The Armour Archive

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One of the most deceptively named and yet handy sites on the web:
http://www.convert-me.com

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Transcendent work there.
I'm really interested in seeing what you do to put that X in the breastplate.

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Essentially a two-piece shoulder-cop, then? Interesting. Not... slavishly period. I'd imagine this as an SCA-Engineered type of armor design. Actually, if the seam between top and bottom was a little more ornamental, and the bottom was arched to a center point, and there was repoussed roping on the...

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Ooh, I got it....

Attach it to a giant A frame, and drop it from 8-10 feet on to 1/2" mild plate discs in order to make dishing forms.

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Can anyone say what plastic they're made from, and what thickness?
If there's a recycling code stamped on them (the three-arrow triangle symbol) that number generally tells you what kind of plastic it is.

If it's 1/8" ABS, that's a lot better than 3/32" Polypro...

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Me and the search don't get along a lot of the time. m I know people have used them for SCA combat before. I've read the criticism from Sir Corby de la Flamme that they have a plastic rivet, but that's the only criticism I can find, and the KneePro site makes a point of them having a metal rivet now...

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I don't know, I'd be really leery of having anything weighing half a ton suspended off the ground. I don't even like putting parts of my body under the car when it's secured on jack stands. I'm pretty sure there are plasma cutters that'll do 8", not to mention regular band saws. It would be too...

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Honestly I'd go to m and order the helm halves already formed. If you're planning on doing this a while, for the love of all that's sweet in the world, don't go dishing helm halves. There are three things you can do after armoring for 5-10 years: 1) quit before you dish the helm half that pulverizes...

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I really can't say they aren't being specific enough there. The description of what you need is pretty clear. However, these are EK rules (the guy in charge of youth combat here, Tiberius, is an Archiver and really on the ball!), and the fact that we don't have a unified rule set for youth is I thi...

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"Marshallate-approved" in this case is roughly the equivalent of measuring the spread in your grill, seeing how far from your nose it rides and if your neck shows like Pez in the front or back...you know the drill. In the case of the kids we get a much wider variety of great looking tin f...

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So, whenever I see the kids fighting at Pennsic, I think to myself, "Self, those are some terrible kits out there, and in three years when your daughter is fighting she's going to look like the daughter of an armorer." Now I find out that there are documents out there that look like they m...

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Well, I'll readily admit that I don't have as much fighting experience as Frederich, or a lot of other people who would say the same thing he's implying, but I'm going to go out there and disagree sharply with the idea that some gauntlets are "fine for spear work". The absolute worst hand ...

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Lord Ogier wrote:There was an instance just recently of a well known blacksmith who was killed by the stuff.

Well, no, not really.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=65961

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Well, apparently my shoes have been delivered, over a month after the promised delivery date. I'm not really amused that they almost went back to Pakistan, because the carrier was trying to deliver them for two weeks WHILE THE ADDRESSEE WAS AT THE VERY EVENT WE'VE ALL BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT NEEDING OU...

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Clearly, hard-but-brittle is suboptimal if you want to make a tool that lasts. Well, if we're nitpicking, then it really depends on the tool. I drag a tool across my face every other day which absolutely has to be hard-but-brittle in order to do its job properly. Razors are razors solely because of...

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I've only done a handful of welded rings, but I did them with an O/A torch and a very fine tip. I have a Henrob, which operates at really low PSI, so it was fairly easy to get a blob from a third wire right where it needed to be. Isn't it possible that a single ring sitting on a glowing coal could b...

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I used to have my gothic arms totally free-floating, where the shoulders were pointed to the gorget, the rerebraces attached to the shoulders, the big gothic floating elbows attached to both the rerebraces and the vambraces. There were two things I didn't like about it: First, that I had to clang cl...

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I would steer clear of galvy for riveted. You'll need to heat the rings before flattening them, and galvy gives off poison gas when heated. It's not bad in limited amounts, but it accumulates over time. But then, you knew that already. Can you link to a study that shows that it accumulates over tim...

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I wanna see 'em strapped.
How well will they work?

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The usual thing is to do it in phases - rivet the crown on the brow band, with the sides not attached, then rivet the sides on.

Or you could invest in rivet headers and set the rivets on the outside.
The perfect hemispheres we use aren't represented in period anyway.

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Halvgrimr wrote:Sigh

So please be assured that every thing is on track

Im not sure that statement means what you think it means.

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Roper-Whitney offers a few of the simplest funny-shapes of punches and dies -- a couple slots, a square. Nothing as fancy (or delicate) as a five-pointed star -- they stop short of that one as far as they're concerned. These are for the R-W No. 8 and upwards, as it takes more tons of punch power to...

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I hope you don't mind a little constructive criticism. The blue area has repeated patterns in it: this is a tell-tale sign that you were hitting it with or on something that wasn't mirror-smooth. Any idea what it was? The red circle has a portion that can be pushed out from the inside. Use your fing...

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pagesunshadow wrote:Buy domestic, spend a little more, keep your countrymen working.

So, out of curiosity, what US factory made the keyboard you typed that on?

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Mike Garrett (Orc) wrote:Not when your shipping invoice is dated 10 days plus after you've told the customer it has been shipped.

So, Westland, please answer this question before we try to explain it to you:
Do you really not see the problem with this?

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From his responses below, it is clear that deadlines are a lot more flexible in Pakistan business, and "10 days" can be 5 as easily as 20. As long as the customer receives the merchandise, everyone seems to be satisfied. I am not sure Westland understands fully that timeliness is really T...

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It's been my experience that if at the beginning of war I find a single example (or even two or three) of something that I really have to have, then I either buy it that second, or stand there with my hand on it until someone fetches my wallet. Years ago I tapped some funds to really start my shop, ...

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We are sorry that some customers received their orders late, But please be sure that everyone is getting their orders. ... We have increased our working hours and would be on schedule again within next ten days. Well, for some of us, the stuff needs to get delivered within the next four business da...

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Here's an option that's period and won't "crock" (rub off). Ok, nitpick time..... I know it's "period" because it's basically a black ink recipe, only you'd add oak of some form to vinegar & rusty metal and create the black in a bottle. But was it really done with leather? I...

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If you bought them a couple years ago and haven't been taking them out to clean them every month, then they are definitely stainless.
I guess Red Falcon as well... it's his MO.

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I'm gonna bump this one more time... some interest out there already but I want to make sure we have more than two folks looking at it, 'cause it has to go.

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As someone who has made more than a few tents, I can tell you that the condition of the canvas has everything to do with it, too. If it spent a lot of time outside, it dry rots, and eventually gets to the point where it seems sturdy, but a small disturbance can shred it. Two years ago I lost a tent ...

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I think the feet make him look like a gundam.

Awful lot of sharp corners on that rig, too.

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I am an absolute you tube addict. I have often wondered how well something like this would work for forging? m Larger versions have talked about using copper tubing for the coils-with water cooling to keep them from overheating. Too complicated, too expensive to build, too expensive to operate, too...

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Why is this a stupid question? I get my mild from Potomac Steel in Springfield, VA. I don't work in 300 series stainess. I get my 410 from McMaster, but I might try Admiral at some point soon. I get my patterning sheets from computer cases. So if I want to test out a new vambrace or gauntlet lames, ...

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