The Armour Archive

Keegan Ingrassia

Ckanite, poke me about the photo this evening and I'll get it for you. But really, it's a chisel shape. Flat and square, with a sharpened, beveled face.

Keegan Ingrassia

Not in a creepy or ominous way, though. Well...maybe a little creepy.

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, that's obnoxious...thanks, Adobe. I'm about 60 pages in so far, and I really can't think of a better way to reference all the images, tables, and illustrations short of taking all of the files and building a book...or two books...one the thesis, the other a reference compilation. Then you coul...

Keegan Ingrassia

How come the point wasn't over your trousers outseam? Supporting only from the front means the legharness tries to work up and down on you as you move your leg. It isn't doing that displaced over on the side. ...unless you're moving your leg to the side, like when you get into a saddle. So, split t...

Keegan Ingrassia

You take a small, sharp chisel...about 1/16" to 3/16" in diameter...and walk the sharp edge across the metal. Corner of chisel, across, pivot on the opposite corner, across, pivot, across...it's called wiggle work, because you're wiggling your hand back and forth to walk the little chisel along. Mos...

Keegan Ingrassia

Small update. Added the file and wigglework to the brass edge of the right gauntlet. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5600/15266671447_33e0b96c6d_z.jpg https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5597/15453243425_25e6fdb50d_z.jpg https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2941/15453150242_6434cfee22_c.jpg https://farm3.static...

Keegan Ingrassia

Hm. I should have read my post here about doing the filework before attaching the thumb...no matter, I'll just put a piece of masking tape over the thumb to prevent any scuffing from an errant file. So, In the middle of rearranging rooms in the house, rebuilding furniture, visiting my cousin in the ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Thanks for the replies, everyone! Signo, I'm inclined to agree with you. I believe that the original reason Louis built his shoebox design was to focus all of the heat in one direction, and prevent it from escaping. Much like your "half chamber", to force all the heat through the only opening, and c...

Keegan Ingrassia

I keep forgetting to download this at home...far too big for my tablet. I'm extremely excited to start studying this. I'm also surprised that this isn't being discussed over at myarmoury.com.

Keegan Ingrassia

Leather grips make me happy.

Nice work!

Keegan Ingrassia

First off, welcome to the Archive! A good way to go about it is splinted armor for the vambrace and rerebrace, with a steel cop for the elbow. You could rivet the plastic (or steel, or even aluminum) splints under a leather exterior. You can pick up a pair of elbows from Cet at roughfromthehammer.co...

Keegan Ingrassia

Tom, this is just too cool.

Thank you for putting in the effort to make obscure, well-fitted mail...and then sharing it with us!

Keegan Ingrassia

Hmm...possibly as a web page, with a scrollable horizontal ribbon gallery for each series of photos. The sheer volume makes for an interesting problem. Perhaps an interactive, digital book?

Keegan Ingrassia

Oh my.

Keegan Ingrassia

Thanks for sharing, Tom! I look forward to reading through this.

Keegan Ingrassia

Gregoire de Lyon wrote:What is the giant staple looking thing on the left hand side of the helm (right hand side of the image)?

Thanks,

If memory serves, those are spacers to let this helm sit snugly inside a great helm. You can see another such tapered staple above the left brow.

Keegan Ingrassia

Resurrecting this thread...one, to hopefully inspire newcomers to get into raising. Two, to maybe encourage Louis to relink pictures (pretty please?). Also, to ask a question to those who will be more knowledgeable than my speculations. I'm noodling on building myself a micro-forge, and to that end,...

Keegan Ingrassia

That was an excellent read; thank you for sharing. That last bit about the arrowhead was, frankly, awesome...in the traditional sense.

Keegan Ingrassia

Love it. Those hooks look stout; you shaped them out of sheet, it looks like?

Keegan Ingrassia

And if you have any questions, you can always ask Talbot, here on the Archive.

Keegan Ingrassia

Been too long since we had a post in here. Have some 14th century HDR goodness! https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8145/7240526476_b88e0371dc_c.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8147/7248028600_d93e4a42cb_c.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7248028604_b93f1bdd01_c.jpg More here. https://www.flick...

Keegan Ingrassia

Didn't a few Norman personas do that, then cover the bars with mail to look like a coif under their skullcap?

Keegan Ingrassia

I concur!

Keegan Ingrassia

Any suggestions for how to get the incisions to really pop out? Patina the piece quite dark, then carefully repolish the higher face, leaving the deeper incisions darkened, then seal to preserve the effect. Basically, artificially antique it. You see it done a lot on college rings. https://img1.ets...

Keegan Ingrassia

Looking at the far shoulder in your image, the two harnesses end fairly close to one another in terms of how high up the shoulder they fall. Perhaps an inch of difference between them. I think the upward sweep of the culet in your reference pic is due to camera angle and perspective. It looks like t...

Keegan Ingrassia

Know anyone who sells mazers? With or without silver rims? Robin Wood, sure...Any others out there?

Keegan Ingrassia

I like the chaining method. I haven't tried it with riveted mail, though. Wade, with riveted mail being one-way, how difficult would it be to use the chain method and still end up with all the rivets facing the right way? Moreso an issue for wedge than pin riveted, I would guess.

Keegan Ingrassia

And using high-grade, hardenable materials (as Mac has done here) greatly reduces the amount of abuse this suit would actually be affected by. Making something like this in mild steel would just be setting yourself up for heartbreak; so many labor hours poured into a piece that could be so easily da...

Keegan Ingrassia

The Grandisson is interesting...looks like cased greaves with those gilded hinges. Cased rerebaces too. Fluted knees with no lames or demi-greaves. Mullet surcoat and a bollock dagger. Looks to be simple cops over the point of the shoulders, instead of spaulders with lames. https://farm6.staticflick...

Keegan Ingrassia

Vermilion, is that backer on the belt removable, so it can be used as a slack belt sander?

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, I haven't been in the purchasing market...slowly building my own...but this may help. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/search.php?keywords=cased+greaves&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=...

Keegan Ingrassia

Ckanite wrote:How do you even make wedge rivets that small...

Sweep up the dust from filing?

Keegan Ingrassia

Cool.

Always nice to have a bit of publicity...especially one that approaches it as a sports piece, instead of "look at these wacky people".

Keegan Ingrassia

Same reason that a chain big enough to haul a truck clanks, but the wife's silver bracelet barely tinkles, I suppose. Less rigid material to resonate through, more points of contact to bleed off the vibration before it can reach a high amplitude.

Keegan Ingrassia

I think the url was either hacked, or snatched up and squatted on when the domain name expired...it got mentioned in a thread a few months ago, IIRC.

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