Quote: "Nissan Maxima"
(on Pennsic) I know that movie. It is the 13th warrior. A bunch of guys in armour that doesn't match itself or anybody elses, go on a trip and argue and get drunk and get laid and then fight Tuchux.
"How I Ioved listening to your sweet prayers every night.
And then you'd jump in your bed, -so afraid I was under there- And I was." -Lucifer-The Prophecy
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
- Sir Lorccan hua Conchobair
Former armourer at Darkwood Armory, now just armouring a bit for fun.
"I've schlepped ugly gear about the field. It does not inspire -- not me, not anybody. Better to try and make it pretty." - Konstantin the Red
Thank you for the uplifting responses people I realized too late that I could have done them in one piece... Next pair. I used them after the pics were taken for fighter practice and even un hardened and tempered 18gg 1050 held up wonderfully. They're getting treated today and will have the pretty shiney black on them that the fingers have. Extra virgin olive oil at 550 degrees for 35-40 min.
By the way, I am a huge Turtle fan (the original comic series that is..Raphael is the shit)
Anyone interested in a pair???
I am not allowed to ever have gauntlets like that...
I would do very naughty, innapropriate, immoral, bad, wicked, depraved, illegal, unethical and very very wrong things with them. And that's all before I put them on.
Oh... sorry 'bout that- instead of making the hand and cuff out of two seperate pieces then riveting together, the hand and cuff would be worked and shaped out of one piece of steel; shrunk and shaped hot out of one piece. It would give them a cleaner line and it's also a way for an armourer to show off I had to shrink the cuffs and shape them around the wrist area to form them into the hand, after attaching I realized a couple more inches longer and what was the leading edge of the cuff/wrist turns into the hand!! I smacked my forhead and promised myself I would do it on the next pair.
The price for the gauntlets is $1300.00. Of course, nothing is off the shelf; and I would also consider doing lower cannons with them- depending on what kit you have.
Gruber
I realized too late that I could have done them in one piece... Next pair. I used them after the pics were taken for fighter practice and even un hardened and tempered 18gg 1050 held up wonderfully. They're getting treated today and will have the pretty shiney black on them that the fingers have. Extra virgin olive oil at 550 degrees for 35-40 min.
