The Armour Archive

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As i recently learned, they could have been made of a copper alloy.

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No, the sliding are in the back, toward the .. back, and the leather are in front and on the side, to keep things in place.

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May the shape be with you joung Jedi..... KKKKKKKKKksssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhh KKKKKssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhh
Luke.. i'm your father!

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Stop making cool stuffs! Make MY cool stuff!

p.s. We need to know about Podebrady!
See you later.

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Avoid like hell that inner lames overlap creating that scissor effect that wounded many people while wearing that kind of articulation!
Inner lames must remain separated.

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One reason for the lack of a big quantity of leather armour can be this: While shoes are always useful, until they lasts, armour can turn unuseful for many reasons, in this case i can think to recycle a quite big piece of leather that has just some rivets hole in it (to make shoes maybe? ) and recyc...

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Yes but first of all your knee cop is too flat, the deeper is the wider is the angle you can reach.
Dish it more, at least dobule it's depth.
I think you are on the right way.

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LOL! I call "period Nazi" them too!!!! LOL!!! But that is another pair of sleeves. I think that in reenactment area there are the worse people around, i've seen people trying to discredit my idea because in my website a friend of mine wear green gloves... .What makes me is that they don't accept tha...

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I probably have the luck to avoid such posts, because i read a lot of this forum, but not all.
My point of view is that this is one of the best forum i surf, usually people are very willing to help and give good ideas.
In any apple chest there is one with a worm, but all the apples are still good.

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Yes, the picture surely can't show the real shapes of the metal, it's unfinished surface hide it's shape too. When it will be sanded we will see that the pieces have a very very subtle curve, probably it could be seen looking the piece from real and not from a small picture. It's the difference from...

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I usually think to limbs like they are cylindrical, i measure the wide of the articulation and this is my diameter, then i think the shell and lames to cover only a half of the circumference. In this way pivots are very near to knee or elbow real pivot point. And the armour look more like a real arm...

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I've seen this feature on many leg harness and arm harness, the pivots appear to be not 180 degrees from the inside to outside (this especially for the arm) For the leg, like in this case, the plate extend a bit on the outer side to give more side protection.

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Yes it is.

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For sure we are in front of a "two solution for the same problem". To better understand why italians choose a solution, and Germans choose another way, we probably should take into account a quantity of variable that start from: ore quality, smelting and refining technology, fashion taste, tradition...

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Outstanding, may i have a poster of you autographed?

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Feel free to contact me when your idea are more clear, now i'm quite busy, so i can't help you a lot, but i hope to be able to help you in the near future.

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Ok , so i tell you that they cutted backplate into small strips to adorn belts and other garments for the museum.

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In the Stibbert museum there is a full harness that has been repoussed in 1800, so it was a white armour, i think it was made of steel probably, but if you anneal it many times, carbon is not a problem.
It's a nice work of art, but thinking at that piece of history destroyed is quite sad.

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Stibbert, Churburg, Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, Bargello (florence)
and many other.

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I think that if the shell articulation don't go 180degrees or worse more, it's harded to force it to overbend and broke the elbow of who wear it. The arm harness is made of quite thin metal and it have some degree of elasticity and/or it can be forced during combat. My mind run to some "giochi stret...

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I agree, i made - found 90% of the stakes that i have at a scrap yard. I bought scraps from a steel supply to make hardenable heads for stakes, while the body is mild steel. If you know what you need, whit a grinder, a welder and some scraps you can build most of the stakes you need. The only things...

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Rhoteus i suppose that you use a quite thick piece of metal if you plan to dish it to the depth of a pigface. Then, your forming is all done from the inside, or at somepoint you start raising it or stretching but from the outside? I think that when i will try this fascinating piece of armour, i will...

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The only problem i see is that the forming of the belly muscles flattened the lower part of the plate, so is a bit too square in the lower section, maybe with heat and a bit of brutal force you can turn it round again.

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1) Probably i'm the only one that roll metal in that stupid way, but it works for me. I've made a stake with two rods, i welded them parallel with a space between them. Then i take the sheet and i hammer the metal over the empty space between the rods. It can give you straight curl or conical curls,...

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Except for horn attachment, that should look like more like a cap than that horns are directly affixed to the helm.. the shape look right.

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I can't see why there are so many people that are "against" what aemma do. I've spent a lot of time looking at viedos and reading, and my conclusion is: they do the circa same that many groups in europe do, almost 100% of the groups i know personally. Myself do and teach roughly the same. You all mu...

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I've never raised a thing so big, but i can tell you: depend. Depend in how thick is your blank: Thicker is the metal smaller is the oval or the circle that you will need. After you have found the scrap of metal you will use, you should made some thinking to decide how to proced and how thick you wa...

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I tried to think about that matter when i noticed first hand that breathing holes, even if only on one side of the visor, can help in "perception" of the world around, generating a vague image at very low resolutuon where each hole is a "pixel". I've found helm, like the "field sallet" that have a s...

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The short answer is that there are different kind of "mouth" some are like you describe, very similar to eyeslots, someone have a "lip" over them someother are in french style like the occularia (vertical small cuts over a raised area of triangular section). My very personal opinion on this feature ...

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Another question: When you heat the metal, you heat it until it turn orange or you just need to make it hot enogh to make that black coat? I tried this on a roll, and to my not expert eyes, make it black soft it enough, maybe the metal reach 300 400 degrees (C^)

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Girls........................

they alway note the smallest detail

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I agree, the first rule of armour is: no gap but overlap. So, in my mind: gap = unsuseful protection overlap = working protection You can recreate a Braveheart style armour that works simply allowing the edge of the plates to overlap a bit, just like a roof. Overlapping other than closing any open s...

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I've a question: I notice that you heated the metal here and there, i think you worked hot more than needed to anneal the metal in those spot. My curiosity born from the fact that you heated spots that have just suble and smooth curve, so i exclude that you needed heat to shape it. I tend to think t...

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What the hell i need to see the viedos? mediaplayer refuse it, divx refuse it, quicktime refuse it... so what i miss on this?

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When functional details are accurate, then you can think that the rapresentation is accurate.
Other than that, in the 16th century artist had well developed the taste for "reality" so i expect that this picture is highly reliable like a source.