Thank you Mac for sharing all of this with us.
It's great to see you picking up the hammers, I hope you're enjoying it again!
How are the elbows holding up this far, do you use sports type supports on them at all?
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- Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:52 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 726665
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 1:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: -= Auction / Sellet / Magic sallet :) / Auction = SOLD=
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2591
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: -= Auction / Sellet / Magic sallet :) / Auction = SOLD=
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2591
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:42 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: -= Auction / Sellet / Magic sallet :) / Auction = SOLD=
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2591
- Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: So, who did this?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1883
Re: So, who did this?
Wait, that baby looks like it has rolled edges on every plate - you know what that means.................
Give me a B.....!
Give me a B.....!
- Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:36 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: help with choosing German armet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 519
Re: help with choosing German armet
That bevor is fixed to the front of the breastplate with a catch, it should be fine. If this is a custom armet then the lowest plates can be made to better match the breastplate.
They should go fine together, nice choice on the armet.
They should go fine together, nice choice on the armet.
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 3:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armour Construction: Even A Blind Squirrel...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1257
Re: Armour Construction: Even A Blind Squirrel...
I can't believe the Grenwich armouries would have supplied a client with such a badly made piece of harness. The detail lines up the front of the plate are misaligned towards the top, the side ones are not symetrical and the scalloped edges on the skirt are different widths. I know that perfect syme...
- Fri May 03, 2013 3:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Were bead rollers used in armor construction?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1692
Re: Were bead rollers used in armor construction?
I remember reading on some armor site that the reason most rolled edges changed form being rolled outside to being rolled inside was the invention of the bead roller in the 16thC. The rolling of edges to the inside is also done in the 15th century, IIRC it is one of the techniques attributed to Eng...
- Fri May 03, 2013 2:55 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: trouble with dome head rivets,
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1308
Re: trouble with dome head rivets,
A handy piece of pallet banding with a u shaped notch in one end is the key, it holds the washer down and allows you to hit the rivet until the washer can't escape. Then, slipped under the washer before peening it allows enough slack for most articulated joints too, just pull it out from under the w...
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:16 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: How to attatch besagews? [Completed, with Pics!]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 689
Re: How to attatch besegews?
I'd second James B. maybe you could rivet a loop onto the back of the steel plate, thereby avoiding having a rivet right through the middle of the nicely etched brass?
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Belt loops on doublets?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 555
Re: Belt loops on doublets?
Nope. The Thorsberg belt loops are there so that the hose can be held up with a belt, not to hold the belt up. They would still have allowed the belt (and consequently the hose) to drop down under gravity. If dealing with the ample figure, allow the belt to drop slightly to pass under the gut rather...
- Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:13 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Fake armour at wisby? - Dissertation research
- Replies: 14
- Views: 893
Re: Fake armour at wisby? - Dissertation research
If memory serves, that was in a tournament bout over a barrier where the leg armour was required in the rules but not likely to be hit. "..but the dukes of Berry and Bretagne were at their ease mounted on little pacers, armed only with light brigandines, or as some said, with gilt nails sown upon sa...
- Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:15 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: re-enactmentsupplies.co.uk armour?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 937
Re: re-enactmentsupplies.co.uk armour?
It depends on what you're expecting really. It will be metal, it might look like 15th century armour (or at least look like something that was copied from something that looked like 15th century armour) but don't be surprised if it doesn't fit properly or doesn't work as it should. Then again, it's ...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:19 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Showing of my latest commission.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 772
Showing of my latest commission.
Just finished these, losely based on Austrian or South German mittens from the tail end of the 15th century.
All mild steel, either 1.2mm or 1.6mm plates. Hand filed buckles in brass.
I can't add any pictures here for some reason, so....
Pictures on Facebook
All mild steel, either 1.2mm or 1.6mm plates. Hand filed buckles in brass.
I can't add any pictures here for some reason, so....
Pictures on Facebook
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:13 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Buff Leather Source?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1102
Re: Buff Leather Source?
Has anyone else who uses Buff leather found it to be worse at attracting moisture and reacting with the steel it is fixed to?
I was really pleased with myself for finding some decent pieces (or so I thought) but I'm now afraid to use it since the first bit have presented this problem!
Jon
I was really pleased with myself for finding some decent pieces (or so I thought) but I'm now afraid to use it since the first bit have presented this problem!
Jon
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Questions on sewing arming/lacing points
- Replies: 14
- Views: 485
Re: Questions on sewing arming/lacing points
I used mail rings on my first petticote, unfortunately they did regular damage to the points, wearing them out very quickly. (Obviously this isn't a problem if you replace your points at every event as they possibly did). They also rusted and discoloured the material too - I just didn't think about ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:09 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Lacing through rings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 760
Re: Lacing through rings
Sigh....... Someone break out the dried frog pills for Sir Digby!
- Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:05 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 18 gauge stainless for elbows and knees?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 584
Re: 18 gauge stainless for elbows and knees?
Me too.Ironbadger wrote:Hmm...The links are asking me for a password and username?
-Badger-
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:53 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pavise Project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 410
Pavise Project
So, I've wanted to make a pavise for ages (along with about a bazillion other things... :roll: ) Someone gave me a bent plywood blank as a starter and it sat there in the garage for a while..... I wanted a pavise with a central channel and a beak, so I cut straight through the middle of the plywood ...
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:58 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
- Replies: 406
- Views: 23557
Re: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
Glad you could come Earnest!
I think we'll be doing more of this in future- though I must make some new boots and also some pattens I think.
I think we'll be doing more of this in future- though I must make some new boots and also some pattens I think.
- Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Three DeVere Effigies
- Replies: 1
- Views: 194
Three DeVere Effigies
I took a trip to St Stephens Chapel in Suffolk today to see three effigies from the DeVere family, the Earls of Oxford. Originally these effigies were at the Priory founded by The DeVeres in Earls Colne, they were moved to the tiny chapel in Bures when the empty priory was sold off by the DeVere fam...
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:46 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Two part center pole for my pavilion.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 793
Re: Two part center pole for my pavilion.
Nice image Sean.
you can simplify that slightly by cutting the nose square rather than cutting the extra shapes. Here's quick google searched pic:
http://flic.kr/p/5zusgQ
If you can cut a joint like that and have it work properly, you don't need "flashy".
you can simplify that slightly by cutting the nose square rather than cutting the extra shapes. Here's quick google searched pic:
http://flic.kr/p/5zusgQ
If you can cut a joint like that and have it work properly, you don't need "flashy".
- Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:02 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: vambraces/rerebraces coming out twisted, so annoying.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 686
Re: vambraces/rerebraces coming out twisted, so annoying.
Look very carefully at the way you're hammering these, you're putting the twist in somewhere in the process. Are you using a wide, flat raising style hammer or just a round face? It could simply be a slight turn of the hammer or a slight change in the angle you're hitting at will make all the differ...
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:01 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: dead easy question, Brigandines
- Replies: 3
- Views: 432
Re: dead easy question, Brigandines
The original examples I've looked at have shown properly peened nails but there were one or two individual nails that were just bent (these were all in the shoulder area where you might argue that some padding would/could have covered this area meaning the maker knew he could "cut a few corners" as ...
- Sat May 21, 2011 8:18 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A cloak I've made
- Replies: 1
- Views: 385
Re: A cloak I've made
Nice!
I like that you have a cloak AND a hood.
Very Frederic Lord Leighton style pictures too!
JonT
I like that you have a cloak AND a hood.
Very Frederic Lord Leighton style pictures too!
JonT
- Sat May 21, 2011 8:13 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
- Replies: 406
- Views: 23557
Re: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
@James, interesting picture! The guy with the pollaxe (Sorry, Bec du Corbin :roll: ) has what could be leg armour on and I would argue that he could have plate under that coat- (I'm not sure I'd rely on buckling a bevor to a fabric layer). There are historical cases of people fighting with pollaxe/b...
- Fri May 20, 2011 5:28 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
- Replies: 406
- Views: 23557
Re: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt47/reenactthis/Man%20E%20Faces/3278251872_db0c85b7be_b-2.jpg http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt47/reenactthis/Man%20E%20Faces/DSCN2552.jpg Nice pictures Wolf, although I'd want a good bit more armour to back up that pollaxe- at least some form of torso protec...
- Wed May 18, 2011 2:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Search-fu failing: cloth-covered breastplate and mail?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 580
Re: Search-fu failing: cloth-covered breastplate and mail?
Try searching for CORRAZINA (or variant spellings of it) http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0HXPno9U3-7ThiyAYdnDzDabZ2QuNIuNGkw3nBjJYxbtFcFQ2 http://hermineradieuse.aceboard.fr/14766-5135-35189-0-Corrazina.htm shows an original Corrazina in Milan, which (from your description) is what I'd be ...
- Mon May 09, 2011 2:02 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
- Replies: 406
- Views: 23557
Re: 15th C. Thugz! Show us your kit!
Slouching!
And in the presence of a lady - disgusting behaviour!
Sit up straight young man!
And in the presence of a lady - disgusting behaviour!
Sit up straight young man!
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:21 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: pavise + crossbow
- Replies: 7
- Views: 514
Re: pavise + crossbow
Sorry, they just look like normal canvas/gesso covered pavises to me. I know they look thin but it's very hard to get a decent guage of thickness from a photo. The other compelling arguement (for me) against cuir boille is that I can see no sign of carved or moulded decoration which, given the mediu...
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:40 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Fully breeched" armour.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1647
Chris, of the two harness in Paris, are either of them described as being made for king Francis? I have been told that the reason Henry VIIIs harness wasn't worn in tournament wasn't that the rules got changed, but that Francis' harness hadn't been finished in time. Henry, being a proper sportsman, ...
- Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:43 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Question on Pourpoint construction
- Replies: 10
- Views: 457
If you are planing on pointing through the material make sure you "work" and sew it rather than just punch a hole (just punching a hole will tear and weaken the fibres while working the hole open with a spike is much kinder to the weave). Personally, I wouldn't pass the points through the fabric. I'...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: pictures of this hemet, please. Wallace collection cabaset.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 865
- Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:20 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Training, my experiences.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 440
Nicely written Graham, and nice work on the greaves! It does take a lot out of your day having to explain stuff to someone else and keep them on track, not to mention the extra space and tools needed when suddenly two people are working in a space organised for one! I happily help other folks where ...
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:22 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Best wood for Pattens?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 787