The Armour Archive

Talbot

for the battle of Wisby you're probably looking at something like a simple bascinet. depending on who you portray a visor as well. you may want to look at early attempts at basciney visors- like the triangular nose gaurd that is attached to the maille and fastens to the brow. I disagree. Since Coif...

Talbot

Brian and I talked about it and we will have at least one video camera there. I would like to point out that this will be a "guided discussion" I doubt we will come to any definitive conclusions. Perhaps some interesting thoughts may emerge though. . .

Talbot

I'm glad people like the system. I like it too. It is easy for me and easy for you. For myself, I like it beacuse I can never lose my patterns. Last time I made an arm harness I could not find the pattern for the rerebrace. I went to the computer and printed the necessary page. I also had one of my ...

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Hey Doug, Might be a glitch or something, but I ordered the full bascinet helm book with both faceplates, and went to download the pdf, but the next page stated that my time had expired. I was like "wait, it was only 2 seconds!" lolol sorry for the trouble. I emailed you a temporary link for one do...

Talbot

Talbot, Do you offer a price break if someone orders all the pattern sets? Jason I'm sure we can work something out. Send me an email and let me if you want all the armouring ones or the armouring and metalworking ones or armouring, metalworking and shoemaking or armouring metalworking, shoemaking ...

Talbot

I've fixed the complete bascinet glitch and will go and fix the leg/bascinet cut and paste error

Talbot

As many of you know I have had some bad health issues including three knee surgeries a very serious infection. This has left me unable to make any armour since September. In order to keep myself busy I've been working on writing more of our armouring manuals/patterns. I've just released eleven (11) ...

Talbot

Looks like Doug Strong will be presenting a paper on similarities in surviving examples of 14th century armour. Exact title to come. Should be good. I will make sure to update here with any additional/changed info. The title is "Similarities in Surviving Transitional Armour" (pretty close Brian) It...

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Maeryk wrote:hell dude.. I just want to enslave Underhill and put him to work.

NOW THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. Of course, we need all his lovely toys too.

Talbot

That is really a fine piece of work!

Talbot

My Bad! I thought it was an aventail.

I have had two welded avantails by Knuut over the years-- one in mild and one in stainless. They are both solid and have never lost a single ring. Both are currently in use today. You cannot go wrong with his stuff.

Talbot

Lawrence Parreira wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljubarrota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crecy

As Randall Moffett points out-- these are 15th century paintings of 14th century events. Thanks for illustrating the point. I really like the Crecy picture in particular.

Talbot

You may have the price wrong. I think it goes for $275 on Knuut's site.

Talbot

There is a Roman "swiss army knife". Maybe one of the Roman guys here will be able to point us to pictures. I assumed this would have been posted already. There seems to be several of these extant in museums, and private collections. Leading me to believe they may have been a common item. http://ww...

Talbot

Thanks for posting this article. This is really exciting! As Matt points, there is a lot of unidentified yellow metal out there. Perhaps with proper study and investigation we could find quite a bit more early brass.

Talbot

I have discussed this matter with other antiquites experts and they agree. In fact Gaukler (who posts here sometimes pointed it out to me first.) Have either of you written to eBay to alert them to the possible fraud and your reasons for suspecting it? Sellers who do stuff like that should be banne...

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I have no doubt that some of their items are original. However the nicer the piece it the lower the chance it is authentic from this seller (in my opinion.) I have been viewing thier pieces with interest for quite some time. In particular the migration period brooches they sell today will appear som...

Talbot

That is service! I cannot say it surprises me. It strikes me that is just the way Erik is. Well done.

Hey, this is my 1000th post! How cool is that? I just noticed.

Talbot

Strongbow wrote:Thanks for all the replies enveryone. What's best to prevent verdigris during storage? Is a light application of oil suitable?

Oil is fine but drying it well is most important.

Talbot

Unlike D. Sebastian I love contact cement fro glueing fabric onto aluminum. I use Barge cement and I use loads of it. I hope you have lots of ventalation! I had (and have) my workshop in my basement, so I dare not use that much chemical in that space. Barge Cement rocks, so I could see a great effe...

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Okay, Doug, I found the steel ones at Revival- it took a bit of digging (and I was duly confused by the fact that they have two completely different sites, which had not occurred to me before). I don't, however, need a full pack of 25 so I'll drop you an e-mail and haggle. Nick Revival Clothing (Wi...

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Excellent! Lookinâ€™ good! I do have a question though about your fauld. Iâ€™m very curious about the silhouette; it appears in the picture to have this sort of shape: _______/___\ ______/_____\ ______|______| As opposed to a more A-line shape: _______/___\ ______/_____\ _____/_______\ Is that a co...

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Unlike D. Sebastian I love contact cement fro glueing fabric onto aluminum. I use Barge cement and I use loads of it.

Talbot

I have some steel ones. send me an email. There are plenty in stock on revival. Tell me more about not being able to find them Perhaps they are placed badly.

Talbot

stephenschaeffer wrote:Sweet kit. Knowing you that's all 1050?

All 1050 except for the greaves. They are the oldest part and are next up for replacement. Greaves, then sabatons, then legs.

Talbot

I play with enough green metal to know it is alwys best to wash your hands after playing with antiquities. Better safe than sorry ., If oyu do not let your cook pot turn green (or other nasty colors) you will not have any problems

Talbot

The gambeson was built for someone much longer than me. The sleeves and the skirts are way too long. I am not much of a sewer so they are unaltered.

Talbot

Remember verdegris is a cumulative toxin. Don't freak out over it. If you clean it sensibly it will not be any sort of problem for you.

Talbot

The gambeson is indeed too long, Nicole at Revival is working on a new one for me. I have always struggled with the cloth parts of my armour. When I have the new gambeson I will adjust the length of the mail accordingly. I will aso attach the mail voiders to that garment. The buttons are showing thr...

Talbot

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Talbot

That is beautiful. Who made it? It is clearly based off effigal materials. They rarely included visors on effigies so there is no telling. If it had a visor its form and date (circa 1400) argue almost exclusively for a side pivot.

Talbot

Whatever it is it is very nicely formed!

Talbot

I have seen it from every concievable angle with and without the crest. The one exception is that I do not believe I have ever seen it straight down without the crest so the exact shape of the deck plate is a bit of a mystery. I believe it has a teardrop shape though. The most surprising features ar...

Talbot

I realy like the setup you have for teaching. the tools look great

Talbot

Thank you for sharing those pics. That shirt is great!

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