The Armour Archive

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Plenty of good info above, but surprised no one mentioned....... If you're after a steel for armouring, 1050 is a good product. (Many have success with 4130, but I have no experience with that so can only speak on 1050) From admiral or precision, it is typically supplied in "annealed", that is in fu...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I saw this piece at least 10 years ago. It was up in the storage room on the 4th (?) floor of the museum, above the offices. At that time the room was used to store all the pieces of dubious provenance or pieces that were known as "non-authentic". (I hesitate to use the word "fake")...and the other ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Grettir, you mention mig welding, but I couldn't tell if you were referring to mig-welding 1050. I've tried finding 1050 mig wire, but with no success. Do you know if there is such a thing, and if so, where would I find it? I'd love to get a mig welder for 1050, but the wire has been the issue. Any ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Last known residence in Pensacola Florida.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

How cool is that?

Nice one, Wade.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Looking at the way a 15th century arming doublet is fit and knowing what its function is, the gap shown in Jeff's arming doublet above is clearly not a fashion thing but a function thing to achieve the tight fit required to girdle the hips for the sake of suspending a leg harness. Thus the slight g...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

1. It is certain that some sort of adhesive is used to attach the outer layer of leather. Try as you might, you will not find any stitching on the outside, nor any traces of where stitching might have been "buried" in the leather. This is consistent with what Olaf Goubitz said about etuis in his "P...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hey Mac, I guess one question to ask perhaps, though rather late in the game, is...is it really necessary to use a "glue" at all to form the leather? Does the gelatin/glue add appreciable stiffness to the finished case, and is additional stiffness over what would be obtained by normal "casing" (ie s...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hey Mac, The French guy's application for this technique seems to be solely for molded leather cases with telescoping lids. As I understand it, cases such as these wouldn't need to be the same hardness as that of armour. Is that also your understanding, or do you see this technique suitable for maki...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I've made a lot of these and joust with a left vambrace of this type. The pin should be removable, otherwise there's no way to get the guardbrace over the pin if the fit on the underlying elbow is good, because the guardbrace "hooks" partially over the back of the elbow cop. You place the guardbrace...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Sold!

Wow, that was quick.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Here's your chance to own a 9mm wedge riveted mail haubergeon for a great price of only $500.00!! http://historicenterprises.com/haubergeon-wedgeriveted-maille-9mm-rings-p-685.html?cPath=101_141 The special lasts only til Jan 6, so snap up this mail shirt while it's still here. Only one at this price.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I've attended Pennsic for over 20 years, and indeed, as Mike E suggests, ran my KnightSchool at a nearby -private- farm for folks from around the eastern states. Mike was one of them. The sessions were done at the farm for a very good reason, because having horses at Pennsic wasn't even remotely pos...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Thanks Jeff, I knew one of them was a stallion, I just mixed them up. Understandable. They look very similar and they're often seen together in photos. Both are stabled at Dom's yard. Then I'll just have to have Jeff and or Lloyd teach me how to joust. Anytime....private lessons and monthly group s...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Toby's horse Duke is a gelding.

Dom's horse Hawthorne is a Friesan/Cob stallion.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

white mountain armoury wrote:
Jeffrey Hedgecock wrote:220.00 if this is still open.
Its over Jeff and the winner has been notified, if I don't hear from them I will accept your offer

Thanks. No worries.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

220.00 if this is still open.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Just fyi, the practice harness that student ordered was a very simple "starter" armour he wanted in time for a gig in early October; it is much simpler than Will's armour and I suggested he use it for practice so he could minimize wear on the blackening on Will's.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I'm currently at pennsic but will do my best to reply following my return.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

1. Wear greaves, if you aren't already. If you have plate cuisses, you should be. 2. Use more than one point---two or even three is good. A single point is certainly not enough and will be very prone to tearing out the eyelet in your arming garment. --One point front and center, one directly on the ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Just stumbled on this thread again and Todd I'll be happy to answer your questions. Please give me a few days to re-familiarize myself with the book-- it's been a while since I read it. I'll subscribe to this topic, so if you don't hear from me soon, just bump the topic and I'll be reminded.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Is there an actual dimension or hat size on the Riding helmet?

Jeffrey Hedgecock

James B. wrote:Not everyone had body and head protection in a battle; think about that

In a sense, they did though. Everybody had a skull and ribcage. Natural protection for the brain and the vital organs.

Think about that.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Never forget that knights, by definition, are horsemen. It is hard to hit a knight's innter thighs through his horse. It is also darned uncomfortable to wear fully enclosed legs when in a saddle. As stated above, there are some specific foot combat harnesses with back of thigh protection. True dat....

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Ok, that's good to know Doug. That's not mentioned in your description of the item on your website. Context definitely helps.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I would hazard that since Doug's piece is -so- fragmentary, we shouldn't jump to conclusions about this one. I don't think we can even date the thing conclusively. There's simply not enough of it there to base a solid dating. Could be 14th c, could be 16th c. or anything in between. Based on my rese...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

........yes, I should have said it differently. Like...

...."and the same thing has happened to Mandrake, Windrose, Talbot and others."

I did not mean to imply that they were culprits, but instead that they were victims of design infringement. My apologies for any confusion.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

When it's cast directly off someone else's piece, it's a knock off, which I know it is, because this buckle didn't appear until after I started selling mine. If they create their own model, then they can do it no problem. This habit of re-casting others' work is typical of pakistani and indian manuf...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

It's come to our attention that a seller on eBay is selling a knock off of one of our buckles. This is not a new thing, nor do we believe it can be stopped all at once, but part of our responsibility as a business creating our own design interpretations is protecting those interpretations by enforci...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I'm doing great. The usual stuff from being nearly 50, and some hitches in cutting exercises on horseback, but with the risk of jinxing it, for armouring purposes I'm happy as Larry.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

That armour is mine. It is the Saint Florian harness. It is polished and tempered spring steel. Milan made it about two years ago for me. I have more pictures of it e-mail me at danb@bhprecision.com if you want to see them. I'm assuming you're referring to the BestArmour example? The top example, n...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Wade, Rob, et al, yes indeed we should support efforts like this. As I understand it, this is a project begun by David Edge several years ago. Very glad Toby could have a hand in it, and that it turned out to be as important a contribution as it deserves to be. Considering how many factors that go i...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Is the book still the soft-cover version or hard-bound?

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Since my product has been brought up here, I thought I'd post answers to a couple of your questions. Even though they may have already been answered sometimes it's best to hear it directly just for clarity. I developed and make the tourney clubs myself, so know every in and out of them. Feel free to...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I believe we made it clear in our announcement of the event on the IJL forum. http://ijlforum.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=614 That's why it was not listed in the "IJL Tournaments" section but instead in the "Training, shows and workshops" section. I'm sorry if people made incorrect assumption...

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