The Armour Archive

Jason Grimes

I don't know if anyone else has seen this (Mord?). It looked interesting to me and it's surprising to see how large the links were and how thick the wire was. Not my area of interest, but I thought folks would like to see it.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisand ... a_mail.htm

Jason Grimes

I use an old pillar drill for holes I can't reach and on of the cheap hole punches seen below. I am not sure if I have been lucky with the hole punch or people are unkind to them, but I use it daily and have had no trouble with it. Hope this helps. I have the same punch Graham has, I think it only ...

Jason Grimes

Red hot, heat the metal with low lighting otherwise you might melt the brass. Especially with small parts, I have melted a couple of brass mail links that way.

Jason Grimes

Excellent job!! It will be good to see the finished spaulders.

Jason Grimes

Thanks Gregor, They thought it was a 16th century breast?!? What, did they think it was Maximillian? Who do they have running their museums that they could make such a mistake? Or is it a historical thing that maybe someone had categorized it a hundred years ago and no-one else went back to look at ...

Jason Grimes

Hi Aaron, You didn't specify what time period as that will change the style a bit. Here is a nice mid century munion, although it has lost it's blackening and polish. http://www.frostyfoot.com/images/b-n-w/78797.jpg And these are later b&w suits that were displayed incorrectly with the munions o...

Jason Grimes

I had to bring this back into the forefront of a Kastenbrust breastplate that Andrej brought up in this post. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=79006 This one is so strange that it is just awesome. This puts the number of Kastenbrust breastplate still in existence that I know of...

Jason Grimes

Thanks Dweezle, that is interesting. I looked into my rough translation of Rogg's "Landsknechte und ReislÃ¤ufer: Bilder vom Soldaten" to see what he might say on the feathers. There are a several paragraphs on feathers and other things in general. On page 18: "Let out and cut fabric w...

Jason Grimes

Here is some pictures of feathers being worn by Landskechts and others in the first half of the 16th century. I don't have any pictures scanned that show peacock feathers being worn but I did find a few of ostrich feathers: http://www.frostyfoot.com/images/feathers/7011826.JPG http://www.frostyfoot....

Jason Grimes

I have seen both, ostrich and peacock for Landsknecht. In the Osprey book "The Landsknecht Soldier", the writer implies that peacock feathers were used when marching and fighting because they would hold up better. I'm not sure I buy that though. I think that mostly they wore what they coul...

Jason Grimes

In A&AMK on page 136 there is a Durer woodcut that shows soldiers wearing sallets and holding pavis. It's unclear whether they are Landsknechten or of some other stripe. Here are some additional woodcuts. I think are picts you sent to me Karl. http://www.frostyfoot.com/images/Hauptmann.jpg http:...

Jason Grimes

I am still confused. I keep finding tons of Landsknecht pike man armor pics that are black and white. Who wore the black and white armors with burgeonets? Landsknechts or Reitters? Or did both for a time? Both armor seem very similar. Also In mid to upper 1500's. Would it still have been possible f...

Jason Grimes

I have seen these being worn in Germany in the early 16th century. In the Triumph of Maximilian I woodcuts (1516) there is a guy wearing one in the wagon playing a flute, and I think there was another one being worn by a guy on a horse. Both were in the train and most likely lower class people.

Jason Grimes

Thank you very much for looking that up Mac. I will look for that book and see if any copies are for sale.

Jason Grimes

Thanks Gaston,

I was thinking that there might be some shots of it in that book. I don't have the book but if there are photos of the suit in it, I will definitely get the book.

Jason Grimes

Hi Mac,

Even with the rolls being treated so much differently? I wasn't thinking of the sharpness of the design but instead of the pointedness of the shape of the leaves. They seem different then the rest. Thanks,

Jason Grimes

Hi Irish, Gordon, The first thing that pops out at me is that the rolls on both the helmet and the arms are roped instead of crenelated like the rest of the suit. It's hard to see on the helmet, but the decoration of the arms is more sharp and pointed then the decoration on the rest. It looks to me ...

Jason Grimes

Does anyone have any other photos of this B&W suit at the Graz? http://www.frostyfoot.com/images/46845328306862250305115147814505202151.jpg http://www.frostyfoot.com/images/150629234925120195767911121751136986175.jpg I'm thinking that the arms and the helmet do not go with the rest?

Jason Grimes

JvR, just to add to what WvK and Karl have said... The gorget is called a munion or as WvK stated an Almain collar or gorget. The shoulders are integral and connected to the gorget with sliding rivets and internal leathers. The breastplate on this particular armour is called a pidgin breast and is t...

Jason Grimes

They usually wore burgonets or even morions. And Cabasettes. The latest I have seen sallets worn is right around 1515, B&W armour doesn't become popular until the 1550's. That is right at the start of the decline of the Landsknechts, as their pay had not been increased for 50 years and inflatio...

Jason Grimes

I purchased my anvil from Old World Anvils. Service was great and I got my anvil when they said I would get it. I got one of the two-horn classic type 75 anvils, it's around 165 pounds so I don't move it too much.

Jason Grimes

I would add that you should use a tripod, even a cheap one will do. Especially in low light situations when the camera's shutter is held open longer and you have more chance of moving the camera and blurring the image.

Jason Grimes

That's interesting. You would think that within the shops that armourers or the guild would have developed some kind of standard terminology early on. At least to make it easier to work together on projects without confusing everyone with different terms. Was it because the armourer's themselves did...

Jason Grimes

That is awesome!

Jason Grimes

The redder gold was probably because it had been alloyed with copper. A lot of modern jewellery is alloyed with zinc and you get a more lighter yellow gold. Personally I like the look of the copper alloyed stuff better. 24k gold will look the same today as it did historically and in any other countr...

Jason Grimes

You might not be able get an even coat unless you pop all of the rivets. I find it easier to blacken when I can move the plates around and control where the oil/lard flows. So I use a small propane torch instead of the oven. 350 might be too low, 500 would be better, although that might be getting t...

Jason Grimes

"Ugo Me Fecit", very cool, I like!!

Jason Grimes

Thanks Mac, I am humbled.

Jason Grimes

There is an easier method, at least I think it's easier. What I do is punch (or drill) a hole that is slightly smaller then the shank (1/32 smaller works I think, I just eye ball it). Then you draw down the shank until you have the depth you want. Then you can trim the end if needed and peen it over...

Jason Grimes

RalphS wrote:
Mac wrote:What do y'all think?

Crystal clear, but I can imagine it would take some getting used to for some people.

I like it too, it adds the necessary third dimension, especially if you really want to tie the type down.

Jason Grimes

I don't know anything about bascinets, but I was thinking that adding some front or rear views might help to further distinguish the types?

Jason Grimes

Thomas Powers wrote:Why crush his hopes so soon? The Negroli stuff makes me want to go back and get born into a trillionaire family!

Yes, so true. *sigh* You could always hope for inheritance from some lost relative, or winning a lottery, or... darn, never mind.

Jason Grimes

Lucius, the book you want is the Met book "Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries". It has pictures of this armour and a host of others.

http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Renaissan ... 0300086180

Jason Grimes

*chanting* Arise, arise dead thread. Arise from the murky depths... Eh, sorry I wanted to bring this thread back as I found more information. It looks like Mac and Chef were very correct that these holes were meant for hanging the cuirass for storage. I was looking at the thread on shovel making and...

Jason Grimes

Awesome Hal, too fun.

New? Viking study of mail from Birka

Another Kastenbrust breastplate

Anymore photos of this Graz armour?

Re: horsey stuff