The Armour Archive

Cet

I can help you with that Sean, give me a call or an e-mail.

Dave

Cet

Let me know how it goes- one thing I may not have emphasized enough is to keep going over it with the solution soaked cloth even if spots don't take right away re-wet the cloth if you need to.

Good Luck!

Cet

Hi Cet, would you mind sharing how you dealt with its fussiness? I'm not sure we have Out best and most consistent results have come from taking the piece straight form the buffing wheel (green stainless compound) and going over it with a dilute solution (2 or 3 to one) on a rag while the piece is ...

Cet

We've used it fairly often in my shop. The finish varies depending upon the degree of polish put on the pic before blackening. For us it works best on top of a high polish and produces a very black magnetite looking finish. It is fussy and constant results on large pieces is tough. Check out Baron A...

Cet

Thank you Berend!

Cet

NO, PVC schedule 40 is by definition hollow (schedule refers to the thickness of the pipe wall)

Cet

Some did- particularly helms designed for the tournament with clubs. In actual combat they would've added little true protection for their added cost and inconvenience.

Cet

Thanks for the props guys. Ionicknight, There are some pics in the parts gallery section ( I should talk to D.Sebastian about linking them right to the price I suppose) If period is not a concern you would be best going with the one piece breast and one piece back- the multi-plate pieces require sig...

Cet

Thanks for the props guys!

Don't forget to send pics of the finished pieces!

Cet

I wouldn't choose hardened steel for a bar grill do to the failure characteristics compare to mild steel- better to have something in front of your face bend than break. I usually make grills from 3/16" 304 stainless bar even for mild or spring steel helmets as it is stronger than but less pron...

Cet

As Jason, said it doesn't seem to be a serious issue when dealing with armor in real world conditions.

Cet

He's kind of spoiled for choice as you probably have the 15th century probably saw a greater variety of helmet style than any other within the SCA time frame. If he could narrow it down to which third or so of the century it would help. That said; bascinets, great bascinets, kettle-hats sallets, bar...

Cet

pm sent

Cet

It's not important to me at all a I think the SCA concept of mixed art competitions is absurd, not to mention that I was only half serious in my original reply to you. That said, when judging a piece of armor the accuracy to which the modern maker can replicate the design and function of the piece m...

Cet

It's impossible to have better "modern" design of "medieval" armour.

Cet

Pattens are occasionally shown worn with armor in 15th century sculpture but these are not showing battlefield use per say. The image I have closest to hand is a group of figures from Breda ( Mac will know the one) one of which ( St Michael I think) has what appear to be very flexible pattens worn w...

Cet

bump.

Cet

Cet

4130 is fairly corosion resistant, right? It's only about 1% Chromium max and no nickle so well below the 10+% chromium need to make it stainless. In my it rusts about the same as mild under the same conditions. The chromium is in the alloy for deep hardening and to increase heat treat responsivene...

Cet

Matt, I may offer them heat treated eventually though it would likely add substantially to the cost - not so much do to the heat treat but because it would mean I'd have to do additional finish work on the pieces in most cases as well as these are currently designed to have some fine tuning done by...

Cet

4130: m 1050: m Opinions vary on what hardness range to temper to; I've seen anywhere from 38 to 50 being used for armor thought he later may have been treated to develop a bainite microstructure rather than tempered martensite. I've been going with a working hardness of 42 to 44 Rockwell for water ...

Cet

Ron (Wilmot) and I will be doing a run of the gauntlet finger sets he's been listing on Ebay in either 4130 or 1050 shortly so I'd like to check if there's marked preference for one material over the other among potential buyers. These would be provide as worked with any heat treating left to the en...

Cet

Nice score!

Cet

For folks who would take nothing away---what would you then do for someone who did use a wrought iron of the correct carbon content?? Rate them the equal of someone who used modern stainless?

I'd rate them lower for producing an item using inferior material than what is available

Cet

Regardless of alloy content the forming and patterning of a piece made from modern steel is going to be the same. Heat treating protocol will be different for different alloys but you can't see that in a finished piece nor can you asses it after the fact without a lab. The key differences between mo...

Cet

My view is that it's picking nits since no modern steel are a metallurgical equivalent to the materials used to make medieval armor. As long as he used a ferrous material for the stuff (rather than say aluminum or plastic) I'd be fine with it. I'd be impressed if he use sourced or smelted a real equ...

Cet

Windrose are the go-to guys for Russian styled SCA hats:

http://www.windrosearmoury.com/zc/

You can see an example in this thread:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... highlight=

Cet

Hi Randy,

I'd be offering both finished gaunts and full kits once I have the pieces finalized to my satisfaction.

Cet

I found some mild steel Wisby pieces form a test run so I'll get those formed and you guys can see if you like them.

Cet

Nice job! How thick is the aluminum ?

Cet

bumpage

Cet

Top shelf stuff here:

http://www.billyandcharlie.com/

Cet

new men's early 14th C. transitional cotehardie (Cet got the proto on this one and he LOVES it).
Gwen

Very true and I keep forgetting to send you pics ( bangs self on head).

Cet

HI Sebasatian, We've actually made all of those pieces when we did the large run for the now defunct St Martin's armory. I dug out the patterns the other day and will be tweaking them a bit and doing a production run - probably be something like a month /5weeks if all goes well. "Wisby" st...

Cet

gauntlet fingers 4130 or 1050?