Ang Khola trade available

I'll trade you some great tailor-made chainmail for it.

My Chainmail Page

I make it, and have tons..i've been feeling like starting up a medium-sized project lately too.

Also, I have some titanium wire.... Ever wanted a titanium belt?

It might be good for you to get a nice sheet of chainmail so you could do some extreme testing to collect data on effectiveness of Khukuris on armour. :p

ps... I also have a nice BM-42A.. but i'm not letting that one go!

oh., and btw. I'm new around these parts. I've decided lately that I need a Khukuri., but am low on cash and I want it now :D
 
Interesting... not quite what I'm looking for though. This one will probably go up on the For Sale forum if I don't get a good trade in the next day or so, so stick around and keep your eyes peeled. Welcome to the Cantina as well, you're right, you do need a khukuri, everyone does! They just won't all admit it. :cool:
 
Originally posted by SilverLighT
I'll trade you some great tailor-made chainmail for it.

My Chainmail Page

I make it, and have tons..i've been feeling like starting up a medium-sized project lately too.

Also, I have some titanium wire.... Ever wanted a titanium belt?

It might be good for you to get a nice sheet of chainmail so you could do some extreme testing to collect data on effectiveness of Khukuris on armour. :p

ps... I also have a nice BM-42A.. but i'm not letting that one go!

oh., and btw. I'm new around these parts. I've decided lately that I need a Khukuri., but am low on cash and I want it now :D
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Cool stuff SilverLighT

never ending projects....
stainless steel Rosco #5 and bronze 1438 pictured... at the same time brass 1438 and Ti 141516 gotta do some pics
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Originally posted by sweet
Cool stuff SilverLighT
never ending projects....
stainless steel Rosco #5 and bronze 1438 pictured... at the same time brass 1438 and Ti 141516 gotta do some pics
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wow... you're doing up a Ti hauberk, you mean? Insane! That would be pricey!
I've been wanting to do another shirt sometime.. a larger one., the one I made was very small... but I have little to no time :(

I've never made a shirt for someone else., nobody will pay the price they're work in labour for a high-qual one., anyway.

I'm guessing Ti141516 means 14 guage wire, 15/16" ID rings? Since that bronze pictured seems 14 ga. and 3/8" ID...
 
Originally posted by SilverLighT
I'll trade you some great tailor-made chainmail for it.

My Chainmail Page

I make it, and have tons..i've been feeling like starting up a medium-sized project lately too.

Also, I have some titanium wire.... Ever wanted a titanium belt?

It might be good for you to get a nice sheet of chainmail so you could do some extreme testing to collect data on effectiveness of Khukuris on armour. :p

ps... I also have a nice BM-42A.. but i'm not letting that one go!

oh., and btw. I'm new around these parts. I've decided lately that I need a Khukuri., but am low on cash and I want it now :D
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Make your own chainmail? That is so cool! So many interesting people on here!
 
Silverlight, welcome to the cantina. I have always love the medieval stuff; couldn't afford it though. You are going to love the khuks. Enjoy.
 
Originally posted by SilverLighT
wow... you're doing up a Ti hauberk, you mean? Insane! That would be pricey!
I've been wanting to do another shirt sometime.. a larger one., the one I made was very small... but I have little to no time :(

I've never made a shirt for someone else., nobody will pay the price they're work in labour for a high-qual one., anyway.

I'm guessing Ti141516 means 14 guage wire, 15/16" ID rings? Since that bronze pictured seems 14 ga. and 3/8" ID...
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ya Ti is exspensive stuff but well worth it. I'll post up some pics later of it. 14 ga 5/16"id on the Ti / Stainless is 16ga 1/4"id / Bronze 14ga 3/8"id
 
... Funny first the archery thing and now chainmail -
the longer I stay here the more of my hobbies (I thougt they were "exotic") seem to be quite common.

I am a teacher and made a project with 7th-graders last year: a mailshirt (Kettenhemd) first and then we produced arrows. I have different classes this year (again two classes of 7th graders) and they want to make a mailshirt and other things too. More than 50% of them show up Friday in the afternoon to work on the project - lots of fun and exactly the type of "history" I liked when I was their age...

See this link...


chainmail and arrows - schoolmade

Andreas
 
Originally posted by Aardvark
(don't tell ANYONE you know COBOL!)
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How do you know I know COBOL? I never told anyone!! oh wait.. this is a trick isn't it? Darn! :cool:

sweet; oh cool. Those are the sizes I normally like to use too. awesome. 5/16" 16 ga. is my fave I think... but wow.. 1/4" 16ga stainless will be heavy.

also i'm guessing you did yours in 45 deg. seam for the sleeves?
That's how I did mine.. though I want to try a 90deg my next one,. if I ever do one.

Pan Tau; Great stuff on those arrows! wish I had neat stuff like that when I was in school..
 
Andreas, you're the kind of teacher I always wanted. Are your kids going to do the whole suit of clothes and armor for a warrior?
 
Originally posted by SilverLighT
How do you know I know COBOL? I never told anyone!! oh wait.. this is a trick isn't it? Darn! :cool:

sweet; oh cool. Those are the sizes I normally like to use too. awesome. 5/16" 16 ga. is my fave I think... but wow.. 1/4" 16ga stainless will be heavy.

also i'm guessing you did yours in 45 deg. seam for the sleeves?
That's how I did mine.. though I want to try a 90deg my next one,. if I ever do one.

Pan Tau; Great stuff on those arrows! wish I had neat stuff like that when I was in school..
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After working with the Ti 14516 I now like this size over the 1438...the stainless is heavy and almost got stuck in it *g* so I'll be putting in a leather lace up so you can pull it up or drop it off your shoulders...no seams on any one of them yet, might try that on my next project of black stainless split rings
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Andreas, you're the kind of teacher I always wanted. Are your kids going to do the whole suit of clothes and armor for a warrior?
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...thank you. No, I try to keep in touch with the materia I teach in the regular lessons. The mailshirt took us about 5 weeks (medieval knightship, starting with the heavy cavalry of the francs at about the year 750 until the 100-year war, when the English archers showed the French that even heavy armour was not indestructible - then we made the arrows (could not make historical correct bodkin-points, so we made the more traditional rhombus and willow-leaf-designs). This year we will make clothes too - I think about making Fibula like these
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and a Gugel (do not know the English word for it) - looks like this
gugelgrauhinten.jpg

It is a grammar school and some of the pupils are not used to work with their hands - but they learn and like it. They also understand the different time-concept of the middle-ages. When they are more than 20 and need five to six weeks to make one mailshirt they know it was precious (even more if it was one with riveted rings) and they understand that it could last 300 years or more to build a cathedral. OK - and after all - its fun
:D

Andreas
 
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