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Louis de Leon

Yeah, something like that one. I'd be happy to look at 14th or 15th century patterns. I'm looking for a starting point.

Louis de Leon

I'm looking for the pattern that has the large droopy dagged sleeves that can hide anything you wear, and stops above the knees so you can see the leg armour. You know the one.

Any pointers?

Louis de Leon

You can do it, it's possible. I've done it. My process is to get the pieces up to a nice orange, then quench in vegetable oil. It's super important to brace your parts when you're working with thin stuff. If you don't the piece will cool rapidly and "corkscrew" and bend as it lowers into the quench....

Louis de Leon

Here's my two cent's worth, the microkiln. Unfortunately all the pictures are scrubbed from the site reboot, unless someone knows how to recover them. I can take a few pictures if anyone is still interested. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=128351 In a nutshell it's a small...

Louis de Leon

Aha! That's the bit I was thinking of. Thanks

Louis de Leon

A facebook meme popped up and something really jumped out at me. That left shoulder - haven't I seen this here before? Somebody please tell me Ugo is working on Game of Thrones. Please, make my day and tell me that's Ugo that did that. I seem to remember seeing him making something very very similar...

Louis de Leon

How about that? That's my whole reason for making this thing. I don't like what the big whomping SCA style welded stock basket does to the feel of the shield, and I'm unwilling to risk my digits doing without. And hockey gloves are uncomfortable anyways. Hopefully what I'll wind up with here will be...

Louis de Leon

To raise a basket for behind your shield in 4130? I am.

I'll post pictures when I finish it. I'm imagining the thing looking something like the shell of a horseshoe crab when I'm done.

Louis de Leon

Apparently you need to correct the power factor to originally build up the magnetic field in the motor. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-do-induction-generator-need-capacitor-bank.459144/ If I'm reading this right you connect high voltage capacitors across the load to build up the initial f...

Louis de Leon

Love it! I'm working on a similar project. I like the lines you've got going - very nice.

Louis de Leon

So online it said it was 11am-4pm:

Saturday, August 2
Kamikaze Battle
11 - 4 pm Fort

http://www.pennsicwar.org/penn43/GENERAL/schedule.html

I show up at 2:15, nobody home.

What gives? Cancelled due to weather, rescheduling it, what?

Louis de Leon

If you're using a dremel, just know that it will make the rivet ungodly hot. I got taught a lesson in that once. Dremeled off a brass rivet on a helmet I was working on. Absent mindedly grabbed the head of the thing to pull the remainder of the rivet out of the hole. Burned a rivet shaped divot into...

Louis de Leon

Beautiful! Finishing is one of the (many!) parts of my skill set that need some work. A few questions? You're using a 320 grit then a 800 grit on the belt sander, right? Then a sisal wheel. Any polishing compound or other goop on that? And would you mind a little more detail about the polishing whee...

Louis de Leon

Count me in too.

Louis de Leon

Please go easy on your elbow Mac. It's a national treasure. Seriously, don't injure yourself. Listen to your body and don't "tough it out". As inspiring as your artwork is, it isn't worth your health. Go slow, take breaks. And don't wreck yourself. You have other beautiful things to make past this o...

Louis de Leon

Koops, this process has worked for me. Go to a local restaurant supply shop. Get a few big buckets of vegetable oil. Our local shop is a GFS and I filled a big tub for about $50. Before you get your piece up to heat, take a few pieces of cheap ass rebar. Heat them up to red-orange. Quench them in th...

Louis de Leon

You may have bad info.... Last I knew a zoombang shirt was legal kidney protection in Caid. Who was the deputy that you spoke with? Even if it is legal, I think it's still a good idea for a newer fighter to have stout kidney protection. A weightlifters belt over the zoombang would be easy enough to...

Louis de Leon

Doesn't matter. Did you get up there and fight? Was it fun? Did you test your prowess? Did you behave honorably? Then you won.

Louis de Leon

PatternWeld wrote:4130 is a Chrome-Moly steel with relatively low carbon. This means you want a FAST quench. I'd recommend Oil.

Seconded. I've used both water and oil as a quench for 4130. Oil (for me anyways, YMMV) causes far less warping.

Louis de Leon

Dunno what to suggest. Only advice I could give is to make a kiln big enough to hold any item you make, but no bigger. :) For what you're doing (tiny flat pieces) you could probably just stack some firebricks and get a good result. Maybe some kaowool and an old cooking pot or something. Doesn't have...

Louis de Leon

I have a tcouple and don't use it. You can eyeball it fairly easily. It would only cost you a couple of plates to experiment and get it right. Red isn't hot enough, red-orange is good, orange is good, yellow works but will definitely warp.

Louis de Leon

I'd heat treat them myself, depending on the cost. You could probably do it with a weed burner and a coffee can full of vegetable oil. 4130 is very forgiving. Heat them up to orange and dunk. Clean them off, then bake them in your oven at 500-600F for half an hour. Done. If you're worried about warp...

Louis de Leon

Vegetable oil. If you try this, please do it outside and have an oil-capable fire extinguisher handy. Be safe!

Louis de Leon

My 4130 recipe is heat to orange, quench. Clean the pieces. Oven for half an hour at 550-600. Air cool. Experiment - YMMV.

My rig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEoXa9iRUpU

Louis de Leon

Thank you Gaston!

Would you say the artist has these men dressed contemporary to his time, or was he trying to be historically accurate to the event painted?

Also, do you know who the artist was?

Louis de Leon

Christophe de Frisselle wrote:Good to know Devo is period.

Hence my fascination. I intend to recreate this outfit as exactly as possible, and I wish to do it right.

Any other opinions on this good gentleman's pants?

Louis de Leon

Thanks to the good Baron Alcyoneus, I have found the picture I was looking for! The painting is "Group of Men" by Rogier van der Weyden, 1399 - 1464. Here is the picture. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Rogier_van_der_Weyden_-_Group_of_Men_-_WGA25724.jpg My question is this. The g...

Louis de Leon

The pattern I worked out is like two triangles back-to-back. Then clip the points off. Then I hot raise starting in the center, simple circles. Once it's the right shape, hot work bend the edges up, then bang a crease in the front with a chisel and a wood block with a gouge in it. Clean it up over a...

Louis de Leon

It was a 15c picture of a gentleman in a green felt devo-style "energy dome" hat, similar to this one: http://valancyjane.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/devo-hat-amazon.jpg Someone passed me a link to that picture on the AA back before the Great Purge, and I've lost it. I forget who sent it to me as we...

Louis de Leon

Icefalcon needs to be on this list.

Louis de Leon

Sold to Valstarr for $125.

Louis de Leon

Sold to his Grace for $250.

Louis de Leon

Last bids...250 is it....going once going twice...

Louis de Leon

Twice at 125...

Louis de Leon

Going once at 125...

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