Have metal, will armour...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 10:57 pm

Okie... minimalist kit is starting to bite. Someone gave me 3 large road si... errr.. sheets of aluminum. Part of this is going towards gauntlets, the rest towards body armour. Quandry: don't have leather for a Wisby cop... don't want to use the dark beige denim I have... Have plenty of leather scraps for butting pieces of metal together... don't think I have enough metal for the overlap of lamellar or scale.

Suggestions for body armour? Anyone?

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Joe Skeesick · Post by **Joe Skeesick** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 11:24 pm

I'd suggest a Chahar-Ai-Ne

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page4.html

or perhaps bands (depending on if you have the metal for it or not...)

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page7.html

Best of luck.

J

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 11:38 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Janos:
I'd suggest a Chahar-Ai-Ne
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Thanks for the link... I don't think I've seen that before... I think I'll have more than that to work with, and despite having a (who'd have thought) Celtic persona, I'm leaning towards something like this:

http://www.nb.net/~kmeg/kaminari/

Although I'll have to trace out all the pieces first...

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albatros · Post by **albatros** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 8:29 am

Yopu should be able to make anything you want out of the road signs err umm aluminum sheet
it just takes more time and patience.

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Constancius · Post by **Constancius** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 9:54 am

Have you thought of a lorica segmentata(sp?)?
Just a suggestion.

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Clay · Post by **Clay** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 9:59 am

If, for some reason, you'd like more...uh...aluminum plate, you can purchase them at www.burtonsigns.com

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 10:20 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Clay:
If, for some reason, you'd like more...uh...aluminum plate, you can purchase them at www.burtonsigns.com<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks man... I'll have to bookmark that...

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malaki · Post by **malaki** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 11:26 am

I found an old abandoned place in the woods near my house with about 400 various road signs laying about. If there was a way to mail them without getting in trouble I could get you guys some of them. Maybe I could give an armourer a bunch of them if they could make gauntlets for me.

albatros · Post by **albatros** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 12:57 pm

Malakai, you can ship them UPS and if your worried about getting in trouble, take a propane torch and burn the sign side till its urecognizable.

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malaki · Post by **malaki** » Tue Jun 19, 2001 2:05 pm

OK then, UPS propaned it is. If this stuff is actually desirable by experienced armourers let me know and we can work something out.

Like I said, hundreds of them.

Armourkris · Post by **Armourkris** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 1:15 am

Dear lord, i'd take some of those poor abandponed signs off your hands in a second.
unfortunatly i'm poor. very poor.

in any case i really like how that armour looks... i'm tempted to scrounge up some suplies and start making paterns. unfortunatly i;d have to do it in plastic... but yea, i like that armour.

uhm, i can say from expierience that char-ai-ne work really well

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Constancius · Post by **Constancius** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:24 am

malaki, how much for a stop sign?

It'd have to go postal though.

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malaki · Post by **malaki** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 11:49 am

I would really like to refrain from breaking the law in any way, but the temptation of gauntlets is just too great. A few of you emailed me, and I will follow through with what I said in the emails, but I really don't have a desire to be part of the black market.

If something can be worked out for gauntlets though, my foray back into the criminal world will be a certainty.

malaki · Post by **malaki** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 11:52 am

Also, I would be willing to send some to newbies or for newbies as I have a soft spot for the armour challenged ranks of new fighters. I currently occupy those ranks myself. If I can be assured that these signs are going to The Cause, all you have to do is pay for shipping and I will hook you up.

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 2:39 pm

Malakai avoid litigation easily by simply not putting a return address on the package.

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Aegiswolf · Post by **Aegiswolf** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 4:17 pm

Ahhhhhhhhh. Capitalism at it's finest.

malaki, I officially forgive you your earlier transgression.

Besides, if you pre-wrap them in a box, nobody will know what they are. (I also suggest noise-proof padding such as newspaper...)

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Joe Skeesick · Post by **Joe Skeesick** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 4:31 pm

Humour a neophite here... but are you really saying that shipping a few discarded signs is likened unto drug traphicing?.... surely the only harm in having/selling sign is if you went out and took em off the road......

ah but now that I look back, you don't actually own the piece of land they are on... well, if thats it, find the owner of the land and ask them, most likely they want them gone as much as you want to have them. Then your covered.

J

sedric · Post by **sedric** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 6:48 pm

As much as I want the aluminum, I'm not fond of risking having a criminal record to get it. Do we have any legal people listening that know whether shipping these across state lines will be a felony or not?

Brennus · Post by **Brennus** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:33 pm

generally if you want signs a local scrap yard will have them I have never paid more than 2 dollars for a road sign at a scrap yard. that being said almost all the signs I have found there have had the the painted side burned.