The Armour Archive

Sean Powell

I know there's the ability to stretch metal in a specific direction with a special hammer set. was toying with that idea for forming greaves. Why does the Archive spell checker think i misspelled greaves? isn't that how you spell it? With a cross/straight peen head you can stretch metal in one dire...

Sean Powell

Signo, It is amusing to see a native Italian speaker use the term "Hive Mind". Our sloppy Ameringlish is rubbing off on you. :) Tools similar to what you describe do already exist. Mostly the forge is followed by welders. 2 to 4 pieces of steel are pushed through the forge in T, I, C or rectangle sh...

Sean Powell

Any thoughts before I add the strapping tonight? I'll share one thought: cut oval slots and then run the back end of the straps inside before riveting in place. Why? I dunno but it appears to be a period solution and it makes for cleaner lines on the outside plus very few people do it which makes y...

Sean Powell

Great job but FANTASTIC documentation.

Thank you.

Sean

Sean Powell

You were looking for tools to get into small spots. Why would you want a 5" disk to get into small spots? Well, that's half the problem. The other half is when I have a larger item like a helm, and for whatever reason I have to hold the piece in my left hand and sand/grind on it with my right. For ...

Sean Powell

I've used copper and/or brass cut nails with success(found at any big box hardware store). For myself, I found them slightly more difficult to peen over than a true rivet, but with practice turn out just fine. Nails seem to have more carbon in them than rivets. Tiny amounts of carbon make large amo...

Sean Powell

Galfried ate Greene who created effigiesandbrasses.com recently moved down to your kingdom. If you are lucky you might stumble into him and thank him yourself.

Sean

Sean Powell

Um... in the West Kingdom we have had people put a chunk of rattan placed at a 90' angle to the rest of the weapon and use that for years. My Step-dad Sir Conner McAuliffe FitzJames has used a 7.5 ft pole hammer done thusly for 30 years without issue. Well I'll be damned. Another cultural inconsist...

Sean Powell

Konstantin the Red wrote:For "fect," read "fecht" -- I don't know why Sean missed the H.

Have you ever read my posts? I'm surprised I don't come off as a gibbering idiot with some of my spelling errors... or maybe I do and no one has told me.

Sean

Sean Powell

Why not use Rattan with a foam head? Because the rules are VERY specific about split rattan for pole-arms and say nothing about taking a chunk of extra-thick rattan, drilling a cross-hole and putting a handle in it like a maul. I have 0 doubt that wood headed mauls were used by peasants world over ...

Sean Powell

Q: What do you call a man in the hospital with multiple stab and slash wounds to both arms, face and belly? A: The winner. I don't have a lot to contribute. You might look at the fect-books for some of the dagger plays. The features that i think really matter are an ability to ignore any pain gettin...

Sean Powell

So I went looking on my shelf-of-crap-I-never-use and discovered this thing called a Rotozip. http://www.rotozip.com/en-us/Pages/Rotozip.aspx I looked it over, and it's definitely lighter and more wieldy than the disc grinder. The only problem was that the collet for it was 1/8". I went to Lowe's o...

Sean Powell

I kind of like the dramatic lighting on the final knife picture. Looks very rustic. And since i didn't get to comment earlier I also like the corazzinna. Any thoughts about what you will do for shoulder protection with it?

Sean

Sean Powell

I know we are getting away from vikings, but a "knight" from England had many shields when he went on campaign, not just one. It goes towards the thinking of a shield as a disposable weapon, and one easily made from ready materials (wood) I've heard this quoted but never seen any primary documentat...

Sean Powell

Because I happened to stumble upon it looking for other things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5Fu7TYuGQ

Sean Powell

Careful with the clamping. You can deform the housing and ruin the tool. Better to use the screw holes for the auxilary handle to take most of the load.

Sean

Sean Powell

2 hands on a tool is great when the workpiece is a vehicle frame or structure but not for small stuff. I prefer to keep 2 hands on a workpiece and used a mounted grinder. I have a belt driven spindle that I like but it gets no where near 10,000 rpm. There are systems that will use the the screw-hole...

Sean Powell

Step 1: Win Lottery
Step 2: Call Ugo
Step 3: Do we really need a step 3?

Sean Powell

thanks sean, i have an electric kiln so re heat treating and tempering is a possibility. i am a novice though , so i don't know the process or even if this is possible…….i hit it with muriatic acid to strip the black oxide and have Tig welded the crack. i am interested in what the process is to re ...

Sean Powell

I agree, elding is better then scrapping. Since you aren't heat-treating afterwards, use a low carbon filler rod. The area welded will air-quench but it shouldn't fall so fast that it gets into the martinsite range which would make it very brittle. The farther from the weld zone the hotter the resid...

Sean Powell

If you are relying on your sabatons for traction I suspect something is wrong. They are fashion to go with a bearclaw shoe and the shoes don't have any extra traction. Any additional contact area is just padding, not a snow-shoe. If you are banking into the run so hard that the sabaton corner can gr...

Sean Powell

Consider adding some hard rubber gasket between the bevor and the hat and see if that helps with the noise.

Sean Powell

I'd assumed that the wires allowed them to be placed in various places around the torso. I guess having seen one in real life might help. I'm sorry if I was overly critical. I only have only a fleeting amount of experience with pacemakers myself. It's quite possible that a surgeon could put one dow...

Sean Powell

Everyone assumes that a pace-maker sits near the heart but it doesn't. Internal pacemakers sit rather high on the pectoral muscle. There is a good chance that these might be right under the edge of a globose or even exposed given the amount of upper body motion desired for stick-tag combat. A good q...

Sean Powell

Hmmm strips a scrap kydex in the oven on a cookie sheet and a set of period shoes. The paterns don't even have to be specific except around the ankle. Mold and strim to fit then cover with fabric and rivet. There is potential.

Sean

Sean Powell

Is this your armor that you are looking for critiques to improve your skill or is this someone else's armor that you are thinking of buying? I'm disinclined to try a product review without even handling the product. If it is your work (and welcome to the archive) then you have a good start. The roll...

Sean Powell

Interesting. I was just talking to Gruber about making me one like that. I'm still thinking about the face portion. Can I ask how it is getting your head in and out? Does the bevor/buff colapse in any way? How is the helmet protection for the back of the neck?

Thanks,
Sean

Sean Powell

Thank you for the reminder. Unfortunetly my schedule now has a conflict. Hopefully I can catch you at another class.

Sean Powell

Sean Powell

Chris,

Thank you for the additional photos. Your attention to detail is astounding and more then a little OCD.

If I don't utilize it I hope someone else will.

Sean

Sean Powell

Chris, I am quite thankful for your offer to help but every word scares me farther and farther from the project. :shock: The split rivets make a lot of sense but I don't have the resources to build or operate a vacuume assisted riviter. I'm trying to assist a friend who is getting back into the game...

Sean Powell

Giuco del Ponte it is- Pisa not Venice. The coffin shaped things are called targone IIRC and function as both shield and club.It was actually banned in the 1800's or therabouts, but has recently been revived- presumably in a somewhat tamer form than the original :shock: Yup! That's the stuff! Not t...

Sean Powell

Hello, I'm racking my brain for search terms to help me find something but drawing a plank. It's a line drawing of a man in late-period armor (including close helm) with a small forearm strapped shield looking like a 2' tall coffin-lid. I believe the image was Italian and it may have been related to...

Sean Powell

If you wanted to better simulate a planked look in a plywood shield, people have previously set the blade height in a table-saw for a shallow pass and then grooved the face of the plywood before cutting the circle. If you do this horizontally front and back with a vertical handle the look is plausib...

Sean Powell

The answer Sean is I am a filthy rich noble that cares not about the longevity of said items. Hell probably can't be seen twice in public with the same stuff on anyway. Yeah, i wish I was that filthy rich. :) Back when someone was importing fairly medieval looking shoes from India I got in before d...

Sean Powell

Zweihammer used to sell a kit helm very similar to that. https://plus.google.com/photos/+ChrisFraser/albums/5195242790657793409#photos/+ChrisFraser/albums/5195242790657793409 I believe he is out of business but Jamie at Polar Bear Forge aquired Zweihammers valsgrad-6 kit plans and MIGHT have aquired...

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