The Armour Archive

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I use two small balls welded side by side as stakes, so for first i dish the knuckle part, then i mark and push in the lines with a rounded rectangular hammer.
Using the balls you can reach almost everywhere.

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Ah - ha padded coif.. i should have supposed it by myself About the osprey, i will take with tongs many of the things we see there, their standard is not even, some books are very well made and accurate, someother not so much, but i'm not saying that a leather suspension is not period, it's only a g...

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Bruno your solution is not SCA legal, and i assure you, your head could not withstand full force blows without going in contact with the helm, you could receive severe damage in a full contact environment (don't try this at home! ) This solution is very simple and good for reenactment, for staged co...

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attach a big magnet (you can find big and powerful ones into old speakers) to the base of your stakes, it works on my anvil.

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The question is: what is the advantage in deny one of the main positive properties of maille? (expansion and contraction) in favor of a string that has little to no improvement effect compared to the mesh of iron wire of the maille. If a cloth or leather tong help the maille, is not much more easier...

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Yes is interesting too, the maille patch how large was? And how you performed the test?

It would be nice to know as more as possible.

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It could work, but you need to make the arm openings going more near the neck, the arm opening should look more / V \ than | V | in this way you can raise your arms without raising the whole weight of the gambeson, and it won't limit other movements.

I hope it's clear.

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Maybe you should show us the sallet

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People there that masters the working of pieces of leather so big are few, few reply are probably more constructive than a lot of bla bla

Don't expect more than 5 or 6 reply, you just need a bit of patience and the help you need will come from the sky

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You just should not repeat that name 3 times

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The guy in question is just too much convinced of his own beliefs, we are all just miscreants.

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In the past i was able to make a conical elbow from a single piece with just a weld, but i think that the lack of "bullet shape" that you mention makes them unsuitable for XIV century reproductions. Probably i should have tried to dish it, but more probably i should try to make it in two pieces. I h...

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You have a ton of smart tips and tricks, and better of all, you're so kind to share them with us, many of us before falling in love with armours, had no experience of metalworking, everyday there is something about metalsmithing that surprise and fascinate us... I hope your help will improve our met...

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You can simply close the eyeslot pushing the metal from around and make it narrower

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I think we should take into consideration to burn them as it was used in period, if the fire kill them, then we will know that they were possessed by the evil, and we would do a good action

Great job

.. i hope Satan will take my soul and teach me how to make pots... ehm.. armours

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Jeff, is a long time that i think how to cast rivets, could you explain how to proceed? (Assuming that you suggested to cast them because you know how to do it

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Thank you

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The visible part of the spectrum is too thin, you should consider more what your eyes can't see... As said the more energy is reflected, less is absorbed..... the white cloth look a good idea, as is the channelled padding and the hole on the top.. there are a lot of armet with a small hole on the to...

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If you plan to use it only for armouring, well i think it don't worth the money, but you can easily and fast make poleweapons and other interesting stuff with it, in this case, it will worth the money. Be sure that the cycle duty and performance of the machine fit your needings, for home use, i sugg...

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What is not clear to me is how you fit to your body, do you pass a string in each row of button holes? You need to make knots... i'm very confused, while on the other hand i clearly understood how it works and the rest of the process.

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If i'm not wrong at least one of the armours from Mantua have this feature, if this is right then the book in question is:
"Le Armature di S.Maria Delle Grazie di curtatone di Mantova el'Armatura Lombarda del '400" written by Boccia.

I hope to remember correctly

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Do you think it could be a good solution to take a cylinder of metal, cut away a wedge in that way __________ ____/\_____ and then heat bend and weld the whole thing togheter? Doing this twice, in opposite direction could make a S stake, then with some grinding to smooth the curve... What do you thi...

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If it is a CO2 "only" extinguisher (the boy is red and the top grey) then after you remove the valve, you can do with it what you want. But if it contained powder, propelled by CO2, the body it too thin for make a bowl with it, the CO2 cardrige is much smaller and unserviceable for a dishing bowl too.

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Every time i see this post jumping on top, i risk a heart attack!

Bad bad you all

Probably when he finally will came out.. i will die for the emotion

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I still think that the orientation of the four finger's lames (that appears to be a single lame for the 4 fingers) prevent to firmly close the hand, if they were made in the opposite way they would be at least functional. What surprise me, is that it appears to be a right hand (the image could have ...

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Ok, this stuff exist, but for what is intended for? I don't think for grasp a weapon or to climb a tree

maybe to catch with the hands piranhas or other nasty animals?

to search things into a nail's box?

From the picture it look like there is an arm attached to the hand.

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This is fine art

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I don't think it could work, and i don't see a reason to protect so much the side of the hand that hold a weapon, A patch of maille is a correct and period protection for grasping gauntlets.

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A dumb question : for a jousting helm the eyeslot is not too wide?

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In some pieces i've noticed that the vambrace is not made by two perfect halfs of cylinder, but the fixed part (the part joined to the elbow) appears to be an arc of more than 180 degrees, so the mobile part sit on both sides preventing any pinching or crushing in the event of a severe damage to the...

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http://www.museopoldipezzoli.it/PP_inglese/

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start dishing a piece of iron on the top, if don't broke, a depression will naturally appear as wood compresses, then a bit of angle grinder to even out the result and could be ok.
Check for the integrity of the wood, or it may split in pieces

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As they will not be intended for real use, try to make your next project more similar to a real piece than a SCA counterpart, i think you have the skill to catch the shapes of a real piece

good job

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The flattened rings need to be opened just few mm.. i hope you are not trying to spread them to open.. you just need to raise a side of the overlap while lowering the other, two small plyers will do the job.. or the bare hands too.. depending the ring size I personally use small shoemaker's nails, 1...

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Two years have passed since i read the book, but i remember that part of the corpses were of old men and there were young boys too, and almost none of them used to wear a maille in conjunction with a C.O.P. that should have been the norm... so they weren't an expert militia.

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Is not that a French styled armour?

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I think that Boccia refers to the type of rivet employed when he talks about barley seed or grano d'orzo or grain d'orge, call how you want.