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- Fri Feb 09, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Services
- Topic: Scabbard Core Services
- Replies: 20
- Views: 54027
Re: Scabbard Core Services
Fair enough... I guess it all comes down to how many of these things you want to make. After grinding three or four.thousand blades I would never want to go back to hand-filing. After making a couple hundred wooden scabbards I would never want to do without the router. For one thing... it allows you...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:58 pm
- Forum: Crafts & Skills
- Topic: Mithril... what is it and how to find it?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 20548
Mithril... what is it and how to find it?
Having long been interested in crafting artifacts of Middle-earth, and being a "metal" kind of guy, I've long pondered the mythical metals of Tolkien's world. I have only found three of them: Galvorn, the black metal of the dark elf, Ithildin that mirrors only moonlight, and of course Mith...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:17 pm
- Forum: Services
- Topic: Scabbard Core Services
- Replies: 20
- Views: 54027
Re: Scabbard Core Services
I would usually use 5-minute epoxy. It holds pretty good if the chape fits well, but if you need to take it off to work on the scabbard you can heat it up a little with a butane torch and it will let go.
- Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:56 pm
- Forum: Services
- Topic: Scabbard Core Services
- Replies: 20
- Views: 54027
Re: Scabbard Core Services
Nice looking scabbards! I used to do a lot of the same type work. One suggestion: I found it useful to use a router to rough out the shape of the blade... that is... a narrow round point bit to cut a single line the depth of the thickest ridge of the blade, and a flat bit to rout out the profile of ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 11:24 pm
- Forum: Wanted
- Topic: Steel polishing service?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12288
Re: Steel polishing service?
search eBay "thumbler tumbler" ... the small black rubber ones not the larger "heavy duty" red barrel. I think we have one of the two barrel and two of the one-barrel types.
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Wanted
- Topic: Steel polishing service?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12288
Re: Steel polishing service?
We have a series of large tumblers going over here almost 24/7. We have one VERY large one (holds about 30 gallons of parts/media) and seven medium size that each hold about three gallons of parts/media. The medium size ones are rolling almost all the time, so it's easy to toss something in. Tumbler...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Bard's Stage
- Topic: Musical Instruments
- Replies: 51
- Views: 99547
Re: Musical Insturments
I play clarinet, it's the only instrument I've played with any regularity, and I haven't touched one in years, unfortunately. Pull it out! Start playing it again! In the book version of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING there were clarinets and other instruments the Dwarves brought along. They would proba...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Bard's Stage
- Topic: Musical Instruments
- Replies: 51
- Views: 99547
Re: Musical Insturments
I have a little Washburn "Rover" travel guitar that I carry around... I love it because it sounds pretty good and it's got a very small body. It's easy to play in the front seat of a car on long road trips. I also play flute and sax but I have to say that I really prefer the Boehm system m...
Re: Coal mine
I gave up on using coal... the stuff I was getting around here was so high in sulphur that the steel would become brittle. I wasted a lot of effort making bad iron. Charcoal is by far the better fuel for a forge. Better yet is gas... the gas fired forges are super-clean.
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Prancing Pony
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 21
- Views: 32050
Re: Introduction
Beautiful! It looks like a place that sheep would like to graze in summer. A bota of nice red, a sharp cheese, a baguette, and a stick of hard salami and I'm there!
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How well did PJ/WETA do? A poll
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17295
Re: How well did PJ/WETA do? A poll
There were some lovely scenes, but an awful lot that was cringe-worthy. Before I get into specifics I would just like to opine that my biggest complaint is the stultifying effect on fan-art. We had dozens of renditions of Galadriel before PJ... now they all look like Cate Blanchett. Being a craftsma...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:45 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: What has it got in its pocketses? .. Pt 1, Paying your way
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18992
Re: What has it got in its pocketses? .. Pt 1, Paying your way
....This is where I carry thinks like a lump of rather pure copper I found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula years ago,...' Ah... good call! Copper from the Copper Country! That is where I got my geology degree (Michigan Technological University in Houghton) and where I did a great deal of rockhounding...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Treasures in the mountains! Coin-caches.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 51311
Re: Treasures in the mountains! Coin-caches.
...Little trinkets seem like the best option. A pewter cast of one of Elleth's stars or Thorin's key from the Hobbit Movies would be the most likely candidates for what I'd hide. Any sort of costume jewelry would serve.. I like the idea of Thorin's back-door key, but please, not the film version! I...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Treasures in the mountains! Coin-caches.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 51311
Re: Treasures in the mountains! Coin-caches.
...Little trinkets seem like the best option. A pewter cast of one of Elleth's stars or Thorin's key from the Hobbit Movies would be the most likely candidates for what I'd hide. Any sort of costume jewelry would serve.. I like the idea of Thorin's back-door key, but please, not the film version! I...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: Dunedain Culture
- Topic: Thoughts on harps of the Dunedain?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 33709
Re: Thoughts on harps of the Dunedain?
Good catch! Hmmm. I wonder...gold is a fairly soft metal - would it even be able to hold up to the structural stresses of a fully-strung instrument? Pure gold is very soft, true. But some alloys of gold are quite stiff. 22k gold (22/24 or .916 fine) is commonly used as coin gold. There was an old t...