The current buckles are only for an 11 mm ~ 1/2" strap. If I go much narrower, the leather is more likely to rip.
The issue is probably that the buckles aren't the perfect shape for this application. I have to roll with it this time, but I'll try to pick out something better for my next set.
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- Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:49 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: leiden, dordrecht, etc... vambraces
- Replies: 3
- Views: 761
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: leiden, dordrecht, etc... vambraces
- Replies: 3
- Views: 761
leiden, dordrecht, etc... vambraces
https://www.google.com/search?q=leiden+vambrace&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyh_zQqqjhAhUOQq0KHVipBpwQ_AUIDigB&biw=1438&bih=567 https://www.google.com/search?biw=1438&bih=567&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=P5OeXLLjG4yYsAXT96qQCQ&q=dordrecht+vambrace&oq=dordrecht+vambrace&gs_l=img.3...18741.20666..21291.....
- Wed May 02, 2018 7:47 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Amazing news....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3981
Re: Amazing news....
Congratulations!
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:19 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Historical Etching Recipes
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5668
Re: Historical Etching Recipes
Interesting info. Not much I can add to it beyond asking you to keep sharing.
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:28 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: new knee pads
- Replies: 1
- Views: 805
Re: new knee pads
Modern solution--Wrestling knee pads. These are low profile gel padding attached to a neoprene sleeve and invisible under pants. Medieval solution--Gamboissed chausses. I wear mine under hardened leather quisses and floating metal kneecops and point my leg armor to them. I used 4 layers of cotton ba...
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:34 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armor thickness caliper
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5172
Re: Armor thickness caliper
Wow, the matching brass hardware brings it to the next level.
Do you see any pros/cons to measuring with the throat of the caliper opening away from the user (your set-up) vs towards the user (Jeff's set-up)?
Do you see any pros/cons to measuring with the throat of the caliper opening away from the user (your set-up) vs towards the user (Jeff's set-up)?
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armor thickness caliper
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5172
Re: Armor thickness caliper
You might be right Ckanite. I just know that thumb actuated pipettors hurt. This looks like it involves a similar stress-causing motion.
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:10 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armor thickness caliper
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5172
Re: Armor thickness caliper
Do you anticipate the end user repeatedly removing and reinstalling the displacement gauge? If they over tighten the bolt that pinches the frame, would the (presumably) harder steel bolt wear against the (presumably) softer aluminum until it strips the threads? To prevent this, you could switch to a...
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Good source for helmet padding
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2467
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: ISO fighting turnshoe recommendations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1615
Re: ISO fighting turnshoe recommendations
I prefer my newer pair from Boots by Bohemond to my first pair from Viking Leathercrafts. YMMV
Scuff the leather soles before the first time you fight in them. Use caution when fighting on dry leafs or pine needles.
Scuff the leather soles before the first time you fight in them. Use caution when fighting on dry leafs or pine needles.
- Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
- Replies: 4
- Views: 849
Re: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
Zoom in on several of the figures in this pick for an example of black-colored hats with ears http://sofyalarus.info/russia/Garb/PeriodImages/soloveckoevos32.jpg 17 c. so getting closer. Unfortunately, I think these figures represent monks, so their dress may be not represent an average person. Also...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:44 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
- Replies: 4
- Views: 849
Re: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
Yes, the Ushanka was a post WWI invention. There were also plenty of other hats throughout history with earflaps (Andean Chullo for instance.) I was initially thinking that a hood over my skullcap was a better option--Western and Central Europeans wore them, Viking and Sami wore them (Skjoldehamn ho...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:59 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: kaftan pattern details
- Replies: 2
- Views: 762
Re: kaftan pattern details
It seems intuitive that how high or low the seam between the torso panels and skirt is placed should match the level the belt is worn at. Again, artwork may help shed light on this.
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:52 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: kaftan pattern details
- Replies: 2
- Views: 762
Re: kaftan pattern details
Focusing on the vents, a coat could have: **No vents. **One vent center back starting at the waist. **One vent center back starting below the backside. **Two vents starting at the waist. **Two vents starting below the backside. Most illustrations show figures from the front or side, so maybe images ...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: tunic pattern details
- Replies: 2
- Views: 712
Re: tunic pattern details
Maybe this question is closely related to how high/low on the torso the belt is worn. It seems like there would be little point to starting the gores above the belt line. Next to step is to search for some relevant images.
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:36 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
- Replies: 4
- Views: 849
Re: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
Here are a couple posts from Norman asking about a similar subject. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=117481&hilit=+hood+east http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=114292&hilit=+hood+east Looks like he was going more in the direction of some funky ethnic...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
- Replies: 5
- Views: 832
Re: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
12th century? http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/zchk1907/0156?sid=e1157456749f6bd3be8db1ead512f575 12th century http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/2_Detaily/01_Doplnky/II_01_160.htm 12th century http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/2_Detaily/01_Doplnky/II_01_184.htm 12th century http://www.kostym.cz/Angli...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:32 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
- Replies: 5
- Views: 832
Re: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
Clarification--I meant clothing chausses not maille chausses. (Although the other one is a good discussion to have, too.) Aren't folks in the Bayeux tapestry shown either in pants or naked (when the dead are getting stripped out of their hauberks afterwords)? Here's another http://www.kostym.cz/Angl...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:37 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
- Replies: 4
- Views: 849
13th/14th century rus or steppe hats/hoods
All the artwork I've seen for the 13th to 14th century Rus shows them in skull-cap-type hats like this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/65/72/0e/65720e91bf5859ab6ab6d14af1871b92.jpg . It seems unlikely that folks would go through winter with nothing covering the rest of their head and ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
- Replies: 5
- Views: 832
use of chausses before the 13th/14th century
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327519 Image of "8th century "leggings" from Georgia in the Met. https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/journals/1/pdf/1513058.pdf.bannered.pdf Publication about the same find. http://svenshaithabureise.blogspot.com/2012/06/rekonstruktion-der-haithabu-beinling...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:17 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: kaftan pattern details
- Replies: 2
- Views: 762
kaftan pattern details
I'd like to make a plausible Kaftan for 13th or 14th century Eastern Europe. See here for an example https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/George_IV_of_Georgia_%28Bertubani_fresco%29.jpg/220px-George_IV_of_Georgia_%28Bertubani_fresco%29.jpg Non-Mongol extant pieces are only avail...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:16 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: tunic pattern details
- Replies: 2
- Views: 712
tunic pattern details
In a Nockert pattern 1 geometrically patterned medieval tunic--(the Bocksten tunic http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/type1.html or one of the similar Norse tunics)--how high up on the body should the skirt gores start? Immediately under the ribcage (the 14th century waistline)? At t...
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 9:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for readers to savage a paper
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1393
Re: Looking for readers to savage a paper
Fair enough. With the environment I work in, it's easy for me to slip into "protect your work." Just remember that you deserve credit for the legwork you're doing, too.
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 7:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for readers to savage a paper
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1393
Re: Looking for readers to savage a paper
Some advice follows... (bear in mind that I work in different fields--(polymer physics and physics education)--so customary format may vary.) **3rd person is often best, but be careful. For example, "A survey of extant playing cards was conducted," sounds better than, "The researcher conducted a sur...
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:02 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Boris and Gleb trim
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1248
Re: Boris and Gleb trim
Bumping an old thread because I ran across something that might be relevant. http://cms.contubernium.de/?page_id=249 This is a reconstruction of a roman military belt or cingulum. It shows how a wider belt could be closed with a narrower buckle. The cingulum was originally associated with the milita...
- Wed May 24, 2017 7:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Period leather dyes?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 21949
Re: Period leather dyes?
Oh, and depending on how you write it up, what you're doing could verge on a publishable academic paper. Some of the pro's on the archive could probably suggest possible journals.
- Wed May 24, 2017 7:49 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Period leather dyes?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 21949
Re: Period leather dyes?
Harry, are you interested in checking for color fastness of any of these dyes? A possible protocol would be: *Cut each sample in 3 pieces. *First piece is a control. *Second piece gets wiped briskly with a wet rag and left to dry. *Third piece gets soaked in a water bath for ____ time and then dried...
- Tue May 02, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making splinted armor while avoiding biblical prohibitions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 982
Re: Making splinted armor while avoiding biblical prohibitio
I better understand now. Does stitching layers together also count as "mixing the fibers into the same cloth?" For single-layer construction: Relatively thick leather--(for example, light weight saddle skirting)--is pretty much the only option. For multi-layer construction: The outer layer should be...
- Tue May 02, 2017 1:55 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making splinted armor while avoiding biblical prohibitions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 982
Re: Making splinted armor while avoiding biblical prohibitio
You could easily substitute a plant-based material fabric like linen, hemp, or cotton for the outer layer. If you're using a few layers of canvas, the outer would just be for decoration anyway. Alternatively, canvas weight wool or silk might be available. Don't know if I've ever seen it. Out of curi...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:25 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3706
Re: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
This thread went a different direction that I originally intended, but I thank everyone for their input.
We had a few fighters at both practices this weekend. Only time will tell whether this will be the start of new, consistent trend but we'll keep encouraging folks to participate.
We had a few fighters at both practices this weekend. Only time will tell whether this will be the start of new, consistent trend but we'll keep encouraging folks to participate.
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3706
Re: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
My preferred weapons form is sword and shield. I'm right handed. Second is 6 foot slashing spear. I like to play both aggressive instead of sniping at range. Physical condition is better than a lot of SCA fighters, but not what it used to be. Haven't gained weight but old injuries, accumulated stres...
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:57 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3706
Re: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
Johann--To set-up a one-on-one practice with one of the old-timers that doesn't go to practice anymore, I'd probably have to seek out a squire's belt. I don't feel entirely comfortable with that. CTrumbore--The situation you describe pretty much sums it up for both Bay area baronies. I am trying to ...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:39 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3706
How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
I've been fighting for a long time, but am out-of-practice. Traveling to out-of-town events or out-of-town fighter practices isn't an option till next fall. Local practices are often cancelled due to low attendance. What should I be doing to train? (Don't want this thread to detour into complaining ...
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:11 pm
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB Rus c. 1200
- Replies: 40
- Views: 14400
Re: I WTB Rus c. 1200
There is a lot of disagreement on the dating of the Nikolskoye helm. I originally shot for c. 1200 since I found this helm in one of Nicolle's books and that was the date he gave it. Since then, I've seen other sources date this helm c. 1150 to c. 1350. There (at one point,) was even disagreement ab...
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: medieval music ensembles--how-to start from scratch?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3173
Re: medieval music ensembles--how-to start from scratch?
Thanks for the additional responses. Local SCA groups are large, but neither of them has a dance practice that I know of. Honestly, it seems like local folks aren't very active outside of events. I'll be moving after I wrap up grad school, so maybe the next group will be different. Point understood ...