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Post by freq on Jun 26, 2022 9:37:13 GMT
this was a hell of alot of fun and got the creativity flowing big time, only complaints are the designs that won were not "out there" enough to be appealing to the fantasy sword market and not traditional enough for the purists, was hoping for some total Kit Rae or Boris Vallejo, frank farazetta type of thing to win, and the goblin sword ( sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com/product775.html ) was less than impressive for the cost, suppose thats why i made my entry lol
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Post by freq on Jun 20, 2022 12:46:44 GMT
The subject was 9260 and why bother with it. Go ahead and run an SBG search for thread headers and put in the time to cull information. re reading thread: feel free to do so if your that impassioned by it and frustrated about it, why make it the responsibility of some one else, join up and contribute
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Post by freq on Jun 20, 2022 12:41:32 GMT
Mu thoughts and reason for posting was this post in another section. i apologize we seem to have missed the point of your question (since i assume this was your post to begin with considering how vehemently you are defending it), to answer your questions the answer is, yes.
Since you dont care about the heat treat of the blade you are essentially asking whats the difference between formula one cars when you disregard the engineering that makes them different, the final product is determined by the metallurgical manipulation, you can make a blade from any type of carbon steel if you know how to heat treat and temper it, if not you can have the "best" steel in the world and will be a piece of scrap when you are done because you can ruin it in the heat treat (too hot, too cold, wrong quench medium and a hundred other things), if you want to know things like deformation, edge retention etc these are all set in the heat treat not in the steel chemistry, it helps but not the final decider, these things are determined by the smith when they decide how hot they will quench, how far back they draw the temper, quench mediums, edge /profile geometry etc, of course google gives conflicting reviews there are a wide range of "bladesmiths" some good some bad, some who know what they are doing and some that think that the steel is what makes the blade, hell blade geometry has more to do with deformation than steel numbers, edge retention? for what? cutting bottles, trees, rocks, steel plate these things all mater, you cant ask is x steel good or bad with no further info, then get mad when people cant tell you the info you want to know
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Post by freq on Jun 19, 2022 3:10:57 GMT
www.youtube.com/c/UKBladeshow/videos wealth of information on here for knife makers from an actual metallurgist (not sure hes got anything to do with Spanish royalty lol) might find your answer on here
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Post by freq on Jun 15, 2022 9:59:12 GMT
post away would love more info on it, as for making horse shoes with it, nup no, nope no way, had severe histamonic reaction to any horse riding gear that came into the shop when i was shoe repairing, cant imagine explosive sneezing and feeling like your face is melting would be conducive to shoeing horses lol
sounds like "histamonic" is a cross between "histamine" and "demonic" >:D
yep that about sums it up lol
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Post by freq on Jun 15, 2022 9:57:38 GMT
These are pretty cool. Recently picked up the "official" windlass models long discontinued. I like them more than I thought. They handle very differently despite similar appearances. There are many subtle differences in the hilts themselves, though the silver plating shows it's age (twenty years now! I call it weathering). They are dull and I plan to fix that, but I really love what you've done. I know neither of the official prop hilts suggest the appearance of a great cat as referred to in the books. look forward to seeing what you do with them, friend picked up the new release larp ones, and sent me some picks all i could think was the company has a word for word description of the blades how hard would it be to make a hilt that matches instead of making it a dragon,or at least make it a cat?
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Post by freq on Jun 13, 2022 9:49:45 GMT
the handle is all hand carved, right down to using a draw knife to cut the shaft down, lots of filing and sanding, the handle is made from spotted gum, blade was a piece i cut from a pfc at work oxy cut to shape then ground, have plans to make a fur covered scabbard for it, so far been a hell of a lot of fun, will do full stat block when done
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Post by freq on Jun 13, 2022 9:06:40 GMT
post away would love more info on it, as for making horse shoes with it, nup no, nope no way, had severe histamonic reaction to any horse riding gear that came into the shop when i was shoe repairing, cant imagine explosive sneezing and feeling like your face is melting would be conducive to shoeing horses lol
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Post by freq on Jun 11, 2022 22:31:54 GMT
thanks for the help would post on facebook if i had facebook lol, after some early morning googling found what it most likely is finding this lead me to this this lead me to this so it appears to be a "farriers rounding hammer" some sort of swiss army tool for making horse shoes so you dont need to swap tools, our best guess was something like a specialist sheet metal hammer, weird thing is cant find a modern version anywhere, closest thing was this www.amazon.com/Hawk-Multi-Head-Hammer-Different-Shapes/dp/B01IM99N1C
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Post by freq on Jun 11, 2022 11:09:08 GMT
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Post by freq on Apr 30, 2022 23:40:59 GMT
Custer's moment of death is unknown and unrecorded. There are only two facts known about it: 1. he died at the Little Bighorn and 2. He wasn't scalped Anything other than that is merely opinion or speculation. Considering that 1 out if 8 adults believe that the earth is flat, I don't have much faith in anybody doing scholarly research into any history whatsoever. It seems that whater somebody wants to be true, becomes true. Social media is the new "peer reviewed " journal. Just make a YouTube video about something and that becomes defacto "evidence"- especially if other YouTubers repeat it. WHAT! THE EARTHS NOT FLAT? lol probably the same people who think Australia doesn't exist and were all "paid actors"
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Post by freq on Apr 30, 2022 23:36:54 GMT
just for informative reasons, in Victoria where i live you can be considered aboriginal if you identify as such and are accepted by a "tribe", zero actually ancestry needed, that being said one of my friends is of aboriginal descent and looks as anglo as i do,
think we are in a scary place in the world right now where people are trying to "correct" history, all good if new evidence comes to light through new technology, but simply because its my opinion isnt evidence its opinion and far too often lately is taken as fact, may have been dark skinned vikings, but doubtful they were in the majority. hell im sure there were lost of different hair/skin colors people are a pretty variable species even in close knit groups.
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Post by freq on Apr 17, 2022 6:45:11 GMT
all three (and axe blade ) made from concrete saw blade i got from another work mate believe its some kind of 10 series stainless, plasma cut then ground, handled and polished, don't currently have stats on them mostly made as an exercise in weird shape fabrication, all three cut leather with ease, fourth blade in photo got scrapped early on as it didn't feel/look right. handle on wood one is spotted gum (same wood used for hammer handles ) the other two are micarta wrap the green is black and green spaghetti yarn from fabric store, the white is a bandage i was given when i injured my hand lol
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Post by freq on Mar 20, 2022 11:35:20 GMT
use a contact adhesive, used to use www.leffler.com.au/foss-adhesive-ab708s-cement-500ml-/ for gluing shoes together (former shoe repairer ) its basically the same stuff as laminex glue and bonds to near anything without going "hard", rough up the leather attached to the handle currently for a better bond, as for flush seam, trick i learned recovering stiletto heel blocks is cut way more than you think you will need, glue the leather down first from the widest part pulling it taught working to the taper, then join the two excess edges together to make a protruding flap, then trim said flap so edged are flush with a sharp knife (this takes a bit of practice) , can also apply heat to shrink the leather once glued if your not too worried about the surface being discolored
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Post by freq on Feb 21, 2022 11:51:55 GMT
my idea was more like a lance with a modified head, designed so that when a force great enough to penetrate is applied said force overcomes the friction fit of the head assembly, the shaft (which has a plunger arrangement on the top ) slides through the hollow tube and delivers the chemical same principal as an injection syringe just bigger. can picture that all to easy knight rides up lance in hand charges delivers lethal blow and charges off, like a 12 foot syringe, other principal was that the weight on the end causes the syringe action due to inertial momentum (think tranquilizer dart ) point goes in the shaft keeps sliding and delivers the toxin
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Post by freq on Feb 20, 2022 5:55:24 GMT
quick back of envelope sketch of idea added mace like element to base in case it doesn't go down on first contact still have a weapon you can use
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Post by freq on Feb 20, 2022 5:40:15 GMT
why not make a simple hollow tubular spear head with a wooden shaft with metal cap, that acts a a hypodermic on steroids. allow shaft to slide up the head put poison in the hollow, large enough weight on base, then with a stab or hard enough throw you have a giant sized "tranquilizer dart " shaft slides up pushing the slurry into the creature boom done, could even plug tip with something simple like wax that wont affect the penetration, could even go as far as making glass inserts that shatter in the tube, only other problem is overcoming the hydraulic pressure needed to "fire" the poison?
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Post by freq on Feb 8, 2022 8:53:05 GMT
found this interesting and strangely moving must stir the celtic blood lol
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Post by freq on Jan 28, 2022 7:19:09 GMT
this gives an idea of scale and the handle is clearly a pipe
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Post by freq on Jan 7, 2022 9:47:45 GMT
finished some more and tested a couple of them for fun, this was my big bad bowie on the right
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