The Armour Archive

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A bigger picture would have been better To get patterned rivets they are usually either stamped with a die or filed to shape. Brass bits that seem to be part of the steel probably are - they are quite likely gilded. the black is *probably* a heat blue, I am unaware of any medieval chemical finishes....

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most of our group are wearing between 55 and 77lbs of harness. Thats including helmet, most of us don't wear sabatons.

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The problem with this is that you need something to attach it to, like some leather. And a half hide will run you $50+ (around here). not at all, a length of drill or similar from spotlight will run you to alot less. Yu dont *have* to use leather for COPs yes its more accuratebut loaner kits are si...

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This belongs in classifieds.

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Breast and back, greaves, vambraces. Take my advice and go a COP for your breast and back and splint for your greaves and vambs. The COP will teach you patterning, dishing, rivet setting etc and all 3 arre not too difficult. Splint for the vambs and greaves as a realistic option for a first timer. P...

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if you could post pics here that'd be even better, my aketon is falling apart and while I can patch it up its probably best if I get a new one, patch the old one then send it on to the next new fighter in need.

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Aww.. you don't need Hal to send out copies of that one. Just look at the pic, it's simplicity itself. If my armouring manuals were still circulating, patterns for that style of helm were in the first volume. I put that out like... 20 years ago. Really though, going from Hal's pic, you should be ab...

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Not from under the arm to the opposite shoulder ? Sort of wondering what the difference is there... The difference being where you put the buckle It sounded like Cet was suggesting putting the buckle at the top and startingt he strap under the arm - which from my squiring day I assure you is a pain...

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Boner wrote:Edward,

Nice to see an Australian face on the AA. Did you go to Abbey this year? I saw that OLR was there in force as usual. I thought the after event camping was a little less enthusiastic this year.

That photo was from sunday's tournament at Abbey so yes

You'll have to come find me at HA

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The straps to the shoulders don't need to be very tight - just enough to keep the BP from flopping forward too much while allowing it to move with your arm motions a bit: too tight and you get excessive bruising on your chest at the arm openings. And at the collarbones. I would runt he strap from t...

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Mine is based on this BP, I covered mine is suede because I didnt have any velvet handy. Held up nicely to combat though (steel).

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Looks good, not sure about the lip on the bottom lame and it looks like you havent spent enough time sanding to get a consistent polish when you polished them (I can see linishing marks in places) For a second try these are fantastic, I wish my second try at armour was this good. My suggestions woul...

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Looking better

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Also interested in the chaos price dependant.

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IIRC there is a section when you transfer money that asks what it's for ie: payment for goods/services. A standard transfer shouldn't attract sales tax. *goes and looks* PP lets you send to kinds of money, payments for purchaces and personal payments. a personal payment shouldn't be sales taxed as i...

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That Zweihammers Valsgrad-6 kit looks amazing. I wish I could get ahold of that pattern, I could maybe throw it in a CNC plasma cutter in a month or two and cut my parts, if not I do not mind doing it by hand. Talbot sells a Valsgarde 7 pattern which requires little dishing - just the latticework i...

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Halberds wrote:Thanks guys for the kind words and I hope Es02 you get your 2nd. box soon.

Seeing as there was an inexplicable 2 day delay in this box reaching NJ to get on the plane and the other box arrived 2 days ago I'm guessing it'll be here today.

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A few months ago I ordered a whole bunch of new tools from Halberds to bring me another step closer to 'completeing' my armoury, a few financial screwups on my part later [this is the second time this has happened and I'm really annoyed with myself for doing it] and the money was finally sent to Hal...

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There are some early-ish 16th century brigandine work arms extant, no 15th century ones, however, I have seen brigandine-work tassets (early 16th century), which are identical to examples seen in art of the 1480's, but no brigandine-work legs to my knowledge, at least none found to date. I've seen ...

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sha-ul wrote:Dayum Andy, your Milanese gauntlets are looking very nice do you have a way to brown, or blacken them so as to make them more inconspicuous for folks that may want to de-emphasize them?

Buy a bottle of coldblue, it should take you 5-10min to blacken them if you clean the gaunts properly first

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So use your drill press. Those boys can gear down to where the bit turns like the world. Okay, the world like a desk globe pushed by one hand. But S L O W as twist drill bits work. 600RPM on a drillpress is plenty fast enough. I tend to use Sutton Tools - not the viper bits but the other special co...

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I think all the rebated-steel fighting, WMA, or fencing groups require perf-metal screening inside their sights. Not all of them no, certainly all the ones I've come into contact with over here want eye slots as close to the original pieces as possible which means if that eyeslot is 4-5" long ...

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shipping on 1-2 boxes to 4043 australia?

Am interested in:
Hunting Book of Gaston Phebus
Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600 by Gravett HC

However I will refrain from calling dibs until my tax-return/other funds come in

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Just to make sure that the advice that has been given here is not misunderstood - NEVER run more than one antivirus product at once (this includes having them installed at once) as the real-time scanners and some other components *can* conflict causeing all sorts of nasty things to happen. That also...

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Quite possibly.

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I suppose I could cut a 30" diameter blank and recreate the shields from 300. Wouldn't want to do those out of 18ga though, I wouldn't think. Anyone know off-hand about how thick those greeks (the real ones) made their shields? Or if they were bronze instead of wood? I've spent so much time st...

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Jiri Lucius. wrote:I use a small file to do the lines. It has a shape like this () of course with sharp edges on both sides. I can make a picture of it if you want.

Jiri

Of course we want pictures!

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Isabella E wrote:I'm digging the interesting dags on that surcote. Or whatever it's called.

Jupon

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Leather Adhesive?

Comes in a tin from your leather shop, use sparingly

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I can do websites although not much of the work I have done professionally is still knocking around.

Pricing depends on what you want done and how interesting it is (I dont have much spare time these days so I'm screening web work).

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Hi Pitbull, I have found the propane does not weld good for me. It seems to heat OK but it will not wet the metal for welding. The guys at the welding supply have a brass screw adaptor that will let you attach your acetylene hose to a BBQ propane bottle. Hal Better to run acctual LPG hoses though -...

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A steel brush would cause rust, brass wirewheel ought to be okay, scotchbrite will take you a bit more work but is safer in the long run.
Which ever you choose though Cet is quite right - oil first!

It will give you a much nicer finish.

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Halberds wrote:Hi Eso2 I bet your two boxes of new tools are not there yet.
I also bet they are held up in customs.
Hal

I reckon they wont make it through before thursday at the earliest.

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Can do a pair in stainless with steel rivets in this style for $150 + $30 shipping. Would need your shoes for custom fitting (So factor in .au shipping for your shoes). You'd have to wait about 4 weeks though before I'd have time to start on them. IMO Hals are a hell of alot nicer if your going to g...

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What I did was more of a fold over than a roll. Are fold overs used or strictly rolls ? And getting the right angle on a point when folding for the two edges to meet square, what degree would you suggest ? I also just aquired a thousand tube rivets but don't think they are the best for armour! 1 Go...

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