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I dub thee... Nahmie.

Because Bayeux Barfly Easter Tequilla Nose-Tiarra Thumb Hater is just too long.

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Almost done.

Man, I love the hammered finish, and I really like the way the spangens come to a point at the top.
But... I give up, I gotta know two things.
First, what's holding it together? Are you pop-riveting it in place until you get it together, so the Al is easier to drill out?
Second, how the heck did you do that barwork? Did you get some plate laser cut and then shape it like that? I don't see any evidence of welds.

schreiber wrote:First, what's holding it together? Are you pop-riveting it in place until you get it together, so the Al is easier to drill out?

Yes. Exactly. Where you see empty holes and/or nuts and bolts will be replaced with 3/16" shank dome head rivets. The AL pop rivets will be replaced with 1/8" shank dome heads. The band work is only a temporary assembly for now. It's all gonna get pulled off, and polished, while the rough hammered bits will get baked in the oven, and then dribbled with gun blue to darken them up. Then it'll get all put back together perdy like with 'real' rivets.

schreiber wrote:Second, how the heck did you do that barwork? Did you get some plate laser cut and then shape it like that? I don't see any evidence of welds.

Nope. It's 1/4" bar. I hammered it a bit to flatten it some, but otherwise it's all welded. 1/4" double cut carbide rotary file in an air die grinder with 80 gallon tank backing it up makes pretty quick work of clean up. I paid like $18 for it so it was kinda pricey, but well worth every penny. This one went much faster than I remmber. But it's small, and I was careful with my welds. Flattening the bars a bit did seem like it made clean up a bit easier though.

That looks great, I always loved your work. Still wish you were taking orders but on the other hand it keeps me out of trouble,

Edward

Good Gosh Great Gatsby that's a beautiful hat!

That's gonna look NICE.

This kind of thing is the difference between "Dude what makes armor" and "Artist".

Beautiful work. I know it's not finished, but after the other stuff you've done, I feel confidant this will be right on up there.

That is f*****g awesome, I think I like the long name thiough, it sounds like it has a story......

Way cool
Thanks for the progress pics.

I would call it "semi", 'cuz that's what she's givin' me.
More great work!

Gryndar wrote:I think I like the long name thiough, it sounds like it has a story......

Not really. Just the very warped logic that resides in my head.

Nahmie is how Cliff (being from Boston. Chowdah!) pronounces Normie. Normie is Norm, I assume Norman, and a barfly on Cheers. Normans appear on the Bayeux Tapestry, and the helmet would work there. While cutting the nasal it made me think of a sunrise, which made me think of tequilla sunrise the drink. The sort of 'ascendant' lines of the sunrise and the crosses made me think of Easter, despite not considering myself Christian for going on 20 years now. Nose-Tiarra because if you cut the nose part of the nasal off the brow thing looks like a tiarra.

And Thumb Hater is the only small story involved in that, while drilling the small holes on the trim bands I put a teeeeeeeeeny bit too much pressure on the drill, flexed and snapped the bit, and stabbed the resulting stub through my thumb nail and out the tip of my thumb.

Zweihammer wrote:I would call it "semi", 'cuz that's what she's givin' me.

I got to see one of your works up close and personal. Bascinet you did some time ago I guess... There was nothing "semi" about it. Sir Garrick let me touch it, and then I went to change my pantaloons.

And you dont think thats a story? Kinda twisted, but still a good story. Sorry for your thumb, but all great work requires a sacrifice (sometimes a blood sacrifice)

Very Nice. As always some great work.

Mattmaus- Ah, his Grace's helm is one of my favorites. I wanted to make an exchange visor for that one, but he went walkabout, as career military are wont to do, before that could be. Someday, maybe.

I really like your idea of using the aluminum pops to hold her together for fit up. I tried clecos, thought the got in the way too much; and have used pounds and pounds of 10-32's and 8-36's forever since. I rarely get more than a couple of uses before the threads are trash. I think I will try your system next time. I use brass washers in case I have to drill them out, saves worrying about the chuck kissing the steel when it breaks though.

I call her "semi" 'cuz she ain't done yet and you are such a tease.

I've seen people rave over clecos and I never got any of them because like you said, they look like they'd get in the way more than anything. I also tend to rough fit stuff, then fit it down as I go, so there's a lot of put 2 rivets/bolts in, hammer the crap out of it, put in a couple more, more hammering. This tears the hell out of bolts, and pop rivets too, and I assume it would jack clecos all to hell. I've had to cut 2 bolts off of this one because I mangled the threads bad enough they wouldn't come off otherwise. With the pop rivets, I just don't care. Probably helps that I have a stash of close to 1000 of them left, and not a clue what else to use them for.

Rather than brass washers for chuck kisses, I've had good luck with a single leather washer fit snug and left on the bit right up by the chuck. You gotta brush it clean with your fingers frequently because it will collect chips and make cool swirls but it seems like it works ok otherwise.

Hey,

Will that helm be for sale any time soon? And if so, what size is it?

I'm somewhat of a fan.

Adam

Adamo wrote:Will that helm be for sale any time soon? And if so, what size is it?

I hope to have it ready to sell either tomorrow or Thursday. At this time I'm thinking of listing it here on the classifieds, auction style.

I haven't yet measured it for sizing. I lost a bit of head size when I cut my hair, and I'm thinking I'm down to 23.5" now. It's a bit snuger than I would personaly prefer. I'm going to guess (for now anyway) it'll go 22.5"-23.5" though with 23"-ish being optimal.

mattmaus wrote:

Adamo wrote:Will that helm be for sale any time soon? And if so, what size is it?

I hope to have it ready to sell either tomorrow or Thursday. At this time I'm thinking of listing it here on the classifieds, auction style.

I haven't yet measured it for sizing. I lost a bit of head size when I cut my hair, and I'm thinking I'm down to 23.5" now. It's a bit snuger than I would personaly prefer. I'm going to guess (for now anyway) it'll go 22.5"-23.5" though with 23"-ish being optimal.

Very cool. I hope you get a good price for it, it's a very attractive helm. 23"-ish would be fine by me...

Adam

SCHWEET!!!!

Well... if you're gonna call me a tease,

How bout a lunch time lapdance?

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Patina'd, cheek and skirt trim riveted on, eyeballin the looks of the nasal while I debate some chisel cuts on it.

Please, tell me you made that beautiful faceted hammer tone finish with some mechanical wizardry, it makes my old man forearms ache just thinking about it.

flick, tap, flick, tap, flick, tap.

I have done that finish by hand on brass a few times and it seemed to take forever.

Now I punt to the machine, she no complain.

Very, very, nice.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the grill work, so I'll correct that.

Nice grill work! The welds are clean, smooth and don't detract from the look of the helm at all.


Frederich

sweet helm

I like the hammered finish and the pierced nasal plaque a lot.
that stuff is so tedious.

clean grill.


Donngal

Hi there. Nice one Mattmaus. Great mix of details on that monkey. What did you use for the borders? I like your theory of, Build what you want then sell it too. Keep up the great work.

Take care

Pitbull

Zweihammer wrote:Please, tell me you made that beautiful faceted hammer tone finish with some mechanical wizardry, it makes my old man forearms ache just thinking about it.

Uh... sure. If that helps you sleep at night, then I used a machine. A special hammer is a machine right?

Frederich Von Teufel wrote:I don't think anyone has mentioned the grill work, so I'll correct that.

Nice grill work! The welds are clean, smooth and don't detract from the look of the helm at all.

schreiber got it in the first reply, but thanks again. I was deffinitely on my 'A' game for the grill. It's not the best grill ever, but it's one of the nicest one's I've done. I took some little steps with it that had seemed like a major PITA before. They were a bit tedious and time consuming, but made up for it in time savings later, and with the over all look of the thing.

Donngal wrote:sweet helm

I like the hammered finish and the pierced nasal plaque a lot.
that stuff is so tedious.

clean grill.

Oh! Because hand chiseling ravens into spangen pannels ISN'T tedious?

It's kinda cool, because the jewelers saw stuff I can do in the house, under noise restriction (night/morning). Funny how my tendency to break it out increases when the weather is cold too.


Didn't get it finished today. I tried, but it got cold, that made the lights go funny (flouro-tubes dislike sub 40 as much as I do), and it was being a bit of a brat. Cold dark and frustrated I was gonna jack something up so I quit early today.

Strangely, while being a bit of a brat, the stupid thing calmed down considerably. I stabbed a drill bit through my thumb. I shot parts into the rafters with the damned grabby buffer, and had to get a ladder to retrieve them. I bounced (with the afore mentioned grabby buffer) parts off the workbench and back into my head hard enough that I was thankful for the safety glasses and checked them to make sure they weren't cracked. A quick connect on the air hose exploded, (not the hose mind you, the metal parts) and shot them god knows where but there was a "whiff" sound through the hair that was way too close for comfort. Plus all the usual stupid crap that happens. I have never had such bad luck making armor. I swear this thing wanted to kill me.

I'm not so sure now. It was fair mellow when we listened to Flogging Molly. It started getting pissy when I listened to Iron Maiden, Iced Earth and Hammerfall. Today was Jethro Tull and it seemed to like that, mostly cooperated except where I knew it wouldn't. Maybe it's just REALLY picky about music, and doesn't care for (or maybe just gets way too fired up and angsty with) traditional metal.

And it didn't turn out quite as Clasic Lego Castle as I thought it would at first.

I swear this thing wanted to kill me.

Some say it's not armour until you've bled in it.


This one just comes broken in already.

mattmaus wrote:

Zweihammer wrote:Please, tell me you made that beautiful faceted hammer tone finish with some mechanical wizardry, it makes my old man forearms ache just thinking about it.

Uh... sure. If that helps you sleep at night, then I used a machine. A special hammer is a machine right?

Textured head? I've seen this done with a planishing hammer that had lumps filed into it. You go over it just as with planishing, only the lumps make the facets more defined and concave.

mattmaus wrote:I'm not so sure now. It was fair mellow when we listened to Flogging Molly. It started getting pissy when I listened to Iron Maiden, Iced Earth and Hammerfall. Today was Jethro Tull and it seemed to like that, mostly cooperated except where I knew it wouldn't. Maybe it's just REALLY picky about music, and doesn't care for (or maybe just gets way too fired up and angsty with) traditional metal.

I'm about to finish a kettle that really likes Snoop Dogg.... It was really fighting me for a while, when I had Amon Amarth and Lamb of God on.
My gauntlets usually like death metal, though.

Finished and for sale here:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=126020

If it like FM so much, work to the beautiful tunes of Ceann.