The Armour Archive

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To me they look like leather tabs so that the lacing does not get worn, cut or untied rubbing against the rings, but the button idea is neat and pratical.

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Don't let the metalsmithing bug bite you.

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Maybe they cutted the rivet to lenght after sticking it in the ring, so that they could handle a rod of a decent length.

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Actually, all happen on his own. For starter, building are built on the ground, ground is like a dense fluid, so building slowly sink in the ground, unless they are build on rock. Second, abandoned building can fall apart in a short timespan, especially after a city has been militarly conquered, bui...

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Watered down clay or simply mud, dirt should work, but as Mac said, before stacking try to make it work with one blank.

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Agree, today production is too little to notice this, so most armourer make custom sized items. On this topic I've a thing to say. Two years ago we have commissioned 2 armours, composed of greathelm and full torso. We had divided the people to fit into the armour in two groups, based on similar sizi...

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This is an interesting question. I think that during the XV° century industrialization mindset spread in the armour production. There are a lot of ways to make armour parts of various sizes without actually need to custom make them. Even for critical parts like arms and legs, you can combine differe...

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NO, this is not what I meant, reading the thread a bit in a hurry I perceived the idea that someone found the breastplate not as fine as the decoration, I probably misworded my post. What I meant is that even if it was "parade armour" there was no reason to not have it made of the best craftmanship ...

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The simple fact that most modern fighters find real armour mobility unacceptable for modern martial sports, make this kind of armour out of question, even if made properly. But what I think I disagree a bit is on the "uniqueness" of this piece. I think there are illuminations of men at arms with sim...

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What is the purpose of using a low quality breastplate when your wealth can easily buy you a small nation?

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Had no problem unzipping the file, I think I used winrar, and PDF files give me no problem on opening. The problem with the sorting of the reference, is that they are probably ordered as he collected them, and not as they appear in the text, so you would often need to skip many hundreds files at onc...

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Those are some of the most valuable 3Gbs ever downloaded.

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Slipping in your turnsole is how god tells your walk is bad.

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WOW Magic imbued hammers of doom!

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You have paper and scissors, you can easily develop your own pattern, and I will guarantee that will look much much better even if you make it in a dark room.

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Keegan, I think to effectively heat a piece of sheetmetal for your raising project, holding you piece in front, or above the chamber, would not be effective. What ideally you want is to place the metal at an "exact" spot in the flame, that spot is the hottest spot in the flame, this will heat your m...

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I studied the argument a bit, because I would really love a powerhammer for armouring, at least for rough initial works, and the Kinyon air hammer look like the most versatile, flexible and reliable design. You can upscale and downscale the design depending on your needs, and more than this, with ju...

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The sun is your friend, and hang it like you do with normal clothes will dry it. The water that will dry from the surface will simply suck moisture inside the garment, it will just take a bit more time. Turning inside out will help, but mostly will help sunlight to kill all the nasty stuff that make...

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Nice workmanship, but the greaves look like too simmetrical.

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Gruber do not ask too much from your body, you will regret it someday.
Secondly, you have no right to pull out so much beauty in so little time.. who the hell you think you are?

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This work is more like jewelry than blacksmithing.

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I like to use surgical needles, there are semicircular large ones that have nice and sharp triangular tips.
Something like these:
http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/File:HechtnaaldenG.jpg

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Nicknizh, you accomplished a lot in very little time, surely you made more in this few months than I did in the last 10 years. It is very inspiring to see that not only the masters can make a complex suit like the one you chose from start to finish, this give new boost to people like me to put their...

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It's coming out very nice,the armet remind me the sketches in Fiore dei Liberi's Flos Duellatorum.

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Why you say that now that the halves are welded together there is little you can do? You can still dish the backside of the skull to increase the volume, and refine the overall shape with raising. Yes maybe remaking the skull would be faster, but this is just one of the options you have.

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Looks like early reenactment, looks like a SCA event looking at the spears

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Other than this, a spear is quite good and simple tool to poke holes in foes. I see the need to more "massive" poleweapons only to face harder to poke enemies on the battlefield, we know that at some point armoured men at arms didn't need the shield anymore, but formation combat supply the shields a...

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As I use to say about knigths :"Imagine a young and testosteronic alpha male, brainwashed from childhood with knight propaganda, enclosed in an armour and with plenty of weapons and the skills to employ them". We can't imagine how bold,cocky,impulsive and reckless they could have been.

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Hairs I didn't know to have on my spine are sending chills up to my molten brain. It would be a honor to have my miserable soul collected personally by you, I think I could even convince people to bring their souls just to make things more cost effective. :D On a little more serious note, if you hap...

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Now all is clear... it's quite clear that Ugo made a deal with satan, we all thought it was his soul that was sold, but I'm starting to believe that is OUR souls that are being sold to satan, one by one. That inspiration that fill our hearts looking at this supernatural beauty, is in reality the cal...

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You should be happy now, my head blowed up and now it's all scattered on the walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRfFlRe4MSo

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Lords, yes, but many simple knights wouldn't have been able to fully equip their squire with up-to-date kit. Speaking to the original question, it appears that Bertrand du Guesclin began his military career owning a haubergeon but not a breastplate. If it was a long-sleeved haubergeon, then adding ...

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For what I found online, 25CrMo4, is AISI4130, they describe the same material in different naming systems. On some online page I found explicit reference to 25CrMo4 being the same as AISI4130. The nomenclature of metals is effectively a great mess, time would be for the adoption of just one system,...

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I think it's maile, not scales.

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Remember that hammer and stake decide which move the metal depending on contact surface, the thing with the smaller surface is the one that will make move most of the metal, in your case, the edges of your stake cutted through the metal because this was the easiest outcome for the metal.

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