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Published: 2014-09-29 01:33:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1942; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 15
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Honestly I'm just excited to have a project like this around halloween...well I would do it anytime of year but it just feels right with October creeping up on us. Video of the repousse involved!: douglaspryor.com/blog/2014/10/β¦Related content
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If you send me a finished specimen, I'll give you proper pics to prove the theory
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hahahaha I would but this breatplates already spoken for
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It's getting there
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lol Have 8 grand laying around you don't need? It's not impossible to do in 410. I'd just need to build a few different tools, mainly a better chisel set that could handle 410 a little eaiser
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yeah, i know the feeling. i had to reface my fluting stake and a couple of my hammers after the last set i made, and that was only 18g. really nice once you bring it to a 46 rockwell, but a pain in the ass to anneal and you basically have to work it cold.
tho... i cant do nearly what you do with chasing and repousse,Β
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Yeah I forge a lot of my chisels out of old screw drivers and crowbars and every once in a while someone asks me to work in something really tough and it'll mess them up, but otherwise they hold up great
Anyone can do what I do, it just takes practice and patience. Keep at it man!
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I need it. I've wanted a suit of armor like this since I saw Underworld: RISE OF THE LYCANS where Viktor's guard have armor similar.
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Yeah skeleton armour is pretty popular! It's got a great look to it!
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Wow..I will be watching this one.. Is this finished or part of an overall design?
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Nah It's got a lot of work still to have done. It has a bunch of swirling tortured souls being repoussed into the belly. Then onto the backplate with a complete spine shaped in.
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Impressive as always, I tip my hat to you sir.
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Thanks for saying so!
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Did you make this from sheetmetal, or from a pre-existing piece of armor?
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That's all hammered out by hand buddy 
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I bow down before you my friend!
Looks very good!
I'm an apprentice Blacksmith, and hammering out pieces of armor is something we're planning to try out some day, but Β having good inspiration is always very nice
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Lol please don't bow, just stand up and run along side
What kind of blacksmithing are you doing? Who/where are you apprenticing with?
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It varies from classical to somewhat more modern. At the moment I am working on refurbishing a mobile smithy from 1940, but apart from that I mostly make small items such as amulets, or random pieces my master wants me to make.
I'm working with Roodbaert Smederij, in the Netherlands. I doubt it will ring any bells with you though
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Very cool man! Do you mean this guy? www.roodbaert.nl/Artikel%20Rooβ¦
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Well, yeah... Actually I do O.o Did you actually know him, or just google it?
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I did indeed Google it! Thought I'd try and educate myself
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Hahah, nothing wrong with that right?
Who knows, we might run into each other some day. If that happens, I'd love to see your work IRL
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You never know right!? And right back at ya, It'd be fun to work on a co-op project if we ever get the chance to be in the same workshop!
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YOUR WELCOME!!
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This is so epic, i cant wait to have my workshot set-up, this is real inspiration!
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Heck yeah! Get those hands to work!
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So hard! lol Thanks man
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