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Jeffrey Hedgecock

The moose I've seen is quite soft, but not stretchy like elk. So I use elk.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hi guys, Just to clarify, I always use elk on my riding boots, even the buff ones. Moose would be way too thick and not flexible enough, at least the moose hide I've seen. Maybe there's a particular type of moose hide that would work, but I've not seen it, and with elk working perfectly for my purpo...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Well Arne is certainly quite trim, so the armour has a real nice taper into the waist, i'd certainly rather be making armour for that sort of figure than the 58in waist type! Any chance of letting on about the source of the carving you're basing it on? Matt And Arne's 6 foot 4 inches tall too! This...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I will not try to make a close copy of a museum piece for a long, long time, because it makes you a bit "jumpy" constantly looking with one eye to your workpiece, with the other eye to the pictures... Well, I guess I've gotten used to that because I do it every day, plus I have to make it...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Duco, Interesting way you've chosen to do yours. If you need any pictures of the Brocas helm to help your shape, let me know. I'm happy to send you a few. You might want to try the sculpture idea as well. It really helped me understand the shape and work out the sight position as well. I want to do ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hope you like it! I do indeed! Very badass, Jeff. I can't wait to see it finished. Can you tell us the gauges on some of the rest of the components? The top and back of the helm is .083", the cuirass is mostly .060", with some .050", then legs are mostly .042". I used to use a l...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

That looks so cool and the design looks so simple. 15 pounds, isn't that like 7 kilograms... geez Yeah, but the simple shapes are the hardest to do well, as they show -every- little imperfection. They have to be exactly right, or they look like crap. That's one of the reasons Italian armour is so t...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hi all, Since I've been busy lately and haven't had much time to post here, I thought I'd give you a peek at what I've been up to. I've been working on an Italian Export armour for my friend and fellow jouster Arne Koets, who is a staff interpreter/jouster at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. Here's one...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

We have some too, and have recently found a good caster which allows us to restock on our "long out of stock" buckle offerings. We also anticipate releasing many new designs over the next few months. m If you need a large quantity of any of the bronze ones, email us and we might be able to...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

This is one of the best, cheapest and most versatile machines I've seen.

If I needed a second grinder in my shop, this is what I'd probably get-

http://www.grizzly.com/products/Knife-B ... ffer/G1015

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Jeff at HE hurt his hand in a Joust. It required surgery. So because of this he is not doing any armor work for awhile. I think I should chime in here... Yes I did break my thumb jousting in September but it has not affected my work, other than to very slightly delay the project I'm currently worki...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Lost wax is a 3 step process. 1. build a form out of wax. any form/shape/design 2. cover the form in plaster to make a mold complete with a pour spru in the top 3. pour in molten metal which desolves the wax and fills the cavity with metal. Break the mold and you have your form in metal. Um, er, yo...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Pine wood shavings, grasshopper...woodshavings.

And some way to roll the mail around, some use a bucket & lid, others an old clothes dryer.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I know, I was jes' razzin ye. : ) John Not to distract from the thread, but fyi, if you allowed fires at your event, I might have considered coming out and with the horses. Without that possibility, the event has little appeal. I know it may sound like a small detail, but sitting round the fire, co...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Jeff, how much would you charge (ballpark) for something similar for just a regular customer of the 6'4" and 240# range? You may want to take that question off-line to private messages or E-mail. I'd imagine this isn't the best place to discuss such matters. Yes, Jeff J's right. I'd prefer to ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I'm still on a high from winning the tournament

, and thought some might want to see a few more pics. We've put up some of ours here:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=72413

Enjoy!

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Since WW hasn't spilled the beans on his harness, let me step up and say that I made it for him (well except for the gauntlets). It was intended as being in the German style, and was significantly simplified from most examples, due to WW's budget considerations. It's all mild steel. Don't ask him ho...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

It was nice meeting you Tom. Thanks for the pics, those are some winners! Wheeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww. What a day! It was a frickin' nail-biter from beginning to end, but I'm so happy I can hardly stand it. The Leodis team served up some super intense jousting, and I still can hardly believe I held it toge...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Even if spring steel pieces are left normalized, they're far superior to mild in almost every respect. To the people that do not speak english as good as others, it means if the pieces from spring steel do not get heat treated they are still stronger then most of the mild steel stuff. Jiri "No...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I loved what Murdock said. What a great analogy. Yeah, spring steel (1050 at least) needs a little bit of care to work compared to mild steel, but hey, if you're set up for working it and have a reasonable amount of experience with the material, working it is NO BIG DEAL. I had some "growing pa...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

1407 on Gaston Phoebus, so Tasha is correct in pointing out that it isn't 14th C. I guess I got sidetracked by the fact that Aaron was looking for a unique hood. Sorry about that.

Gwen

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I'm sorry, I didn't take the pictures so don't have rights to pass them on to others.

My apologies.

JH

Jeffrey Hedgecock

How do you know that those lines on the edges of the plates indicate brass/copper alloy trim? Perhaps it's not so good to make that assumption? Certain sculptural effigies, mostly strictly English styles not Italian export, pretty conclusively show applied borders, often with figured decoration and ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

You might be thinking of English. There are quite a few effigies with trim (possibly originally gilded), which is believed to be latten/copper alloy. In the Italian vein, certain pieces in Mantua were apparently originally blackened with gilded borders, but the gilding wasn't done to applied strips ...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

In the Churburg catalog reissue, Scalini cites these as circa 1365-70, and re-numbers them #12 and Trapp notes them as 1400/10, with numbering of 54. I'm inclined to think they're somewhere in between, but likely closer to 1400 than 1365. Scalini's done some weird classifications with his new number...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Keep your head down, Dan.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

And I'll be jousting in the tournament, as one of the Order of the Crescent.

Tom's my squire! .....and a darned good one, too!

Stop by the menagerie court and say hi.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Working on both, vamplates target price expected to be around $50 each, no idea on the tip.

More later.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hi Jeff Yes i am sure you have that abillity and i think i have it to, but considering that the total weight for a full say italian 15th.c suit of armour is around 25-26kg. To keep all the component of the armour within that approx weight you would need to know the weight of each individual pice an...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Don't you think that master armourers would not need scales and that they would rely on their extensive experience? I know that I can usually tell metal thickness pretty easily just by looking at the edge of a plate, and I have a good feel for weights just by hefting a piece. I would expect that his...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Hi All, Thanks bunches for your kind words. The decorated plates around the poleyns were done with puching and file work. It still took a bloody long time. They've had the Italian armour for about a year now, and I've been working on this St Florian armour since then. I delivered it last weekend, so...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

The title of the show was "Battle Gear" and the first 1/4 of the episode compared ancient and medieval "battle gear" to the modern hi-tech stuff used today and planned for the future. I was also in the show, describing assembly of mail, plate leg armour and did a little work on a...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

David, I believe a giornea is more of a "gown" rather than a cape. What I've always seen these capes off the back of Italian armours referred to as is a "Cioppa". I suppose there could be some interchangeability in terminology, and perhaps someone with medieval Italian linquistic...

Jeffrey Hedgecock

Here's the armour I just completed for the Frazier International History Museum in Louisville Kentucky.

http://www.historicenterprises.com/cart ... =587&c=150

Comments always appreciated.

Jeffrey Hedgecock

I believe the artist didn't quite know what he was looking at, and he's playing some tricks on us, probably unwittingly. Notice that the left poleyn fan is depicted differently than the right. The right has the "wrap around" fan that you have noted, but the left appears more conventionally...

Re: Current project- 15thC Italian Export for RA jouster

Current project- 15thC Italian Export for RA jouster

German Armour of St. Florian, for the Frazier Museum