Subject: Re: Looking for spun tops

From: [email-masked]
Date: 5 Dec 1996 17:28:42 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] writes:

>I need a source for metal bowls to use in making helmets and shield
bosses.
>I would like 12 gauge steel...but would take anything close!
>Oddly, I have no idea where to get such things, other than having seen
>what was being sold at Pensic years ago ( I last went to the wars in
'87...)
>and referred to as "spun tops."
>
>

How big? I seem to remember catalog of 'cans' that are intended for
potting transformers and the like.

Let me know the size range and I will search the
'not-currently-interested' pile of catalogs that stands about 4'-0" tall.

Peter

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 4 Dec 1996 21:04:11 GMT

I need a source for metal bowls to use in making helmets and shield bosses.
I would like 12 gauge steel...but would take anything close!
Oddly, I have no idea where to get such things, other than having seen
what was being sold at Pensic years ago ( I last went to the wars in '87...)
and referred to as "spun tops."

Lance Berg
LaForge
http://www.joust.com/LaForge

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 8 Dec 1996 17:29:20 GMT

If you can't find a supplier for off the shelf items contace a local metal
spinner, they will be able to make just about anything you're interested
in.

Alan Hall

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 8 Dec 1996 21:27:14 GMT

>   [email-masked] writes:
Looking in my local yellow pages, I see:

Metal Finishers
Metal Rolling & Forming
Metal Splitting and Shearing
Metal Stamping
Metallurgists

No Metal Spinners.  Any other possible code words, or am I just in a benighted 
area?  I'll phone a friend in the Philadelphia area and get him to read me the
metal section of their yellow pages...

Lance
LaForge

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 9 Dec 1996 16:04:50 GMT

GET'EM on the FIELD ARMOURY

Right now I only have 9" and 9.5" in stock

12 ga. cold rolled

$20 ea. + shipping

The sizes available range from 8.5"  to 11" by 1/2", but an order or
combination of orders has to be of a minimum of 26 per size (full sheet)

Bowls for Viking and Celtic shield bosses are available.  The wide and low

style with flange is in stock, $18 ea.  The full hemisphere should be
ready 
for the big Feb. events.  A pointed Celtic style should be made by next
Pennsic
(a technical term for over 8,000 crazy people, for any non SCA people who
are reading this.)

William Taylor
G. F. Armoury
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 9 Dec 1996 13:58:02 GMT

>   [email-masked] writes:

>  metal section of their yellow pages...
 Hey, there are 9 different companies in the Greater Philedelphia area under Metal Spinning!

I'll give them a ring as soon as the hour becomes decent.

Lance
LaForge