The Armour Archive

Sean Powell

To the best of my memory (always potentially faulty) only the middle slat on the oesberg was through tennoned. The rest kind of sat there. I used that same hardware on my take-down bed. You want to plan a router-jig VERY carefully for the corner posts. The upper tab comes very close to the central s...

Sean Powell

That's Jeff Wassons territory. http://www.wassonartistry.com/ There are some generally cool people out on the island but I don't know many of them as I just moved back to CT. It puts him in the Canton of Brokenbridge in Ostgardr. Along with the SCA there is also MSR/Acre which has an anti-plastic cl...

Sean Powell

You're welcome.

It's nice to get the thanks BEFORE you have to lift the damn thing. You'll understand when you get it. You may not be as thankful then.

Sean

Sean Powell

More likely the last posted, cylindrical object is a documents case - it would be cuirbolli, and several late medieval examples survive, including an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Someone once showed me a supposedly documented arrow bag that was a cylinder of fabric around a few wo...

Sean Powell

Wow, thanks guys. It seems like you guys are having too much fun thinking this out. If they leave this thread up long enough the book will be written as a group effort. Henrik, in the example of the failed jousting armour, would someone be able to tamper with it in a way to compromise the metal by,...

Sean Powell

You CAN do it with just a MAPP torch but it will take a long time to heat and you will be working at the low edge of red at best. Hot steel is still hot and still softer then cold even as it falls into the black. I have an Oxy-Mapp torch also from Home Depot that can almost weld but is mostly good f...

Sean Powell

And CLOSED! Auction is complete. Figleaf gets it for $650 + S&H.

I will be contacting him privately for payment and shipping etc.

Thank you all.

Sean Powell

Sean Powell

http://www.hammersource.com/ THANK YOU! I was poking around and finally found what my favorite hammer is called. I picked up a pair of these 10 years ago from Harbor Freight or similar but they don't cary them any more. I reground the faces so they were far more rounded (1/4" and 1/2" radius I thin...

Sean Powell

Aproximately 12 hours since the last bid. Aproximately 12 hours to go. I expect to end this tomorrow vaguely around 5pm EST since my schedule at work can be erratic and I have a presentation Monday. Until then Figleaf has it at $650 +S&H.

Sean

Sean Powell

Fantastic... But you will get people complaining that RC choppers harsh their medieval mellow. Some people want something to complain about because it makes their own efforts seem more acceptable. I see more inaccuracies on the field rather then over so I don't care. Nice video by the way. I'll have...

Sean Powell

Fabric sewing dummies come in many different styles. The cheaper home-use ones have plastic with some rac and pinnion gears to adjust for a range of sizes. You would think would be the best but leave areas where no pin will stick and frequently it's the seam line. The more profesional versions are f...

Sean Powell

The only solution obviously is to do a book by book rating for historical accuracy... and not fill up another book with the references to do so.

Sean

Sean Powell

I will echo the thoughts on taking photos from far away with a zoom or needing some means of correcting for lens distortion. My wife was too close and my ear looks huge and other proportions are just 'off' but the software is getting cheaper (ok, free sometimes) and easy enough that I taught myself...

Sean Powell

Giles de Bois Guilbert wrote:Bastard!
WE hatez u!!!!

So buy it from me. It's up for auction.

Sean

Sean Powell

The default dish is actualy a chunk of tree with a depresion carved in in. The depresion can be carved with a chisel & hammer, router, flap-sander, angle grinder, circular saw, perhaps a table saw, blow-torch or numerous other devices. For the really exceptional choice if you can turn a tree-stump o...

Sean Powell

Thanks Matt, $80 a pair is a fair rate for good craftsmanship. I'll look you up when the auction is over.

Sean

Sean Powell

If there is a armorer whose name is known only to a few scholars then it is not likely to be known here. Oh, Sean. There IS such a man. The greatest who ever lived or ever will. He is even a contemporary to us. His name...is Blankenshield. Blankenshield. Say it with me now... Heh, funny man... I th...

Sean Powell

I will echo the thoughts on taking photos from far away with a zoom or needing some means of correcting for lens distortion. My wife was too close and my ear looks huge and other proportions are just 'off' but the software is getting cheaper (ok, free sometimes) and easy enough that I taught myself ...

Sean Powell

Thanks for the trade offers. Wade, if you worked in 4130 I'd be all over that. I'm actually negotiating with Gruber about a spring stainless Burgundian chapel de fer. It will be my first new hat in a while. Matt, maybe not in helmet dollars but what is your price for vambraces? I'm looking for 14th ...

Sean Powell

I had been researching anvils myself, and kept reading that you shouldn't pay more than $1 per pound I ended up with a Vulcan 7 A nice rule of thumb but rather out of date. Good anvils go in excess of $2/lb new and they don't age simply by getting old. A $1/pound anvil is frequently chipped, flawed...

Sean Powell

Now up for auction in the clasifieds section.

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Sean Powell

Auction, B3 Beverly shear, used, ends Friday October 18th-ish Hello, A few weeks ago I stumbled on a stupid-great deal for a Beverly shear. I thought it was a B2 but it is the larger B3. It was lightly used with unchipped blades but unfortunately the previous owner had let it rust stuck. That was ea...

Sean Powell

Not me. Nothing more then a Coke or Mt Dew during the drive over. I drink more caffeine each day in the office. It's bad enough I get cranky and headaches going cold turkey. I'm more concerned with people who drink alcohol before fighting or are on 'recreational' drugs. There has been plenty of stup...

Sean Powell

I'm coming to this late but it bumped to the top. I'm not a medical professional but I just moved from Orthopedics/Trauma to Spine and am in charge of our companies pedicle and facet screws. I am still learning this side of the industry. First, Typical humans have 7 cervical vertebra not 8 and fusio...

Sean Powell

Define "equivilent". Define "mild". Define "Stainless" I'm not trying to be flipant but this question gets asked somewhat frequently. The problem is no one ever said 1018 steel they said "mild" which could be 1005 or 1010 or A36 or some deep-drawing steel with lead additives. Then what type of stain...

Sean Powell

Ernst wrote: At least they give dimensions and weight.

Very true. I had missed that.

S~

Sean Powell

I'm going to keep this thread alive so other people can chime in with suggestions or hopefully be inspired. I'm talking with John Gruber from Surley Anvil about a new helm. The main skull protection will be the 1470 brugundian chapel de fer with the swirly creasing in 4130 spring stainless. The bevo...

Sean Powell

Modern tooling? Sean needs a Stanley router plane... \Yeah - some guys are too hung up on CAD & "Lasers", when a simple chisel and a couple of hammer-whacks will do. pbhttt!!! I'm non denominatonal and leave offerings at both the Church of Norm and the Church of Roy. I've actually taken to liking T...

Sean Powell

Looking at the footboard with the lid up: Looks like the inset panels are in stop grooves rather then running the groove the full length and using stop tennons. Any particular reason? Seems harder to do your way and I can document stub tennons in medieval chests. I am not following you here. As to ...

Sean Powell

Someone sent me the link to this thread and I had to re-up my membership to come see this magnificent piece of work! Well done and Where can I get the plans and hardware? V.L. MY main concern isn't the wood working but the hardware. I see dollar signs multiplying like rabbits. V.L. Mac probably won...

Sean Powell

That is so amazingly well engineered. I love it. Looking at the footboard with the lid up: Looks like the inset panels are in stop grooves rather then running the groove the full length and using stop tennons. Any particular reason? Seems harder to do your way and I can document stub tennons in medi...

Sean Powell

Jeff's chain does appeare to end where the fingertips end? or am I missing something? Nope. You are right to my description. I used a bad landmark. Looking at the St. Michael picture there is approximately as much length of cuisse showing as length of fauld. In Jeffs there is more fauld and maile t...

Sean Powell

Burgundian and Bevor (awesome) http://aiden-groundpounder.smugmug.com/photos/i-H8ZpGpf/0/XL/i-H8ZpGpf-XL.jpg Very awesome! Also it's not a 1-piece bevor, it's more of a falling buff. It comes a bit farther forward then I would expect. Do we know the providence of both parts? I assume at best they a...

Sean Powell

The total weight is the weight on 1 foot plus the weight on the other foot. Assuming contents don't shift you can weigh each end and add them together. Does not apply to the blond joke where she stands on the scale with one foot then the other. :) The other foot has to be on the ground and level wit...

Sean Powell

Ernst wrote:The Met's page with 3 zoomable images.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/se ... ions/21983

2 side views and an almost side view. What I wouldn't give for a front, back and interior shot. :/

Sean

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