The Armour Archive

grizzlyadams

hello folks not posted for ages, just had some good news. the horse armour i made for the leicestershire museum service a while back, that has been on tour for the last two years. has now been given pride of place on permanent display at bosworth battle field heritage centre, in the main battle room...

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hello mate,the banding on the wrists is made from copper

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hello folks not posted for a long time,been so busy.
these are a pair of gaunts i just delivered to bosworth battle field visitor centre,along with some other stuff

made from 16g mild,making them some clamshell gaunts as well now

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looking good mate, how well do they articulate?

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superb work mate looks great

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yep had thought of putting loops all around the base as you said mate.
just not had time, had to fire up the big furnace and do some cast machine parts for a mate this afternoon so i will get onto it again tomorrow, thanks for all the suggestions

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good idea about the "mousehole" i will get round to that this weekend,got some aluminium brackets to cast using the big furnace for a mate first

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nice work mate

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more pics for you

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i dont get any smoke from charcoal i use a little bit of acetone to start it going and have the blower on very low plenty of oxygen = no smoke. i do the same for my big metal melting furnace and i can have it up and running in about 5 mins this way. i have found if you try and light it in the usual ...

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its charcoal fired mate the pipe you see is for the blower feed. yes made it all i have a couple of big sheets of 10 gauge i was given. and the fire bricks came from a big pottery kiln at work that i had to dismantle, as we have a new one now i got all the bricks for free. :D so it on cost a couple ...

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hello fellow metal bashers here is my new portable forge.
took a couple of days to make,its made from 10 gauge mild.
the worst part was cutting all the sheet with an 8 inch angle grinder

sorta made it up as i went along

test fired it today it gets bloody hot

hope you like it.

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i tried many different things for the resist,i settled on car spray paint and wax for the large areas in seperate layers. all the patterns were done freehand with an etch resist pen,and it drove me mad it was so fiddly to do :? i found that using the salt water and battery charger that it kept blowi...

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hello mate i used salt water and a battery charger.

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hello folks hope everyone is well.
here is a couple of demi shaffrons i have just finished.
both are 18g mild steel,one is for a customer the other is for stock.
did some etching i think it came out ok

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love your work mate they look stunning

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meant to add this to the post but i had momentary brain fade

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hello folks this is what i am working on at the moment

its a loose copy of the one from the royal armouries,going etch this one as i have plenty of time.

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it is emrys just found this http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi ... rmour.html

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its emrys if thats how you spell it not sure but think it is

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nice one justin very informative

by the way here is were i get all my rivets from http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/
good prices if you are still looking

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here is another one from a greater distance so you can see the whole thing.
i will see if i have any more and post them.

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hello mate i dont have any dimensions but i took this pic the last time i was there, hope its some help

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skevmeister thanks for the heads up about the course in march going to try and get to that :D. the photos were taken in poor light as the lighting in leeds is sort of "mood lighting" rather than lighting for taking pics thats the only thing i didnt like about it :?. as i said i am going back in a co...

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here is a slightly better pic to add to this discussion

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yes hal thats one of them i saw 2, going back in a couple of weeks might get to handle it

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hello everyone not posted for a while been very busy at work. ok well i have been to the royal armouries in leeds for the first time :D its a fantastic place need loads of time to see more than a little bit of it. took loads of pics :D and i remembered there was a thread a while back about the great...

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hello folks well here is how far i have got in about a week. decided to do this after the hourglass gaunts :) needed something big to work on after all the little bits in the gaunts :?. made the patterns for all except the breastplate,the back dont look too bad i think :D. 16g mild steel going to et...

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wow

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i like that a lot mate i will have to try something like that

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awesome work

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hello folks thanks for all of the kind comments. i forgot to tell you the specs. they are 16g mild steel and 16g brass. because i got the knuckle parts on the metacarple too shallow i came up with the individual knuckle rider plates they dont look too bad i think. any way i learned a lot for when i ...

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hello people well these are done now apart from stitching to some gloves. they arent right but will do to start with, next time i am going to pattern from scratch. they took a couple of weeks on and off :? back at work now after my hols,so less time to play with metal :sad:. going on to do a breast ...

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hello folks well i have started on my first pair of gauntlets :D. here how far i got this week, 16 gauge mild steel, pattern bits from stuff on the net. i am starting on the fingers tommorrow :). going to make them so they ground out as i like the looks better than the scale type ones. plus i think ...

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its not your weld that has failed mate its the sheet steel that has been bent repeatedly back and forth causing the metal to shear :sad: and it broke at that position because it is a stress raiser the transition from the brim shape to the scull is too sharp, it would not shear so much from being str...

bosworth battle field heritage centre

gaunts

new forge

new stuff

more horse stuff

one more

re pics

great helm another pic

great helm

great helm rolled edge?

peascod progress

first go at hourglass gaunts

hourglass gauntlets first attempt

weld failure