The Armour Archive

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I think that the archive, and more the archivers need your pattern. It's an important part of the knowledge you share with us. I try to make my own, but i feel the need to check what i think with the pattern that are into the archive. If the pattern follow the same "logic" then i know that i can try...

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On punches..
Tonite i had a fool idea:
Could (with the proper insert) a punch like that be used to flatten the portion of a ring for riveting? Is an insane idea?

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I wish you a lot of fun!

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If someone told me that they are in a museum collection, i surely believed it.
Simply STUNNING!

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Dishing helms.. lesson 1: 3 piece pattern is VERY different from 2 piece pattern.. so my hybrid pattern don't work. Lesson 2: cutting away the excess metal and make a 3 piece helm is faster and easier than trowing all away. I think i won't try no more 2 piece pattern, because from my inexperience i ...

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Ehi! I'm in trouble too with the same thing. In these days i'm working on a bascinet made of 2 pieces. While dishing i just realized that something is not going like expected. The median line where the 2 halves will be welded.. simply is not a line! If the rear part of the helm match, on the top the...

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(i ask)
The problem could be due to the fast cooling of the metal after welding? If it cool fast, it will harden becoming very brittle, and Sheet metal cool fast.

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Usually is copper the metal used as base for plating, metal seems to hold well on copper.
If you plan to make if by electrodeposition, first add a thin layer of copper, (it will be reddish) then the metal you want.
(Probably most depend on the metod used, but i don't think you plan to use Hg)

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Well, side wrist movement in real swordfighting is less important than in rattan melee. The gauntlet allow it but at the same time "hold" it, it's very important do deliver all the power of the body into the blade.

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Jiri, i hope really to be at Podebrady 2005, as i hope to see you in Italy too! In my next project i will focus on sanding, i just customize a belt sander, the motor is quite weak, but if it works i can put more power in it.
And finally, i hope you teach me something good!

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Oh uh oh i see them regular.. i pay for the webspace, so i expect it works... please try again.

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Stop making awesome gauntlets and make my poor kettlehats!
ahhaha

Very cool like always Jiri!

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nO.. NOO! .. noooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........

I SEE THE DEADS COME BACK TO LIFE... THIS IS THE DOOM'S DAY!

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Probably there is not only one way to do it.
We must consider that there was no internet in the middleage!

And no armourarchive!

So, probably, any way that last a long, is solid, and easy to mount and dismount for maintenance, is the right way.

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Wow! someone cited me! I found the M shape of the splints, on a drawing by Violet Le Duc, on the encyclopedie medieval. The splints are 1mm thick, but you could go thicker for sca combat i think. But i think that the best solution is to increase the number of splints, so they are one near each other...

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What i can say.... uhm... ahh damn! i drooled over the keyboard!

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Yes, is around the timeframe i was looking for. There are a lot od miniature and sculptures from this period that show splinted armours.
It's a simple and easy solution and quite effective for reenactment combat.

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As requested here are the pics of the ugly tool i made for the splints.
http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armature/pressam1.jpg
http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armature/pressam2.jpg
http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armature/pressam3.jpg
http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armature/pressam4.jpg

Can i win a prize for the ugliest tool ever made?

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You are right, probably a bit more sanding would give a nicer look to the stuff, next time i will grind a little more, the main problem with these was that i don't have the right stake to support the metal while trying to planish it (it's a very deep cone). I really hope to have the chance to learn ...

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I'll take some pics tomorrow, but don't expect too much, is a strange thing made with a barstock, a car door pivot, an piece of hammer head.. well you will see.. and i think it suffered severe damage during use.

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m Those are my first pair of arms, well i could say my 4 armouring project! I already noticed a flaw: the elbow disk is too small and go where it should not (i will replace them with bigger disks). The elbow cop is in one piece welded along the lower side, 1.5mm thick, all the other piece are 1mm th...

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Yes a lot, the metal as you say depend on where you are, probably the composition of german iron could permit a more sophisticated heat treatment, but think a moment about italian genius: softer metal dent more easily, so need more care.. so there is a place for a business in armour reparations heh...

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Ehi, wait, how can you say that italian armour would.nt be of the same quality of german one? As i know, italian armourer sold armours to the whole europe, and made armour in all styles (from french to german.. and obviously italian) and were surely highly specialized. They are different, ok but i w...

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They are very sexy, especially the fingers!

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There are 5 piece for me in this pattern.

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They were good guys

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Ehi! they are our military blankets! What do they do there?

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A long time ago i had abdomen X-rays, and they gave me a sort of small Slip with a protective plate (into a plastic pocket) in front of the.. you know what. So i think that sort of gadget is already made somewhere around in any hospital. In altenative you can make it of gold.. i think "he" deserve t...

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I'm impressed, it's so even... probably due to the wire relatively thick and a good flattening method.
Very impressive.

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You are right, the plates are arranged so that they don't entalge the movements of the arms, is better a (ipotetical) fault in the defence that allow a greater mobility than viceversa. And Wisby CoP don't show great battle damage, so we can assume that they were quite effective, and probably for thi...

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Last year i've seen Churburg, but i don't remember this armour.. there was too many things to see in too little time.

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Thank you, so, in short, we could say that stakes for heavy works (should be) better somewhere around belly height, while stakes for small/precision work could be higher to see better what you do. I realize that the only way is to test, and if i feel uncomfortable with a stakes, i will make it talle...

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Which is the best height (from the floor) for a comfortable hammer work?
Or better, how i can desume it in function of my height?

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You want to build a spaceship of Al because China is building his spacefleet of steel?
No?

What a pity could be a wonderful idea.

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I think that is the thick leather and the pad that protect the wrist (at least in the design i have in mind).

Finally! Splinted arms from italian newbie

stake's height