The Armour Archive

Alcyoneus

The Yard Store carries, or at least will order it, brand new for you.

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Tourneyers wore bells.

So did fools.

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Crocs used to range up into the region of Southern Israel. St George probably killed a big one. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/oddnotes/stgeorge/stgeorge.html http://www.catchpenny.org/slay.html http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythiccreatures/land/griffin.php http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythiccrea...

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Except for the eye holes being so large...it looks like it might be a form of bascinet visor similar to a 'pigsnout', or a visor from a c1500 Gothic-Maximillian transitional helmet.

You got me.

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I use a thin rope with a loop tied at both ends. One end goes through the loop around the sword, pulled tight, and then the cord is pulled through the remaining loop. Hand goes in new loop, then the cord is pulled snug.

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That should be 'me fecit', unless you are doing lapidary work.

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It might be easier if you find out where Eric Dube bought his organic arms. I've seen videos of them working, and they are pretty good.

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16thC Benin, after contact with the Portuguese, I believe.

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And rattan rebounds off of it just like it does on metal armor, and the human body.

I think it can teach poor technique. My ultimate pell will be landscape timber (rounded) wrapped in carpet and suspended from above (hanging from a tree, or something else).

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12" buckler, and my normal 36" (OAL) sword.

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Talbot wrote:#2 has no eye cutouts. That is the reflection of the lense of the camera.

It looks like we can see the metal post holding the helmet up (?) inside the helmet, and behind the curve of the 'reflection'.

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Email the link to whatever kind of Fish&Game Department the lake has, and ask them what it is.

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"Skin Quality" aluminum (often a 2024 alloy) has a layer of pure Al on the surface because it polishes so nicely.

The industry uses a zinc chromate primer on aluminum, but you likely can't get that privately, and it is usually etched with alodine before priming.

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Mostly, the available surplus/scrap SS is 3xx.

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I may need to heat some SS up to flare it, is there any problem associated with doing that with a propane torch? I wouldn't want to embrittle it...

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Larger pictures, more of them, weaker text.

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If there will be significant gaps between the base plate and the decorative stainless, no less than 18g, or you will find out how much gap there was after it gets hit a few times.

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The author definitely has a political viewpoint, which is casually related to the subject matter. The pictures are excellent. They are not "Carlo" quality, but still quite good. ;) The book would have been better if they hadn't just taken pictures largely of different helmets on the same suit of arm...

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Tasha McG wrote:Supposedly a hair shirt was put aside too, but that has long been lost to the mists of time.

-Tasha

Imagine the smell....

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I think that Sir Gaston has made one similar to this. I would say that it was made in halves, and joined with the strip in the middle. There are far too many rivets showing along the 'seam line' for them not to be functional. That bit of metal could be latten or gilded iron. I think the scales would...

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Yes, they had helms similar to bascinets way back then.

Although from the picture of the stonework I was looking at a couple days ago, I'd guess it might have been out of leather.

But that doesn't work well in the SCA.

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Kilkenny wrote:It brings back memories of my knight's "Sutton Who?" helm.

Am I correct that the bowl is an old US army pot ? They weren't heavy gauge, but they sure were tough.

And they haven't been legal for many a year, just incase anyone was wondering.

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From the Society Marshal's Handbook: 5. Shafts may be spliced using a fiberglass rod or tube with a sidewall of 1/8 inch (3.2 mm) of the same or equivalent material, having an outside diameter of 1 inch (25.4 mm) and a length of 8â€“12 inches (203â€“304mm). Only two splices will be allowed per spear...

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James Arlen Gillaspie wrote:My copy is autographed! Nyah nah!

By Mac?

You lucky bastard!

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Josh Warren wrote:Very nice, and I extend that compliment as someone who usually detests fantasy armour.

It is extremely good. But it is functional, as is 'the real thing', it just has 'fantastic' styling. There are plenty of depictions of "fantasy" armor in the late 15th, that you would probably like.

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The rear fauld looks like it was bent with a brake.

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I don't think that you will be able to document a "Miller" as being allowed in the lists in 1461 England.

You might think about "Thatcher", that is documentable as coming from a very ancient and noble lineage.

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I hate that smell.

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It wouldn't be terribly hard to make if you found round tubing that you liked. Assuming you had access to a metal cutting bandsaw, you could clamp two blocks of wood to the table, and push the tubing between them.

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I think my ex-MiL said that if you inject the bite site with cortisone within the first 24hrs, that it really helps. I knew a guy that was working on his well head one time, which was in a boxed hole, of course, and a BR crawled up the insides of his insulated coveralls and bit him on his penis. :oo...

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So, you're going to be working for Cessna in Independence?

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I think I'd use some sort of epoxy like JB Weld.

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Dover has published at least 2 large books on woodcuts (one on Albrecht Durer's woodcuts). Dover specializes in reprinting books that have expired copyrights, mostly from the 19thC. I'm not sure if there would be any copyright issues in reprinting what are essentially collected 'public domain' woodc...

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And your hand and elbow would be where on the shield?

Propane and stainless