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Keegan Ingrassia

Sweet, that matching pommel is a nice addition!

Keegan Ingrassia

The importance of patterns to me comes from a slightly different background. I’ve always been a tinkerer, but where I really began to train my ‘eye’ was first in drawing and illustration. And when I first started out drawing, I would look to finished works from other artists that I admired, and woul...

Keegan Ingrassia

Uh...what about the churburg helm?

Though, I suppose this is more a close helm, with a missing side-pivot visor.

Keegan Ingrassia

Welcome! We've got a lot of professional armorers on the board, and even more links and contacts to one's who aren't. We'll get you sorted. :) The reason for picking a time period is that it helps you in the long run. Less money wasted picking up things you ultimately won't use. Also, armor generall...

Keegan Ingrassia

Thanks for keeping us informed. Will definitely keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Keegan Ingrassia

I would think it would do okay...not sure how well it'd hold its shape across the center. No handy tree available?

Keegan Ingrassia

Custom Chainmail is run by Jestyr, here on the Archive. Might try shooting him a message, see if he's got any standards on hand.

Keegan Ingrassia

What specifically, Tom? Interesting features to me is that the mitten lames over the fingers only covers three of the fingers, though there is a hole to presumably attach a pinky. Exterior knuckle rider. Very interesting, the last piece of the metacarpal plate articulates, and the plate below it con...

Keegan Ingrassia

Ron, the images that Ernst showed you are all depictions of a leather suspension system. Those are flaps that are attached around the brow, then tied together at the peak.

Here is a modern example.

Keegan Ingrassia

Hey Boris, are the faulds on that kit horizontal hoops, or vertical dags? What's the back look like?

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There should at least be some form of laced-in padding for that helm. On both the original and the replica, you can see the pairs of holes around the circumference as well as a few more up towards the peak. If it had just been around the brow, I would posit a leather suspension liner, but the extra ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Your fight with the cracks notwithstanding, Mac, I'm always impressed at how you make your welds disappear. I really look forward to trying your method when I have a better heat source.

Keegan Ingrassia

Link works. Nice shots! I'd never noticed it before, but the corset-looking body bracelet has holes for an attached liner. Man, imagine the statement a piece like that would make, polished and backed with a vibrant red silk velvet or similar.

Keegan Ingrassia

Someone just recently mentioned saving the curly pigtail kerf from cuts they made with their nibbler, and uncurling them to use as weld filler. That would be an easy way to get a consistent width. Electric or air powered nibblers are less expensive than a Bev, too. You might even be able to use it f...

Keegan Ingrassia

Is it safe to guess that you're tacking with a MIG, then torch welding with a filler rod?

Keegan Ingrassia

I seem to remember a hole in the peak of several bascinets...for an applied ball finial with a plume off the top of that.

Oh, and there is a center hinged klapp that has a plume holder forged into the turning handle of the visor mount.

Keegan Ingrassia

Man, those triangular rolls are crisp. Nice work!

Keegan Ingrassia

I've etched on occasion, but I never thought of the Styrofoam trick before, or using a dryer for the heat and agitation! You just revolutionized my approach to etching; thanks!!

Keegan Ingrassia

What about the possibility of a positive and negative form sandwiching the plastic? Control of thickness, positive and negative creases...downside would be the prep time. But for something like soupcan knees with a flared edge, you wouldn't need an entire negative. The positive would be the knee bul...

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Hmmm...stretched and secured correctly, you could probably pull off some nice fluted pieces...

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Whooo!

Keegan Ingrassia

This is one of those threads that is going to be bookmarked and linked to newcomers for years.

Keegan Ingrassia

Gaston de Clermont makes some kickass tempered steel splints.
http://burgundianhours.blogspot.com/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=176049&hilit=splints

Keegan Ingrassia

Howdy Count! That is a crisp looking helmet.

Keegan Ingrassia

Another oddity...The hinge continues up into the cuff of the gauntlet.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roelipila ... otostream/

Keegan Ingrassia

Icepocca , as Mac pointed out, they should have some subtle asymmetry to them that makes a question like that difficult to answer. However, in a general sense (for this period of time), the profile of it from the side is mostly round. The sides are supposed to be flush with the lames, yes...if I am...

Keegan Ingrassia

Hey look, a post about actual armor! Yesterday was the first sunny, pretty day here in about the last three months. I had most of the day to myself, so rather than sit inside and sew, I threw open the doors to the shed-shop. Spent most of the morning cleaning rust off of hammers and stakes; humidit...

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That is true. The twist should be put in after the majority of the shaping, and before the edges get trimmed. So more like...major shaping, lay in center crease, twist , final marrying of the front and back, trim edges, rough sanding, add any rolls, cut any slots or holes, rough polish, add hinges a...

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It's actually more common than you would think. A lot of people walk with their toes pointed out or in from straight ahead. The man who wore these likely walked a bit bow-legged, with his toes pointed out. Adding in the twist is easy. Wedge one end in a vice or between a couple wood blocks, and twis...

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Seriously. Just one button at the neck to hold it all together. Undo the top loop from the button and give the front a tug, and the whole thing zippers open like a ripcord. Cool idea.

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It certainly looks like a hinge. I don't see why they'd put a hinge there as a non-functional decoration...if it is functional, it seems that the pin would need to slide down to remove it, since there is no exposed pin head to grab onto at the neck hem.

Keegan Ingrassia

Continuing. 60% down the front.

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RandallMoffett wrote:Mac,

I am onboard with that. I was thinking about it largely as something one does not see often in reenactment so something worthy of being done.

RPM

That's certainly one of my motivations for including them on my 1380-1410 kit. That and the aforementioned wealth of imagery showing them.

Keegan Ingrassia

Allan, here is a rather nice tutorial on rolling an edge, which can drastically stiffen and strengthen the plate. :) http://www.ageofarmour.com/education/armour_rolled_edges1.html As to strapping, I personally like oil-tanned leather. Other options are latigo leather, or even leather that has been r...

Keegan Ingrassia

Further work. Now at 50%...The big halfway mark.

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