The Armour Archive

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oh just wanted to add If D2 is out there thanks of giving me that chain documentation a couple of years ago, It's come in handy several times including now.

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There are lots of opinions on this one. While for a long time the prevailing viewpoint was that what was origionaly interperated as ring maille was actualy just a differnt method of drawing regular maille, recently there has been some questions about this, namely why did they draw what looked like r...

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Hmmm well, let me talk with some people I think I gould get somthing produced fairly cheap.

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well we shot pics all over the house but they all seemed much too dark, and then it hit me the bathroom is the best lit room in my house, and has light sourcing from all sides.

when we looked at the pics on my computer the bathroom pics were the brightest and showed the most armour detail.

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Magmaforge you need to see more historic stuff, some rivited maille is actualy 22 gauge or smaller. absolutely crazy stuff.

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The biggest complaint I've hear of Kettle hats is that solid hits to the edge of the brim toss your head around a bit and can lead to a sore neck, other than that it realy was a very common helm for a long time in history, but seems very uncommon in the sca. [This message has been edited by Dwarlock...

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Glad to have you here, Always nice to have more people to talk to. Hope you continue to enjoy you time here.

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Ok, as Joaquin sometimes does he came by to visit me today, and we took pictures. here is Joaquin in his harness. Joaquine wanted me to mention that he would not at all mind if any of these pics were used for the members pic page. This is probably the absolute best pic. [img]http://www.geocities.com...

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Hi, I've been asked to concider putting together some rivited Maille for a fellow archive member and was wondering what your price for preoverlapped mild steel 18 gauge 1/4 id rings would be. (didn't see 18 gauge mild steel mentioned on your site) also wondered if you might know of a source for simu...

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I'd go with the guys who say get the refund before you ship, and ship it cod.

other than that I'd keep badmouthing the company, otherwise someone else migh fall for their line.

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just wanted to say i got mine and it is great, If i could possibly think of why i would need 2 i'd order another one.

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Ahhh, that explains the confusion. Case hardening requires long term baking of steel surrounded by somthing that is high in carbon and without any exposure to air. It has been done by leaving steel wrapped in leather or burried in charcoal or wood chips in an air tight steel box in a kiln for severa...

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I think some of the problem is the speed at which this board runs, Often i won't answer a question because i know I'm not the best person to do so, (i suspect others have the same reasons) however sometimes before the person who can best answer the question does show up the post gets booted to the s...

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I own one, it's made of 18 gauge stainless, and is indeed also ugly in person. I paid slightly less than $50 for it new.

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Harold, you might want to check your description, I suspect you may have left somthing out. It looks as if you were describing a method of diferential tempering, but to follow your directions as you put them down would leave you with a soft, rather than a hard edge. I assume it was just a typo on yo...

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Argumentum ad baculum

persuasion by force

also can be translated
believe me or get hurt

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The way I made mine I made both sides match and meet at the spine. here are some pics of the Wisby type III I made. Note the guy wearing it is not me, and is much smaller than the armour was made for. I believe there were several pillows under the armour to make it fit at all for the photos. [img]ht...

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armour whore? or armoured whore? sorry had to ask.

seriously looks like nice stuff.

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saw some at a ren fair once, It looked prety good, biggest problem seemed to be the largeness of the spot where you plave the rivit, gave the maille a somewhat chunky look, and it did not seem to move as well.

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Yes It was glazing points!!!! as for the length of the holes, the end of the hole I insert the rivit into is just barely smaller than the wedge, perhaps 3/32 of an inch long, and the other endo of the hole is just barely peirced. What I was trying to say was the second option, that if the hole didn'...

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roughly 1/8th inch wide, and about 1/8th inch long, however looking at my wedges It looks like most of them are just a hair longer than wide, but not by much. Sigh I wish I could remember what those clips were, I think I remember them being a great deal, I think it equaled several thousand wedges fo...

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right now I'm using 16 gauge for the links and little peices of scrap from plate armouring for the rivits, most of the rivit wedges would be 16-18 gauge. also the rivits are just about perfect isosceles triangles. however there is a cheap premade source for these wedge rivits. Steve came up with the...

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I've not seen any personaly But I've often heard here, that his work looks much better than the pics on his site indicate.

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ok I've ocationaly had this problem also, sometimes all it takes is a little more pressure on the tongs, additionaly your wedges may not me soft enough. Perhaps Steve will have some opinions as well.

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uuuuhhh isn't the book selling new for less than that?

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helm tops are your best bet, however I still own a perfectly good 12 gauge stainless Wisby type 1 Coat of Plates I once made.....

Wonderfull armour, and realy builds up your endurance.

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what type of riviting are you doing? wedge or pin? also how are you setting rivits? with tongs or hammer? additionaly if using tongs are you using flat tongs or tongs with an indentation in them for the rivit? I've had the fold over problem in both pin and wedge rivit maille. with pin rivits it was ...

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I've done some copper rivited maille, I started playing with it because it was easier to flatten, but discivered it was tougher to rivit, due to the "stickyness" of the metal. as for hou tough it was, well It held up to weapon testing against steel weapons just as well as the steel rivited maille did.

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for best results you have to bring the peice to a red heat. You can blacked at a lower heat, but it generaly isn't as even, and does not last as long.

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If anyone needs to know how to find a good bolt, look for aircraft quality ones. For some reason the FAA wants things to hold together at 20,000 feet.

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to buy any of the Compleat Anachronists, contact the
SCA Marketplace
P.O. Box 360789
Milpitas CA 95036
tel- (800)789-7486

the pictures in this booklet are rather small, but ought to be good enough to give you a good idea of plate shapes and sizes.

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sigh i work as a security guard, and for about a year I was cold and wet due to the trenchcoat thing. After a while I started wearing it again, and people said, "Why are you wearing a black trenchcoat, don't you know what that means????" and I replied, "it means I'm not cold or wet."

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what you want is The Compleat Anachronist #69 it's published by the sca, was written by an Archive member, and has several pictures that are realy as good as patterns. it is called The Development of the Coat of Plates The evolution of Cloth covered Armour 1250-1500 by Michael S. Lacy and Anthony J....

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heard good things about them, don't remember who it was from though. Plan on buying somthing eventualy.

many pics of Joaquin in armour, combanation of Wise Ogre wor

hey Lord Charles,