The Armour Archive

Uryen

I like them.
I would be interested to see how the blue holds up to use in metal weapons. When I played metal, hands were often squished in mean ways.
Lately I just play dead.

Uryen

Yeah Ron, I'm back from the grave. Long time no see. Good to see your still hammering away. I'm still working away myself, and I've gotten a LOT better over the last year or whatever since I was floating around these here internet parts. Mainly by working in metal in general, not armour, and getting...

Uryen

'Famous five and the Treasure of the Templars'. Seriously. My mother bought that for me when I was about 10 years old. It had a picture of guys in pretty accurate 13thC armour, and I copied it with cardboard for the helm, and got my grandmother to make me a white tabard with big red cross. I won the...

Uryen

The Black Prince's funerary gauntlets were made from copper, tinned, then gilded.
[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/bp_gaunt_orig.jpg[/img]

Uryen

There is an illustration in the Italian section of a helmet exactly like Sinric's pattern. -sigh- I dont like to say this, considering it is effecting someone who has done a lot to help armourers, but I will stick with my original statement. I am in no way reflecting on Craig's technique, skill, or...

Uryen

Is this proper for a Wisby harness? Considering the differences in place and time, I'd say possible but not probable. Which means for me, no. Some more info on the time and place you are trying to recreate might also be handy. Is there anything anyone thinks I should know about the helm? No insult ...

Uryen

ironmongermisc wrote:It's a Pembroke, a precursor to the Sugarloaf.

??
First up, its "Pembridge" as in Sir Richard Pembridge. Who had the funerary greathelm over his monument. The greathelm is now in the Edinburgh museum in Scotland. He died in 1375AD which is about 40 years plus after the 'sugarloaf' was last used.

Uryen

I am slowly working my way through making my own lathe using the gingery lathe book. It is very good, I am making mine a bit tougher than the one in the book though. The one in the book uses a cast aluminium bed, I am using a bed made from thickwalled steel square tubing. Which should make it much m...

Uryen

If you're in for books like that have a look here:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/
or for us here in Oz:
http://www.ploughbooksales.com.au/
I want EVERY book in their catalogues

Uryen

Er.. I took it back to the library this morning so I no longer have it. But from memory it was called 'Machine shop and foundry projects'.

Uryen

I found these today in a 1950's machining project book. These are instructions on how to make some tools for those who have access to a lathe and mill, or know someone who does. Raising Stake Info page 72dpi 8bit JPG 72Kb Raising Stake blueprints 300dpi 2bit GIF 65Kb Mushroom and bottom stake Info p...

Uryen

I would say for most of the mediaeval period a tournament would have been considered practise, not an event.

Uryen

If you are talking about my pattern on Arador, you could get a pretty good copy of the Sir Pembridge greathelm by stretching all the panels along the circumference of the helm, but keeping their lengths the same (ie. not keeping the aspect ratio constant). The Pembridge, like all greathelms, is a he...

Uryen

For a first try, I would consider that exceptional. A lot of so called professionals arent putting out that quality. There are some minor problems (the fan needs more work), but I think with your attention to details you will sort them out once you get your 'eye'. Keep practicing and definately look...

Uryen

You dont have to try to pull off doing LH all by yourself you know Get together with a group and pool resources, buy what the group needs for a camp, and you wont be wasting resources on things somebody also has. Another good thing of a group is that others have different skills that you. Between th...

Uryen

http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/

Uryen

Give her this email addy:
[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/email.gif[/img]
And I'll do what I can to help.

Uryen

Considering the current time right now, I'd say everyone is sleeping (I was just about to). From memory, Eric Schmidt, Michael B, Torum and Sludig are all from up that way. If they cant help, what was the request?

Uryen

The 'silver' coins here in Australia are a copper alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel. I have no idea if the process to extract nickel is modern (such as electrolysis), but that might be worth looking into.

Uryen

platemail?! For what combat group. For a steel group you could go late 13thC. Mail hauberk and greathelm. You wont need much else other than that. I noticed you are in the 8th state so have a look at the ARLHO site to find some groups near you. What group you are in will limit what timeframe you can...

Uryen

um.. Which Churburg breastplate do you want to make?

Uryen

If I remember correctly they were made by Alex of Talerwin Forge here in Oz. Him and his website seem to have dissappeared, which is a pity because I wanted him to make me some stuff.

Uryen

I've heard of people having good success with the Reil Burner. There are instructions on how to make one here:
http://www.reil1.net/design.shtml

Uryen

To be more specific,what are some good sources for mid(1340-1360) 14th cent armor pictures,be they illuminations,Codex's mueseum pieces of the English type/style or Irish type/style ? I cant think of any specific English sources off the top of my head, but the German Codex Manesse was finished in t...

Uryen

The second solution is something I've heard of but never fully appreciated from lack of personal technique. Supposedly if you flare the edge with a cross pean against the top of an anvil (rather than a flat hammer over a stake) the cross pean will pinch the metal squishing it sideways and compensat...

Uryen

A rivet setter (or set), is the only thing I've known them as.

Uryen

Can someone tell me what the devil is around the right wrist of the Sir John de Creke in that second link? That looks disturbingly like cased vambraces under his maille..... Full cannon vaumbraces dont seem to be that uncommon on english monument brasses. They are shown on even earlier ones than th...

Uryen

Did you work off of plans to make this? Or is it your own design? I'd really love to make a small crucible foundry like that for casting small bits of brass. It is based off the gingery charcoal foundry from the book series "build a complete metal working shop from scrap" . by dave gingery. Just se...

Uryen

Repouséd iron or brass probably.

Uryen

If you are doing this for a costume you probably dont need sabatons for the 'armour look'. A coif and a tabard are much more effective 'armour look' for plays or kiddie shows etc. But if they were necessary for the play (Im assuming some kind of play or show), I would simply go for cardboard painted...

Uryen

[img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/armour/shed/forge.jpg[/img] A small charcoal forge which gets used fairly infrequently. I used to use it for small castings by enclosing the fire in firebrick, but I've since built this: [img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/build/cast/firstfire_open.jpg[/...

Uryen

I am getting spams from them too.
If they had got on here (which is clearly where they are getting my email addy from) and said: "hi my name is..., I make ..., my website is here...". I might have looked, but now they are on my personal list of armourers to avoid at all cost.

Uryen

When I made that pattern I had no idea that anything other than A4 sized paper existed. The US standard is 'letter' which is shorter and fatter. A typical windows graphics printer will likely print the patterns to fit the 'letter' sized pages, so they will shrink slightly. Just fiddle around with th...

Uryen

While looking for images to post I relised how much I need to take new photos of my stuff. This is a photo from May 2000, showing my 1350s kit: [img]http://home.kooee.com.au/uryen/erstwhile/may2000.jpg[/img] It is amazing how much work went into such a boring looking kit. Everything is hand sewn fro...

Uryen

http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/Library/special%20collections/Pix/Initial.html

Making Armouring tools.