The Armour Archive

Click on the link below to see Chuck's Shop.

http://www.walmart.com/agt/bounce.gsp?ID=4031ks0yz4s36xo4pjpi



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-Chuck
aka Cadwallon y' Rhudd

That man has more stakes then I do!
Throw him to the sheep, Centurion.

Sasha


Ever thought of adding an air duct over your welding area? You have gone to so much trouble to set up a good area anyway that it would really finish it nicely (and you would notice the difference in air quality)

Holey shit! I will never post a pic of my work bench again. I feel so ashamed, I apologize for my rank ignorance of the craft.

Halberds! Don't feel ashamed! This is meant to inspire you. It has taken me 26 years to aquire all of these tools, and they still aren't enough.

Know this:
1. There are several people on this list that have more tools.
2. There are several people on this list that have much more hi-tech tools.
3. There are several people on this list who have people working for them.

and most importantly
4. There are several people on this list who work out of basements, garages, living rooms, or kitchens. Who don't have much more than a ball-pean hammer and a dishing stump. and they all can make great art!

So can you.

If you feel ignorant, ask. This list is here to help, and they have.

Good luck making armour. At least your trying.
-Cad

Nice shop, thanks for the pics.

BTW: What do you ake your pattern templates out of?

Thanks for the pics Cad

God bless you, Chuck D.
-V

Mr. Davis, I salute you. Thank you for the inspiration.

-Mag

I am inspired.

You just wait 20 years, I might catch up.

Hal.

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I use card stock that I got from when I worked for an Oil Refinery. The card stock came as stiffener in packs of blue print paper.

A great source of cheap card stock are simple manila folders.

-Cad

The link won't work for me.

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The budding mid 14th century German Transitional guy.
Mad Matt's Armory

I gave up on paper templates and patterns years ago. I lived in enviroments where they would get wet and "blah" and die.

I switched over to using flooring vinyl. This was a huge improvement, It bends and behaves very like steel in its stretch charecteristics. So you can drape the vinyl pattern onto yourself in an appropriate way and get good results.

More recently I started using very thin steel that comes as reject material form a factory that makes food cans. This is the stuff that has not had the corrugations put into it yet.
Cuts with scissors and lasts for ever. I can also use a scribe as well as a marker.

I don't see myself ever going back to paper patterns. Then again, if my paper patterns hadn't rotted and disolved with such frequency I might never have gotten an "eye" for being able to come up with patterns without great wailings and gnashings of teeth the way that so many people seem to.


Sasha

Thanks for the heads up on the patterns. I use the card stock (hanging file folders) method right now, but have them laminated on both sides to make them more beer resistant .

I have heard of folks using x-ray film with success and have seen the flooring vinyl in use from one of Massa G's apprentices. I really like that method, as soon as I move back to the land of cheap flooring I'm going to convert all my patterns over. I want to be prepared in case of another home brewing explosion.

One of the nice things about being in a state of seemingly perpetual house renovations...

Margaret asked me if we were going to set up the brewing gear which we have been accumulating against the time when we owned a house and stopped moving around more frequently then it took mead to ferment.

I thought about it and said, brewing and armouring workshops don't mix (at least not in a way that gives you usable results form weither once they do mix). She said, "well, I think the same can be said of putting the stuff in the sewing room" (actually she used the words "my sewing room" even though I do at least 50% of the sewing. Women can be so cruel.

So we seem to be about to build a room off the new laundry, exclusively for brewing and materials storage. And I suppose if we decide that we do not like brewing I will finally have my fully detached "clean room" enviroment for jewellery making...

Sasha