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Beat it flatter with a soft-faced mallet upon a suitably hard table?

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So it was permitted to piece the inner layers together from whatever scraps of the required material were to hand then. Makes perfect sense -- gets there from talking about "scraps inside." No joy yet on "tele" -- and "tulle" only dates to the nineteenth century. A French town by that name began mak...

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Those, and the Hussite wagon train, what with the oxen or the donkeys and all. But maybe one or two of its small gonnes... if uni says "oh -- we've got a foundry! Gun metal is copper, tin and a little lead..." The lead makes it less brittle, tougher under the jolt of powder going off inside it. Wiki...

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Decrypting from the Latin, "Vindobonensis" would be of -- okay: Vindobona = Vienna. Seems to have lost a couple letters! Never woulda gotten there without help. Wiki saith the term is from Gaulish for "white bottom(land)."

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Wouldn't a Scottish "Jack" be a "Jock?" :P Only if you're wearing it in a very funny place. Weel, 'twoud leave yuir enemis helpless with laughing, and easy took captive. "Que nus (armuriers) ne puisse fere cote ne gamboison de tele dont I'envers et I'endroit ne soit de tele noeve, et dedenz de coto...

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Context suggests "athir" is "either."

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And another take on it; different 15th-c. legs, different tassets:

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Upper half Avant, helmet cropped out:

Breast, fauld, tassets, in plausible style. SteelMastery.

That left arm, by SteelMastery

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Avant repro. Presumably accurate?

Simpler gothic legs, also from Outfit4events.com:
http://www.outfit4events.com/runtime/ca ... 05g_01.JPG

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The Avant Not the Avant, but close, and w/German arms: the B2, Madonna della Grazie, Mantua, Italy. http://www.historicenterprises.com/journal/05/images/b2.jpg Note the 1-pc 15th-c. globose breast vice Avant's 2-pc, lefthand manifer. Not sure what armour this is: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k...

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June is still during the Southern Hemisphere school year -- which they organize more British-like than the lengthy American style of the summer hol's -- which likely indicates that apart from anything the Barony of Aneala might be able to do (which I bet some of those guys have steel and hammers abo...

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Or, built of Viking plank construction, if you'd rather.

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Worked/Unhardened should do fine for SCA hits. So 17-7 appears to be an aerospace alloy? Google search term "17-7 stainless steel" yields two PDF spec sheets as the first two hits. That much stainless thickness calls for a Beverly, not an HF, to shear it. Unless you're actually willing to kluge your...

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Ah, TOMAR kind of basic! Excellent! Well, more later, if I can think of something, am almost out the door to go pick up the wife and give her her wallet back. 15th-c. globose breastplates: a very efficient tool for both forming 2-pc globose breasts AND setting the plackart's upper edge to lie close ...

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Isn't the Florilegium still around? Yep: http://www.florilegium.org/ . There has been the occasional dipping-in, but not a concentrated scouring of its files for armouring or combat AFAIK... Stefan's Florilegium, Distilled? Ideally, and with labor too, we'd have either a Sticky where we put current ...

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Yes, sweeping these up would be wanted. Select Instructables might be called for too, for hints on ghetto-building techniques if nothing else. That resource seems untapped.

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Yeah, something like a broad leather tongue down there and lightly dished overlapping scales on it -- 16 or 18 gauge. Sorta making a dragon-back, for however long you'd like it. Or only make that rear extension long enough to cover your cervical bump back there, which I think is that rear extension'...

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Lots of folks around here with bossed shields will cut the ply out in two addorsed capital D shapes where you cut a circle out, leaving a strip of uncut plywood down the middle as the spine upon which they construct whatever else of the handle they need, filling in on the back of the handle to give ...

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I thought you were describing 15th-c. Milanese! Warning: 15th-c. anything other than brigandine is not exactly for beginners -- and you want to go cao-à-pie to boot. You're going to end up doing both hotwork and cold working. If you've got new-bought alloy steel in the budget -- and really, you'd be...

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Somewhat tangentially, a wee something from Brian Brown: http://img12.deviantart.net/2a88/i/2015/113/8/8/velvet_corrazina_by_brianbrownarmoury-d5pyki6.jpg Completely covered in Smurf blue velvet, which mischievously suggests what an Easybake might do if you're better fixed for blue-barrel than for c...

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From Plessis Armouries' site:

This the item?

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It's like somebody articulated and dished a Klingon collar or something. And it's convex where 16th-c/17th-c. articulated plate gorgets for armets and burgonets are shallow-concave. Designed for the seriously no-necked? Doesn't look like any attempt to lay it upon the trapezius muscles was contempla...

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For Bit the Third: The last piece of armour described in this article is the gorget. The pieces for the gorget are cut out following templates 4-6. These are designed for a 15-16 inch neck. If your neck is significantly larger or smaller than that, adjust the templates accordingly. Punch holes as ma...

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Uilleag's method for pounding leather into shape. I think the 120-degree oven temp is a misprint. Shaped his leather with a mallet. If you prefer water hardening, here is the technique I use. step 1. Case the leather in water. (submerge the leather in room temp. water, for a count of 20) The idea is...

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Throw money?

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0.o... Old Grey Boars & Honey Badgers...

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Vivat! -- et Grats.

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I'm sure they'll want to paint the canvas with something when I'm done.. house paint? White house paint is okay for an undercoat. White acrylic paint would answer too. For color and motif on your round, use acrylic paints. They are easy to handle and quick drying Once completely dry, spray a little...

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Now for Bit the Second. The current state of the art has this whole bit obsoleted as written, unless water hardened leather is resorted to, and to my mind this would be primarily for exhibiting leather tooling and carving craftsmanship in viable armour form; vegetable tanned art leather's expensive ...

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Elsewhere in BoTH Vol.3, we see a developed SCA-Engineered-school gambeson, in the Knight Of The Month Willem Wenemaer (c.1325) segment -- hardly an article, as it is really a graphic like all of Sir Bruno's KOTMs. Technically, it's interesting. This try at a gamby features fitting closed-cell or ne...

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Some of them give measurements, too; that seems encouraging.

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Something like an India-built morion in 16 or 18 gauge sheet, then? Hind Handicrafts says theirs is 16. That's just one cheapo example I got off Googling "morion for sale" -- there are nicelooking and more expensive ones available too from various European shippers; ninety pounds sterling here, a hu...

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Yeah, the results would be shades of A Christmas Story 's flagpole scene. > :Q <-- "get me off this dumb &@##! flagpole -- Aaa-AAA-aaa-AAA!!" But the trick would sure as hell work on one end of a benchtop made of 2x4/2x6. (On the overhang, which likely needn't be more than 10-12". Maybe less if requ...

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A bending fork literally pushes the metal the same way the slip roller does, minus the cranking. A slip moves the metal through the tool on its own, the bendie doesn't. Similar results can be gotten with more pounding noise with the Poor Man's Sliproller, where the metal is laid flat upon two parall...

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And Owen L's figures are consistent with 14ga butted mail. An equivalent action with 18ga riveted would take out maybe six pounds. You could probably up that removal to seven by dividing the half-shirt top into mail sleeves of the plate era and hiding the partition. Attach the skirt and two sleeves ...

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