The Armour Archive

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hahahhaha I fear they only understand the word EURO, CASH, din din din

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Thank you Patrick, a very good reading

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Ahahaha Brian, we use to have cars

i don't own a caprone

haahaha you make me so happy!

But our highway work like our postal service... if you came here, could you bring me a copy of the journal?

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Bruno where do you get your steel? I find the opposite situation!
I'm able to find only mild steel in sheets suitable for armouring (from 1 to 2 mm). I'm unable to find simple carbon steel is sheets thinner than 8mm! No matter if hardened or annealed.

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Yes, the area between Florence and Venice is very rich of interesting armour pieces. Maybe for someone of the USA, the idea of travel for 200 or 300 Km is a joke.. but here in Italy, a trip of such length require his time so i suggest you to plan very accurately your trip. If you plan to came in the...

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I can't tell for the specific case of Churburg, but usually you should get in touch with the curator of the armour collection, then you should explain what you would like to see (take your time to choose only few pieces). Churburg make a quite fast visiting tour, so the armour collection is not "fre...

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For this reasons ,orders in battle were given with banners

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If you wish to be historically correct you could be Joanne of Arc. That is a real case of a woman fighter in the medieval - renaissance age. Otherwise you should simply play a man, just hide your long hair under the arming cap. Leave alone unlikely feminist figures, there were some attested cases o...

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The lack of uniformity in style of Black Prince effigy, is absolutely normal for the timeframe where he lived. At that time, it was not so common that a single shop made a full harness for someone. We cannot know how long the Prince owned such armour, and we cannot know if all the pieces belong to t...

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He is probably concerned about the dirt and the corrosion.. i think that mild steel will be ok, it will probably last a very long time with just a bit of care like any other piece of armour, if you think that someone could stomp over your feet frequently, make the point with thicker iron.

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I suggest you to stitch instead of rivet the leather strip to the glove, you can stitch along the whole edge or just where needed: the fingertip and somewhere along the lenght of the finger. For doing this if you find a curved needle and a small pair of pliers you could do it quite fast. The needle ...

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Maybe that you just need to expose your wet metal to oxygen to make it rust... and i think is not the fastest method to clean a magnet

it may take a long time to rust into pieces.

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Hello Bruno, are you from Italy? If so.. now we are two.. The use of iron to restore missing pieces in armour is fair common, especially when a piece is entirely missing. Many original armour have restored pieces or modern pieces to complete them, often those "fakes" are quite ancient because they a...

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There are arms made this way, but they are usually in german style, or at least, this way i've seen them. So they have pointed elbows and flutes and ridges to strengthen the pieces.

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I agree, is a restoration to show how it was shaped the missing part.

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Yes so you will use flat headed rivets or nails.

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Drill the hole of the desired measure, on the outside, will a larger bit, enlarge a bit the hole, taking care to not go too deep.
Put the rivet an peen as usually it down to fill the hole , sand, and finish.

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I think most modern repro's are made in two pieces, you shape both side of the visor, and then sand flat the part to weld to the other side.. in this way you can make it cold and with much less pain than raise all the ridges.

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Both armouring and blacksmithing involve working metal, but they are different things, with your skill you can easily make your tools, you for sure already have a good control and eye, but making an armour that fit a body and let him move freely and at the same time protect it is a lot different. Tr...

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Uhm probably the shear work, but you need to push it ahead to force the tool to move into the cut, depending on where and what you are cutting, it may need some force, remember to oil the cut.

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Question: If i cut the two slits BEFORE dishing, is should be able to close the lower edgejust while working the bowl.. no?
Other than this, could i just raise the lower edge after the skull is welded?

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The only flaw i see in such design is that the breastplate is "pointed" in the lower side, if i bend forward, the pointy part will be very uncomfortable.
and hinder the freedom of movement.
With just little modification i see this as a useful and functional solution.

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If the perfect armourer exist, he probably won't accept orders because anyone will try to place an order to him

.. so is like Santa Claus

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The BP doesn't have attachment for a lance rest, maybe a victorian representation of Joan D'arc suit, and the dents on it were made to make it more fashinating.

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I think we would like to see Inside pics of all pieces

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Unbelievable...........

move to finish this suit! I need my gauntlets

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Now the links are working, thank you!

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Drooling

It's so sad that i won't see this armour from real

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Opsss n.23 is a prototool for setting up articulations

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Thankyou i've made something bad with the uploading

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Nick this is the tool i was talking about, as you see is an improvised tool, it just substitute another pair of fingers It should need some tweaking (if the ball was a cone, it should be easier to identify the precise spot, you can mark a point with a graving tool and set the cone into it, without p...

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Well, it should be time to thank you all for sharing your time and knowledge here on this forum. This is my "gift" to you, my last job (the first in my new shop) i'm 80- 90% satisfied of it, it has some errors, but for the first time i've made something that i'm proud of. m m m m m m m

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Thank you, this is an important thing to understand how you can expect to move metal.

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The green color of the torso and faulds protection, compared to the white color of the arms and legs, suggest that there is a cloth or leather covering over this part of armour, we see only the rivets that hold the cover and maybe some decorations, it could not be told how the breastplate is made un...

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Ehm.. corazzina is an italian term and not an english one

My last work, no more barf bags