The Armour Archive

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Yet this is not to disparage mild steel for the SCA game, or for living history either. It's quite adequate to the demands of either, and is suited to the inexperienced armorer. It forms well, it welds well, it's good, predictable stuff. I won't just refrain from disparaging mild steel, I'll active...

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Go back to that open shop and ask them more questions about what they were doing. Then report back to the rest of us... 'cause if that's all they were doing, heating it and banging off scale, then I'm not sure what they were up to. I guess it's possible they were trying to anneal it. If a helm defo...

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Heh heh, no, not really, but the reason is the historical ones aren't exactly easy, even if they're not ideal for protecting our hands from rattan sticks. Wade's got a pair of gauntlets that has those knuckle plates that are basically like knee cops for your fingers, and the only way it articulates ...

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For all the work you'd put into #3 there you could just make an actual set of Milanese gaunts that aren't half so ugly. They really aren't any harder to make than these gaunts would be. It's not really a function of how hard it is to make them. The problem is that SCA combat requires features in ga...

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Won't go for $460 I foresee a dratic price rise during the last few minutes of the auction what with 25 people already in the game---note too that "reserve not met". Yeah, this. $460 is everyone's "I know that's worth a lot more and if I can get it for that I'll hang on to it and if it doesn't work...

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I inspected the helm, and I noticed sheets of 16 jauge have been welded Inside. A couple clear pictures of the inside would help a lot. Technically 1 layer of 16g is SCA legal, but nobody in their right mind does this. If it's two layers where there are reinforcing plates, that could either be real...

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Seems to me if I was shopping at Princess, this is what I'd buy. http://www.princessauto.com/pal/Barrel-Grip/14-Gauge-Barrel-Grip-Electric-Metal-Shear/8083115.p Yeah, it's only rated for 14g, which means that's the upper limit of what it can do and survive, and it probably won't survive long if that...

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More oxpho blue blackening?
I'm still not sure how you get it so black.

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A noob with limited tools is going to have a hard time with curling over the back ends of Clang's gaunt lames. I also wouldn't suggest the articulated wrist for a noob. A small hard-riveted cuff is plenty for a noob to wrestle with (I personally hate doing them, still) but it's less fiddling with ge...

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Remember that art at the time did not have perspective figured out yet. So depth of field is not there. There is no concept and vanishing point or focal point, so objects like visors that stick out or overlap tend to look odd or distorted. This is a pretty common misconception. There's a book calle...

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Nice work! That'll be good and heavy. There are two things I'd do to it personally. First, I'd put diagonal bracing in. Some 1/8" x 1" strap held with 1/4" lag screws would be plenty. Second, I'd put two shelves on it. The spars on the bottom would be the low shelf, and then I'd put a short shelf cl...

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[/quote] I have always had good luck with my lowbuck roller. I mostly used if for my cav helms but had no issue doing a bead in 14 ga stainless. I did bolt on a plate to stiffen it so. Guh? 14g stainless on a Lowbuck? The pressure screw on mine was some 1/4" hex screw, and tightening down a hex key ...

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Nice rebuild. Is there a concern the gears will slip? They slipped on the Lowbuck, but I think they're smaller set screws, and there wasn't a flat on it. Also I'm pretty sure the Lowbuck shaft is mild, so when I tried to drill a slot for the set screw it just got stripped out. The HF seems to be so...

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_162736_zps00b9baa2.jpg?t=1387066283 And here's some 16g mild. It's actually that 17g sold as 16g that I seem to get a lot. However this was no problem at all. We didn't have any 14g mild or any stainless that I could test with but that...

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This is the new pressure screw made from the chopped up C-clamp. Bunch of blobs from the MIG and good to go.

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_154920_zpscc6ee105.jpg?t=1387066295 Almost done. Assembled everything to check fit. What you don't see is that the top shaft was 1" too long and I had to recut it. Much better than being too short! Everything is turning, and I'm not su...

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The shafts went to the cutoff saw, then I manually ground new flats on them for the set screws using the angle grinder.

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Testing fit, particularly whether there's enough movement on the top roller to allow for adjustment.
Also you can see I marked the new lengths for the shafts.

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_150915_zps74676080.jpg?t=1387066327 The body is finished. Well, aside from paint. All my tools end up red, because red makes it go faster. ETA the water is from a quench. That cutoff saw makes it cussin' hot.http://i1283.photobucket.co...

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_144633_zpsaa29c53b.jpg?t=1387066352 Cutting off the body to the new length. This could also have been done with that same jigsaw (perhaps over a period of days?), or a regular circular saw with a cutoff wheel in it, or even the angle g...

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Thanks to Jacob for sacrificing a sprung C clamp for the cause. This thing is no use to him anymore, but it is to me!

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_143012_zpsfe149fc8.jpg?t=1387066376 Here's me with the jigsaw cutting out the slot for the top roller. Every noob should get a jigsaw. They're like $5-10 at yard sales, and they can do so much that there's no justification not to have ...

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_132804_zpsfdb208a6.jpg?t=1387066390 Here's the end result, plus some ridiculously long chips. Note how it's clamped down: always clamp down what you're drilling. In this case, it's not even possible to hang on to a piece on this drill ...

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http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a552/fisharmor/IMG_20131214_130915_zps9201bcad.jpg?t=1387066402 Setting it up on Jacob's gigantic metalworking drillpress. You can see the flat belt in the rear that transfers power from the motor on the floor. This thing maxes out at like 400rpm. Plus it has an ...

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I've seen so many threads about how to turn this thing into a useful tool that this seems like a rite of passage of some kind. This was up for grabs at Friedrich's shop clean-out this past week so I figured I'd show everyone how to make it useful. I already have one that was made by Lowbuck. So I wa...

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Thanks to Friedrich's shop clean-out over the week, Jacob got some appropriate 4130 (0.080") to start work with. Here are some initial shots. Unfortunately I don't have pics of the paper pattern but I'll elbow Jacob in the ribs this morning and see if he can add some. http://i1283.photobucket.com/al...

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I personally think that's crazy, they're just asking for cracks to form there. If you are going for a strict reproduction, I'd say follow it even if you know it's counter to common sense. If not, then perhaps just a bit of filing to get those heavily swept areas down to something that at the least ...

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Alot of helms with peak are using now successfull, without any question to face protection. And it so difficult to pierce chainmail when underneath chain mail will be this hiden protection. In combination it's strong protection. About marshals, they should apply rule to hidden face protection with ...

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Paladin74 wrote:Cod roof. Wow. Recalls to mind a saying I heard once when I was living down South; I'd noted one of my co-workers was putting on weight and when I asked him what was up, he said he was building a shed for his tool. I miss that guy, he was a cool dude.

I'm using that.

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wcallen wrote:My fingered gothic has one

Oh, cool, I missed that. I was expecting the same thing you see in hourglass gaunts. This one is nested entirely within the knuckles.
I'm going to dig out AAOMK tonight to review...

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If you want to be scientific about your testing then I recommend UL 94 vertical testing setup. The horizontal testing sounds easy too... maybe some screen to support it at the 45 degree angle. UL seems surprisingly.... um, "SAE", if I can use that as an adjective. Works for me though, since I don't...

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It's an excellent gauntlet! The articulation side to side is something I've paid a lot of attention to while I've been at Wade's study sessions. None of this pieces have significant side to side motion. Authentic gauntlets don't seem to pay much attention to it. Though you can get quite a bit if you...

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Mac wrote:try a scaled down version of the Hartford tent recipe.

I had planned on doing it at different intervals (daily?) but it hadn't occurred to me that I actually have the recipe for the Hartford tent. Thanks!

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Well damn, I might have to come back out and take a look at the roller and the bender. I didn't get that the bender was up for grabs last night, definitely would have snaked it.
So are there more anvil-esque pieces in the pile as of today?

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Weed burners tend to be quite oxidizing; is scaling an issue or will you be working with extra thick pieces? rather something like Eric Thing has made - a "cone of fire" into which you can stick sheet metal to heat it up. I had thought of doing something like this, but then I got an o/a rosebud, an...

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