The Armour Archive

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If you're only going to have one heavy punch, you might want to look closer at the #2. They don't make it anymore, but it uses the #8's punches and Dies. The big difference between the 2 and the 8 is how the punches are swapped out, and I found the two to be easier to swap, since you didn't have to...

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The #8 and the #2 have interchangeable dies. I know that the 7 is not interchangeable, but I'm not familiar with the 7 1/2. You're right, it sure does look like an 8. I was happy to find out about the 8's/2's because it doubles the number of models I can look for that match my dies. I find it import...

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Just curiosity... how come you didn't paint half white?

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Does that flat slope work well for the fingertips, versus domed such as mine? I think you're referring to the really shallow dish on the last finger lame, right? It works fine in my experience. The trick is to disallow a 1.5" stick from getting in there. It does that just fine. A dished fingertip l...

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Russ, the suggestion of plastic for the OP's purpose may be reasonable. The rest of the post was uninformed bashing of a valid craft with no relevance to the thread. It was uncalled for. Um.................. what? Is it that I said leatherworking skills aren't much use outside of saddlery? What I i...

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Does it have to be leather? Leatherworking skills are handy if you're making custom handbags or saddles. Not so much for anything else. Most people making armor here out of leather are doing it to be hit with a stick. Some others may do it for authenticity. You've crawled into a niche that I'm think...

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I understood his intention. I also saw blatant hostility for which I think I am undeserving, though I could be wrong. No, I mean you no hostility. The hostility is directed toward our (collective) total and abject submission to the idea of intellectual property... the idea that you're sitting on a ...

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Second. Zwiehammer mitten gauntlets. I bought a pair about two years ago and completely botched the first. I have one gauntlet left, totally untouched. I was hoping to keep it as a spare, but it since seems that Erik (Eric?) has gone out of business; he does not reply to emails, and his site specif...

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How much for just the tip?

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A good site about using concrete in anvils (really talking about a standard anvil) but the ideas will be the same for the power hammers anvil. http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/anvils/making/anvil_making.htm As mentioned in the article I would be worried about the concrete shrinking and getting pul...

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Modern weave-and-weld calls for a modified spot welder, with or without flattened and overlapped links to work with, and a Variac control on the foot pedal to dose a link with just enough juice -- once the Variac is properly set -- to weld the link ends shut but not to melt that whole part of the l...

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I got the metal years ago from a junk store. Over half was ingots but there was a good bit already cast into musket balls, so I'm guessing it's bullet alloy of some kind. I used the mallet last night to dish out some gauntlet lames. I like it a lot. I'm noticing a lot more as I get older how much ea...

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Nice find. There are a lot of new tools in there (and of course by new I mean that they can't be older than 1800 or so ;) ). Believe it or not I just bought a leg vise last weekend which is older than theirs. Molln looks pretty up in the foothills... I wonder if the town was affected by the war at a...

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I'm not hitting anything with the lead, only the rawhide.
It serves the same purpose as a split head rawhide mallet, only it hits harder.

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Make it hit harder! Ordinary clay http://www.squeakypeanut.com/images/1clayinpot.jpg Roll it out http://www.squeakypeanut.com/images/2claydong.jpg Form inside the mallet face http://www.squeakypeanut.com/images/3clayinmallet.jpg Open petrobond mold http://www.squeakypeanut.com/images/4clayinpetrobon...

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Thanks for all the help guys, I really would not have believed that there was an armoring community this active on the Internet, good to know ill have a place to learn new things and ask questions. Well, to be fair, there are guys in Scotland and England and Poland and Czech and Brazil and Ukraine ...

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Dish first, then bend the sides. This is mostly a practical concern. It's not going to be really possible to swing a hammer up to the edge of where the sides bend down. Dish it first and you don't have to worry about hammer clearance. Also if you're not concerned with authenticity, I believe it's a ...

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I love the pic over the garbage can that says "no hot ashes".... it's like they know what you're doing. ;) I have to admit, the iron pipe in a planter of sand is a new one for me! I've never tried this, but it seems like it would work: Collect as much aluminum foil as you can, and pound it into a br...

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Any comments and critism are welcome and more WIP and finished pics on request Ok, then I'll fire away. Preliminaries: It looks like you've got ambition. That's good. It also looks like you're the type who finishes what he starts. That's good too, but not how I do it. You're doing a good job visual...

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That's quite good for a first raising attempt. A bit on the shallow side, but the profile is good and even. The flare also looks well executed. You probably know this already, but with coarser sandpaper you could give them a bright shiny look. the finish is done that way intentionally , i dislike e...

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#5jrs are plentiful at retail price... so we need to know how much.

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Sending PM, but others should too since I'm talking mild.

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He's certainly doing an outstanding job! Now please teach him lesson two: How Not to Totally Destroy Your Body While Armoring. Spine perpendicular to the floor, and elbow close to the body! I like working on doglegs because I can tilt the piece forward, and planish a point not directly on top, but t...

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Alec wrote:Yes, thank you for these. Wonderful work. Can you show a picture of the stake(s) that you used.

This.
Great work - I'm especially interested in details on how you did the undercut.

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I'm 37 and totally uninjured (other than a table saw injury 15 years ago which had nothing to do with armoring). I noticed a trend pretty early on. Ugo - haven't met him, but he reports healthy. Wade Allen - picture of health. James Gillespie - it's been a few years since I've seen him at a Pennsic ...

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Thomas Powers wrote:On using a drill press: How much slop is in your spindle?

You put a 6" bit in it and you can see the point wobbling slightly, but I figure that's still more accurate than doing it by hand.

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The only punch I've ever broken was a genuine RW - it crumbled. And I wasn't expecting too much from it - only like 14g mild. It was just a dud. It happens. It occurs to me that I have a drill press, and I've seen other people do light lathe work in their drill presses.... wouldn't that be the way t...

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Sasuke has the right of it. I find that even when I punch a 1/8" hole and put a 1/8" cleco in it, I can still hammer it too much and get it to pop out. If you're drilling, I would forget it... a drilled hole is generally going to be a little bigger than the actual size. Truth be told, I still use th...

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I find the hammered finish rustoleum works better than other paints. IIRC it's a little more expensive but well worth it. I get a coat of that on the inside of a piece, and after that, only steel rubbing on steel (like an articulation) or hitting it with a torch is enough to take it out. I've never ...

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Pics, or it didn't happen.

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InsaneIrish wrote:Not a fan of the texas long horn bull though.

So, I guess none of you guys have heard of an Aurochs before.

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Ingvarr wrote:
Buster wrote:Look, it's a replica of a SCA bascinet.
http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Wire-Mas ... 971&sr=8-2
Or a $30 youth helmet.

Agree, that doesn't have too bad a shape at all.

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Can we get a pic of the bevor compressed?

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I do own at least one breastplate from around 1600 that could possibly have been made from 16g if you worked it right, but it would probably only have been considered sword proof at the time. It has a couple of dings in it that could have come from a sword - which actually deformed the metal a litt...

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Potentially very little up to thousands. I do a good bit of work on a homeowner version of a Harris which I got as a kit from Sears for about $130 (almost 10 years ago). I since picked up a rosebud (not part of original kit) by purchasing an entirely different HF Chinese kit from craigslist for $75....

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