The Armour Archive

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the swords are of? Latex? Rattan?.. this is not the kind of swordfighting i usually see.. can we have some more info about what they are doing?

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DAMN!! HE SPOKE THAT WORDS!!!!

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I love mini facets

, in reality, they need only a light sanding, and will give you a very even surface, remember, more "shiny" is your hammer more shiny and compact will be the surface you work on, so less sanding needed.

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I thinked to a japanese sword too... but could be a pole weapon.. without pole?
Or simply.. are you sure this is a weapon of any kind?

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Medieval sword was usually sharp only in the last portion of blade (debole) and not like a razor. You can safely grab the other parts of the blades without fear.

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What i know is that butted maille was used as decoration and later in time.. but i can be wrong

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I have one.. it can cut 1mm iron.. if you use a bit of oil can be quite fast, and is very silent. I think it's a nice tool for little works, and don't warp the plate like a shear, nice for trimming edges.

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Peddinghaus makes probably the better hammers of the solar system

I've one of them, and probably now that i see... i will buy some other

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Probably a pin interconnect the verveille and the helm?
Placing a rod into the tubular it should be easy to pien it from the inside of the helm... maybe

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Yes, probably pressed in 3 steps to control the thickness of the final product and avoid failures or too deep forming in a single pass (i think they were worked cold).

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I think it came from a bulldozer or a ship, it's surely of an engine.
The valve head is flat, when i will convert it in a stake i will show you.
Regards

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Nice! Two nice idea.... something more?

I know you can do it!

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What! i took many weeks to put it in that bad condition.. do you want i clean all the work i've done? Chaos in the shop is a basilar condition to make armour

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I would like to do it, but i'm too joung to think to my funerary armour

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I've found this to the scrapyard... now i have to find something useful to do with it... i need your suggestions!
http://www.flosferri.it/immagini/valvola1.jpg
http://www.flosferri.it/immagini/valvola2.jpg

Thankyou all!

p.s: the caliper is opened to 1 inch, just for have an idea of the dimensions.

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I love it!

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Can we receive some other info about the stakes and how use them?
I'm very interessed in this kind of shapes and how to develop them.

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The angle at which blades meet depend on many factor, first of all the real style of combat your are practicing.
If you do edge to edge the only way to make blade last longer it to cut off a part of energy at the last moment, so blades strike not so hard.

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We do it that way from 4 year, and other people do the same here: Before handling a steel sword we train the "apprentice fighter" with long and short staff, then we focus our training to "control the blows", only light touch or no touch at all is allowed, fighting is done at reach distance, so contr...

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Is not our fault to be inept at armouring but willing to learn

We need good patterns to increase our skill and understanding of "how to"
You will see that someone will give justice to your work (probably not me)

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No pics.. no help

Help us to help you

Don't worry, you can do it!

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I agree with Sasuke, THIS forum works VERY WELL! People need help? They receive help! I want to show my work and receive comment? I can do it. And except some white fly, here we are all quiet and happy, because we LOVE what we do, and we love to share our experience. Non SCAdian people can learn a l...

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COOL!

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The only problem of this maille, is the ring diameter.. 14mm is HUGE!

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When you have to face supersonic bullets, is better to avoid any hit. Even if full armoured, even if the armour stop the bullet you can be killed or seriously injured. For this reason the armour must not limit movement and senses. A soldier that run slow is easier to hit, a soldier that don't see or...

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I don't know if it was never translated. But yes is a good resource for many things.. But about armour contain some misinformation and some tipical french "inclination" to consider french things always the better avaiable. Le Duc was an architect, not an armourer, you can't pretend to find the same ...

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Thank you all for the kind words! They make me really happy! Those gauntlet are not for SCA, but for rebated steel that we do. (Only very light touch permitted) The wrist as you say is not protected by plates, but the leather you see there came from a sturdy pair of boots.. and is very strong.. i ho...

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Well finally i can show you this.. I'm not fully satisfied.. and you will see why. The pattern is from the archive (master Cad) i found it very useful and well done. Sadly after the first unsuccesful trial i had to trim some pieces to keep it work without redo all the stuff from scratch. This is wha...

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Now all will be harder because the folded edge add a lot of strength to your plate.. usually is one of the later operation to do.

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Outstanding! Do it! The world need to learn

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Well Aluminiun powder mixed with oxigen can simply explode.. ok ok the chance to reach the right % is quite low.. but not zero.

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I don't understand how it's made between the thumb and the index.. can we see it closer?

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From my inexperience i can say: Most pattern for the visor are in 2 pieces this will resolve the problem you have. If you want to make it in one piece you should not cut the eyeslot at all, instead you need to raise the visor, probably annealing it two or three times to reach the right deep. Only wh...

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The cut on the nose is tipical, i've seen it so many times... on a friend of mine ehheheheheh

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Very nice.. we will wait to see them finished!

What i can do with this?

The Wisby experiment