The Armour Archive

Gaston de Clermont

I dunno about the range thing. I've seen a lot of formats that force you to fight in close and I don't like it being a constant restriction, since the game can be fun while allowing some range too. While it can be fun to trade blows with a hand on the barrier I don't see evidence of that being the w...

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I concur with my evil twin, JP. Bring the great ones to you. Duke Paul travels to teach. Some great fighters here would like to visit- seriously I hunt Lucan down whenever I can to learn things from him. Get him to Japan if you can. They run a tourney in the West every month called The Crapaud. Majo...

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Thanks guys!

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A friend of mine would like to buy some vervelles for a new bascinet. Who's selling them these days?

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As I've gotten older I've found cross training to have a growing benefit. If you can increase your endurance you can train longer in armour, and have more gas left in the tank at the end of those really long fights. When you're exhausted it's harder to focus on the mental game Logan's talking about.

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This was at Lysts at Castleton a couple weekends ago. The camera caught us going off to my heralds to negotiate his ransom, and he's grinning ear to ear. Love it.

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There's a chance I'll be making it to Pennsic this year. If I do, I'll help support this.

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I hammer them. It keeps you from having to see weld lines out of the corner of your eye all the time. I'm far better with a hammer and forge than I am with a welder.

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That would probably be a great color for low profile gauntlets...

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Doug- I have a question on the content. When you say this: Partial Legs means legs that have at least a floating knee cop but do not include both greaves and sabatons. In all cases, full legs of mail are beneath all of the other defenses. Are you saying that everyone is wearing mail chauses, and som...

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You've done a great job fitting the halves together and putting in some difficult and subtle curves. How are you going to hinge it? Do you have some good pictures of the Chartres greaves? Some effigies from the era you're working on? I think both will steer you to a less exaggerated bulge over the a...

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If you're shaped such that you can wear pants with a belt and have them stay up, braies should stay up too.
Take some care in selecting decent fabric and once you get used to it braies and chauses are as comfortable as jammies.

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Awesome!

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One thing to stress- ventilate like crazy. If your gas mix is just a little off there will be a build up of carbon monoxide at a rate far beyond what a barbecue will make. It's easy to be off by a bit due to small adjustments, back pressure from the forge body, etc, and it almost killed a friend of ...

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I threw together a little blog entry for you with links to pictures of my forge:
http://burgundianhours.blogspot.com/200 ... chive.html

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If you're meticulous about how you enter the information you should be able to use an IF statement to split out the number of hourglass guantlets in a year, or decade into a separate column, and then graph that. IF cell F contains hourglass then column M gets a 1. The fancier excel licenses have an ...

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I'm pretty good with Excel- coding macros, making graphs and such. Statistics is part of what I do for a living and I'm interested in the data you're looking at. So I'd be happy to help, Doug.

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I'd be really curious about Freiman's theory on blowjobs and monophony There are a few examples of uncovered breastplates which are generally dated to end of the 14th century. We might see bevors or great bascinets before 1420, but I'd interpret the examples given above to be regular bascinets and a...

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Every bit helps. You're doing a good thing.

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Barnet/Bernard is coming over to my house tonight, and I'll make my wheel (which is the same as yours) available for him to measure.

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You'll probably be painting the final result, right? 4130 or 1040 are probably the right metals to use. For small plates 0.032 is the thickness I'd choose. If everything is just simple curves and you have a pattern it should be a piece of cake to cut them out, curve them, fit them, punch holes, fire...

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Most of the work I do these days is spring steel. I'm local, do my own heat treating and happy to help you out.

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His belts are a little tricky to figure out. In the higher res versions you can see he's got 3 belts on- one at the natural waist, one low on the hips, and another one angled between the two that I'm thinking is a sword belt. I'm thinking the big chunky belt helps keep his jupon from riding up and a...

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Doug sells his sabaton pattern here:
http://talbotsfineaccessories.com/books/metalwork.html
I made my first sabatons with his pattern and learned some things from it.

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That's your first articulation?! Fantastic! The spacer approach does work. I get a bit obsessed about my articulation being precise so I do a couple things differently. First I use the same size rivets- I generally use roofing nails- for all the fittings and the final articulation. It reduces the li...

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Then why do they hang them upside down?

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The captions on these peices indicates they're greaves- shin armour, rather than cuisses, which normally go on the thigh. The buckle we see on the bottom might attach to a sabaton. Of course the museum might be loose with its terminology and have the piece upside down...

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for my kit, I am planning a lamellar skirt. I am seeing a few effigies with things that do not appear to be dags hanging just barely below the jupon. Sir Thomas Cheyne and Sir Thomas Cobham is a couple examples. m I can't honestly say for certain that those aren't scale, but looking at the other gu...

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Piers Brent wrote:Bucklers are so very peasant.

The common use of bucklers in the Manesse codex would lead to a different conclusion.

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What I'm looking to do is replicate the look of the image I posted above, so it's firmly martial. He's an idealized figure so it's tough to match it exactly, but I want to get close.

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Phenomenal. Some of the spins, twirls and jumps seemed excessively showy, like they get extra points for it somehow.

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Nah, Maelgwyn just has abs of steel. STEEL I tell you!
It looks like it came across his body and managed to stick against his armour, so a lot of the force was still across, folding the head. It's not the most beautiful shot I've seen, but it probably happens a lot more than we realize.

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That's useful data since it's close in time. I'm working on this guy:

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I'm working on a reproducing the St. George statue in Dijon from the end of the 14th century. He has steel cuisses, maile chauses and a fairly short jupon that just barely covers his crotch. My challenge is just what to do with the back? All the civilian chauses I've seen from this era attach in the...

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I like the rules the Combat of the 30 and The Deed use, and I like plate being proof against arrows. I'd like to see maile being proof too. In my own little utopia people would have a practical incentive to wear real armour on the field and look like knights. Besides it should cut down on the whinin...

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