A friend asked if I could make him a set of greaves in aluminum. I said sure, how hard could it be. Well I was correct, it was not much harder than working in steel. The metal does not flow the same under the hammer but the same techniques work. Plannishing turned out to be a bitch. I just do not have a stake with the clearance to plannish something as long as greaves. New future project? And rolling aluminum is not in my skill set yet. Every test piece i tried cracked. So no rolled edges on these greaves.
All in all they came out well. I hope they provide the wearer with the function the hoped for.
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The hammer marks show up more because of the way I sanded the metal to hilight them for planishing.
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