The Armour Archive

Talbot

survivng medieval molds are slate, shale and soapstone. Soapstone is the most popular these day because it carves so easily.

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Dear all, I hope you might find some of these useful. Thes are simply things that caught my eye. Some personal highlights: - early (1400 AD) clamshells - late (1470 AD) bascinet - nice statuary of 1365 rig with beaded strapping detail - ninth century silk - lots of tableware and boxes - and a pictu...

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Tigernach wrote:The general website for the find is: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcn ... pintro.htm

That is really great website. I wish I could read French. If there is anyone who can read it, can you tell me the date range of occupation for the site? Is it all 11th cenutry?

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Leaving aside the very real possibility that the item is something other than armour, why must the plates be on the outside? Why can't it be an early coat of plates or brigandine like garment with the plates on the inside? If the garment was lined with leather then those massive split rivet prongs m...

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It depends on what you are planising. I do most of my planishing over a large ball stake. However, I have used any number of different things to planish over. The shape of the outside of the thing you are planishing over needs to match the shape of the inside of the item our are smoothing for at lea...

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Something like these hourglass staked made by Master Cad might be appreciated by armourers. I already have some and they make the job of making those knuckles much swifter.

Talbot

Definition: Hitting the metal with a polished flat hammer agains a stake with a matching interior curve.

Consistent planishing is the key to good armor. Without it, virtually no ammount of grindng or polishing will make a consistent surface.

Talbot

I would definitely be down for some silver buttons, so I'm interested also. Silver with a semi-precious stone would be about esquire level for his dressin' up clothes, I figure. I have read and seen online that what you want is to make a "tree" with a bunch of the item you want made on it, in wax, ...

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Like most armour, the design is very influenced by the date. What time period were you thinking of?

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Can you document your supposition? Brian beat me to it. He said exactly what I was going to say. I would only add that several surviving peieces have substantial burrs left on the insides. this is suggestive of a "metal-moving" ranther than "metal-removing" tool like a Roper whitney punch or the uS...

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The Arhibald Lisle haubergeon is extremely tailored. It belongs to the RA Leeds but I believe it is (or at least was) on loan to Louisville.

Talbot

I love my shirt! Thanks so much!

Talbot

I beleive they used drive punches in u- shaped iron holders. Interesting idea, do you have evidence to support this? I believe they drifted the holes using tapered punches. Punching from both sides over and over until the hole was the right size. I've used this technique many times. It leaved the s...

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I'm laid up and cannot get to my pics but here are two.

There is a 14th century carved bone buckle with a skull on it. It is pure fantasy.

There is a Roman "swiss army knife". Maybe one of the Roman guys here will be able to point us to pictures.

Talbot

We have them as well. Try combining the pointed loop buckle set with bar mounts. Right on for the 13th century.

Talbot

That is beautiful! Was it based on an extant piece or is it in the style of?
In either case it is lovely. I really like the depth of the wood.

Talbot

That is amazing!. I would never buy that as real. It even has a Thor's hammer like shape in it. Pure fantasy!

Talbot

You always have some of the coolest trivia. I'm full of useless information. The Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner has a put forward the Multiple Inelligences theory. In this different people have different strenghts. Some people have musical intelligence, others have Visual/spatial intelligence,...

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One more thought--Use heat. It will make the whole process manageable.

Talbot

Two thoughts here: 1. make this a practice piece. I often make 3 of something that comes in pairs the first time I make it. I learn on the first one and then make fewer mistakes on the ones I actually use. 2. There is a 14th century leg in a private english collection. It was once on display at the ...

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It depends on what you want to do. I have a large capacity (5 gallon system) that meets all of my needs. What it would not do for me is allw me to gild the borders and bands on 16th century etched armour. Sinve I do not make 16th century etche armour I think I am OK. If I ever want ot do this I blie...

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knowing where will make a huge difference. In England you cannot go wrong with John, Edward, Richard, Robert, Henry and William. Aaron, your own name is not particularly noble name and is more assiciated with Jews, like most biblical names other tham Adam, at the time in England. If you want to dig ...

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I said eerily... because I could not remember the details of the Oakeshott piece, having seen it once and not having any pictures. My head contained a foggy rememberance of the piece. I could not remember details. Hence my request for pictures. Perhaps vaguely was a more correct word than eerily. V...

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It looks very eerily similar to the one in the Oakeshott collection (except that the Oakeshott piece had a more typical fan style).... did anyone get photos of that? (Please don't post them) just wanting somone to compare. Eerily similar? have you looked at the Oakeshott arm? It has all the featues...

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Although it sounds like things are bad at your home right now they may not be bad forever. I strongly suspect that your mom has some unstated concerns that may have very little to do with armouring. I know that she supports you as a person--Hell you two flew all the way from Massachusets to an armou...

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Im guessing this harness was pieced together by the museum's staff from the museums collection and not actually found all the pieces together (no information is given on this point). But the eye-catchers are the plates covering the chest over the maille; as they seem to me very similar to the Met's...

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Welcome to the Archive! Glad to hear of another Illinois armourer. Most of us are up in the Chicgo area. Let me know if I can be of assistance. Maybe you can come up some Friday for one of our armouring nights. It'd be a long drive ut we have lots of fun.

Talbot

Here is what I posted in this other thread. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=64446&highlight=treatments There are records of painted armour and a couple of surving pieces show traces of having been painted at some point in their lives. Most notably there is the great helm in Nu...

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I use the purple degreaser, then hose it off and dry it quickly and thoroughly. ( Doing it on a hot sunny day helps with this) There will probably be som spotty rust so I then have tumbled it. My tumbler will do aventails nively and I have done about 6 in this way. It is not big enough for a chirt s...

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lovely work!

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I would go further yet than Doug, and say that knights would definitely have retinue sufficient to keep one's harness in fine condition, and that even an esquire would employ a dog's body or two or share one with another esquire in his Captain's employ to handle such needs. I may depict the fiction...

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My squire should have caught this quadruple post!

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