RE: Helms

[Gregory Stapleton <gregsta@microsoft.com>]

Poster: Gregory Stapleton <gregsta@MICROSOFT.com>

My understanding is, subject to modification by those more learned than
myself, if you are going to have to do a lot of cold hammer shaping
(silversmithing) of the metal , i.e. not heating it before hammering it,
you should get hot rolled.  It is more malleable, therefore less likely
to crack / less brittle from repeated hammerings.

Gawain Kilgore

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>From: 	jpbrew@juno.com[SMTP:jpbrew@juno.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, January 22, 1997 5:26 PM
>To: 	atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
>Subject: 	Helms
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>Poster: jpbrew@juno.com
>
>Greetings,
>
>I would like to build my own helm and I need some information concerning
>the difference between cold rolled and hot rolled steel.  I plan to buy
>a 91/2" dia  spun 12 gauge half dome and I want to put 14 gauge steel
>around the bottom, but after consulting some outlets for steel, I don't
>want to get the wrong stuff.  Any help would be appreciated.  
>Johann Pearenbloom 
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