The Armour Archive

VRIN

Yes the Cathedral grill in this image is mine. If you are interested please email me.

Be aware im not reducing my prices in any way to compete with Tempus' offerings here.

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How much is fitting and attaching any of these cost... ballpark?

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All above parts are now sold. Thanks everyone for looking and for all the kind words, I will produce more and I will post them here soon.

Vrin

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Okay so by request I can do stainless in anything have shown. Here is the "eastern", "Cathedral" and another I am calling "Bjornagar" (bottom right) all in stainless steel. If you are looking for stainless fabrication and install on these and I have only given you a verbal estimate, I regretfully ha...

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A few more that I have just sent out into the world... Australia bound.

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On thickness: My original idea was to use 12-11 gauge after grinding and cleaning it up testing led me to think it was too thin or the openings reduced the strength of the part. I decided to go up to 3/16" as it seemed to be more or less unaffected by my extensive rattan based destruction tests cond...

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Thanks Ernst! And good eye, the St Justin is exactly the helmet that the grill you showed was originally meant to go on.

Here is a formed and ready to be mounted version of the Byzantine.

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Gabriel's new grill work formed and ready to send on Monday.

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Thanks Irish! That grill was drawn up by Ugo, he gave me the raw drawing and I programmed it and had it cut out then he too the flat parts and did all the decoration and forming.

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Bottom grill is ALMOST sold. I have two interested people in them if both are interested I could get a second run cut for just the extra. Also since there is lots of interest in custom designs either one off or muli-part orders, They would likely run about $4-500 (not installed) If you let me know w...

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Thanks all! The "smiling lady" is Karakahn, she is wearing an Ugo special. He drew the Tibetan flames design and we worked it into the grill shape. He did all the joinery, finish and filing.

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Top grill has been sold!

If you are interested in it specifically or any of these in stainless, I will likely be getting a second round of stainless cut soon.

Thanks!

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Stahlgrim! PM sent.

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A few more. Ugo I have none of your helmet with the visor down! Again some of these are collaborative efforts with their owners, some are all me

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Okay some of these are one offs that are not to be duplicated but here they are for your thoughts on the future of Society regulation bargrills. May they pass quietly.

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I use cad, (not an industry standard) talk to your fabricator, they may have their own requirements.

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Okay, so the last one is my work but the other two helmets, and all the mounting, filing and hard work is by their respective owners. I have some of these grill works also in classifieds for sale. The one I made I had intended to do more filework but as it was intended to be covered with chainmail I...

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Sure here are a few images of work that others have done: The first is Aethan's (in stainless) The second is Wredech Tiernanson, who also did all the filing, cutwork and installation. The last is one is Godric's Crusader helmet same basic shape, but different pattern.

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Soo excited, those besegews are the appetizer for an epic ensemble!

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Throwing a few items out there for sale. The first is made of 3/16" thick Stainless steel, and the other two are made out of 3/16 mild steel. They are all intended to be formed to the helmet and then welded along the open triangular gusset. The second grill was meant to be attached to a helmet with ...

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The primary advantage of the one Burr king I have used is its motor, it has a 3/4hp motor and it is very "torquey", not likely to be stopped short of leaning on it with full body weight. The baderIII that I used was also very good very smooth running was set up for knives and had a very nice platen....

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Thanks all for the kind words, and for the critique as well. Mounting chain mail is always fussy and it is a serious cost consideration in every assembly. I am looking forward to making the twin helmet to it sometime in the near future, and looking forward to both of them out on the field getting us...

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Inspired by this helmet from the MET, and with funding from a great client : http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/40000170#fullscreen I built this. We will have to see how it fits in the next few days, fairly sure it will be good. Specifics: 14ga mild steel dome chased ridges ...

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Just to throw out this information the klappvisor is perfect. Love it, nicely done!

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Count Jonathan, the face plate started life 3/16" thick but was ground to about 12g ga. At the edges, and maybe a bit thinner overall.

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VRIN, How were they made? Ive read references to carving, lasers, water jet, etc. Assume that my level of knowledge is zero. (Im an RN) Mike Thanks all for the kind words! I think I have outlined the process elsewhere on the archive but here is what I did: I made a cardboard profile of the grill op...

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If you want the internet to see your pictures, you have to let the internet see your pictures.

Thanks, I did not even think of that. Lemme know if anyone has problems seeing the last round.

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Dogma warning: I have always disliked the standard bargrill. They have irrelevant modern baggage, they flavor the best Society helmets with "riddell football helmet" or worse yet road warrior sillyness. I do think Ugo improved enormously on simply filed cleaned up grill work in his version and took ...

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Vrin aka Master Sigismund here, thanks for all the kind words! The grill work was cut using a cnc laser cutting machine an then finished by hand using emery cloth, files, chisels. The design is an urnes style adaptation. Knotwolf's work was solid and well done. I think his good work made for an easy...

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Thanks for posting that image. It looks equally awesome from the inside!

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This is some truly awesome work! And you are a very lucky man.

Could we see the reverse of this glorious piece? Just curious.

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I'm not certain that people would buy a helmet which they had seen the EXACT same copy of 1000 times on the field. T I sort of agree. Too much of any one thing gets tedious. My exception would be when I look out on the vast fields of fighters at an Estrella or Pennsic I am looking at a few pieces w...

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Way to overthink, Vrinnie! 8) Yeah Konstantin thats mee!! I am an ok armourer, but I am a way better computer modeler in real life and this lead me down a train of overthought the other day. I likely cannot armour forever but I know lots about cad, solidworks, vector cutting, and I can bang on a ke...

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Lets assume a helmet that will see both rattan and rebated steel combat in its life, and that it should have a nice long life. What are some good target numbers for a resilient, non-cracking, non-denting helm? When I say numbers, I am thinking less about thickness more about rockwell hardness, tensi...

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A collaborative effort between Ugo and myself.

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