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- Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:30 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Icefalcon improved mail sleeves - Pre-order now!
- Replies: 148
- Views: 6860
Re: Icefalcon improved mail sleeves - Pre-order now!
Probably until the minimum number of pre-orders had been placed. I think that number was around ten.
- Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Reauesting instructions From knowledgable persons.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 432
Re: Reauesting instructions From knowledgable persons.
Well, a great start is to use the search function here. Top right of the page. 
We've had a multitude of projects done over the years. Many people helpfully provide step-by-step progress pictures.
We've had a multitude of projects done over the years. Many people helpfully provide step-by-step progress pictures.- Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: crossbow bolts and longbow arrows against armor
- Replies: 161
- Views: 1988
Re: crossbow bolts and longbow arrows against armor
Then you have to factor in the velocity of the target and whether it is additive or subtractive to the arrow's velocity...inertia and mass of the object struck, as well. A massive object, like a torso, would move less (and therefore absorb more) than a limb (which could be more easily moved by the b...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:52 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th century hats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 749
Re: 14th century hats
Thanks for the tip, Wilhelm! I got it the day after Christmas, and its currently sitting on my dresser at home, folded and pressed under a little bit of weight. I'll have to try your method when I get home.
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 8:36 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Glued Canvas (was: Linothorax Armour?)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 228
Re: Glued Canvas (was: Linothorax Armour?)
Sounds a bit like what is done to make plaster casts. As long as the glue set somewhat flexible, instead of brittle, it makes sense to me. Brittle glue would start to delaminate when hit. ETA: I think I would follow Frank's advice...with one addition. Once you've gotten to your desired thickness and...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:49 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th century hats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 749
Re: 14th century hats
Historicenterprises.com is currently offering a felt hat that can be worn as an acorn hat, a bycocket or a simple brimmed cap that would fit the bill. http://historicenterprises.com/mens-c-99/hats-hoods-c-99_118/hat-medieval-felt-13th15th-century-p-1546.html Hope this helps. :!: I've been searching...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:22 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: 2" Mandrake tips suck and you all know it
- Replies: 212
- Views: 5187
Re: 2" Mandrake tips suck and you all know it
Yeah...no thanks. Already enough barn door carriers in this kingdom...no need to give them even more incentive for bad technique.Paladin74 wrote:Outlaw thrusts to the face. Clear that problem right on up.
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:33 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: been in the hospital
- Replies: 7
- Views: 442
Re: been in the hospital
Geeze...welcome back, MMatt. 
Glad you're okay.
Glad you're okay.- Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:31 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Greaves/schinbalds in progress
- Replies: 16
- Views: 495
Re: Greaves/schinbalds in progress
Sure thing! If Pep Boys isn't carrying it, you can find the exact same hammer on Amazon at the same price. For $8.50, you can't not grab a couple.
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:58 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Greaves/schinbalds in progress
- Replies: 16
- Views: 495
Re: Greaves/schinbalds in progress
Randall, I've found this to be an inexpensive and decent raising hammer, after you dress the face to be smoother and knock down the sharp edges.
http://www.pepboys.com/product/details/9878082/01036/
http://www.pepboys.com/product/details/9878082/01036/
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:06 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 97930
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
Ya think there's enough interest in plans to warrant selling them now? 
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:11 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: 10 arrows and back quiver for sale.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 490
Re: 10 arrows and back quiver for sale.
Dammity-damn damn. What a steal!
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:13 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1245
Re: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
+1. First time ever.MJBlazek wrote:The thing is, for the most of us here, this IS the first bad thing we have heard about RFTH.
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
As promised, here is the body, quilted and stitched together. Next on the list is quilting the upper and lower arms and sewing them together, then attaching the sleeves to the body. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7296/11201062964_924254bca8_z.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2845/11201055145_6aa0e96...
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Thanks Steve!
As an aside, this thread is getting to be a bit long (and old...two years, yikes), but I thought it worked out better to compile the whole kit process on one thread, instead of spreading it out over twenty smaller progress threads.
As an aside, this thread is getting to be a bit long (and old...two years, yikes), but I thought it worked out better to compile the whole kit process on one thread, instead of spreading it out over twenty smaller progress threads.
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Plodding along with the progress. I sewed the two back panels together tonight, and quilted the two front body panels. If all goes well tomorrow evening, I'll have the body sewn together before Wednesday, and the sleeves quilted and attached by the weekend. I'll snap some pictures of the body tomorr...
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:56 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Believe it or not, progress is being made. :) Just tonight I finally finished sewing all the sub-assemblies together; lining, batting, and shell. After assembling all the gores into the upper arms, I sandwiched the batting between shell and liner and ditch-stitched along each gore seam to make sure ...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:36 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: how to pad or what to pad a helm with?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 382
Re: how to pad or what to pad a helm with?
+1 to natural fibers, especially linen. Breathable, flexible, and resilient. And washable...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:46 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 97930
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
----What are you willing to pay for a set of plans? I can't honestly give a good answer to that; I've never bought a set of construction plans for furniture before, so I've no frame of reference. Clothes plans are in the dozens, house plans in the hundreds to thousands. I hope this number isn't ins...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:34 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. (the short version)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 848
Re: Mac's new chest. (the short version)
*drool*CTrumbore wrote:Hmm... wenge, ebony, or choice walnut for the rails, stiles, and side panels, waterfall maple, or leopardwood for the panels, roycrofter inspired hardware...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
I believe I've posted this before, but here are my sketches for the quilting lines for this garment. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8230975837_d0b7a39aab.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8342/8232038854_4f097af6f4.jpg As you can see, the horizontal waist quilting flares up into the circular arc...
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:59 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 97930
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
Oh my God, that's brilliant. Its beyond my meager wood working skills, even if I had plans, but I'd pay someone to make that for me. Thanks, Marco! It won't me making it, though. I know how much work is involved, and the labor charge would be scarey. Mac I'd make one for my living room, as guest be...
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:34 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 97930
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
But, we need to swing the legs down... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_dlcQyEm4lY/UlWs4sVKRvI/AAAAAAAABzE/xHiU3bObh2I/s640/SDC19150.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-irEx5sIeAAY/UlWs50De-oI/AAAAAAAABzM/ylUF8gP547A/s640/SDC19151.JPG Mac, I'm a bit curious about a detail here on the ends of ...
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:44 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 97930
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
Magnificently ingenious. 
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
More progress the last couple nights. All the lining linen has been cut out and the seam allowances marked. The sleeves have been assembled in two parts; upper and lower. Once I've sewn the lower back to the upper back tomorrow night, I'll start cutting out and layering batting, then mark down and c...
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Surly apprentice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 568
Re: Surly apprentice
Welcome and well come to the Archive, Jasen.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:56 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Fingers, mittens and thumbs for SCA Heavy Combat
- Replies: 15
- Views: 506
Re: Fingers, mittens and thumbs for SCA Heavy Combat
Its often a personal preference. Some people just don't feel comfortable. Part of it is also misinformation in the SCA; people believe that finger gauntlets can't possibly protect your hands unless they ground out or are supplemented with bucklers. Mitten gaunts are faster, cheaper, and easier to ma...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Hey thanks, Tableau. :) I benefit from having an extremely average physique, so patterns usually fit me without too much alteration. I'd made a cotehardie before this that is about an inch too tight everywhere; like a blue woolen sausage casing. That's one of the primary reasons I'll be lacing this ...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
I don't believe so...those are more likely in the next two centuries. A grand bascinet would have an attached neck plate, though. Those would be around 1390-1410.
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:15 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Another chunk of progress tonight. I got the muslin pattern ripped back to pieces, and transferred them to my lining fabric. Oh, and a little tip: hand-sewn running stitches are much easier to rip out than a sewing machine stitch line. I could tear out the former like a zipper, but had to inch my wa...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Another evening spent sewing. Finished fitting together all the muslin pieces. Here's a shot of the whole thing. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7310/10063983546_077eb2e396_c.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2893/10063987006_bdbf32aca9_c.jpg After fitting the sleeves to the body, I've found that I've...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:58 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
:lol: I've considered just going ahead and dying those cuisses blue, if only to cut down on the Great Bambino look. Or perhaps a pale green...haven't decided yet. Anything but white. Baseball was never my pastime. Speaking of white, I've got some shots of the muslin mockup of my aketon. Seems like t...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:18 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 464
- Views: 19343
Re: A vision of a dream - help me perfect my kit
Another bit of a thread bump. Finally finished up those padded cuisses I've had floating around. What with the wedding less than two weeks out, I'm getting more and more time to work on these projects as wedding planning stuff gets crossed off the list. Ah...I didn't bother pulling on my hosen for t...
- Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:32 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Yet another question about chain mail.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 253
Re: Yet another question about chain mail.
Well, it depends. If you're 5' and weigh 100lbs, you're going to need substantially less rings than a 6' 300lb guy. That said, a full-sized hauberk will probably run at least 40k rings.
- Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:36 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: No more ring belts!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 716
Re: No more ring belts!
Squarely in the 70s and 80s of the 14th century. Check out the fur-lined tippet in the image, as well as the buttoned-sleeved, wasp-waisted cotehardie. I would hazard that those are purse hangers, not buckles. Especially as there is a tasseled purse hanging from it.