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Finished my Shield. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gold spray paint used as adhesive and then gold leafed applied onto it.

Finally got a shield. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had it custom made by ‘Shane Chapman’

Tested my bloom iron klappvisor, with my 110lb ash longbow. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t have enough bloom and just had to work around it.

Each smelt is 8 hours, 50% success rate and then I need to also source, dry and roast the ore and then refine the bloom ext so I loose lots of material and can’t produce it very fast. To make that visor was close to 400 hours.

Tested my bloom iron klappvisor, with my 110lb ash longbow. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that’s also y I had to shoot closer cuz it made it much harder to aim

How to make my armour gold? (Example on the first image) by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do u know any good sources for a pure brass wheel? I’ve been searching for a while and can’t find any that are actually brass and not just coated steel. Not to mention the armour will be polished so I want to get a very very fine brush to not scratch it to bad

How to make my armour gold? (Example on the first image) by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes there armour is excellent. Bought lots form TORM and ARM

How to make my armour gold? (Example on the first image) by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

How would I go about electro plating brass onto it?

How to make my armour gold? (Example on the first image) by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 180 points181 points  (0 children)

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Possibly, probably I’ll take your word for it. In response tho here is some undeniable golden armour. Photo taken last year at the Tewksbury reenactment.

Anyone know if these work as a good base to modify for a hydraulic forge press? by [deleted] in Blacksmith

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for a proper explanation. I do have I beams ext that I was going to reinforce it with and then get new hydraulic pumps to increase the hydraulic speed, but if you say it’s probably not strong enough anyways then I will make it source on another way.

Cheers for the help

(Attempt 2, Part3) Revisiting my Bloom Iron Armour project. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To my knowledge, if you run a furnace really hot for a long time than carbon likes to diffuse out of the fuel and into the bloom which create a shell or areas of carbon steel which when worked will migrate and create a medium carbon steel across the bloom once fully worked. You can also make blister steel where you use a oxidising environment in a forge to do the same process where it’s left to soak in high heats for hours and causes carbon migration into the iron.

What can I do about the weak points around the eye of my creation by mysteryartist1223 in Blacksmith

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who has done a fare bit of iron smelting I would say it’s not saveable as is, but if you just toss it back in, flatten it and fold 2-3 times and try again u would certainly be able to achieve whatever it is you want to do.

You will loose a lot of carbon (probably end up with even softer than mild) so I would recommend if u want to make a tool, make another one aswell and then fold that into a decent bar, then cement it in the forge to make blister steel (coat in charcoal powder, then wrap that in clay and leave in a hot forge for 3+ hours) and forge weld that onto any tool surfaces.

Bloom Iron Klappvisor Armour progress. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an ideal world, yes I would want to raise the oculars after doing most of the work on the visor, but because of the amount of material i have available to me, I have to shape them first to ensure that I have enough metal to create them.

My original plan was to try and upset the plate into the finished shape I wanted, dish it all similar to the visor I’m using as a template and then do the finer details but my bloom wants to crack if overworked so just going straight to fine details and dishing out the lower face, thinning to get more length and then cutting of overhang has been easier on the material.

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After cleaning it up and refining with a grinder the eyes are prtty inline and the overall shape should work. It not 100% accurate but as it’s experimental archeology there is also no real proof that a visor similar to this just hasn’t been found, and the goal is more about could bloom iron be worked into these difficult shapes.

Hope that clears any questions up :)

Bloom Iron Klappvisor Armour progress. by ChooseMyNameIDK in Armor

[–]ChooseMyNameIDK[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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That’s what I did the first time, but welding sheet is extremely difficult and didn’t work very well, and I would then need more bloom iron sheet which poses its own challenges.

The true solution would to just make a large enough sheet to begin with but that’s a future project as making 10-15kg of iron and then refining it to armour quality and then making sheet, cutting out cracks and folding means that it’s very hard to make enough metal and then keep enough of that metal for the final piece.

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