The Armour Archive

Keegan Ingrassia

Baron Conal wrote:
Marco-borromei wrote:
On a related note, I'm stunned at how much simple rustoleum spray paint over oil based primer looks like gold leaf.

Pics?

Right? Second the request, perhaps with a mini step-by if there's something tricky about what you did.

Keegan Ingrassia

Pinterest might have a big chunk of duplicates, Tom. I know for a fact that yesterday there was a swath of 14th century stuff that I had already pinned a week ago...and Pinterest did the whole "psst! You've already pinned this" when I went to add them to my board.

Keegan Ingrassia

Seriously, Ernst?

Be glad I didn't use use one of the "sexy shirtless cowboys with Texas flag" images.

Keegan Ingrassia

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Best suggestion I can give is, it's sometimes easier to see a process than explain it.

To that end, here is Eric Dubé's YouTube page. Watch every video concerned with making armor.
https://www.youtube.com/user/SgtViktor

Keegan Ingrassia

Option one: lots of mail. Long sleeves, mittens, mail chausses with feet. Top with a long, sleeveless surcoat. Add in a kite shield. Option two: padded gambeson. Padded chausses. Mail exposed on the feet and shins. Padded mittens integral to gambeson. Option three: long mail sleeves. Coat of plates ...

Keegan Ingrassia

No worries at all, mate. No one walks into this craft and knows how to do all of it right the first time. Or even the eleventh time. And you don't need to explain anything to us, or apologize for progress. Take care of yourself first, and keep this craft a pleasurable one, and not a burden. We'll be...

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, overarching date ranges would be helpful. Sifting through hundreds of 1500-1600 cuirasses (cuirasii?) is pretty, but not helpful if you're trying to track down 1400-1500 white harness. Separating the collection into body, arm, leg, etc defense would also be useful when looking for a specific p...

Keegan Ingrassia

Mm...a helm like that needs at least a knee-length dress, better if it's mid-calf. It would simply overwhelm a shorter sundress. Perhaps needs a fuller gathering in the skirt, and a high waist, to offset the heavy lines of the face.

Keegan Ingrassia

My advice would be full size drawings of the helmet you want to make. Front and side at the least, from the top is also useful. From those, make profile templates out of heavy paper or thin plywood. Make them to match the silhouette of the helmet from the side and front, and also perhaps the oval sh...

Keegan Ingrassia

Your elbow looks nice. I do have one suggestion: keep that inside corner radiused into an arc while you're shaping the elbow and fan, then trim the inside edge to its final shape before you move to sanding and polishing. The sharp transition of the edge is focusing stress there while you're working,...

Keegan Ingrassia

I hate to suggest this, but you can add tags to photos and photo albums in Flickr. You can then view only the images that have that tag. For instance, a tag could be "14th century", "bascinet", or even "fake". There isn't a limit on tags to a photo, so you could be as granular as you liked about it....

Keegan Ingrassia

Trystyn of Anglesey wrote:
Halvgrimr wrote:I am guessing Tim wont refute your assertions there Harry.

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Keegan Ingrassia

I'm going to need an entire day at my desktop to go through all those pins...I've been snagging snippets as I see them scroll across my tablet, but it's like drinking from a firehose. In a good way, but I don't want to miss anything. And then, a lifetime of study. Thanks again for putting these out ...

Keegan Ingrassia

That last "sallet" makes my teeth itch. It's not even the right shape for the very roughest mass-produced sallet...which makes the fact that it has a somewhat finished surface suspect, as opposed to being painted...which then makes the cast decorative edging look all the more out of place. And that ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Mm, sounds like a relatively common issue that can happen during etching. Back when I did a bit of jewelry work, we made sure not to put our white metals (silver, steel) into acidic solution that had already had yellow metals in it. Something about the dissolved particles essentially plating themsel...

Keegan Ingrassia

Mm, I'm inclined to agree with you. I had passed over several similar effigies that were more clearly lames. Looking back on them, it is easier to see this one, also, as lames.

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, I sifted through a bit of Effigies and Brasses. Here are a few examples of scale sabatons. The shape of the scale varies, but they are all clearly scale of one form or another. http://effigiesandbrasses.com/1351/1360/ http://effigiesandbrasses.com/1353/1362/ http://effigiesandbrasses.com/1880/...

Keegan Ingrassia

At that price, you could also get custom sized riveted mail, from one of the locals on this board (jestyr), shipped from a U.S. location.

http://www.customchainmail.com/product- ... aventails/

Keegan Ingrassia

I'll second wearing safety glasses always, but especially while using a wire wheel. Once I was just knocking some rust off an axe "real quick", and almost didn't put on a pair...glad I reconsidered. I was grinding along, then heard "kTAK!" and my head got jerked back like I'd just caught a BB in the...

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, this thread is about a rectangular tent, but some details in there might prove useful for tent-making in general.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=149735

Keegan Ingrassia

Even for fun and hitting it with sticks, the paint will get scuffed and scraped, and the edge buggered up. A shield is a consumable resource. But, properly edging it, and coating the face wth a good clear coat, can prolong the life of your paint job.

Keegan Ingrassia

I'll second that!

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Oh, specifically for the hammer swinging folk: Stop laying your thumb up the length of the handle in an effort for more control. You are destroying your tendons. Stop gripping your hammer like you're trying to choke the art out of it. You're transferring too much of the vibrations into your bones. F...

Keegan Ingrassia

And being a sergeant-at-arms would help to explain your less expensive, behind-the-times helmet..

Keegan Ingrassia

I was wondering how you were doing that, what with thousands upon thousands of images and links.

Keegan Ingrassia

Oh, my branded palm reminded me of this one: All metal in the shop is at a black heat. You can't see it glowing, but it will still flash-fry your skin. This goes double when there are people other than you in the shop. You may always put the barstock heated point down after pulling it out of the for...

Keegan Ingrassia

Everything in the shop is sharp, heavy, hot, or some combination of the three. If it falls, don't try to catch it out of reflex...get out of its way. In conjunction with the sharp tools tip, polished hammers mean less work and therefore less fatigue, so less chance for injuring yourself when tired. ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Well now, that is curious! With slots that long, it would feasibly compress as much as a leather...
And speaking of leather, the straps...are they covered in velvet, or a thinner piece of decorative leather? They're wrapped in something...

Keegan Ingrassia

I'm impressed that the hinge half coming from the visor is part of the visor, as opposed to being riveted on afterwards. Also, the ladder construction on the upper half of the hinge, and the hooked pegs on the helmet to lock it in place.

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, we could start with the regional quirks. For instance, the suit couldn't have fully enclosed cuisses...that is primarily an English attribute.

Keegan Ingrassia

Tom, thanks a million for taking the time to do this. This is great.

Keegan Ingrassia

This is one of those shapes where it really is easier to make it out of metal than pretty much anything else...

Keegan Ingrassia

That one is flat like a table. Which is typically the way people make round shields nowadays, because it's easy. And if you're just looking for something to play around with, it'll be fine. Lots of people use 1/2" thick, flat wooden shields for much heavier fighting than what you've got in mind. But...

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, if $200 is your breaking point for a real shield that will stand up to abuse, your best bet will probably be making one. The ones below that price are often junk...good to hang on a wall and look at, perhaps...and you'll quickly find them destroyed if you go smacking them with sticks. For inst...

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