OOPS you are correct!! I have been a farm blacksmith for too long where the forge, anvil, and tree are all within two steps and upwind is always on one side...
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Bruce S. R. Lee
bsrlee
Jun 28, 2003 12:16 pm
Be very careful with 'burning' any coating off metal parts - be they bolts, nuts or pipe. These days you have to be a metallurgist to tell exactly what's in...
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The Luegges
oengustheblack
Jun 28, 2003 12:12 pm
Just about any large company with a warehouse throws this stuff away by the truckload on a daily basis. Shouldn't be hard at all to come up with more than...
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vinlandar
Jun 28, 2003 12:11 pm
I was thinking about a good way to make a wool comb that doesn't look like a bunch of common nails pushed through a board. I've only seen one example of the...
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vinlandar
Jun 28, 2003 12:08 pm
Thanks, that's also great info! It and an earlier post leads me to a follow-up question: What's a MAPP torch? Also, what sort of supplier might I look for...
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Tim Bray
albionwood
Jun 27, 2003 11:18 pm
I've put up another of my quick-and-dirty overviews of one type of furniture, this time for those late Gothic benches and stools: ...
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Scott Lane
aodhfin
Jun 27, 2003 8:39 pm
... Sorry to come into this conversation so late... I've been looking into rovels as of late, as I intend to make several thousand for an upcoming ship...
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James W. Pratt, Jr.
cunning@...
Jun 27, 2003 5:36 pm
In period they did not have high speed steel drills; they made flat stock, punched the holes(hot) and hot cut the rovel off. The rivits are another story the...
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John LaTorre
tentmeister
Jun 27, 2003 4:54 pm
... Oops. My bad. I'd forgotten that it's in the file section of the Medieval Encampments section, not this one. (As list moderator of that one, maybe you can...
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vinlandar
Jun 27, 2003 4:26 pm
This is sounding more and more reasonable the longer I think about it. Humidity will, it would seem to me, affect that wood a lot more than it will affect the...
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Schuster, Robert L.
halvgrimr
Jun 27, 2003 2:42 pm
And make the holes for the rivets oversized, so there is room for movement. Otherwise it's likely to warp when the humidity changes. --nice piece of advise...
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Avery Austringer
avery1415
Jun 27, 2003 1:26 pm
... That's what I'd do. ... That would work. You will probably want to heat the stock up before you make the head. A MAPP gas torch could probably handle...
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Danial Roy
unclefox2001
Jun 27, 2003 11:57 am
Using the nail tool found in the MAstermyr find you would start with round stock and make a rivet that looks very similer to a modern nail. When doing shields...
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vinlandar
Jun 27, 2003 10:32 am
Not having access to a functioning blacksmith at present, not knowing where to look for period rivets, and looking at books like "The Mastermyr Find" Viking...
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James W. Pratt, Jr.
cunning@...
Jun 27, 2003 5:25 am
Remmber period rovels(not washers) are square not round. I said rovels because they bit into the rivet and hold while you peen it. Look at copper leather...
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vinlandar
Jun 27, 2003 1:40 am
That's what I have gotten too, although I've very likely seen far less info. What I've seen gives me the impression that most of these shields were almost...
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sasha_aldubbun
Jun 27, 2003 12:55 am
Johann! I'm sorry that I'll be missing the war - my reenactment unit ( legio- ix-hispana.org ) is doing a demo that weekend. I didn't see your bench in the...
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Jim
alusmithur
Jun 26, 2003 11:51 pm
I've done a little bit of research on viking round shields, and as far as I can tell the joinery used were butt joints. It was reinforced by having the rod...
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Tim Bray
albionwood
Jun 26, 2003 11:34 pm
OK, I'll follow up with a slightly less basic question: What kind of joinery was used on these shields? Did they rabbet, T&G, spline, etc? Cheers, Colin ...
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Tim Bray
albionwood
Jun 26, 2003 11:34 pm
... No. The only time you would do that is if you had a very hard, dense wood (like oak) and hand planed the edges. The plane can polish the wood to the point...
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John LaTorre
tentmeister
Jun 26, 2003 5:02 pm
Hello, the list! This to let those of you who plan to attend the An Tir/West War that I will be bringing my "peri-oid Workbench" (described, with pictures, in ...
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rmhowe
mmagnusm
Jun 25, 2003 9:11 pm
... This is going to be a bit odd but contains useful bits: Mostly dull scribing tools but by then they also used high relief techniques which were done by...
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rmhowe
mmagnusm
Jun 24, 2003 10:54 pm
http://www.smoke-island.com/galleries/NC03/cwdata/NCRF059.html Now if you filled in the panel spaces with carvings.... There are two other ways to get depth in...
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Schuster, Robert L.
halvgrimr
Jun 24, 2003 6:47 pm
Wow, Halvgrimr, those are GORGEOUS! Perhaps later when I've gotten my whole basic kit put together I'll go back and work on something like that. My Norse...
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vinlandar
Jun 24, 2003 6:45 pm
Wow, Halvgrimr, those are GORGEOUS! Perhaps later when I've gotten my whole basic kit put together I'll go back and work on something like that. My Norse...
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Schuster, Robert L.
halvgrimr
Jun 24, 2003 6:04 pm
After I have the boards glued and cut into a round shield, I will be gluing/riveting steel strips across the back perpendicular to the run of the boards to...
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vinlandar
Jun 24, 2003 4:34 pm
Hej, Here's another simple one. I am planning on gluing boards together to make a Viking shield. I'll be gluing them together side by side, thin edge to thin...
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Tim Bray
albionwood
Jun 22, 2003 7:09 pm
OK Avery, I have created a folder and uploaded a few photos for your perusal. The really Gothic-looking jobs with the overhanging canopy seem to be the earlier...
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Avery Austringer
avery1415
Jun 22, 2003 10:30 am
... I think it is that one and I've just mentally stuck the background from another piece into the picture. Damn. ... canopy, or ... if I ... To be honest,...
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Tim Bray
albionwood
Jun 22, 2003 12:32 am
... That sounds like this one: http://www.chronique.com/Library/Armour/Armyd.htm But it does not have the cupboard you are searching for, so maybe there's ...
