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Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« on: 2011-01-19, 19:45:00 »

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=21982

Now how cool is that? He says it looks like steel at one foot distance. But it's light like aluminum and strong like stainless.

Oh man, now I know what I want... :)
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #1 on: 2011-01-19, 20:49:10 »
hahaahahahah mythril silver shirt!
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #2 on: 2011-01-19, 21:13:20 »
"Hands off! That shiny shirt, thats mine!"

hehe I just watched the whole extended trilogy again a couple of days ago.  :)
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #3 on: 2011-01-20, 03:35:52 »
Hah, thats expensive stuff right there. In combat it would probably hold up pretty well if not better than steel.
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #4 on: 2011-01-20, 15:07:29 »
Titanium's pretty hard...I see broken, not bent rings in the future of that shirt.  Having said that, I'd wear it.  How many more years can I go around in a full hauberk before my knees start to cause problems?
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #5 on: 2011-01-20, 21:52:44 »
Seems like every decade or so a new armoring advancement comes out for us ... stainless, aluminum (for plates), kydex, titanium... I haven't even finished buying mail that isn't butted mild, and I'm already "behind".

I bet it's how they felt hundreds of years ago. "A BETTER helmet is available? But I just bought this great helm last month!"
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #6 on: 2011-01-20, 21:55:30 »
LOL

Excellent point, Sir James...
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #7 on: 2011-01-20, 23:23:43 »

At least we don't have to upgrade every 18 months like we do with computers and electronics. :)
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #8 on: 2011-01-20, 23:37:51 »
we don't? hehehe
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #9 on: 2011-01-21, 00:29:24 »
Quote from: James Anderson III on 2011-01-20, 21:52:44
Seems like every decade or so a new armoring advancement comes out for us ... stainless, aluminum (for plates), kydex, titanium... I haven't even finished buying mail that isn't butted mild, and I'm already "behind".

I bet it's how they felt hundreds of years ago. "A BETTER helmet is available? But I just bought this great helm last month!"

LOL  :D
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #10 on: 2011-01-21, 01:25:38 »
Am I the only one who would want a mail shirt made of wrought bog iron instead of stainless or aluminium. Bog iron has resistance to rust as well due to the slag. It would probably be what the northern europe used during the early middle ages. Problem is wrought iron is rare anymore. Shame there isn't a specialty mill that makes it for those purposes, it's better than mild steel when it comes to deflecting blows.
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #11 on: 2011-01-21, 03:09:55 »
no we all do. and you can have it too. Eric Schmitt (sp?) makes these for people and museums but your looking at $10k for a shirt.
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Re: Icefalcon riveted TITANIUM mail
« Reply #12 on: 2011-01-21, 16:47:33 »
I would if I were fighting in it, that's for sure.  As for the upgrade cycle that Sir Edward mentioned, if I'm not mistaken, we're constantly in upgrade mode.  At least, I am.  And I KNOW I'm not alone.  lol
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