The Armour Archive

Keegan Ingrassia

There's actually been several threads on that recently. Gimmie a sec, maybe I can track a few of them down. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=168360 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=167892 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1...

Keegan Ingrassia

Does anyone not gain weight right after marriage? My best friend got married about four months before I did, and warned me about it. Having not gained 15 pounds between the ages of 18 and 25, I didn't believe him, but sure enough...almost six months after marriage, I'm 20 pounds heavier.

Keegan Ingrassia

Hell, I'm close enough that I could make a road trip. But, we don't have the spare dosh, either.

Keegan Ingrassia

Delicious. Redrawing the flutes to give them some more life completely changed the dynamic of this piece. When they were straight sprays, the overall look was quite heavy and thick. With the flutes now arced, this piece has a very trim and energetic appearance. Despite your patron's heavier physique...

Keegan Ingrassia

I made one for myself years ago, or I'd snag it. Changed the way I work metal, it did. You can't go wrong with one of Hal's tools.

Keegan Ingrassia

That statement could be simplified to "Just because you can post, doesn't mean you should." and applied to the entire Internet.

Or "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." and applied to the world at large.

Keegan Ingrassia

H-uh...some of those would look pretty sharp on a belt, I would think...

Depending on the size, might work on a narrow woven belt for my wife.

Thanks for the link!

Keegan Ingrassia

Mayhap even some holes drilled through the splints, ventilation-like, to allow better adhesion of the sandwhiching layers.

Keegan Ingrassia

You'd most likely want to get it moved to the Design and Construction board. The Interpretative Recreation board is for trying to achieve more historically accurate pieces. The suit itself, historical, but not so much for leather knees and elbows. To that point, you might use some longer rivets, wit...

Keegan Ingrassia

Much better on the load times. Dropped down to a max of 2 seconds; previously, I'd had waits of about 15-20 seconds per page.

Also, as far as the custom form breaking, I'm on a Kindle Fire HD, in landscape mode.

Keegan Ingrassia

Like the site, love that it's mobile friendly. I personally like the clean interface and typographic choices for the headers. The choice selection on your shirts is nice, and it's easy to compare prices on different options. Your news posts are easy to navigate, and I like that you're leveraging tha...

Keegan Ingrassia

Whoop! You just made my month! And I second Wade's question.

Keegan Ingrassia

That's an impressive amount of mileage worn into that tool, Mac.

Keegan Ingrassia

What Henrick said. You'll be hitting about 1340 instead of 1380 for the time period.

Keegan Ingrassia

The helmets change, but the sneer remains. Nice hat! What suit is it going with?

Keegan Ingrassia

James, Mac, I went back through my old photos, and found the set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32594982@N05/sets/72157624387146751/ Unfortunately, the child's armor is an 1800 reproduction of the 1580 French style. I took the photos four years ago, and forgot that; I should have done due diligence. ...

Keegan Ingrassia

Here is a nice little example that I snapped a couple years ago. It's from a child's suit of armor, from about 1580. While it does have a heel, it was constructed to look like it did not. IIRC, the heel piece on this suit pivoted.

Keegan Ingrassia

Awesome work! I don't remember anyone making a scale aventail recently. Definitely a unique touch!

Keegan Ingrassia

Seconding Ckanite here. Back in the dim days of college, breaking anatomy down to its fundamental shapes was a basic practice in figure drawing. I had managed to apply my thinking from throwing vessels in clay to the process of raising steel, but I don't know why I never did the same with my experie...

Keegan Ingrassia

How about small vertical sliders, instead of horizontal ones? Would that achieve the pronation and supination you'd like? On second thought, that could make the center line sloppy...and I don't know of any extant pieces that did such a thing. Unless there was only one pair of sliders, in the plate t...

Keegan Ingrassia

Yeah, it was fantastic just as a model built to your measurements, but the fact that you can adjust it is astonishing.

Love the anatomically correct joints for the hips and shoulders.

Keegan Ingrassia

Up towards the hip, as in 15th century and later armor? Well, because that's the best way to accommodate the motion that particular joint has. Your legs don't pivot directly forward like a lego toy...the ball socket there has a bit of lateral motion, and generally being able to let your leg cross th...

Keegan Ingrassia

One way that I've played with is to go ahead and drill the stitching holes, and then sew a leather strip with snaps along the inside. Corresponding snaps in the cloth liner. Holds well, if you space them about an inch or two along the bottom. Much easier to remove for airing out the helmet and laund...

Keegan Ingrassia

I was waiting to post this, as it wasn't entirely pertinent, but since others have brought up the topic of purchasing munition-grade armor and then altering it to better fit, I'd like to leave this album here as an example. Years ago (date on the pictures puts it at 5) I'd purchased a pair of arms a...

Keegan Ingrassia

Please don't hurt yourself. I'd rather see slow progress and you finish than quick progress, you hurt yourself beyond repair and never finishing. What he said, but beyond that, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we'd rather you pace yourself and get to enjoy being in the shop with a hamm...

Keegan Ingrassia

Already learning new tricks from this thread. Loving this.

Keegan Ingrassia

Also alternatively, you can raise it from the inside on a flat surface, hammering on air. Arguably, this is also the historically accurate way to go about it. Saves a lot of space on tooling, too. Need a steeper curve? Tilt the piece more.

Keegan Ingrassia

I am excited.

I never thought I'd get to see another armor project from you; looking forward to seeing your progress with the absolute highest anticipation.

Keegan Ingrassia

Some of the tool smiths on the board will be able to give you a better answer than me, but offhand I'd say it's the quality of steel that's the problem. If there isn't a high enough carbon content in the metal, it's not going to harden appreciably from a quench.

Keegan Ingrassia

Well, I believe 'accdntprone' here on the Archive makes starter helmets for about that amount.

Keegan Ingrassia

Hey, anyone willing to foot the bill so I can wear this?

Keegan Ingrassia

In addition, I find that after you've had a hand in making the armor you're wearing, you have a much higher level of trust and understanding of exactly how much it can protect you. It also makes the prices for buying armor look like a steal.

Keegan Ingrassia

Thanks for all the help guys. So from what I can tell by searching on the internet even though it would probably be more correct to call the viser a shovel-face visor most people just call it a Klappviser. I wish some one would figure out a catchy name that would stick :) And for the attachment to ...

Keegan Ingrassia

I would hazard stylistic choice, that high up, but it's necessary to leave the foot unglazed, or the glaze will basically weld the piece to the shelf of the kiln.

Keegan Ingrassia

As an aside, Johann, you probably already do something like this, but I've found that it's really helpful to color-code your tool handles to whichever specific task areas it should stay in. Red handles are hot metal work, blue cold metal work, green is leatherworking, yellow is wood, etc. Makes it e...

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