The Armour Archive

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My only suggestion is: as soon your hands stop bleeding, put them over a book called "Techniques of medieval armour reproduction" Your hands and you will be very happy of what you can learn do to. For many of us around here that have no chance to have a real master to learn from, this book is a dear...

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Too much spacemarinish

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Well, is nice to hear all those good feedback, it mean that next one will be in europe.. we already agreed on this no?

I'm sad that i was not there, i will be happier when i'll receive my copy of the ARS journal!

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I suggest an inverter stick welder, in my country Telwin (that is sold worldwide) sell an optional part that can turn your stick welder in a TIG welder, the inverter stick welder is very versatile... and the TIG.. well who can master the technique can do almost everything. m look at inverter technol...

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Probably they were not intendet to stay opened during combat or other particular actions, in that case the visor was easily removed, because it could give you a lot of problem if it stay over your head. This mean that probalby is normal that your visor tends to close and stay close, because is the p...

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The umbrella system look to me the most similar and the most simple way to do it.

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In a word? NO. The kind of armour you mean is called "All'antica" that translated means roughly:" in the ancient way" . Those kind of armour, like embossed, grottesque and other jewels of steel gold brass and silver where intended as a "vulgar (not so vulgar) display of power". They must show the ra...

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How much it can boost my skills?

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Jiri please contact me.

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You will see that it will receive a lot of crushing... sadly. I use to make iron buckler out of 2 pieces : the brim and the bowl. The bowl came out of a welded cone then hot worked (both dishing and raising). The final result is that i can have a near hemispherical bowl of a good thickness. Then you...

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The right arm was unprotected by metal because they used pistols and arquebus, not because they used a sword (all us use a sword with a right gauntlet)

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I think you could experience some problem if the lames are overlapped as you describe, this can limit a lot your ability to "bend" forward, and then they will tend to stay close to your legs instead of leave some space. (If you look at yourself by the side, and you don't look ok, it maybe for that r...

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Borax will melt and keep oxigen away from molten metal, it will float over the metal so it won't go deep into the casting.
I think people more expert can give you further and better details.

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I tried with success a torch feed with Propane gas with a 40mm nozzle, it can turn sheet metal orange in decent time (the first heat take longer). It's not enough for welding, but it's cheap and very easy to use (nothing to regulate, you just pull the trigger). The firescale produced can be very lit...

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"The AA goes to Vienna" Look like the title of some pornomovie..

Oh yes, wellcome, we hope to see many other pictures!

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Lovely, but i want mine!

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Vervelles are appropriate, surely for earlier armets, probably later ones used different solutions to protect the neck, because maille can be grappled by hooked weapons to pull a knight down in the dirt.
I think that the "aventail" (i don't know if the name is adapt) is simply splitted in half.

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Nooo Nooo he has corrupted by HIM!

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Destichado, you are right, a sword cut is the minor problem for a full armored fighter, but on a real battlefield you would face spears, pole arms, maces, quarrels, arrows and so on. A concavity in the middle of the breast (between the boobs (i can say boobs on tv?)) will focuse such piercing attack...

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It look 15th century, but a bit more of raising will help you to reach the motion freedom needed and the look.

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The only thing i can say, is that a breast designed in that way, will fail in it's main purpose: deflect blows toward the sides. This will bring a lot of them just in the middle.

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It should work, try to understand what is wrong with it and maybe with just some modification it could satisfy your needings.

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Oh yeah now they work! (I was meaning the pictures loading)
They are very nice (the gauntlets)!

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My friend, they don't work!

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Could you buy a ticket for me? I can't be there, but even with 1 chance over a million to win THAT sallet... it would worth the money!

(i will refund you the ticket if i win!) ehhehehe

See you soon (in europe maybe?)

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There is a difference between footman and horseman armour, in the first you can find solid riveted plackart, in the second it will allow for some movement via sliding rivets. I don't have at hand material to show, i've seen for sure solid riveted breasts and plackarts, but they were for infantrymen ...

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I don't think this will resolve your problem. Your problem (just my idea) is that the maille is too wide at the shoulders level (from shoulder to shoulder i mean), you should need probably to cut away a part from the back and not only from the front, in other word you should cut your maille in two, ...

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Well, as a novice i can suggest you another question: Ok, you want to make it in one piece, but HOW you want to form it? There is not only a way, there are instead many ways and all works. You could dish the upper and the lower area, leaving untouched the area of the shin, then curl the piece to mat...

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I've seen at least 2, one in picture here on the web (i don't remember wheer) and one wih my eyes at the Stibbert's museum, the guy that take care of the armous told me that it was original of the 16th century. Basicly it's a very simple garment of thick (5 6 mm?)and supple leather (deer?) with long...

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I'm a novice, but i use to push down the metal into the dish with the small ball attached to the hammer, then i flip it and i use the shallow dome to planish and dishing a but further so the domed part come even. You can do a helm in 3 hours with no planishing only if the dish and the hammer (one of...

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it's almost useless to me.

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Those kind of books are invaluable for everyone that don't have the luck to have a master that teach him step by step. Are useful even for who knows the matter, because there are always more ways to achieve a result, and maybe there is something new to learn. This is true for every craftmanship, not...

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Those picture are X rated! Remove them from the web before some poor armourer see them!

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I hope the guy will get well soon, i hope too to never see nothing bad happen to my boys.

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If you keep your job and do it in the free time you have, well, you can try it, but be wise in taking commissions, and never do thing that you are not sure to be able to do. People expect that you give stuff for free and that you make their stuff for first.. (nobody know why) they get easily disappo...