The Armour Archive

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German area, half-late XV century? Maybe, they are not the drawing of a fetchbook? But they don't look like Talhoffer's so i think it's a bit later, but is just guess.

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Plates are expected to be side by side or slightly overlapped as in other form of armour?

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Finger lamer are too big and few, go for a smaller size and more pieces
then, if they are not for SCA, you don't want the finger plate to full wrap the finger, but just over the top part.

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Give use more pictures from different angles, from this i can see only that in the area between the index and the thumb there is too much metal.

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How it's possible to adapt a cloth to a round shape? It is supposed to stretch in the middle, "compress" toward the outer edge, or you need to tailor it in multyple pieces?

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I've made some photo to it this december, if you give me your e-mail i will send them to you, don't expect wonderful things, St'George is on a horse on a tall support, so is quite far for closeups.

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Yes, the Knuckle rider (if present) serve to "lenghten" the fingers as you close the fist. The leather of the fingers is riveted to the knuckle rider, when the hand is open, the rider sit under the metacarpal plate, when the fist is closed, the rider apear in front of the knuckles to seal any open s...

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Uhm there is someone that RAISE helm halves and then weld them togheter?

It seems to be logical, but i've never seen someone doing this.

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Who is interested raise a hand!

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I have the solution to this Justin! Patrick.. the gauntlets are wrong, you should remake them, and oh ah yes, the greaves, trow them away and make another pair or two! Look with care at your work ,discard and remake as many pieces as you can! Ok ok a dumb joke, but i agree with justin, it will be so...

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I know there are products that are metals mixed with resins, they can make "cold castings"
http://www.prochima.it/pages/metal.htm
try to translate this page (is italian) the only thing i know is that is quite expensive.

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The difference is that on a flat surface the "pressure" is more distributed than in the small contact point of a curved or a domed piece, so the sanding is less effective, you should increase the pressure against the wheel, or use a smaller wheel or use it in a way that it contact less surface in a ...

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I would like to try to contribute: As we know, the evolution of plate armour depended in great part by an improvement in metal production, that allowed to make bigger bloom of iron and then bigger (and more consistent ) metal sheets. For any technical improvement in history, i can suppose that in ea...

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The only pity i see is that the elbow cop is too flat.

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Outstanding

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An anime breastplate, it's relatively late and in use in eastern europe, but this is not my focus, so wait for more detailed info.

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I love it, sad that all four will go to Alessio and none to me!

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So it's a sort of huge dentist's turbodriller?

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Well, before that we should know the amount of oxygen that came out of this equipment, as stated before, the more flow you ask for, less time the machine can do his job, so, more unuseful is this stuff. If in the end you can just heat metal and not melt it, well, you can simply use a weed burner, th...

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If it's heavy enough, even mild steel will suffice, demonstration is that Halbert sell starting kits made out of tin alloy. I think brass can make good forms too.
Other than this, many find in woods the best choice.

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a deformed ring is better than a broken ring, the important thing in maille is that the weave remain intact, and the amount of energy that can be absorbed by the armour. Like in bulletproof jackets, to deform a ring, you need energy, the energy came from (maybe) an arrow, or a spear, so, a ring that...

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There is someone that can flatten at least the overlap of a ring without hammering? Ithink that a heavy pincer (like those that can cut padlock steel) modified so that it won't cut but actually squeeze could generate enough force to flatten the overlap... but i've never heard someone using that meth...

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Centre of gravity
But the others i don't know.

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Brass brazing is the way to go.

Or a patch riveted inside, maybe with flush rivets.

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Very nice.. it's a french sallet right?
You did the rough shaping of the visor while mounted on the skull, or just the "fitting"?

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We should think that this is not a good idea, if the only knight wearing it is dying

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I know that the intent of make armour is cool, but from what you say, i feel that a metal shop is not your home, probably you will need a lot of tools that you normally don't use. I think you could start in a painless, cheap, and easy way working on something like copper, maybe you could make some d...

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The problem is that the two book are in some way redundant.. or better, i think that most of us could own just the second book that contain the item arranged inf function of the newest organization of the armour pieces. They are a piece of art in heavy paper and leather covers with gildings.. I admi...

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May the forge.. ehm the force be with you.

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I usually receive packages from the USA with standard shipping in 10, 15 days, so the time should be coming.

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If the metal is too thin it could give problem during the shaping process, maybe Alluminium is the way to go (Joan D'Arc of Luc Besson had alluminium armours if i remember correctly).
The material is more expensive, but if the armourer know it, i think it's easier than ultrathin iron sheet.

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Their movement rely a lot on sliding rivets and leather articulations, lames collapse one under the other (there is a lot of space under the pauldron) to permit movement. As said by others here, if well made they don't limit movement, but i think that a knight would have thinked twice before raising...

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I just want to inform you that this is a bascinet "bacinetto" in italian as the note under the picture. Well in reality to me is an hybrid form, the top is tipical of the bascinet, while the skirt is very tipical of barbute. Other than this, i'm sad but it's the first time i see it.. i would like to...

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CH S18 have this feature, i don't have picture at hand, but i searched for a lot of picture of it, and i'm quite sure (but alzheimer is always a chance).