to use anymore (one of the perks of helping him move). The best thing is the whitney punch. It clearly says "No. 6" on the side, but the Roper Whitney site doesn't have any specs o...

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You're kind of all over the place with this question. If you're wearing a helm that's a nose toucher, then it won't pass any respectable marshall. Now, if you're also asking about whether or not a separate bevor would be legal: I doubt it. not unless you can prove that all areas are covered no matte...

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I swear by the two strap arrangement. I rivet two straps of leather (or whatever) on the sides of my mouth so that one goes under, one across. Then I anchor the ends of the straps to specific points on the helm. The under strap gets anchored at the temples, and the across strap gets anchored at the ...

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Lion: you may want to change your captions so that they aren't direct quotes from the book.

HELMUT

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If you were to sell these to SCA clientele, I would make three suggestions. First, the eye slots. It's just a picture, I know, but it looks like when it's assembled the brass, which looks like it's less than 1", would not fully rest on the steel. Is that the case? I would make sure that when assembl...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Noe: To get around this, we regularly use a variety of rulesets. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Ordinarily, I would like this idea. However, there already are alternating rulesets in...

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Hm... I don't spend the majority of my time pointing at leather, but I'll offer some advice... First of all, I like horse because it's in between cow and deer for stretchiness. You'd be able to get some stretch out of it, but I doubt it would be enough to pull a texture out of it. In fact, I think t...

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That is incredibly complete. However, there are two methods for metal cutting that aren't mentioned.

1. Hacksaw (should at least be mentioned as the thing not to do)
2. Jeweler's saw (should be mentioned as the thing TO do, if what you're doing is fine work on soft metal)

HELMUT

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Another advantage to Chef's project that wansn't mentioned is the fact that larger plates protect better. Brigandines are made of lots of tiny pieces of metal. The examples I've seen first hand had plates as small as 1" x 2", possibly smaller. If you get hit with a big stick while wearing something ...

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I remember seeing a long time ago that Clay did something like that.

The best "fake fluting" I've seen all involve the use of bead rollers. I've never seen the results of some kind of flute press.

As for me, I'm gonna stick to hammers.

HELMUT

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My suggestion would be to find a book on bladesmithing. Back in the day when I was new to this stuff, there was a gentleman by the name of Jim Hrisoulas who wrote a series of books, the first of which was The Complete Bladesmith. I have it somewhere, and I know that there are tables with the ...

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Well, they do, but they only seem to have 100 grit aluminum oxide, and 80 grit glass.

I'm looking for a full run: something like 40, 60, 100, 150, 220, 320, 400, and 600, and all in aluminum oxide or equivalent. It's solely for metal.

HELMUT

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I was thinking about this a while ago, when confronted with the task of cleaning up a lot of oddly shaped metal... Does anyone know where I can find any? When I took a lithography course, we had to prepare pieces of limestone with a wet table and loose grit. I don't remember the grits that we had, o...

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Someone posted a while back about having made a reasonable facsimile of paper armor using only shopping bags and white glue, and that it was fairly indestructable. (The claim was that it took a 9mm round to take it down.) It got me thinking. I'd heard tales of Chinese armor of paper before, but I've...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Aidan Cambel: hmmm... so your saying a period lining/suspension system will not work in your kingdom? does anyone else see something wrong with that picture?????<...

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I would have thought the oil would do something too... but I did rub most of it off, they did get handled a lot, and they did spend the night in a plastic box at Pennsic... and they didn't have that great a finish to start with.

HELMUT

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I'll second the question about German mottoes. I'd like to know if German was ever actually used, or if they would have reverted to Latin.

For a household motto, I've been thinking about getting everyone in really cherry armor, and using
"Keine sorge, Wir sterben leichtlich"

HELMUT

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I don't know of any articles, but I'll share what I've picked up in the last couple months. I was experimenting with torch bluing on pauldrons. I only put a moderate finish on them, rubbed them down by hand with 400 grit. I wasn't even being careful to not touch them before I torched them, and it tu...

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I got mine from a newspaper ad. It's a White, which I understand used to be owned by Kenmore. It cost me $40 and a half hour trip to pick it up, and it came with table, feet, cams, and drawers full of sewing stuff, including pinking shears. I have some friends that did the same thing, they picked th...

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Couple things here you need to bear in mind. If you're going to travel, you need to remember that not everyone hits like they do in Meridies. Here in Atlantia, I wouldn't trust 1/2" of closed cell foam any farther than I could kick an elephant. It's asking for a serious brain rattling. I recently tr...

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The ones that ironmonger sells are ductile iron, and are pretty serious hunks of metal. I haven't gotten around to cleaning mine, but it's deep enough for a good deep knee. I've given up on that oxy bottom unicorn. I just can't catch it... I've thought about trying junkyards, but there aren't any in...

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Use salt? Never heard of that. I assume you're just doing a controlled rust on it, right? There has been a good deal written here before about browning armor, but I think it dealt with vinegar vapors to do the job, and it was pretty tricky. The bottom line is this: in order to get orange, you're put...

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Will Knight: I'm currently on my second gambeson, and there's only one reason I'm not using the first... I outgrew it. When you start fighting, odds are that you'll be able to put up with a lot more than some of us, especially if you work outside. I was landscaping when my wife made my first gambeso...

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Go to www.mgcustomjewelry.com and contact them. He's a friend of mine, and I got him to make a couple different designs of bronze rivets with patterned heads so that people like you could have them.

There aren't any pics yet, but email him about it.

HELMUT

Acid question

Roper Whitney Question

Anyone know where to find loose grit?

Paper armor: anyone know of any documentation?