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Written by Christopher Lehr
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 16:18 |
 It has been a while since I have posted here on the various projects that I am working on or have completed. This particular article has actually been sitting and waiting for me for the last couple of months. As I have a moment or two, I figured I would catch up on my progress. So, the lamentations on my lack of writing completed, here I go with discussing the completion of the spangenhelm.
One issue I found with placing the cheek guards where I did and riveting them in place, was getting my head actually into the helmet! Fortunately I had not actually riveted them in, rather used screws, and found that I needed to cut the bottoms of the guards back enough to get my melon actually in. And though I did have to cut a significant amount of material off of the guards, it should not actually compromise the amount of protection given. This is quite important, as the helmet is destined for SCA usage.
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Sunday, 05 December 2010 16:51 |
 Yes, this is after 6 hours of work. I was able to finish getting the last two dome plates installed, the eyes cut out and finally get cheek guards cut and given a preliminary shape. As seen currently, I was only able to temporarily attach the cheek plates to the helmet as there is more work to be accomplished to ensure their proper placement.
One thing that I am surprised about with this project is the relative ease for which this project has progressed. And, as I had stated with my last post, I am not spending a lot of time in plannishing the individual pieces, the overall presentation so far is fairly good. I did miss some alignment of the central (nasal to rear of head) plate, any further production of this style helmet will certainly see a greater attention to detail.
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Friday, 03 December 2010 14:09 |
 From the timing of my last post to this one, you may think that I have been busy lately in my studio. Unfortunately this is not the case as my school load (specifically learning Greek) has put a huge damper on my getting out into the studio this semester. Fortunately, after getting this weeks Greek homework done a early, and though I have papers still due, I was able to get out to the studio for a little while. So, just to make myself feel a bit better, I decided to start on a new helmet.
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 16:40 |
 For the last couple of months I have been working on a commission for Dominus of Rome (A Dagorhir Unit). On the catalog for this website, I have stated that I do not take commission orders as I am selective about the amount of work I will take on as I am not willing to over extend myself, especially as I am working on my Masters Degree which takes priority over my metalsmithing at this time. Okay... enough of the sob story. What you are looking at are brass bracers wrought to look similar to the bracers worn by 'Mark Antony' at the beginning of the 'Rome' HBO series.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:37 |
 Today was the day to give the furnace a try.
My initial concerns about using the furnace was where I was going to place it in such a manner that would be easily accessible with the rest of my tools and how I was going to vent it. My first inclination was to use it at the front of the warehouse that the studio is located it, but, because the concrete is sitting on a slope, as well as directly in the sun, I chose not to take that route. Instead, I thought that routing the fumes created by the furnace out through the existing ventilation system would probably be more than adequate. However, I really really did not want to be moving my forge around to use the hood that I have installed over my forge. What finally decided on was to use my first attempt at a forge hood. I had thought that using a side draft arrangement would work well with my forge and cut a 55 gallon drum to bolt to the side of the forge. Unfortunately (fortunately?) that arrangement did not work out and I had to set up something else. So, I had this drum that was already vented sitting off to the side to be taken to the scrap yard. Well, waste not right? I just nailed some 2x4's to it so it would sit upright and vented it into the forge hood. Worked pretty well I might add!
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