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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:24 am
by Konstantin the Red
Aw, heck, pay it forward. One day, you'll be the guy saying something like, "Back in 2011 when I was celebrating the Colt Government Model Centenary, I did this..."
Though too, if there are Cutco kitchen or field knives you'd like to order, PM me. That's how I make my IRL bread.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:08 pm
by Norman
Konstantine
Great writeup.
Now it needs pictures!!!!
In Brooklyn, I never did make a workbench. I had a bunch of scrounged desks and cabinets.
Now I'm rebuilding and would realy like to do up a good one.
Though I do most of the real armouring work traditional-like - crosslegged on a small rug
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:48 pm
by Konstantin the Red
Norman wrote:Konstantin
Great writeup.
Now it needs pictures!!!!
That'd save, oh, 750 of the words I wrote... at least.
Norman wrote:Now I'm rebuilding and would really like to do up a good one.
Even w/o diagrams, you know how well I can paint a word picture, and if you like we can PM back and forth to firm up details for you. 'S fun.
Norman wrote:Though I do most of the real armouring work traditional-like - crosslegged on a small rug
Careful, or we might begin calling you "Norman Portnoy!"
P.S.: I think my father-in-law lives in your town. The world just got a little smaller.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:09 pm
by Konstantin the Red
The Iron Dwarf wrote:here I normally get it in the local scrapyard, sometimes short bits are at the side of the track at stations and if so ask someone there
And bits of scrap RR track or bits of scrap I-beam both work about the same.
RR track in particular may have one end torch-cut into the profile of an anvil horn and become very good for reaching into narrow spots -- nice for backing rivets inside helms and within articulations. This torch cutting pretty much makes a two-foot hunk of old track into a bickern, or beak iron if you prefer. This is a skinny, midget anvil that smiths mount in their main anvil's hardie hole for midget-anvil type jobs. Skinny midget anvils suit a lot of armor jobs.
You can do the same torch-cutting bit with an I-beam, but you may find you have to torch off some flange too.
Neither hunk of iron is readily cut with anything less than a cutting torch. There is just too much steel there.