The Armour Archive

T. Finkas

This only took me a couple of minutes and I can send it to you in vector format. However, since your original image was so blurry and lo-res I had to interpret the detail a little.

This attachment is a jpeg (not vector).

Cheers,
Tim

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Looks like leather buskins over red hosen over white hosen to me, but maybe not. You could be right, Flittie.

These skirted jerkins ("based" jerkins?) are always over sleeved doublets not just shirts, if I am remembering correctly.

Cheers,
Tim

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Paul,

I can't see the front view that shows the buckle. From what I can see the belt looks really nice though. More pics please.

Tim

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Which Museum of Natural History is it? I'd like to find out more!

Thanks,
Tim

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This stuff is reminiscent of other Scythian armours I have seen in photos and drawings. Though all I have turned up is examples of scale (or splint) construction---not "suspended" lamellar construction. Very interesting! I'd like to know more about that particular suit. How intact was it when found?...

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There are a great many variations in the style and shape of extant Corinthians. I'd say these certainly fall within the scope of what we know (bars excepted of course).

Cheers,
Tim

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Zowee-Kapowee! Great Uncle Ken's Pipe! That Rocks!

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LOVE that winingas fabric! Well done!!!

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Thanks, Karen. Of course, I do not dispute there were forged iron knives (with organic handles for the most part) and forged iron candle holders, There seems to be clear and abundant historical provenance for both. And I am not disputing that there were large forged iron forks for use in cooking, se...

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My guess would be it's a skirted jerkin worn over a doublet. Wearing a sleeveless jerkin over a sleeved doublet is not an unusual thing to see being portrayed in late 16th century paintings. When the colors match it can be difficult to recgnize that a jerkin is being worn over a doublet, Since this ...

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...I'm not sure where this is from, but I've had it saved for quite a while... That is a very cool image but I suspect it does not give provenance for the general use of a table fork at a medieval meal. I remember reading some time ago that the most common use of small (often 2-tine) forks, pre-160...

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Has anyone ever tried forging feast gear? Do you have any patterns, ideas that you can share? What materials did you start with? I am especially interested in forging period forks. I'm not sure if you care...but forks (as tableware) are 'not period' for much of the era of the SCA. With a few rare e...

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IMHO the simple "filet knife" goes back from modern times to Ancient times in almost the same form. I am talking about this type HERE from the Historic Enterprises website.

Cheers,
Tim

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David, Thanks again for some wonderful, dead-on-point examples! I had never seen that second example. I pledge to never again take the field with an unlined aventail. Not gonna do it! --- Cheers, Tim Then my work here is done. Lord of Linen, How much longer shall we have to face persecution from th...

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14th century: Chausses can be pointed to braies. Braies do not necessarily need a belt; they may be drawstring or have a waistband that ties closed. The plaque belt sits on the hips, not the waist. Sometimes the plaque belt appears to support the sword and dagger, but arguably this may be an illusio...

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Okay...are you talking about a utility knife or a martial dagger? They are not the same thing and not interchangeable, IMHO.

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We used to get these for $70.00-$100.00 apiece from Cost Plus Imports (a big import store chain on the West Coast) back in the early 1980's. That was when I was first furnishing a Renaissance Faire campsite.

Ahhh...the memories!

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m Obi-Wan: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knig...

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It is my belief that most scale was actually attached across the top and down one side. This is how at least some (if not all) Scythian scale is made. This makes the scale a bit less vulnerable to a weapon finding a chink---at least in my theory. So, how to attach the Ring Lord scales? Wire is one i...

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Good point, Syr Finn. I guess one could say the same of the visors of medieval helmets. Hot, claustrophobic, stuffy and otherwise uncomfortable. And maybe the motivation of going without a visor is like the argument used by some motorcycle riders who eschew helmets. They say they are safer because t...

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Just some tangental observations: Check out the guy on the far right . No leg harness! Also, in this one note the figure in the front with the chapel-de-fer and no leg harness. And dig the cool jupon on the knight behind him, the pale green one with the leafy shoulder dags that serve as shrt sleeves...

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Jehan, Even when death is on the line, style yet remains---even though this is hard to fathom with our modern minds. The English were known throughout several periods (was it also in the 14th cent?) of preferring to wear their visors up or removed when in battle. Even though it's a 16th century inci...

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JesseB,

Like a horse bit? That's probably beyond the capabilities of the foundry I use. Can you shoot me a picture of the artifact? Do you know its dimensions?

Cheers,
Tim

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There's lots of folks doing Viking stuff out there. Is there something you can't find?

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Thanks. Yeah, I'm planning a Greek linothorax of leather, covered in metal scale in the "Scythian Style" (after the horseman on the Solaka Comb). It will be for SCA fighting.

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Here's are some recent buckle scuplts I just got back from the bronze foundry. I thought you folks might enjoy seeing them. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/finkas/AncientBuckles.jpg The left and center are fantasy ancient. I wanted buckles for my Greek harness and may eventually choose one of ...

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Doh!!! Sorry David.

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Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Some cloth buttons in a contrasting color down the front would look great.

No doubt, but is there a foundation for such a style?

Cheers,
Tim

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David Teague wrote:...Now I don't know where you'd embroider your arms as the padded liner for the aventail stays hidden ...

Except for Sir Walter's of course.

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Why no elbows? Are they hidden?

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Historic Enterprises, of course!

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I LIKE IT!!!

Another solution? Historic Enterprises wedge-riveted hauburgeon. It weighs only 15 pounds! Construction is mild steel, 9mm ID rings of flattened 18ga wire.

Even an old arthritic geezer like me can stand 15 pounds!

Cheers,
Tim

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Consider hardened leather if you have not already done so. It can be fairly lightweight---without sacrificing protection IFAIK.

Here are the main guys from AA who make it (though there mare be others):

House of the Wolf
Torvaldr
Kilkenny
Minamoto

Cheers,
Tim

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Great stuff---very inspiring!

Re: Forging Feast gear

Some Recent Buckle Work