The Armour Archive

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I think you forgot to mention a very important thing: The prize. Sca can be competitive like you want, but you are not there to win REAL cash. You can't expect a fighter worry for your safety when the goal is to win for real. As long as the competition is somewhat friendly you will always do your be...

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To answer your question : Depedends on what you are trying to do. If your goal is to make a museum replica, then no difference from the originals should be made. From there down to the "I just need a piece of armour for combat" there is a long grey line will all possible compromises between accuracy...

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Would you liked to die in a unfashionable dress? Hell No! I agree with you Mac, but functionality found his compromises with fashion in armour field I think. For example, while maximilian armets appear to be not much "glancing" they appear to have plenty of crush space between them and the head, esp...

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I think everyone already explained it much deeper and better than me (thanks). About the safety concern, I think that I would prefer to have empty space (non padded at all) in front of the ribcage and an rolled edge over the stomach than viceversa. My reasoning for that is that If something hit real...

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This is a picture of the real BP: http://www.mallet-argent.com/images/churburg_harness.jpg You may notice that armpits and lower edge have some sort of roll too. On the shape, you will notice how the different shapes flow smoothly from the front plate to the sides. From the reflection you can hint t...

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I think there is too little shaping in this project, and the neck roll is not much more than a fold. Yes the shine, the brass edges and the spiffy rivets make it look nice, but I don't think it is. I'm sorry if this read a bit rude, but the average appreciation level here on the AA should be recalib...

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Good luck to the U.S. team. I know it's your first year there, but I'm really confident you will give some headache to the most feared teams.

p.s. Don't beat too hard the italians, there are some good guys among them.

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I didn't remember those stuffs when I've been there, but that little armoury is very interesting because it hold a good collection of used swords and weapons. And with used I mean with nicks and scratches all over the edges.

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I think they were intended for defensive positions, the kind of weapon they had to shoot, were probably crossbows and early firearms. The construction of the helm allow to open it a bit when aiming, without need to use the hand, but using the stock of their weapon, then , as soon as they fired, grav...

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http://www.midwayusa.com/product/119479 ... ber=119479

This appear to be a little less toxic

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You may try with casenite, but expect to shorten your life expectancy of a little bit.

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If I understand what you ask for..
No, the upper part of the greaves is held close with that small pin on the inside of the greave, just like the lower part.
That strap that you see behind the knee is part of the knee, thus of the upper leg armour.

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Maybe, being the holes in the sabaton around the size of the string you would use, you may try to make two separate simple knots on each end of the string. In this way losing a single knot won't unlace the whole sabaton.
http://www.foreworks.com/knot.jpg

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I know that you guys are just kicking tires but ya know I’m just going to say it anyway. I’ve said it a thousand times and I’m going to keep on saying it! I just do not understand why “you guys” are so damn dead set on keeping US armorers down. Do you think you will get your gear faster if your arm...

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I blackened steel riveted maille (well it was an aventail) with: a weed burner, engine exhausted oil, an a sheet of metal. Place the sheet of metal on the ground. put aventail over it. paintbrush some oil over the aventail. heat with weed burner until it start to smoke, oil is very liquid at this st...

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Hello, it's really a crisp job.
The only part I don't like are the greaves.
In making these, have you followed some originals for reference?

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Aren't those kastenbrust style armours?

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Try ask them you want the armour with "mirror finish instead of satin" and "highly fluted" , attach pictures of the finished result you are looking for.

Good luck

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No Carlo did't tell me that they arent, but when you said they where riveted I intended solidly riveted, and they are not looking that the gap between the two pieces. If there is a single rivet, then they are not locked in place, if you can give me a email address I will send the pictures to you, I ...

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http://www.armsandarmourforum.com/forum/index.php?/forum/61-museums/ Register to this forum an explore the museums section. I would start to make hand drawing of pieces, no matter how bad you are ad drawing, do them, and refine them until they are good drawings. Draw draw draw. I suggest you to draw...

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No Mac, the cuff is floating inside the metacarpal and was probably connected just by the textile or leather glove inside it or via a small leather tab under the wrist. When Carlo was in Churburg for his Churburg Armoury's Book, I asked him about them, and he kindly gave me some study pictures where...

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I bet France, Le Duc is disturbingly Francocentric, in his Encyclopedie Medievale, he often mix very good phrases to disgusting, false, pompous, delirations about "French uber alles".
There is a lot of material for good laughs in his book.

Signo

Any chance that they are floating (mounted on leather straps) like the cuffs on Churburg S18 gauntlets?

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I think it came from the same notion that cranes were necessary to put knight on horses. In these days we have a lot of people that wear armour regularly and for quite long time, and I don't see people pooping their pants at any corners.

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I think that around 90 degrees is a good measure. You can sit, ride, walk, run, jump, make stairs of any kind with just that 90 degrees. NO, kneeling and leaning backward was not contempled.

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Steve, at least for europe, it is hard to find good maille. Actually, the best ratio price/quality is flat riveted maille offered by these german guys. I don't know where they take it, but actually this is where we buy stuff, and are pleased enough with it. I tell you this for 2 reasons: 1) I think ...

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Probably you are right, would you use some commercial product, or custom made it with thicker wire?

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Question: What kind of maille would you use if you should protect the armpit of a fighter that is using rebated spears, arming sword and poleaxes? The idea is that armpit are not a deliberate target, but I really fear thrusts that slip over the breastplate and are not catched by edge rolls of armpit...

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Well then you have to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUPaShwLso That is the forging of 7 buckets at a time with a powerhammer in Italy. Is you search around this the other related videos you will find the preparation of the billet. What you probably want to do is to pack sheets of iron alt...

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For arms dummy you could think something like that: a very thin a springy sheet rolled to form a pipe which have the diameter set by these: http://www.supplierlist.com/photo_images/71244/Germany_type_hose_clamp.jpg The system could have an internal "bone" with articulated elbow, and even sliding con...

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The simpler solution that I think of is to dismount the incriminated lame, and hammer the hidden edge ( the edge that pop out ) and draw it longer, sacrifying his thickness In this way you COULD achieve the desired effect, or at least improve the situation. If things improve but not much, you can th...

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At that time and age, the difference between bascinets and barbutes were not in the overall shape, but in the details: lack of aventail, little flare on the neck, but they were still pointed helms. Barbute is not only the corinthian type of XV° century. This to say that you maybe disappointed by the...

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Earl of Warwick.

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What it would cost a sort of short sleeved short maille? Something that act as voiders for italian style armour (so no tight fitting sleeve), and cover only the armpits and connect both sleeves togheter?

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I know that this is your game and I should not bother, but on the base of what, do you think that hitting hard is period? mm.. dunno. Maybe archaeological evidence, such as the Wisby remains? Could be mistaken, but I think some of those bodies and their gear show evidence of having been hit with so...

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