The Armour Archive

Sean Powell

Sweet find! Some of those might work nicely, especially with a little backing line bondo to keep them from being crushed.

I wonder how many laurels know about these:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/174524221/6 ... =related-4

Sean Powell

"I'd be interested. I've got a line on someone who can cast them for us but no price yet. How would you reccomment shaping the blanks you have?" It would be pretty quick work with a daping punch into lead, pewter or soft wood to bump up the petals. I just checked the drawing and they are a little l...

Sean Powell

Ernst, Couldn't find any brass mirror rosettes in the right size but it doesn't mean thy aren't out there. Wade, Unfortunetly suspension liner and articulation rivets are all 3/16. :( If he ever replaces this helm I'm physically dragging him down to NC to meet you and Tom Justice if I have to hand-c...

Sean Powell

Step 1. don't use 3/16" rivets. Use 1/8". They can be headed on the inside (with a washer) or the outside (still seems to have a washer on the inside). What you should really use is iron rivets with brass caps. Then the washers can be almost any interesting stamped thing, usually from very thin she...

Sean Powell

Hello, I'm helping a friend finish off a later period morion and we need ~16 decorative brass washers to finish things off. I'm aware of using Daisy head upholstry tacks with 1/8" rivets but we need something about 50% larger and we need at least 16 of them. Does anyone know of a mundane source for ...

Sean Powell

Definitely ought to allert the source page.

Sean Powell

#%^$%&!!! Really I was just hoping to buy Talbots book this year. I can't afford both.

Anyone know what the market price is for a slightly used kidney?

Sean

Sean Powell

Is there an expected publication date? I need to start saving pennies for too many different books. :/

Sean

Sean Powell

Which is entirely different from the Hans Prunner, Carlo Paggiarino, Tobias Capwell, Jeremy Warren book on the Wallace Collection? http://www.amazon.co.uk/wallace-collection-celebration-armour-Hertford/dp/8895191013/ref=la_B00J142BNU_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395761711&sr=1-2 If so I need to go shopp...

Sean Powell

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/alcyon/StLouiisVisor.jpg Chronicles of St Louis, IIRC, early 3Q13thC Given the preponderous amount of artwork I'll admit that some form of flip visor must have existed but it feels like we are looking at footprints of the first feathered dinosaur but we don't h...

Sean Powell

After looking at a few different options (as in we bought them and looked at them next to each other) we decided to re-work the stainless vervelles from Icefalcon into turn-pins. We built 2 hinges with long tabs, 2 sneck-hooks and 2 turning pins. The hinges fold slots over the pins, the pins turn an...

Sean Powell

Never met an armor book I didn't like. Where do I send the money?

Sean

Sean Powell

The thing about impact is that the force of the impact is inversely proportional to the amount of time the impact occurs over because the product of force and time is the energy of the impact. That means that if the energy hits a large plate that doesn’t want to move then the impact will occur over ...

Sean Powell

Marshals handbook aside (I think it says 1/8" every 2") I do not recommend rivets much thinner then the combined thickness of material you are riveting together, otherwise the bend rather then peen. For a min-thickness .062" helm, 2 layers would be 1/8", For 2 sheets of 14ga 2*0.075=0.150 which is ~...

Sean Powell

Thomas, Yes, the belt-sander marks are accross the face rather then lengthwise. I was trying to get a good flat side against the platen of the belt sander and was fighting the tendency to twist on a lengthwise draw along the face. The edge was already a bit too thin and I kept burning/rolling the ti...

Sean Powell

Ugh! At least you didn't try and catch it too. That's how it usually goes for me - reflexively drop, then instinctively try and catch (sometimes with a foot). can it be reshaped, or is it scrap now? I've worked with enough hot metal and sharp things where the instinct is to jump back so it doesn't ...

Sean Powell

OK, it's a bad idea to ever drop a knife you are working on but this was probably the worst time to drop it. I thought the oil quench had done more to cool it so I went to wipe the oil off, started to burn myself and dropped it reflexively. Snapped 1/2" off the tip. Lessons learned. Working on knife...

Sean Powell

Alex Baird wrote:
Sean Powell wrote:Fabrise?

If you have mold and mildew in your Fabris armor... you need to shower more.

I meant "febreze".

Sean Powell

Steelbash wrote:
Smilingotter wrote:Galea tua pulchra est.
I'm hoping that's a compliment

Google translate says:

Your helmet is beautiful.

And I would agree.

Sean Powell

Fabrise?

Sean Powell

The Royal society experiments are probably the best we have for quantitative analysis. I don't think anyone has done a ROM (Rang of motion) analysis although with no motion-capture technology it's probably more feasible. There may be a few unarmored activities that are restricted, like touching fing...

Sean Powell

Note: this was for the original poster, not Sean. Sean, you know more than I just said. I was just adding illustrations to your comments. And yet, I still learn a lot from your posts. :) Thanks for providing the pictures I didn't have time to research. I was trying to pull for a clearer set of ques...

Sean Powell

IMHO, everyone overthinks this. I use 3 penny nails to hold my corazzina plates to the fabric liner. I buy good quality upholstry velvet for the outside and good quality canvas for the inside. There must be 1000 freaking rivets in a corazzina and I'm not going to mess around with an awl on each hole...

Sean Powell

7 inches by 4 inches? If thats a JoAnn's inch grid cutting sheet they are lying on, they are that large. Hmm... Thats pretty large. Typical plates on most lamellar I'm familiar with are more like 2 1/2 or 3 inches long, and maybe an inch to an inch and a quarter wide. (Yes, theres a lot of variatio...

Sean Powell

Where did you get them? Whoever makes them must have an intended lacing pattern.

Sean

Sean Powell

Actually it looks like the lower edge of the helm has those fauld like bands rather then locking around a gorget and I believe the gorget is more akin to an almain collar as the breastplate stops at the nice thick roped edge. The pauldrons drop on over spring-loaded pin and the fauld (nice aggressiv...

Sean Powell

There is this one of a sleeping guard from the Wienhausen reliquary that is similar. There is a color image in A&AMK page 59. http://rulibs.com/ru_zar/sci_history/bler/0/p7.jpg Good catch, Jason. Whatever it is that those manuscript artist are trying to show... this is it. I'm still not convinced t...

Sean Powell

You guys really need to up your voltage. I have 20 amps incoming and I can run all the big machines I want. Three phase, 400 volt machines are the way to go ;-) Yes but I can work on a LIVE 110 circuit and if I touch the wrong thing I get a spark or a tingle. Do that with a 400 volt line and you ge...

Sean Powell

Indeed! The electrician and his mate have just buttoned my panel back up and everything seems to be working. We talked some about upgrading to 200A... I may do that this summer. Mac YAY POWER! You can never have too much available electricity. It costs less to over-build in the begining then upgrad...

Sean Powell

Don't know for sure with the Horton but most threaded brass parts are free machining leaded brass and relatively brittle. The stainless vervells should be adequately strong for your purpose and are easy to replace if they do fail in use. I think Clang might sell stainless snecks. Thanks! I was thin...

Sean Powell

Has anyone used the brass drawer hardware from Horton Brass as Vervelles or turn-pins before? http://www.horton-brasses.com/store/parts/solidbrassposts Has anyone used the stainless vervelles from Icefalcon as well? http://store.fastcommerce.com/icefalcon/threaded-steel-vervelles-ff80808139879ecc013...

Sean Powell

Back in action? Sorry, At this point I can't provide the custom-fit kit plates any more. I no longer have the CAD system I once used to draft them and it will take me a while to duplicate that. Also I don't think I have access to a roll-plotter large enough to print the plastic and fabric patterns....

Sean Powell

Well, how often do people get solidly wrapped to the back of the head, where none of the blow lands on the skull or back? It's never happened to me. So my perspective is a bit different... I agree 100% with Sean that it's insurance... but insurance is also supposed to be something that only kicks i...

Sean Powell

Ya know, looking at the effect of the wavy edge I can't help but wonder if you couldn't make a tuning-fork of 1/8 to 3/16 plate and with a hot edge twist the tuning fork alternately clockwise and counter-clockwise to make the mini flat sections and have the innies and outies kind of form as a reflex...

Sean Powell

The proper answer is: it depends. Within the letter of the law it needs to be riveted once every 2.5" so if the slat isn't more then 2.5" wide then it legally doesn't. 2. All joints or seams shall be constructed in one or a combination of the following ways, with all welds sound and rivets secure: d...

Re: Need ideas for decorative brass washers for 3/16 rivets

Re: Need ideas for decorative brass washers for 3/16 rivets

Re: Need ideas for decorative brass washers for 3/16 rivets

Re: Need ideas for decorative brass washers for 3/16 rivets

Need ideas for decorative brass washers for 3/16 rivets

Re: B.K Enterprises?

Re: Anyone have side/rear pics of the Wallace A83 Sallet?

Re: Surviving Examples of Early Plate Armour 1300-1430

Re: Anyone have side/rear pics of the Wallace A83 Sallet?

Re: Visored Great Helm

Re: Horton Brass and Icefalcon stainless vervelles?

Re: Surviving Examples of Early Plate Armour 1300-1430

Re: Scale armor better than plate?

Re: Questions about Rivets

Re: Don't drop the knife after quenching and before temperin

Re: Don't drop the knife after quenching and before temperin

Don't drop the knife after quenching and before tempering

Re: Mold in sallet liner and straps - cleaning methods? Stin

Re: Centurion w/crest

Re: Mold in sallet liner and straps - cleaning methods? Stin

Re: Looking into field plate armor and how one moves in it.

Re: Need help understanding this 16th century harness.

Re: Question on Using Canvas

Re: Lamellar Lacing?

Re: Lamellar Lacing?

Re: Need help understanding this 16th century harness.

Re: Visored Great Helm

Re: Dusting off the cobwebs

Re: Dusting off the cobwebs

Re: Horton Brass and Icefalcon stainless vervelles?

Horton Brass and Icefalcon stainless vervelles?

Re: Taking orders: Kydex Corazinna kits. (now w/ pics)

Re: Rivets on a slat back helm question.

Re: Dusting off the cobwebs

Re: Rivets on a slat back helm question.