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Gustovic

While I wait for the feedback on the pauldron (the girl has been wearing it since Friday) I've been cleaning up the arm harness a little bit. http://i.imgur.com/5PxM13H.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FicQcpi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5l1hFIL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Gt2ZfqP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/wRhULyT.jpg The...

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Due to time constraints, I have to call this "done". I will eventually clean it up properly, redo the spaulder lames and attach a closed rerebrace to them. It was a good experience overall. I learned a lot. http://i.imgur.com/hfrSBYp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/naKGmpy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iSHGRk7.jpg ...

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Thanks Mac! Another quick question. I think I should go for sliding rivets in the uppermost lames of the pauldron. In this way they would collapse instead of digging in the throat when moving the arm forward. Makes sense to you? http://i.imgur.com/7nwVqr5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yprcAMs.jpg http://i....

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I remember seeing in one of the Inventories posted in the Historical Research section mentions on manifers in the XIVth century (can't recollect which particular one). I was surprised to see them mentioned that early. Could this be one of those? From the Vlastivedne muzeum, Olomouc (per Goll). http:...

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Need help this time, folks. I'm making a sort of Italian pauldron, and have a doubt about the opening got the arm. There gonna be 3-4 lames for the articulated spaulder below, connecting with a closed rerebrace (like the one on the arm harness above). Now the arm can move forward and backwards, but ...

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Alright. All have been assembled. The lames have gaps and the articulation could be smoother nad better looking, but we are not after extreme historical accuracy here. Of course it could be better and more refined, but this is my first attempt at a full arm and I don't have time to spend more on thi...

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Hinges done and attached today.

More shaping should go into the vambrace, since the wrist needs to be narrower and the curves have to be fixed and made regular.

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I tried to extend the articulation further, but due to time restraints we decided that for now the one we have will do. http://i.imgur.com/hy5WFGn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xhnTxHO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7fCcZjy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IwzZZVS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ui9RB5i.jpg Today I started doing the...

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Another item.

Goll says it's at the Royal Armouries, inv.no. IV.4

It looks awfully alike a helmet seen in an early XVth century fresco (bottom right).

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Thanks for the super good advice Mac!!

I actually thought too that the articulation might not extend enough, but I will try that tomorrow with the girl (the owner of said arm harness).

I hope that this is of help for the other readers too (if there is any left).

Gustovic

More progress on the arm harness.

The lames are a real pain in the ass to get right. They could be much better, but for now they will have to do.

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I think that the breastplate will be worn alone. No backplate, no helmet.

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More progress

And I also started on an arm harness that a friend of mine is going to wear.

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This seems to be a late bascinet. A prototype or maybe a modification of an already existing one.

Front

Side

Back

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Historical bascinets (with aventail) go from 4 kilos up to 7.

So I´d say 5 kilos seems to have been the norm. But then again, you might find lighter ones too.

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So, it´s safe to assume that the original date would be 1400-1420?

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Lol.

Also those holes in the chin are. Perhaps later working life modification?

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Yeah, it looks like the whole face opening has been trimmed off, maybe by 1-2 cm.

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Suspicious armet. The skull looks very close to the early armet in the Churburg collection, but the lack of lining holes on the brow and the neck-piece with sliding rivets kinda makes me think. Sorry, but right now I don´t have my computer with me, so I can´t check on Goll´s thesis where this piece ...

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Gerhard recently sent me a copy of John Muendel, The Manufacture of the Skullcap (Cervelliera) in the Florentine Countryside during the Age of Dante and the Problem of Identifying Michael Scot as Its Inventor . This gives manufacture rates for one of the simplest pieces of plate armor. Thus, in a c...

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Still, with Metal Injection molding, Laser sintered metal 3D printing and some of the new CNC forming one day it may be possible that given enough money a medieval suit could be made with modern fabrication techniques in a very short time-frame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQ40MYwZqw Sean Let´...

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Actually yes, as part of the project will be to wear my stuff in public. I can just push the whole bevor out so the head can be more relaxed.

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Not strictly historical, but part of my exam work here at HDK Steneby.

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Eckard von Rosenberg

http://effigiesandbrasses.com/3652/6903/

There is also a whole facebook page dedicated to reconstructing the effigy and finding similar examples of equipment.

https://www.facebook.com/Eckard.von.Rosenberg/?fref=ts

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Perhaps rope helmet?

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Just sharing it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KviXyMHbwDU

TLDR: The sword in Westminster Abbey might not belong to Henry V. Find a historical figure of someone that was probably buried there that took part in the Hundred Hears War and died in the 1440s-1460s, whose sword might belong to.

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On a side note, this is the working space we had. Outdoors, with chicken running around and laying eggs on our workbench. Quite characteristic of the Friulan countryside. (Notice the hobo-style fire drums to keep us warm) http://i.imgur.com/E962Qjw.jpg Our bench. Yes, that's all. http://i.imgur.com/...

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Here I am, with another update. This project was done over my short stay in Italy for the Christmas vacation. Me and the owner worked on it together. We have quite different visions on how things get done, but it was a good experience. The most interesting thing is that we worked on a mannequin of h...

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Great work on the greaves. Only one note. The profile view shows a very pronounced edge at the instep. That looks very XVth century. If you are going for XIVth century, I'd suggest a less pronounced shape. http://i.imgur.com/lk3r7bG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/h7dZoxA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iL8QjF9.jpg h...

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I'd say the 1349 dating is spot on. The shape of the bascinet, the vervelles, the arm harness and the gauntlets all fit with contemporary effigies and miniatures from England.

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Perhaps espérons are spurs, as in italian they are called speroni.

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There's also ton of Italian and German stuff that nobody does copy. And I actually think they should deserve a book of their own too =).

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Quick question. Looking at the overall proportions of this breastplate/corazzina, it seems to me that the whole thing is very long, and would cover well beyond the natural waistline, as seen in normal XIVth century globose breastplates. Also, the cutouts for the arms seem to be pretty small. Any tho...

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Not all corazzinas are front open. Other open on the side, others on the back.

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Perhaps this? From the Mannesse codex.

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