The Armour Archive

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But that is the heraldry of WWI ace Francesco Baracca.

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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?

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You should be doing things for your pleasure and satisfaction, not to impress girls, but we have all been young and silly. I don't know if you can impress a young girl with rusty metal, but surely you impressed all of us. I know, none of us could compete with a young girl, but anyway this should mak...

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Try to acquire techniques of medieval armour reproduction, it will save you a lot of headaches.

(but will get you others as well).

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I hope you didn't jump on the train pushed by the idea that: A) You can do better B) you will save money Because if those are the initial motivation, you will soon realize how off they were. Beware, armouring develop obsessions and addiction. Otherwise, if you love hammers, blood (yours) and metal (...

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The kind of corrosion scream salt water to me.

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Obviously they drank water. Water is the most precious resource for life, and things have not changed recently. Having a source of water was a must, and settlement have always been made near or over it. One or more wells are present in any castle or medieval settlement that I've seen, just like tank...

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You should make at least one mold, for your portfolio. Much better than the pictures to convince your customers.

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Wow this is a display of skill!

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Try this: After the cop is shaped, take a thin cardboard or thick paper, stick it inside the cop and trim it to fit deep into the cop, mark the edge of the cop, and rivet position on the cardboard. Fitting your cardboard in this way, correspond roughly to the bent position of your articulation. Now ...

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An italian author, Duccio Balestracci, in his book "la festa in armi" "feast in arms" states that there are recorded episodes of people using papermache armour at judicial duels. The author tell us that the practice was often forbidden, but at the same time it was hard to detect ...

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I dare to say it was a decorative piece for some papermache statue in some church. Looks too flat to be armour for a knee.

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More than a tutorial, you probably need to make cardboard or wood shapes of the leg you want to cover. at least a front-back section and a left-right section. About the shaping process, there are many ways you can go, it much depend on your skill, your tools and your habits. Try to make a scale mode...

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It doesn't look like a structural part, maybe brazing will work, but wait for the welding gurus.

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Sorry Sean no other pictures. Normally, if you're lookong at a typical sleeve you'd see a row of open rings along the chest, but here it seems wrapped around something, that's what made me think it was an elbow rather than a shoulder. Like you said, it might be just draped over something. One thing...

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For the conservation: I don't know the terrain composition, but bog is known for it's exceptional conservation qualities, mayba that terrain has similar conditions. For the rows or rivets without metal strips: maybe those kept a colored canvas covering to protect metal from rust or at least keep the...

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No, no, I think WE should thank you for your dedication.

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That's good!
You will see that what you just understood will help you for your future pieces, not just pauldrons.

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I agree with Zetheros, I don't care about cleaning the metal before working it, for two or three reasons: 1) Weak mill scale will easily flake during cold shaping process 2) Strong mill scale will easily flake during hot working 3) Mill scale on the inside of armour, that survived all the production...

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I hope you'll be fine soon.
It hurt my feelings when I see injured fingers....

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But we can't think to armour as a durable good. Armour was good until it was chewed in combat, then discarded or refitted. So, for the lower ranks, we can't think about armour effectively used for extended period of time and kept working. We can't really compare today reproduction performance in dur...

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It can be as easily a falsecut parry of a thrust.
It can be just a mistake.

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But then if forgewelds on plates was so extensively used, why it is still disputed that welding was used in making bascinets for example? I remember the long discussions here on the archive, but if they used those welding techniques to weld plates togheter, I can't see why they shouldn't have used t...

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This evening, in a very casual way, I encountered the info that blew my mind: Tra le migliori testimonianze circa l'arte di fabbricare le armature va ricordata quella del senese Bernardino Albizeschi, discendente di un'importante famiglia di fabbri toscani, più noto come San bernardino da Siena: &qu...

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I like it very much, and I plan to build one as soon as I will have a shelter to work in. I watched closely all the home projects for this kind of beauty on the web, but I really think I will make it so I can use a T stake under it, interchangeable with the normal vertical stakes that everyone use. ...

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In Vienna and Munich museums there are lances that are just trees with a coronet at the top, They are thick like and arm and very long, maye around 4 meters. I don't remember which period they are from.

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Stop now while you can.... stop! Do it for you, you may think you are happy armouring, and that you can stop when you want.... you're lying to yourself. You will end sick old and sore, you would have dumped a small fortune in metal scraps called "tools" "stakes" and "hammers...

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You can merge bot techniques:
First a wire wheel to make the hard job, then a manual pad moved in circles just to erase the linear patterns of the wire wheel.
It always gave me a good result with not too much effort.

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Are finger gaTlings SCA legal?

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I'm sorry, but that pattern won't bring you quite far, unless you're some kind of cyborg. Most of the plates you cutted should have been arched so that you could shape them like a part of a cone, and not a cylinder. Take the time to look better at what the gauntlet should do for you, make a paper mo...

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They used plenty of war lances, so, no need to make them more dangerous, especially considering that the goal was not to kill but just to defeat the opponent. If in a joust of peace one would be caught using a war lance, he would be soon fall in disgrace, as the world of knights and thus jousters re...

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Gunther, is there some engineering behind it, or a machine like that can work even if built with gut feeling and very little math?

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Very interesting! Have you followed those instructions? m I'm very interested in a similar design, someday I will build a powerhammer similar to yours, but I would definitely study the opportunity to raise other than dish I would like to see if it can make a helm bowl dishing a very thick plate (hot...

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The italian team is a pretty new formation, I think this is their 2° year, and I don't know how many people were there for the first time. Other than this, for the little I've seen, and for some people involved, I don't think the italian team is skilled enough to compete for victory there. In Italy ...

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All I can see from the pictures, is that the material thickness of the helm is quite high around the crown, you can guess it looking at the holes, and at the same time, the very little fold at the base of the helm suggest a very thin material here. This to me is a good indicator of an helm made for ...

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