The Armour Archive

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Bending a pieces over a round form is bad shaping for me, the best bend, that will last in time, are those hammered from the inside over a flat surface. Try with a crosspien on a strip of metal, hammer it at an even pace, a see the curve develop, now tighten the pace or increase the force, and see h...

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This is good stuff made on measure, we love them. And I can't recommend anything else.

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Authenticity and armour making processes CAN'T stay in the same sentence. Mainly because: A: Actually we don't know how they made a lot of stuff. we are still scratching our heads around sheet metal forge welds, and dishing/raising helmets and whatever B: They had INDUSTRIES and not one man laborato...

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Maybe they did a lot of annealing, and you have to consider piece thickness.

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Blender could be something to look for, it is quite different from "conventional" 3D software, but it could be suited for you, and it's freeware (and very slim).

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6 cuts in 3 years on a half million pieces sold? Is this enough to retire something from the market?

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I want to reassure you that this things are NOT uncomfortable. At the beginning of my reenacting experience, after a thrust just right where the femoral arteria is, I decided to give them a try. At the time I was wearing a butted rings maille very close fitting. I designed a brajette that went down ...

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I can't agree more with you.

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I'm sure it will do well, because all the guys here know their job. I hope you won't find a marshall bounce it, anyway remember to inspect your equipment regularly (this is not related to the helm in particular, but as a general note).

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It is safe enough, metal weapons against plate armour does not cut trough. From all the footage I've seen, in melee combat, weapon are almost useless, you could win even without using them as the only thing that matter is falling. Looking from the outside, a team that is able to work as a group, and...

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I see bars welded inside the plate, and unsupported bars, I can't see how long the bars are into the helm and thus how big the welds are, but my idea is that repeated thrusts in the nose could make it collapse inward. (I've studied the rules in the past, but I know you update them from time to time)...

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Is this SCA legal? At first sight it doesn't seem.

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What you call percussion point is something of interest only in SCA game, it has very little importance in swords developed to deliver slicing cuts and thrusts. Especially if those are dueling swords (kind like) the purpose is not to chop arms and legs, but just to draw blood. And for this you don't...

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The problem is that as soon as you start stuffing it, it will shrink more than you can think. If it fit a human head as it is , and it's not 10 or 20% larger, you risk to make it unwearable once stuffed. Consider that the distance of the sewings now is a linear distance, once stuffed it turns to be ...

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This project is very cool, I hope to see it finished soon.
Keep the pictures coming!

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Yes, thank you. I was thinking a solution like scale fingers, but this appear as good. I didn't think about making them in a single piece.

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Why did you choose to make the dag's plates without overlaps?

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The same thread on hystorical research already replied to this question.

The interior panels ARE METAL, simply METAL, nothing else than metal, I'm sure because I've been there and looked behind to see how it was made.

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I think the idea was to be a strong deterrent, if you are not a good fighter you would not dare to come close someone with one of those and a sword. I know I would not.

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But this is not good, I've done it too, and it's not nice when you put your gauntlet on the the head of the nail stick under you fingernail...

riveting on a strip of leather is much better, comfortable and easier to mantain.

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I've seen armours like that in Germany, it's velvet, and behind the velvet there is a steel plate. It's just a way to make fancy out of plain steel, sandwiching fancy cloth between layers.

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The most important skill that a newbie need to acquire is EYE. So what would be AWESOME is a guide to learn how to SEE things and UNDERSTAND shapes and then understand FUNCTION. Learn how to swing an hammer can't bring good results if you are unable to see the original shapes and the shapes you are ...

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Could those big rings probably came from a baidana, a russian kind of ring armour?

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As you may know, during the summer they go to several reenactment across europe, maybe they had a problem while away, I don't know how many people work for Marek. I suggest you to contact them anyway, they have always in stock material, if otherwise you were looking for something made on measure, I ...

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Maybe he will attend the same event I will be this week and the next one, do you need I ask him something?

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You should really consider the assumed armour standard to be "gambesons only" , I know, it's not cool to think to be wearing it just padded cloth, but it's much more compatible with your score system and with the effectiveness of the most used weapon (the single handed sword). I think this...

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You may consider to paint it with a period technique, and have it as a munition piece. I think you could even sell it for a good sum because I think is very appropriate for high level reenactment.

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Hippocras?

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But none of them have the weave in such direction, the only exception is that piece that is in so poor condition that probably they put it there in the only possible way.

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I agree, probably it was reassembled the wrong way, like that harness that had the leg swapped.

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Roofing nails works for articulations, I don't know about "sca use/abuse" but replacing or checking a rivet or two is not a big issue.

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I know that those armours you make are mainly intended for SCA and not museum replicas, but you should consider to peen rivets on the outside when making XIV° century armours (obviously you would need then a flat faced rived like a nail). Or at least use smaller headed rivets, they give to your work...

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Italian harness of the time still used maille hauberk with sleeves just over the elbow. If you put there a nice spaulder you will see that the arm is pretty much covered, and remember that the maille was over the arm harness and not below.

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Pay attention to your "proposed" wrist line in your gauntlet, the pair that I had the chance to touch and meausure (at the Stibbert museum) had not a linear wrist line, but the cuff emerged from the metacarpal where it was needed, a little forward on the top, a little behind near the thumb...

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We are definitely in need of a preview of some of it's content, much more than a commercial.

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