The Armour Archive

Chris Flagstad

Look here - a simple universal tool holder. Halberds-made. Problem: Stakes have play. They've got to. A thick tigthening screw from the side would remedy that. Or you build it tapered, with a square inch opening and walls leaning inwards to the bottom. But with that construction method, faik, thing...

Chris Flagstad

Ah! I wondered if we were on "different pages". I was referring to the "reveal", or amount of exposed lame as being tapered or parallel. I brought it up because one of your sketches showed most of the lames "parallel" and one "tapered" (by my reckoning). Mac That makes sense! Looking back at my ske...

Chris Flagstad

I also planish and shape with this

these are the hammers I used to work the outside. the weight of the ballpeen worked a little better than the body hammer.

Chris Flagstad

That was quick! How did you do that? What kind of dish and what hammer? :) Looks like made cold, right? Is that mild? Yep, it's mild worked cold. If I went any deeper, I think I would have used heat. This is my dishing stump 20230325_114629.jpg I use this for deeper dishing 20230325_114407.jpg I us...

Chris Flagstad

It looks to me like the lames on the shoulders of the Cobham effigy are parallel sided, rather than tapered. Have I misunderstood what you mean? Note also, that the lowest lame is hinged and fully enclosed cannon which embraces the upper cannon of the arm. Mac Mac, I'm confused as well. By tapered,...

Chris Flagstad

Now..... since I've mentioned the upper lames, I see that you have not decided whether they will all be the same width or whether they will have some sort of taper. You need to make a decision on that, and the sooner the better. Are you copying these from an English brass? If so, you should do what...

Chris Flagstad

That is one slick way of dealing with the sharp bend over the tip of the shoulder. I think with one big lame like here you'd have to raise it... Or weld of course...but that'd take just as long. Thank you Indianer, I like the way the crease on the shoulder follows the horizontal crease on the breas...

Chris Flagstad

Let me say something here about general principles. It's best to begin with the part of an armor component which has the most compound curvature and then design your lames to fit that. This is because it's difficult to know what shape the upper an lower lames really have to be until you have the ma...

Chris Flagstad

I drafted up a pattern for some over-the-shoulder type spaulders.

Here are some sketches that I was playing with.

Chris Flagstad

Here is the template I was experimenting with some years ago. It was intended to be raised down over an elbow-shaped form after welding. It will produce a rounded elbow, but I'm sure you can extrapolate from this to a pointy elbow if that's what you want. Thank you Mac! I think I can figure out a p...

Chris Flagstad

This project froze for the usual reason: I hit a problem doing something I had never done before and did not have energy to solve it. In this case, i could not deal with the linen lining crawling around over the layers of batting as I machine-quilted all the layers together. I've found it helpful t...

Chris Flagstad

Mac wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:03 am
I can take a pic of a template for this if you would like.

Mac

Yes, please!

My original thinking was to pick the spot where the weld would be shortest, but choosing the spot with less strain makes much more sense.

Chris Flagstad

With oxy-acetylene it's nice to have the same tool for welding and heating.
Some people can get really clean and strong welds, but I'm definitely still fumbling around with it.
I've melted some stuff.
The gas is also pretty pricey

Chris Flagstad

Thank you!
I used Oxy Acetylene. I hit it with a grinder a little.

They're a bit nastier in person

Chris Flagstad

Talbot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:22 pm Very nice. The arms are coming along nicely.

Thanks Talbot!

Indianer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:36 pm How did You make the cone? It's so sharp it might be rolled, but I can't see a seam. It also looks too clean to be raised?

There welded ala the "House Method" The seams are marked in red.

Chris Flagstad

Im working on my arm harness.

Chris Flagstad

I would have guessed that riveting the placard on defeats the purpose of them being separate pieces.

Would there need to be rivets or rivet holes for there to be a liner, or would they ever use glue or something else to attach it?

Chris Flagstad

Lindy had good experience with sabatons articulated on rivets with the toes as the 'highest shingle in the roof' not as the 'lowest shingle in the roof' except that the hook-on-a-post joining the 'heel' to the 'vamp' came loose once and the articulation slowly stiffened up. It's interesting how he ...

Chris Flagstad

I saw this thing and was wondering if it would work to make it into a rondel dagger. What do you guys think? https://www.knivesofthenorth.com/products/spike-type-spear-head?variant=28761630113885&srsltid=AYJSbAdWP0S3Pt_LEiZAQK2yOsD7t-8D-CGboee8w9itQnSfcw-gF-S_MKM It's sold as a tip for a throwing sp...

Chris Flagstad

another thing is the center crease down the arms and legs seem quite steep and pronounced

Chris Flagstad

There's another example of really long tasstes in Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels

Chris Flagstad

Sean M wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:06 pm I wonder if its one of the armours whose cuirass only protects the front. Jess Finley found some paintings where the back is protected by a thick quilted jack.

The back of the pauldrons look pretty big, maybe that compensates for no backplate?

Chris Flagstad

The tassets look really long. Are they out of the ordinary? They look cool with the long forget.

It looks like there's no backside to the fauld.

Chris Flagstad

That looks like a useful book. Have you tried any of the exercises?

It would probably help train the eye to reverse engineer designs.

Chris Flagstad

Thanks!

So it's a reaction to the texture, not a reaction to metal?

Chris Flagstad

I made an archer's tab to practice leather tooling. 20221021_111436.jpg I'm trying to figure out a good way to do medieval foliage designs. They seem like they follow a pattern that I'm not seeing. One theory I got from this that the little thorns/flowers that branch off hide where a bunch of small ...

Chris Flagstad

Awesome!

The way the puffed fluting wraps around the vambrace and continues from the front and back plate is really graceful.

It's interesting that they kept the little vestigial wing on the elbows.

Chris Flagstad

That looks rad!

The compression articulation like the inside of an elbow for the animal legs is an interesting solution.
Do you have an image of what these guys look like without their armor to get a look at their anatomy?

Also, is the steel pattern welded?

Chris Flagstad

I found another guy with animal ears in a military context

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/3025924730413288/

The Pinterest post said it's from Mittelalterliches Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg.

Chris Flagstad

I'm definitely guilty of doing that

The Laughing Fool is wearing something really similar,

But he's not on a battlefield.

Chris Flagstad

In the Diebold Schilling the Younger drawing of The Battle of Grandson, there's a guy blowing a horn and wearing a hood with bull ears and horns on it. The horns and ears look like they're sewn on like the tails of a jester's hood. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYmjBvvXkAMmiNK.png He's in black and ye...

Chris Flagstad

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon. When I pour a beer into a metallic container (particularly the classic thrift store tankard), it gets really foamy. The head is also really dense with small bubbles, like those Guinness cans with the canister of nitrous in them. Anybody...

Chris Flagstad

I was doing some yard work the other day and noticed that the fallen pine needles lie in a nice solid mesh.

Has anyone tried using them for padding or heard any reference to it?

Chris Flagstad

Lindybeige posted a new video about his armor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKPimu6O280 It's mostly about going back to the shop to get his armor adjusted for an event. He doesn't mention the problem of his collarbones getting bruised. He ends up getting a big dent right in the middle of his cuir...

Chris Flagstad

This executioner has them

And this guy gambling for Christ's clothes.

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would this work for a rondel dagger?

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beer foam and metallic cups

Pine needles for padding

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