The Armour Archive

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Hot rolled is cheaper and softer... go for it!
The scale is quite easily removable with CH3COOH or HCl, and in the inner side is a good support for paint.. or, at least, i like it.

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How much could cost a tool like that?

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Every summer, thousands of poor coal forge are abandoned along a road.. don't dismiss your coal forge! Who does it is a beast!

Sorry, i can't resist!

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You can see the same question from different point of view, but the result don't change. We live in a world where economy rules, and this not from today, but from the day we invented the money.

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YES
If you plan to use it for armouring, pass directly to argon gas more than CO2.
ROXS!

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Remember one thing: Today the price of workmanship is probably 10 times, often more than the price of iron needed. In the early times, it was viceversa, labor cost is near 0 while a billet of iron had a great value. As all of us know, after the fall of roman empire, the technology level and the reso...

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Yes Sir Esme is right, having the tooth worked out from the metal of the tool instead of added have some disadvantage, but there is a good margin because is the first part that i made, and a cheap tong cost only few euro. I admit that i punch rings in group before all other tasks, so i can use my fi...

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I will send a request to the museum, i know that there is a bookshop and some people i know bought the book here for a reachable price.
I post the e-mail address here, only in case i lose it.
I hope they will reply soon.

info@museodiocesanomantova.it

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You mean that the sides of the pansiere are a little tall?
Could be.

Jiri now i see why you had not time to reply my messages!

keep in touch! See you

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TOO perfect... pfui!

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Well, i just made a sketch of my tongs, i repeat, they are only the merge of the one i've seen on the link posted above, so you can catch more detail there. The main thing is that if you make it of the right dimension, you could be able to work holding it always in the hand. If you want to use trian...

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I use something similar inside more that outside, is not too much resistant to wear, but it works.

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Telwin makes a plasma cutter that have an integrated compressor, is the only kind of plasma that can run at home (at least there in Italy with 3Kw max) the model is : http://www.telwin.it/webtelwin/prodotti ... aSintetica)/E815084?OpenDocument&E
Can cut up to 6mm

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Buy a cheap plier,tong.. call it how you want, then grin away around half of the lower blade. You will weld here a small plate with 2 holes and a small depression. On the same portion of the upper blade, with the help of a mini driller you will shape a tooth that will fit into one of the holes (i su...

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http://www.flosferri.it/foto/foto_armat ... 0nuova.jpg

This is what i made.. simply merged all the tongs in one.
It will save you a lot of time.

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I think the main difference from original raised piece and modern reproduction is in the initial disc: Today we can access very even thickness in sheet metal, so your initial disc have always the same thickness. My (personal) opinion is that they used disc that were thicker in the middle and thinner...

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Hola Jiri!
How are you?
It's a long time we don't meet on icq!

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In armour of the same period of this, i've never seen the kind of feature you ask for. Other than this, i can be very wrong, but i've seen that feature only in footman armours, and never on a knight armour.
Just my 0,001 cents

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a simple syinthetic cloth can do that if you are isolated from ground.

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Well.. i always thinked to be quite distracted when working in my garage.. But sadly often i lose my tools and other things as soon as i leave them on the table.. After some minutes i search for them ( i was there all the time) and simply i don't find them where i think they should be (usually small...

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The easiest way to use steam power is the one that you see in old steam train. It's really simple: a boiler with a safety valve, a heater under it and a cylinder where the steam enter and exit when the piston goes to the lower dead point.. a spring for return. What you need to engineer is the steam ...

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If you look like a war machine.. they will use war machines against you.. so you will be at the same point: unprotected.

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Uh another detail on soft body armour: there is a reason (in reality many) if they are thick and bulky, even if we know that a thinner layer can stop a gun bullet, the reason is that a body armour can deform up to 40 mm before the bullet lose all it's energy.. 40mm against your body

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Metal plates are not suitable for bulletproof jacket for 2 reasons: The weight, the risk of increase instead of decrease the possible amount of injury if they fail. I explain better: bulletproof jacket, soft, or hard, work on 2 factors: 1) distribution of energy 2) reflection of energy In the first ...

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Yes they are..
They are probably of leather, i say this because they have the same color of a scabbard and other leather items in the picture.

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He is using flux wire .. not gas

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They could be easily of Victorian age, so i think 18th century.
Not period but not made yesterday.

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Well i see that there are some imperfections but i would like to have this level of skill

I think this is the right way to go.

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Well I sell Telwin welders, and i have two at home.. they are ok. So: When sold, Wire welder is set to use "flux wire, and no gas". On the right side, into the panel of the wire, there are the electrodes. Check if the polarity is OK, if you want to use gas and common wire you need to invert the pola...

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Very cool!
Ehi! He is my friend!

ehehhe i love the archivers

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Try with a inverted galvanic cell.
So you will strip coat from your tools adding it over an electrode.
I think you will get a period, porous, dull finish, a little use, some dirt, a bit o grease, a bit of rust.. et voila`.. period tools

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As stasted before, folding and welding was done by the one that produced the sheet to make sheets large enough for the armourers.
If they had sheets big as today, they will never lost time and metal to fold it including slag between the layers and making it weak than a solid piece of 1 layer.

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I'm european, and i've noticed that american people often say "you get what you pay for".. Probably this is often true.. but not always. The price of something depend on a lot of factor, i'm not an expert of marketing, but from the little i know i understand that the price of something goes over the...

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Thank you, your opionion reflect mine, and what i remember from various reading here from informed people on the matter.

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The question is:
There is any evidence that butted maille were used in 15th armours, other than in "parade" armour for decoration, in battle armour?

Question for period maille experts