The Armour Archive

Aidan Cambel

thats what you do to remove millscale from mild steel.. soak in vinegar until it stops bubbling. However when it hits air again, it glazes over with brown, which is in fact rust. its a surface rust that can easily be wiped off, but if left on its own, will find pits and set up. I'm guessing you are ...

Aidan Cambel

weird in one most it will be argued that period is better. in another post its argued that being period is price-comparitive to nonperiod (i.e. leather instead of plastic) in another post, its argued that someone mass producing armour and selling for a cheaper price, so that MORE PEOPLE CAN ATTEMPT ...

Aidan Cambel

me and two other guys have been working on starting a bike shop for quite some time now. I can definately use the english wheel in some of the things we want to do....

Aidan Cambel

For anyone who purchased one thinking they could armour with it, and turned out to be useless - and maybe wants to sell it now - contact me. Email is in profile.

I need one for something that I *KNOW* it will work for.

Aidan

Aidan Cambel

Good idea! Another idea you might try is this... Martial arts pants. They will be made of a heavy trigger or broadcloth, won't have the zipper/belt loops/ pockets, and after you sew on a few layers of heavy linen at the area of the points, should be plenty dtrong to hold up your leg harness. They wi...

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Willing Pell: I have read that as much as 40% of people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. Kiss hands? Not me !!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> But do you drink...

Aidan Cambel

close to where i used to live, there was a track that was not used anymore. It had trees, not shrubs, TREES, growing up through the crossmembers. someone took about 20 feet of track! And no, it wasn't me and I have no idea who it was. But I could just invision someone trying to take the track and li...

Aidan Cambel

Aidan Cambel

The "excessive length" of greatswords is, I believe, a result of some kingdoms allowing unpadded glaves and some not. I 6 foot greatsword with a ricasso is - for all practical purposes - a 6 foot unpadded glaive, but will pass in areas where unpadded glaives are not allowed. I believe this came to b...

Aidan Cambel

I will be there.

In service,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

the eye "slots" are ... well, weird. I don't see how it would be possible to see out of them unless you were watching the sky...

[img]http://www.craftmagic.com/ebay/armour/churburg10.jpg[/img]

Aidan Cambel

I also have a theory on the number of participants in our crown lists, and was wondering if there might be any truth to it. Here is Meridies, we have 4 big war events a year - Pennsic, Gulf Wars, Border Raids, and Panhandle Skirmishes. The later two are weekend events, so they are really not a probl...

Aidan Cambel

Any of the required pieces were equally needed, because you have to have them to even fight. What I feel is needed, and still think should be required (but thats a personal opinion i know) is shoulder protection of some sort. A simple one piece paldron works well with a large time frame, or lamed pa...

Aidan Cambel

I'm in a similiar situatio - I want to make my tent nicer inside and out, but I have 4 kids and so room in the van is tight. So here is my question - where beds ever just lined with pelts? I have a mental plan for a rope bed, and was thinking of just layering pelts over it. Now I just hope I don't f...

Aidan Cambel

I'm tinkering with things to make my encampment look better. Currently I am working on a 5-section "candlelier". I'm using the 1/4" square stock that they have at THD and bending and curving the sections, then going to make small little dishes to weld into place in 6 places to place little votive ca...

Aidan Cambel

I don't know what kind of bike it is, but attaching it to the front fork is possible - you just have to make sure that it doesn't interfere with the turn radius of the front forks.

Aidan Cambel

or a saw blade for a rotozip saw will fit an angle grinder. walmart sells them for jsut a few bucks

Aidan Cambel

to answer the question in the simplest form, based solely on the topic...

When he has shown himself to be Knightly and deserving.

When, where, and how is the fighters own choice.

Aidan Cambel

I would like to take a moment to say that I truly believe that maille can stop anything. Of course, I never said just one layer of it. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif With 176 rivetted maille shirts on at one time, I bet you can't pierce it ... of couse I couldn't stand or walk or even bre...

Aidan Cambel

I wish to praise all of the youths of meridies,and other kingdoms, and those that teach them. In this thread, one chivalrous fighter was mistaken for 3 well known chivalrous fighters within our fair kingdom ( and if Antonio had not been identified, I am sure the speculations whould have continued un...

Aidan Cambel

There is an essay on it already.. http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/essay__removing_scale_and_rust.shtml it will rust very quickly when you pull it out of the vinegar...mine did in less than 2 minutes, completely brown. but it was only light surface rust and came off with a 800grit wetdry paper an...

Aidan Cambel

I've always believed whoever dies with the most toys wins...

man have i got a lot of catching up to do...

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How did the nobles become noble? They took it, by the tip of a sword.

Aidan Cambel

I wear a rivetted maille hauberk, weighs in at about 20 pounds, and have been for about a year. Under it I wear a thin gambeson and a kidney belt. My elbows and pauldrons are pointed to the outside. Its heavy after about 3-4 hours of wearing it, but not that bad. The hardest thing is that in Alabama...

Aidan Cambel

just a note on removing mill scale... the article above is right, it will rust faster than anything you've every seen. I did it to an old helm because I wanted to highpolish it instead of it being dull millscale grey. It worked WONDERFUL to get the millscale off, but when I pulled it out of the vine...

Aidan Cambel

Would you be willing travel to Mobile, AL?

I know of an armourer there that might be available some weekends...

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How did the nobles become noble? They took it, by the tip of a sword.

Aidan Cambel

This is the welder I got:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=43028

I found it on a managers special and got it for $299, so I think I got a pretty good deal

Aidan Cambel

Well, I bought a welder. The welder I got is more than I intended, but its going to be better in the long run. I meant to get a 110 dual mig, but the one I wanted was out of stock. (it was however marked down $100). I was able to get the next model up, which was also marked down $100. So, I grabbed ...

Aidan Cambel

The helm in question on the sleeping knight is a tarpenhauf (or something like that). Here is what is confusing me... from the examples I have seen of this type helm, the helmet was a cylindrical top, face plate, and a mail drape down the back and sides. Now if this is true, this picture of the slee...

Aidan Cambel

I have one that I made, using a piece of a pool noodle and wrapping and stitching very thin garmet-grade leather around the head. I also stained the rattan with mahogany stain so its not so glaringly rattan. It is a VERY fast weapon. Everyone that has used it has fallen in love with it. There is the...

Aidan Cambel

I tried to take some pics of my shop, but they didn't turn out well. My digital camera sucks, the autoflash is always too dark and if you try to manually adjust the flash, you'll never get it right. Here are a few, if you can make anything out... my one lonely bench that holds everything: [img]http:...

Aidan Cambel

I agree, to teach them to not be overwelmed by agression, you need to make them more accustomed to it. However I think there is one other means of doing this that hasn't been mentioned. Train them to be the agressor. Now, it may not be their comfortable fighting zone, but it will teach them what the...

Aidan Cambel

I point mine in 2 places at the top, then have a strap around the back. My gamboised cuisses are black so the strap is black, making it not so obvious. The strap is not really tight, its only function is to keep the cop from flopping up when I am legged. In Service, Aidan ------------------ How did ...

Aidan Cambel

Wow, she really is the Queen Mother (to-be)

COngratulations to their highnesses!

In Service,
Aidan

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How did the nobles become noble? They took it, by the tip of a sword.

Aidan Cambel

I would not recommend doing this - it was probably one of the stupidest thing I have done in a while... I got one of the small saw blades for a versapak saw (its about 3 inches in diameter and looks like a circular saw blade) I then put it on my big angle grinder.. :-\ It worked, but if that thing h...

Aidan Cambel

you know what i find most sad about this? If this armourer would make a more historically accurate helm, it would be a nice hat. There are assorted pieces of helmets here that are well done (IMO) (1) the cheek plates - they aren't flat - they cuts are clean, the rivet placing is nice, and the polish...

Another welder question... kinda