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- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pewter Block - that one ok?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 457
Re: Pewter Block - that one ok?
Lead is softer than pewter or tin. Whether that matters for what you need it for is up for debate from folks more knowledgeable than me.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 15th Century Medieval Latchet Shoes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 182
Re: 15th Century Medieval Latchet Shoes
Too small
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Need help finding a link on here for helmet liners
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3122
Re: Need help finding a link on here for helmet liners
I think you want his "dusting off the cobwebs" thread.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
Re: Mac's blog
Pictures in the last post don't show, Mac.
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mail coifs & hair
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12335
Re: Mail coifs & hair
I think you're looking for an arming cap - easy google search on that for various types. Thin fabric that can either tie or velcro (for a modern approach). Keeps my hair from getting into my mail coif, though it's not long, it has a lot of curl and tangles into the rings easily.
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Trying to locate a book based on two pages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12781
Re: Trying to locate a book based on two pages
Notice the language on the sides identifying parts is not English. If you can identify the language, it might help identify the book?
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:09 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Recipe for Brewer's Pitch (and maybe cutler's pitch)?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4017
Re: Recipe for Brewer's Pitch (and maybe cutler's pitch)?
Envirotex is available at hobby stores (Michaels and Hobby Lobby both carry it in stock - back in the cheap apple barrel paint area)
- Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Knockoff Roper Whitney #5 good for aluminum?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2308
Re: Knockoff Roper Whitney #5 good for aluminum?
Drill press might be easier on your hands.
A lot will depend on the size of the hole you want to punch.
5052 is commonly used as street sign aluminum (when they're not using steel).
A lot will depend on the size of the hole you want to punch.
5052 is commonly used as street sign aluminum (when they're not using steel).
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Knockoff Roper Whitney #5 good for aluminum?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2308
Re: Knockoff Roper Whitney #5 good for aluminum?
I have a #5 (not a knock-off). It cuts through the brass door kick plates fine - those are 10g brass. With non-ferrous metals, you'll spend a little more time deburring afterward vs steel, but it should be doable.
- Sat May 28, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Looking to Commission First Armor, Advice Sought
- Replies: 2
- Views: 991
Re: Looking to Commission First Armor, Advice Sought
There's an archiver named Jiri Klepac - he's not in the US, but does fantastic work.
https://jiriklepac.wordpress.com/gallery/
https://www.facebook.com/jiri.klepac.1
He's in the Czech Republic.
https://jiriklepac.wordpress.com/gallery/
https://www.facebook.com/jiri.klepac.1
He's in the Czech Republic.
- Fri May 20, 2022 1:17 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Breastplate Bruising the Collar Bone
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18764
Re: Breastplate Bruising the Collar Bone
My breastplate did the same thing (very different design, and not made by an armourer for me - off the shelf thing) - I have a very pronounced collarbone. My breastplate was too curved at the top, so the corners were biting in on the collarbone. I had to flatten it out (I pounded the "center" of the...
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:14 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Armoring/ Metalwork/ Jewelry Tools for Sale
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3900
Re: Armoring/ Metalwork/ Jewelry Tools for Sale
I *am* logged into ebay - your link takes me to *MY* active listing page - which is blank because I'm not trying to sell anything.RWWT wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 3:03 pm Roper Whitney Punch w/ 3 punch/ die sets: https://www.ebay.com/mys/active/rf/cont ... X_ELIGIBLE
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:02 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: flesh side out for armor straps
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7952
Re: flesh side out for armor straps
Total guess here.
The wearing side would be the grain side, on your body. Your body would wear on the leather more than combat would?
The wearing side would be the grain side, on your body. Your body would wear on the leather more than combat would?
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 1:19 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Wanted: looking for a good engraver armourer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1784
Re: Wanted: looking for a good engraver armourer
I'd go with Ugo (he's on facebook too). A search here on the archive will show his work. He's expensive - but you get what you pay for too.
- Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New Users - Please Read This!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 54315
Re: New Users - Please Read This!
...since you didn't *lock* the thread from having replies...
I'm a bot!
I'm a bot!
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
Re: Mac's blog
Mac, how do you protect the brass cap and gilding when setting the rivet?
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:06 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
Re: Mac's blog
Donate them to me to...uh... display?
They're gorgeous.
They're gorgeous.
- Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
Re: Mac's blog
Mac, how often does the brass not work well after heat treating the steel? Is it still "close enough" or have you had to remake the brass work after treatment?
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:30 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16020
Re: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
*snip* How to incise then? Never thought about that. I suppose there is some "carving tool" you would use..? Is it a carving tool, or tool marks from a grinding wheel when they tried to clean up / crisp up the fluting lines? That could also lend itself to putting lines down where there's no fluting...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Arms and Armour Forum gone?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2898
Re: Arms and Armour Forum gone?
Never heard of it. Looks like a database error.
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:28 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Big Ass Cast Iron Cauldron
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1554
Re: Big Ass Cast Iron Cauldron
You might need to email Primvs - he hasn't been on the board since April 2018.
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:07 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pliers for peining mail rivets
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3211
Re: Pliers for peining mail rivets
I'm making mine from these: https://www.menards.com/main/tools/hand ... 619676.htm -- but I whacked off the odd spike on the back to give me a really flat spot to tap with a hammer.
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: recreating Wade Allen's A147 spaulder(s)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3473
Re: recreating Wade Allen's A147 spaulder(s)
I feel you on the garage - mine is still in boxes 8 months after moving here. Gotta make headway on it if I want to be able to get my tools set back up.
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pliers for peining mail rivets
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3211
Re: Pliers for peining mail rivets
Wasn't that Steve SOFC before he shut his website down?
My plan is to use fencing pliers for mine.
My plan is to use fencing pliers for mine.
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:11 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Wanted - Globose Breast and back plate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1517
Re: Wanted - Globose Breast and back plate
Dave's website got hacked and is shut down, and his most recent post on his Facebook business page was in April 2020. :? Best bet is to try and email him: ldr_gto@verizon.net Yep, email is best for his business. His personal FB posts are current (within the last few hours), so he's still alive and ...
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Wanted - Globose Breast and back plate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1517
Re: Wanted - Globose Breast and back plate
Rough from the hammer is still around, I think. He's mostly on Facebook.
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:20 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14 c. Vilnius "Lamellar"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1376
Re: 14 c. Vilnius "Lamellar"
This looks a lot like it'd be up Norman's alley.
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 1:03 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Identify a harness??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3618
Re: Identify a harness??
I think that it was previously displayed in this configuration (2014) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nDhy_7wHNd3qiIIfQ3LdoKT5fDFfwFa2StQfavBvce4WQOvCXjHOiM75gX0hmKHK9euZhtASG1UriB8MuYpfjwz_mjeOB1824IVAumS8NqtuTWxpvgpYp7zAJ2vR2ZwVPJiSVPMsBNJzOegkAoTW1_S0aZL0lhSgmrh69Noh-rmbt8rZv_B5Q5nCdABU_got8gj...
- Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:13 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Not armor, but
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1360
Re: Not armor, but
Pics or it didn't happen
- Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Miniature Victorian Gothic Armour Makers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3674
Re: Miniature Victorian Gothic Armour Makers?
I have woven 1.5mm ID mail in 0.4mm wire. The scale was a little off, but it was just the challenge of it. So yes, it is possible to weave it.
- Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:02 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: recreating Wade Allen's A147 spaulder(s)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3473
Re: recreating Wade Allen's A147 spaulder(s)
That's the one I'm looking at attempting also. It'll be quite a while before I attempt it, so I'll live vicariously through you
Wade's site lists it as possibly Landshut and possibly around 1530. He told me it may be closer to 1520, but he likes to err conservatively on dating.
Wade's site lists it as possibly Landshut and possibly around 1530. He told me it may be closer to 1520, but he likes to err conservatively on dating.
- Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How to clean a mail shirt
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3331
Re: How to clean a mail shirt
Walnut shells (tumbling) works well too. I've used 'em on smaller pieces, not a full shirt.
edit... CRUSHED walnut shells, not whole ones
edit... CRUSHED walnut shells, not whole ones
- Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:26 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 1530 armour from St. Marien, Wittenberg
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1127
Re: 1530 armour from St. Marien, Wittenberg
That's really well detailed. The artist did a nice job.
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 898635
Re: Mac's blog
That's really neat!