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Arrakis

I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to make regular globose BP (or maybe a clay and fiberglass model or maybe a wooden form like Mac uses for helmets) and then take patterns off the form and beat them until they matched with the form. I say "Easier" from someone who has trouble getting a uniform dish...

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0079423615Z.00000000069 Unfortunately, the above link is broken: the page has been deleted from http://www.maandvandegeschiedenis.nl, the Google cache, and the Wayback Machine. Hi Sean, the doi link works for me. Is that the link you said was broken? It leads, for me, to T...

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0079423615Z.00000000069 Unfortunately, the above link is broken: the page has been deleted from http://www.maandvandegeschiedenis.nl, the Google cache, and the Wayback Machine. Hi Sean, the doi link works for me. Is that the link you said was broken? It leads, for me, to T...

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What size are you?

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Something strange is going on vis a vis my new computer. I used to get the degree mark by typing "Alt 248", but now it takes me back a screen and I have to use the forward button to return to my text. I wonder what's with that. Hey Mac, Since no one appears to have addressed this, your new computer...

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PMing for deets.

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Hmmm! When I saw Jess's post of the stuffed-in tows, I couldn't help but think that the flax tow looks about right. Maybe if they were the same color.... So I opened Paint.NET: https://i.imgur.com/YPSjun7.png The kind and amount of squiggly-ness present in the fibers looks pretty similar from here, ...

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Order 'em an Uber and try to relax/take a bunch of NSAIDs?

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If you have a long source of your tape, you can do the thread wrapping by tensioning the tape (not guitar-string tight, but snug) between two convenient fixed points and then doing an inch or so of wrapping every finished length, then divide the tape at the midpoint of each wrap (though this does re...

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Is there a reason you didn't dye the various semi-exposed leathers on the hands a) black or b) all the same shade of leather-color?

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That hole does look a bit ratty. I can't remember its history, because much of it happened nearly ten years ago... but I think I have had a rivet in there at some point and have punched it out. The more I think about the irregular holes we were looking at in the other thread, and the more I compare...

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First 2017 bump! We're getting close to the decade mark for some of the first orders of the sale, aren't we?

I just got an interesting PayPal notification telling me that my refund request (of July 2010) has been cancelled by scottvastbinder@yahoo.com, so it seems that we're on his mind, at least...

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It has the look of a pierced hole that was roughly "cleaned up" and expanded by someone with a triangular or half-round file. That would let you get an evenly-sloped but highly non-round chamfer. It gives me the impression of very fast "good enough" work by a professional who knows just how much car...

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Mac wrote: The images are showing up for everybody.... yes?

I can see 'em!

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I've just tried to use the new Google photo thing but ran into a snag. When I pressed the button for "share" and then "get link", it produced a URL (I guess) but when I pasted that into set of IMG brackets here the board was unable to determine the size of the image. What have I done wrong? Mac Tha...

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Keegan Ingrassia wrote:I'm still a Flickr user. It's not great, but it's not bloated with ads and bad UX, either. And it's relatively easy to get an image size that will display here.

I just use imgur.com, personally, these days.

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I feel frustrated and disempowered. The part that pisses me off is that they have taken away something that I understood and could work with, and replaced it with something confusing and foreign. All this while smiling and saying how much better it will be. Mac You've just described Google's entire...

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It is as Tom says. I'm spending a lot of time preparing pewter stuff for Pennsic. We've poured about 70 pounds of metal to bring up our stock, and now we are working on molds for new items. Mac At one point there was talk of a photoblog of the pewtering process as well... #prettyplease Sounds like ...

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Sale pending! Thanks for everyone's interest and assistance!

I'll post here again if somehow things fall through.

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Good idea, I'll check it out.

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Laurelen wrote:Is this still available today (3/21/16)

Yes it is.

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BUMP

I don't think I've ever seen a sub-$150 helm from a well-known maker make it off the front page without comment before! Is it some kind of slow season for buying helms?

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Images Here: [nope] Sized to fit a 22-23 inch head with SCA-appropriate padding. I've installed a two-point chin strap with fabric chin cup, painted it on the inside and hit it with some rust-preventative on the outside, plus it's drilled for a liner installation as well. It's a solid 12 ga top, 14 ...

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Lots of tunics, robes, and cotehardies on 14th C. effigies are short sleeved and worn over long-sleeved doublets or undercotes.

http://effigiesandbrasses.com/search/?y ... &genders=M

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Good for you for restarting communicating.

Be sure to post here whenever anything (armor or refund) goes out so we can all enjoy the catharsis of watching your progress!

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Xtracted wrote:A horizontally mounted disc driven by a small chain or belt should be pretty easy to make. Sort of a horizontal pizza slizer with a belt connected to a motor.

Actually, why not simply lock the Dremel upright in a vice and move the work around?

Arrakis

If we could get a micrograph of the area around one of the cuts near the end, we could see if the grain structure has been changed in ways that indicate a material-removed method or a material-compressed/moved method. The deformation of the grains cause by something like chisel tracing should be vis...

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Do you have access to a vertical mill? Could you mount the discs face-down flat on the mill table and just bring an end mill across perpendicular to the front face to true up the mating surface?

Arrakis

Wrap long strips around the wood and glue it on the back, away from the heat?

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Mac, those cross-sections are so instructive! A picture is truly worth a thousand words. Thanks for taking the time to section those tests and show them here.

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Mac, do you think it would be reasonable to stretch the metal across the metacarpal enough to cover that 1/4"? Or do you think that would thin the metal unacceptably, or just create more problems in terms of alignment of flutes.

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Another way to slow down the cooling process could be of simply keep the torch on the piece, moving it around the weld and increasing the distance slowly. Other than dilatation a piece so thin and small can temper fast enough to harden, so, brittle material + fast cooling = crack. Unfortunately thi...

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I presume you are, but: Are you making sure to cool them slowly and normalize the weld area?

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I can vouch for this method. I use the same one (with much velcro) for my own leg harness.

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