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Indianer

Sooo...instead of a dishing form you supported the "fold" between body and roll and hit on air? Wasn't that wobbly af?

And thank You for the pics and keeping us in the loop!

Indianer

Hello Folks! I want to polish armor, deburr sheets, rough-grind forged blades. I may have finally found a simple, heavy buffer like that Baldor machine that i have been using as reference. This is it. 2PS, 10'' Wheel, 2850rpm, 50 pounds, 230V (German grit). Sounds all nice. Might be able to attach t...

Indianer

Our Chinese knock-offs have abysmal customer feedback, not worth the headache. I haven't found a worthy equivalent to Whitney 5.

Indianer

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/cd/ed/29cded7e5edcc48083ac598ca9aa51f4.jpg Your plan is to start rolling an innie right here? Maybe a small dedicated stake would be useful, like a small- diameter 45° pipe elbow. Walls prolly too thin, I'd just grind one from bar stock and weld onto a sq bar handl...

Indianer

I mean there remains the option burn out the copper wire... Thank you kindly for the elaboration. I recall some of it, didn't have to really come to terms with it before. I can only hope and wait that you get the process down. You will, and when you do - hopefully you'll find the time to make it gra...

Indianer

Mmmmh. I see. In that case all I can say is sorry for clogging your thread. Now... why do you need the inside roll again? Where's the advantage? I never noted anything on that...

Indianer

There is a dubé Video out there on YT. There is no trick to it. Forehead. Last bit of advice I have is to start there, watch him do it. Maybe you find what's been going wrong. Hope it helps..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDNydQauCgE

Indianer

Mark II https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/cd/ed/29cded7e5edcc48083ac598ca9aa51f4.jpg Brother, it just Struck me... you can't just turn it outwards like that. You have to stretch it with a straight peen. Did u do that? You nick the line where the roll starts, bend out just a few degrees, then you st...

Indianer

Sooo... are we still talking about the roll you have sketched in your OP? That one doesn't appear inordinately large so as to give you this much trouble. This is from someone who still didn't manage to get access to one of the 3 empty garages in his backyard. Other point, you just described a proces...

Indianer

Thank You for clearing that up Wade! I have certainly put a roll on a straight piece and then curled it up, just not quite exactly the way you described. That's what I would do as well. I tried here to find a way around that however since RWWT wishes to avoid stretching and flattening the roll. I ne...

Indianer

Wierd thought... what happens if you turn an inwards roll on a straight piece and only then curl it up keeping the roll inwards... does the roll magically turn outwards where it is needed, all without thinning? [Now why would I ask sth stupid like that... simple. Someone here once wrote sth that I i...

Indianer

Hello Wade, and thanks for the input! Yes, A-227 shows it nicely. I just didn't know what I was looking for earlier, hence the long and complex deliberation with ChatGPT. A-213 is there yes, but the trick-shots you took for me, linked above, are not on the gauntlet page. They are only accessible wit...

Indianer

3mm (1/8") shaft diameter, although most rivets throught plates won't be much longer than that either. But: Put the rivet through your pieces, then you just clip where needed case by case. Don't fixate on a length before. Unless you can custom-order a few hundred...then...thin ice. Someone else need...

Indianer

Soo...earlier reproduction here on the board did just that. Hemmed first, curled later. People did put a copper wire in the roll so it doesn't flatten in the process. Seemed to work...And the nice roping, wouldn't you do that to the peoce once it's pretty much finished anyway? Meaning hem, curl, th...

Indianer

D) Form the roll from a flat, straight piece and deal with the curl later. I had previously rejected this approach, due to the hollow, roped edge. I intend to stuff some wire in it, since that would be consistent with how things were done on the helmet I hope to get to, however, the "flat, then bea...

Indianer

And here they are. My precious... IMG-20240227-WA0009.jpeg I wanna cast a larger round plate like Yumanov uses (video in original post). On YouTube someone guessed his one was lead, pewter would be too soft to form lames on. I hit a block a few times with a ball peen and it didn't care. I didn't hit...

Indianer

Would anyone know the German counterpart to a Whitney punch?

Indianer

Shaft. Stick with 3mm (1/8"). 4mm is not used in armor. Use weak iron where you can, you want to rivet to break and not the armor. Most people use **carpet tacks for finger articulation (nice flat heads) and **3,2mm roofing nails for everything else, especially for connecting leather to plate becaus...

Indianer

Oh, when still bits wear down they get off- center. It is the off- center bit that starts wandering. Find a way to sharpen them yourself.

Expensive bits are often enough hssg. Don't trust vendors blindly.

Indianer

The secret to drills is getting the right bits and those in good quality. Use HSSE with golden coating, or bare as HSSE rarely comes coated. Black coating is usually applied to HSS-R, which are...not made to last. It's the cheap solution for the home improvement guy. MicDrop.

Indianer

Hey folks, I have been looking for a nice pewter block for a long time. Like the one Mac uses, like the one Yumanov uses. Ok, I may have called it "lead block" here and there. Stupid....cause lead is kind of a health concern. But anyway, I found this on Ebay. Vendor writes it's been molten down from...

Indianer

What steel grade is it? Do you have an oxy/propane or oxy/acetylene rig set up and working? It is 16 gauge. No rig set up. Planning to cold work it for now. It's in my basement and don't want to set the house on fire. Alright, but have a look here - until you know whats a 1050 and what is normalizi...

Indianer

What steel grade is it? Do you have an oxy/propane or oxy/acetylene rig set up and working?

Indianer

Mac, I got to watching your presentation here - at 20:50 what you are saying is, upper knee lames should grip the belly of the Vastus medialis – they get a slight dish across the medial edge. Did I interpret that right?
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Much obliged!

Indianer

Once you get it, make sure to seal the open cut edges with wood glue. Place it on a clean concrete slate. This helps prevent cracking.

Indianer

Call your local forest administration on the lowest levels. Here we have foresters. They designate areas of the forest for trade and single out trees that need felling for reason of wind damage or parasite contagion. Hunters can point you to them as well. Getting a tree singled out from them is easy...

Indianer

Thank You Kristoffer, really. Now that I have confirmed what I am looking for it'll be much more straight forward to find that pattern in Golls refs. Although I expect the sliders will obfuscate most of it.

Thank you man. Have a good day!

Indianer

So, I've had a veeeery long session with ChatGPT. It resulted in a small epiphany. A few facts: 1 - Leg Armor 1a. When I bend my lower leg back (=flex it) it does not swing on a plane that will superimpose its axis with the femur. Instead, it swings sligthly outwards/to lateral as well. 1b. The slan...

Indianer

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdBl8Vs2bAOQCSMuPlTRiFbWHoFcMYPkugufgw3VQJx5b52RXw9UA2gsCFhCKzIoKTIr0ppyQYP-2_U2Z4Mt_64IknTCliVK_MEIu-1kwZIBxZLKTPKPpWEM0w97HbEMy_fTZ_rN25fEDvQycKx1u7LGw=w1080-h726-s-no?authuser=0 Third one: Would you replicate this left/bottom view for me, just with the t...

Indianer

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHf6NI94wMm2zztF4TGlfoi-zTEd0PsYgN4V6Vu0QOS4ahYkZqr3lrQI4IkitCHNoeIzmNx5AuUIzgirh9yCyRgv-f7Tkcv_qxcIvqFD7xJmu6t_LIUC_l1X0R7k2vfQ-Mcpz7CnZaHY9O1UTPGtZoMvUA=w581-h775-s-no?authuser=0 Mac, I am late to this. I have a big request that would give me big value: an...

Indianer

Dear All, I have been reading old threads for a project on knees and found a curious entry: Getting back to what James said about the difference in spacing of the rivets of the inside vs outside of the leg.. This picture shows why there is a curve happening between the greave and cuisse: http://www....

Indianer

° I see the second lame (where present) and the cop frequently continuing the slanted-to-axis trend. If the knee is to be closely fitted, the entire assembly needs to be slightly convex on the medial side and slightly concave on the lateral side. Installing lames in a slanted position has the effec...

Indianer

Now...I think there is something else going on with the cops. Something I can not put my finger on... some of them seem to be distorted. Not symmetrical. Like when the left and right edge were laid out straight down, the center crease would still run top-bottom towards the wing. And this is posing ...

Indianer

Hello guys, I'm back at knees. It has been established that a leg is not straight, and leg armor needs to follow that curve. Leg Curve.jpg I have been looking at originals for hours. I need someone to help me see.. ° I see top lames freuently sticking out farther than bottom ones, those could be com...

Indianer

Hi guys, the old round tower in Goslar, Germany, has a small museum upstairs . It is of little renown so most of you guys might not ever have seen what's in it. Can't claim those chestpieces are genuine. Nor can I deny it. Follow the link and remember to turn off the adblocker if the tour doesn't st...

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