The Armour Archive

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In the knight and the blast furnace, Williams lists some more, here's a selection: Hofjagd- und Rustkammer, Vienna, A498, attributed to Filippo Negroli: 0.2 % C Wallace Collection A205, possibly by the Negroli workshop: medium carbon steel Hofjagd- und Rustkammer, Vienna, A498h, signed Filippo Negro...

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Toastygawa wrote:I'm a DJ at a strip club.

Toastygawa wrote:BTW, if the demand is great, I'll take a pic of my work and post it

I'll leave it to the other posters to say how great the demand is...

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Sir Gaston wrote:Hey Ugo, that Sweden offer sounds good, road trip?

I could introduce you guys to Katja!

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I happened to be browsing some pages for Norton or 3M some weeks ago, and came across some very interesting pages describing just the types of belts for various materials. Some important factors for belt life are belt speed and pressure, rather than hardness of the grinding material. For industrial ...

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http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=43459

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How about http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=43459

When I checked just a minute ago everything seemed to be there in good shape.

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Or you can cut it wiiith.....

A herring!

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When raising a sallet it really wanted to be a kettlehat (in fact, just about any helmet wants that at some time during the raising stage). So some time ago I decided to raise a kettlehat, posted pictures, and got the response from someone: with just a little bit more work, you can turn that into a ...

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I ask all these things because SCA jousting just seems to be coming on, but the rules they are seeming to come up with are so watered down they almost seem silly. (It makes me think of nerf-jousting) I've tried something along these lines about 10 years ago over here in Europe. I gave up after runn...

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ive been wondering the three rivets that are in the middle of the brestplate are those sliding rivets? Nope, they're fixed. Seems to be common like that in german gothic. In fact, those three rivets (bolts for now) go through 3 layers of steel, rather than 2. It was just easier that way. Bascot, it...

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Thanks Jason, just the kind of answer I was hoping for! I've tried the same technique as you describe, but starting with a 1/4" blank, and in the end used forming and planishing from the outside too. The outside work removed the hammermarks on the inside, which were very similar to the ones in the p...

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Jason, in the AotM thread you mention that you've only used internal hammering techniques for this sallet:
http://www.grimmarmoury.com/images/sallet.jpg

Could you tell a bit more about what you did, an your experiences?

Great looking piece of work, btw!

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James B. wrote:Looks kinda like the singer from archenemy.

Katja has a waspier waist!

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OK, another picture, still with a cardboard backplate here:

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If this is the first time you're raising something, make sure you start with plenty of margin (which also means a whole lot of extra work which you'll cut away later). Depending on your technique/style, the metal may stretch or compress or anything inbetween during the raising. My suggestion is the ...

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Just bragging a little. And I'm not talking about the armour! About the backplate, it's still very coarse. The hips will need to flare out a bit more, and the shape will need to be refined. A little bit of material will need to be trimmed from the armholes. Perhaps the waist will be worked in a litt...

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MikeA wrote:A piece of proofed armour with a description of how you proofed it (extra points for blackpowder).

Yes!!!

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Way to go!

But: from what I've seen of the originals, they seem to be made in one piece, with a seam going out to the tip. Either riveted or brazed or forgewelded (the latter of which I haven't seen myself).

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A couple of close-up pictures of another similar suit, by Lorenz Helmschmied, for Maximilan, about the same time as the Sigismund armour:
(warning, BIG pictures)
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02307.jpg
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02308.jpg
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02313.jpg
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02314.jpg
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02331.jpg
http://www.astro.lu.se/~ralph/pics/lege ... C02341.jpg

And a thread at Arador which may contain some interesting info:
http://www.arador.com/discforums/index. ... topic=2619

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Patrick, did you roll the edges hot or cold?

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I'm running out of fuel for my forge. A bag of cokes (100 liter) will cost me well over $50. One bag will be enough for 2 or 3 helmets. I've just ordered a bunch of carbon steel which will cost me several hundred dollars, but will be enough for quite a bit of armour. If I'd take a trip over to Denma...

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Count me in for a copy! Provided I can view it on my region 2 DVD player, or in other words: make sure the DVD is region-free.

But don't even bother with the good-oldfashioned regular magnetic video-tapes for my part!

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Mercenary wrote:Thank you very much. What's his tele #?

1-800-jackson

(or was that Michaels? Oh well, Mike won't be able to answer now...)

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What surprises me is the apparant accuracy of the reflections in the metal. These either indicate a very good painter with great sense of geometry, or could suggest that the painter actually had this prop in his workshop and used it when painting this work. To me, it makes sense as an improvement of...

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OK, if you're putting it that way, I'll let you in on the secret we're all sitting on: contact PJ, and the Weta guys, and they'll send you a photocopy of the pattern, if you ask nicely.

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Mandy?

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Try to get your hands on the Lord of the Rings - Weapons and Warfare, or Art of the Fellowship of the Ring, etc. These books contain a lot of production drawings, used to create the actual movie armour. And bunches of nice pictures of course.

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Just any tool steel might not be the best choice. Most modern tool steels are too highly alloyed (other stuff than Fe and C in it). This is very good for the heat treating, strength, edgeholding and lots of other properties. But unfortunately, it's usually bad for strikers, you just don't get a nice...

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I just noticed one boo-boo in the picture: check out the armours in the background, in the middle of the top of the picture. The armour parts are mirrored! About the tools: over the years I've been identifying some of them. A few months ago I ran into a picture of one of the Y-shaped stakes in use, ...

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I'm always willing to learn! The use of coal in northern and central Europe during the middle ages has completely slipped my attention, do you have any references? I've dug through my books and have not been able to find any references to the use of coal in Sweden (or Scandinavia) during the middle ...

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Seems you have some really nice coal to start from! Over here where I buy my coal and cokes, there is one (yep!) type of coal to choose from, in one size. It's catered towards blacksmiths, so it's the right size. No idea where it comes from, but Poland is just a boatride away, and Russia isn't that ...

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maximilian & armourer in google images came up with [url=http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0ZQAAAN8gMcFGWHhm8V8!iew8bpvkM1vQMZewin0QBTcAif3*CPL9dQuOkSBf7Fuwir1O!35H6rSKXrT5qyvPcpGcNUinUWY1V6uFsiFSJQZvnVF3oRebLW68hO27tnyzNM4uFJFjZzUDvLWbZDyHqA/Maximilian%20mit%20Armourer.jpg?dc=4675427704386390538] this ...

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Great piece of work, beautiful lines! Could you tell a little more about the tricks you used (profiles, stakes, stuff like that)? Looks similar to one I made a while ago, in some of the views: m m Thicker is definitely the way to go! I've made a few helmets in 2 mm, one in 3 mm, one in 6 mm (1/4"). ...

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Looking very promising! Was the body profile a trace of the customer, or just a generic sketch based on the customer's dimensions? Brian, I may have an iron ingot going some time soon. Nothing definite yet, but I'm trying to hunt down the right people at a reconstructed 13th century blast furnace, a...

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Coke is what you get after all the volatile, non-carbon impurities (mainly sulfur) burns out of the coal. You accomplish this by maintaining a low-oxygen, low-heat environment long enough for the crap to burn out; hence the water on the green coal while it sits on the perimeter of your fire. Coke i...

Jasons sallet?

Look what I get to play with!