The Armour Archive

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I work alone, with just a pair of tongs, I don't like that someone else hold my piece over the stake, because I need to place the piece,the stake and the hammer in a way that i can't explain each time, for some work it helps, but for rough shaping not (at least for me).

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I'm far to be a strong man (i'm 30.. am I a man?) but I can hot dish metal really fast into shape even if iron is not red hot, it's always softer than cold iron. Have you tried hotworking? I think that more i work hot, the more i want to work hot.. and i use just a weed burner and firebricks.

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If god wants, I could be there next week... i will try to make as much picture as possible.
Please all cross your fingers

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The sallet near the camera appears to be much more interesting... is an effect of light, or is really a unique piece?

sorry for going offroad.

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Bodkin could have been developed to face Maille.
The breaking of the tip if used against white armour, should give the arrow more "grip" and more edges that could crack che metal... is something about statistic i think.

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My hope is to have someday some kind of E-BOOK with pictures at a resolution high enough to permit printing in large formats (A3, A2, why no A1?) at a good resolution. And maybe multylanguage text. If this kind of product will be safe enough against piracy attempt, and their price in the affordable ...

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A project like that in my view of things, would require a different aproach: 1) the picture should be less "artistic" and more "scientific" they must allow to understand proportions and measures, so quite limiting for the photographer 2) all such material would make sense only with a heavy load of h...

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A spear can bring one thousand time the force of a bow on the same pinpoint spot,and is less prone to glancing over round surfaces due it's inerthia. we are not talking of bullets of different weights and speeds, we are talking of two different worlds here. So Speed is a factor only in a comparable ...

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I think something between 2 and 3 megaJoules

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Yesterday i was going to show the book to one of my friend.. he told me "we have two of them..."

So.. no need to spread anything

good products selfpromote.

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No it won't

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During the raising process, many things could happen, depending in what you do. Raising is a hard technique to master properly due to this freedom. I'm far from an expert, but i can say for sure, that these factors: 1) how the metal is placed again the stake 2) where and how you hit the metal 3) the...

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Il peggior difetto di noi qui, e` che quando vediamo qualcosa che ci piace, ne vogliamo ancora! Qui tutti speriamo di vedere attraverso la tua macchina altre fantastiche armature, magari alcune di quelle di cui e` piu' difficile ottenere immagini decenti. Grazie p.s. se resti qui ti trovano lavoro p...

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If i'm not wrong understanding the difference between coal and gas, one of the main factor is that coal in the end is a hot mass, that transmit heat to the metal that is in contact with it, while gas burner use a blast of hot gasses to transmit heat. Is this wrong? If not, someone have tried to forg...

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Thank you Jeffrey.
Per, i remember that you were working on a museum reproduction too.. how it's going on?
Any pics?

Thank you again

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Well, our descendants will someday find every piece of this harness and put it togheter again... maybe in a museum.. in the end, it will follow the destiny of his ancient fathers... very honorable.. very..

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You should please us with a progress thread with pictures and informations on how you proceed.

It would be nice.

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I think we too often forget that there was armour and armour, not all armour was nice and well made, stock production and munition armour was a reality, so it's reasonable that the sanding phase was skipped and the surface coated in some way. I don't know if medieval sheet metal came out with the bl...

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So each year 0,1% of the owners of a gun in the US die? Or i'm doing wrong my math? Don't you think that with less gun around, you just would need less gun around? For example, in Japan is extremely hard to be allowed to carry a gun, japanese policeman don't carry a gun, because they don't need it u...

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This is the first time that i hear about that, in general medieval iron is believed to be hard to work cold, unless during refining most of the inclusion gone away, in that case it will turn in a very mild steel. I'm always suspicious about the "the old was better than modern" thesis. Medieval iron ...

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I'm working on a two piece pattern to make a chalcis bascinet.. it's a prototyping, and making it and working on it, i learned a lot about patterning. But now i have a problem... i asked to the friend girl in question, to take measurement of her head, she did, i used such measures to size the patter...

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Less dishing, less thinning, fast shaping, structural resistance, easy cleanup of the weld if one is good at welding (is not my case)

More semplicity in achieving a period shape and deep.

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I sincerely hope everyone of us spend 1 minute to send to the publisher a feedback, other than the satisfaction, they could really think to give a brother to this pubblication.
Maybe the ARS could add some weight to this... right Brian?

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I think that the best bet is to make a stake to shape 2 knuckle at a time, you just need to make 2 different size of them and you should cover a large variety of hands.

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http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m993.htm

Quite expensive punch

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We could rent some ninjas to stole them

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Yes is very amazing, the level of detail, and the crispiness of the picture is incredible. In many pictures you can see the tool marks, or any tiny scratch or imperfection of the metal, or the mini decoration here and there.

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Good luck, for sure we want to see pictures of the finished (or unfinished) product.

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No, i just paid the same as all ARS members

but i had it in my hands in less than 24 hours.

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OH OH OH NOW I HAVE A CHURBURG BOOK

It's just arrived... all you will be pleased when yours will arrive.

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He is meaning Iron or Steel (Fe+C) and not Al, Ti, Co,Mg,U, and so on

don't take the pin from the tip

ok ok

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Try to contact them and ask for you shipment.
I received the mail and the tracking number too.
I ordered it at the beginning of october.
Soon nothing will care about the delay

(i hope)

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Blacksmithing is an ancient art, and things that works hardly and slowly change.

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Probably the blood of their ancestors run in the veins of many armourers around the world

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I don't think that shit happens only in Italy

even mr Gates make it sometimes

pattern practicing on a helm