The Armour Archive

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I like this discussion too, if nothing else because it's a lot of time that I'm thinking about it myself. Some points that I think quite firmly on the matter are these: 1) You would probably need a hammer made for this very purpose , while the first "sinking" operation could be made on a standard co...

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Take care, and a bit of rest.

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Mac, considering the unusual layout of the backplate at the waist, how (if any) are supposed to move those plates when for example, the patron bend forward, or lean back a bit? My concern is mainly about how much thos plates overlap and how the two lames that make the waist meet each other.

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The weirdness is that the waistline raise considerably on the spine, so much that the belt that old the pansiere si splitted in two parts.
Is this?

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That's GREAT! Ahahahhaha

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Just for curiosity: this book contains even visors that have no matching bascinet with them ?
If so, is there the Stibber keyhole visor?

I want to know if I can brag to have helped research

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Well, Ckanite, "our" ancestor armourers had different resources and different problems than us, and it appear armourers had a very strong market that kept them well fed for some centuries, but more seriously, they had apprentices (cheap), waterdriven powertools (probably quite expensive), and used i...

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Hi Mac, have you ever tried to cut lames straight and then arch them (while still flat) ? This is one of the first thing that a old blacksmith taught me, and it's quite easy. Probably the extra time needed to do this is more expensive than the metal you can save?

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Mhhhhh nice rack!

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Wow, I bet in the next months we will see a lot of those hi-tech mannequins project pop up here and there! They are amazing, and being fully customizable makes them even more amazing!

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Zetheros search for other thread started by Mac in the past, he gifted this forum with some invaluable gems.

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Bump!

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Sean, you should develop some replacement elbows for this man.

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There are a lot of good armourers that posts their work on these pages, but you can definitely see how different is the work of Mac, even from a rusty and unfinished armour, the lines just flow, the metal wrap the body like silk. Thank you for the effort you are putting in finishing this commission ...

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Ok, we don't know the exact thickness of the bowl of those helms, but for sure can't be 10 mm like the nasal or 3 mm like the cheek plates. The important notion is that it was thinner, then if it was 0,5 1,0 or 1,5 it's much less important than the insight that this thinning can give on manufacturin...

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Wow, this is exactly how I think helm blanks were made.

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If we are talking of floating arm harness then it make sense to have attachment point above and below the piece.

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My idea about "industrializing" the process, is something like this: I need to start with a lenticular blank, thick in the middle and thin on the edges, then I can dish the hell out of it. Once my rough formed piece is done, I can start working it manually to achieve the desired shape. But just like...

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Well, you can for sure experiment with making armour from thick stock that you will draw beforehand so that the middle of the blank is thicker than the edges. You can then experiment with making armour from two different steels plates forgewelded together.

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Mac, I would dare to say that "mediocre" depend on where on the ladder you stop climbing. Nobody would think that your works are mediocre if for some reason your works would start to be always the same quality.
Wow this is some serious asslicking...

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A friend of mine need to sell these gorgeous steel arms: https://www.flickr.com/photos/57823281@N08/sets/72157641010102975/ They are made in mild steel, 1,5mm (0,057 inches) except for the couter that is 2,0 mm (0.078). The pieces are pretty new, just minimal use, never abused. Detailed measurement ...

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Wow, actually I don't like horses nor chanfrons, but this is one of the best I've seen.

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I don't know if they made such a difference for visors. Many years ago I've handled the "famous" Stibbert keyhole visor, and I've been surprised to see how the occulars were at least 5mm offset in height, that is equivalent to the height of the eyeslot itself. Now, there are two chances: or the owne...

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Armour MUST be asimmetrical. Industrial grade simmetry is a modern invention. I've never seen something that could be considered dimensionally perfect / specular / simmetrical in medieval armours.

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Wait wait, we argued for several years about welded bascinets, and there are great helms that clearly show weldings?

About the clenched nails, I think it's because it's harder to pull out from the plate, especially if nails are relatively thin and thus harder to peen.

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OH this is very interesting! Thank you!

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Thank you Bertus, do you know why he say so, what he is talking about? A judicial duel, a tourney, a battle..

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The full text in a 1828 edition:
http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/lo ... DOC=299847
If someone can read it, It would be interesting to see what they are talking about. The passage should be around page 46.

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Mac, some friend of mine, found another instance (from germany) that talk about maille patches stitched in the elbows. The writing is called something like "Chronicles of Limburg an der Lahn" That is this place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg_an_der_Lahn The interesting passage is this: [...] ...

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Thank you, I just stumbled into this account, and I found it interesting, my knowledge on hosen and stocking is pretty limited, but I'm greatly interested in finding a satisfacting solution for this problem. (My mother would cry) .. but I want tights! :) http://fernrocks.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/...

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Yesterday I found this, and there is a little innocent detail that could help us: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/missing-tudors-black-people-16th-century-england "Elizabeth I also had at least one African in her personal entourage – “a Blackamoore boy”, who is mentioned in a warrant dated 14 Ap...

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I think only a good picture non scanned from a medium quality print could tell.

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Knitting was certainly a known and used technology in the 14th century onward, as we have extant pieces here and there, as well as the occasional image (Mary knitting Christ's seamless shirt, for instance). It probably was known earlier too, but I was just checking at the time to see what was going...

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I would dare to say that the artist was trying to show leg's muscles through the canvas.

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