The Armour Archive

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Mac, if you are going to chastise Bob, then JoJo deserves reprimand as well, while insightful he is often very rude. I find it hard to engage in conversation with someone who is rude and dismissive regardless of what they have to offer. Oh? Find the meanest, rudest thing I've ever posted, and link ...

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Hi Jarlragnar, I do not believe that is a valid argument in this discussion. If they hadn't yet thought of the sliding rivets, then you could have had all the money in the world in 1376 but you still couldn't buy a vambrace with sliding rivits. Cheers, Max With regard to the human aspect. I agree w...

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Here are some good front and back close ups of the Levitic pew armour. The cuffs look like scale to me. http://www.tforum.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=29729 Thanks for sharing that. I've actualy seen that form of armour in many diffirent palces. On sabatons, gauntlet cuffs, around the neck... I s...

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2. Obviously somebody invented the turner at one point. That said, before point X in time, it did not exist, and if it existed in one location, that does not mean that it existed in another. We cannot state boldly that it existed here, in 1400, then therefore it must have existed in England in 1350...

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Wow! It looks like a photo of the origional!

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I wasn't suggesting 100,000 cap-a-pie harnesses in use at one time. I was refering to the ammount of arm defenses probably made throughout the 14th century. Of course not eveyone would have had a full harness, though your average man-at-arms after 1350 probably had some sort of plate armour on the l...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Any ident on this knight?

He's an unknown knight of the Pembrugge family. The effigy is English, dated to ~1350.

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I made a few kozane scales from 20g steel with a handdrill. It's easy, though it'd take forever to produce enough to make anything.

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14th century is hard to make solid statements, though at least one effigy appears to be depicting buckles solidly attatched to the vambrace and rerebrace. (1375, England) Other effigies seem to suggest solidly mounted buckles were use for closed vambraces/rerebraces/cuisses/greaves, while leather wa...

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About an inch on the body and shoulders.
Half that on the arms.

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You could wear a coat-of-plates in a variety of time frames. If you want to go 13th century, you could wear it with full mail, knees, a greathelm and a surcoat. (With hidden armour for limbs) At the other end, you could use it for mid 14th century, and wear it with a bascinet, full plate arms/greave...

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Baldricserf2william wrote:I have a few questions for anyone who is willing to answer them. i am building a kit and i want it to look accurate. If you wouldn't mind answering some questions that would be awesome thanks

Well, what do you want to know?
For example, do you have a particular region or time period in mind?

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Keegan Ingrassia wrote:
JoJo Zerach wrote:Nor have I ever seen evidence for creases going the other direction. (as is often the case on SCA elbows.)
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Where have you seen them?

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They look good. It took me a while to figure out why they looked different. I haven't seen elbows with the crease at 90 degrees to the line of the arm, before. They would certainly resist being pinched in better than the center crease in line with the arm. What time frame is the design from? Look a...

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Kilkenny, can you offer any other tricks for using roofing nails on cloth and having it work successfully? When I tried to rivet metal plates to canvas, I was find that the edge of the nail head was actually cutting the fabric. I beleive this was 10 oz cotton duck from Jo Anns. I used the same tech...

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Match the bend the leather makes as it surrounds you. To get a look at it you just check which hole your buckle tongue fits in when it's on you, then buckle the CoP closed at that same hole. Trace the curvature on something if you'd rather use that to check your curvatures against, then it's mallet...

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Canvas can work, but from my experience, cloth is a PITA to use in armour. It frays, must be hemmed, you have to use an awl or something to make holes, and you have to be very cautious when riveting, as you can pulverize and the the cloth very easy. Leather is more expensive, but it doesn't share th...

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About the drawing, I suggest a bit of prudence, it looks like one of those XVIII/XIX° Cent. drawings, it would be better to look at the real effigy (I've never seen an effigy with such pose) to avoid wild speculation or misunderstandings from the artist. With this I ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT to dismiss...

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James river armoury

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Maelduin mac D wrote:
Max Keeren wrote:. What do you have exactly?

Cheers,

Max
a rather red face right about now?

not really.

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You can make a PVC pipe man.

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Max Keeren wrote:Jojo,

Could you clarify where you have handled authentic armour pieces?

Cheers,

max

It's just the few peices I have in my collection.
I was mainly refering to photographs, where even heavialy corroded armour, like the visby gauntlets, don't look like other corroded iron.

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One must also keep in mind that furnaces at this time were relatively small, and produced small blooms that were chock full of slag. Breast plates would not be possible to make in a single piece, and great helms were made, in part, because a piece of iron was not large enough to cover the entire he...

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It seems to work on my computer.
What happened to the model woman that used to be on your front page?

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I don't use a stake.
After flaring the edge to 90 degrees, I just palce the piece on a bichorn and hammer the roll towords me. Then I hammer down on the roll, tilting the piece up as I go. This gives a narrow/tall yet rounded roll.

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Pardon my ignorance. All the Wisby gauntlet reproductions I've seen were of splinted (or the appearance of splinted) construction. I'll have to take a look at this book you refer to. What it really boils down to for me is: Were these type of cuffs in use historically and are there any armors who ma...

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Mac wrote:JoJo,

I am, of course, always willing and able to chance my mind if the evidence warrants it. If there are any other images, let's see 'em.

Mac

The image you posted was the one I was refering too.

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JoJo was having his little joke, Odd. Hal, automotive hose also comes plenty small if you want to attach it whole as the resilient bouncy part beneath any covering, some kind of array like so in cross section: C O[ -- C for covering, O for hose, [ for edge of the wood. Actually, I've never heard of...

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How do you make cuisses with garden hose? Your femur wouldn't even fit inside one!

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Many slightlier earlier greaves had hinges on the inside and outside, maybe they opened up the back.

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I love 'em. I just wonder, though; are the bows made from tying the cord pointing the armor pieces to each other supposed to be exposed like that? I am not aware of any effigies where I see that being the case. "Floating" arms in effigies were probably generally made with leather articualtion. You ...

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This thread made me think, why do they issue soldiers torso protection designed to protect against rifle threats, but helemts only designed for shrapnel?

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Yes, I've seen them in manuscipt illsutrations.
That one was late 14th century, though it'd be hard to determine exactly when they came into use.

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This is my current kit and new spring steel legs. The legs are hardened spring steel, all made from single raised pieces, with brass trim (courtesy of Red Hart Reproductions). In a few more weeks the rest of the harness will be finished, and I'll post more pics when it's all done. The main thing I ...

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Exactly what I was getting at. Thanks. I saw a much smaller version of that image recently. I love all the elements on that guy. His spurs are ridiculous :D Now that I see it closer I see what your talking about with the articulation. Do you know how far on the inside of the wrist/forearm the plate...

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