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Keegan Ingrassia

You could always take out the sneck hook, and put a spring push-pin up at the brow. Wouldn't be in the way of the vervailes or aventail, and it would be easily gotten to by a gauntleted hand. If you're worried about a random blow managing to hit it and pop open the visor, install two.

Keegan Ingrassia

What size head will this fit?

Keegan Ingrassia

I would assume that the front articulates on an internal leather, and the rivets are hidden...like it seems the faulds are. And you're right about the vambraces; I'd never noticed that before. I suppose it is asymmetrical, like the rest of the armour, to match it's purpose. Though I notice that the ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Right, on this harness a mail collar, or standard, is used rather than a gorget.

Keegan Ingrassia

It seems so. The line diagram also depicts it in the same manner. In fact, you can see the rivet on the back of the harness, clearly showing the lowest lame of the pauldron being "on top".

Keegan Ingrassia

That is the Avant harness, made by the Milanese workshop about 1445, housed in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow.

ETA:
http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/v ... 8&i=391397

Images:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/N ... armour.jpg
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/ ... 93965e.jpg
http://strelci.webzdarma.cz/galerie/Avant_Armour_02.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/N ... _terms.jpg

Keegan Ingrassia

Ack, yes, I should have typed more clearly. Two eyelets per point.

Keegan Ingrassia

Seriously. Just a decent tap with a sharp sword will cut through gambeson and flesh, and bite bone. The video of that little experiment has been posted here before.

Keegan Ingrassia

*sings hopefully* Sunny days are here again...?

Keegan Ingrassia

Oh, and you'll want a base to saw on. It makes it infinitely easier than trying to hang the metal off the edge of your table. Looks like this: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5623223947_215441b432_z.jpg It's just a piece of wood with a v-groove cut into it, tapering in thickness underneath. I ma...

Keegan Ingrassia

Yup. You start with a sheet of steel larger than the piece you are going to finish with. As you raise, aka shrink, the piece, you reduce the overall surface area, squishing and compressing the metal into a smaller, yet thicker, piece of steel.

Savvy?

Keegan Ingrassia

Two points, horizontal to the hang of the piece is the general practice. Placing the holes one over the other would put the weight on just one hole, rather than diving the weight between the two. Personally, I'd mark the points while your arm is halfway. Then, whatever shifting it might do while mov...

Keegan Ingrassia

Here's an interesting thought, Signo (fueled by late-night posting and sleep deprivation): By hammering on air from the inside, you are basically raising in reverse. You've just switched the position of your hammer, and what you're hammering against. It lets you get to places you couldn't from the o...

Keegan Ingrassia

Crispy-clean!

Keegan Ingrassia

Holy freaking crap.

I don't like kettle helms, and I love this!

Keegan Ingrassia

You have access to a large-format plotter then, Galfrid? So far, my smaller templates go in page protectors in a binder. However, I'm stealing the portfolio book idea for future projects. My larger patterns for clothing, I saftey pin all relevant pieces to one another, label the stack, and for the t...

Keegan Ingrassia

Sure!

http://store.metalliferous.com/
Metals: Silver, brass, copper, bronze, etc...sheet, rod, tube, etc etc etc
Tools: sawframes, flux, mandrels, pliers, etc

www.contenti.com
Books
Solder
Files
Saw blades

Keegan Ingrassia

Yep. Practice yer soldering.

Sweat soldering, also called overlaying, specifically.

Keegan Ingrassia

Yeahhh...no, sorry. There's a reason painters start with a blank (read, white) canvas. As a general rule, the darker the canvas, the more coats of paint to overcome the background. You'd need an opaque sheet of paint, to overcome black, as opposed to just a couple coats on a white canvas. The same i...

Keegan Ingrassia

And if you've got some old red and blue glasses, rotate it in 3D!

Keegan Ingrassia

Canvas that is white. Natrual canvas also works, but may not yield as vibrant of colors.

Keegan Ingrassia

Uhm...why a black canvas? Why not white? Did you put some kind of primer layer on the canvas, before laying down the red acrylic? If not, then the canvas is just going to keep sucking your colored paint into the fabric.

Keegan Ingrassia

A lead block from McMaster Carr springs to mind.

Keegan Ingrassia

The Beverlys are the cream of the crop, obviously. And you pay for it. The Harbour Freight knockoffs are hit-or-miss. You'll hear about people who have used them for decades with no trouble, and others who chipped a blade on the first stroke. Buying a replacement set of blades seems to fix this. A d...

Keegan Ingrassia

Evil man!

I just had to do that on some steel piercework I just finished, because my jewelers saw was MIA. Took more time to file the edges clean...with needle files!...than any other stage of the process.

Keegan Ingrassia

Of course, if you're not riveting the two pieces together, you could always sweat solder the pieces together....a good technique to learn, if you plan on eventually moving on to precious metals, or more difficult pieces. For example... http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4790434722_8cffd298ec_z.jpg ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Ooooo!

Marking this for later...definitely going to be needing one of these!

Keegan Ingrassia

Dismemberment comes to mind, Gaston...

Keegan Ingrassia

It'd be great to hear about how you did them, Wade. You're a little far away to stroll over for a chat in your shop, though.

Keegan Ingrassia

Laugh, draw a backup weapon, and stab him in the face a couple of times.

Keegan Ingrassia

More likely a comment towards Derian than you, Glaukos...

Keegan Ingrassia

Sure. Either click with the middle mouse button, or hold down Ctrl while you left click.

Keegan Ingrassia

Size ~ 22.5"-23.5", for all y'all westerners.

Keegan Ingrassia

Foxman wrote:
SifuJason wrote:Saw the link and ordered it and some Brig armor. Can't wait to get it. Thank you for the find.

My pleasure!

Oooo...their Corazzina looks tempting...

Keegan Ingrassia

Dan Rossetti wrote:http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=131433&p=1942451#p1942451 this one? I bought one from him a few months ago, very nice work.

That was the one that sprung to my mind as soon as I read this thread. Soo nice!

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