The Armour Archive

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Thank you!

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The problem of a hoses so tight fitting, is not mobility, is getting out of it without chopping your feet. One thing that bug my mind about hosen, is this: It is not possible that those hosen were made with knitted wool? I think knitting is a later technique, but there is a similar technique that ca...

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Armstreet makes finely decorated glossy shiny barely shaped pieces of steel. I don't know the oriental style of the armour, and surely for SCA combat it will perform fine, but I think their product are substandard.

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Great as always, why do you use a bracer in the left arm?

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The keyhole visor at the Stibbert Museum (XIV° cent.) has it's maximum thickness in the lower part, and is around 3 mm, considering how limited is the shaping in this area, I think that it's roughly the same thickness of the starting plate. The most shaped part of the visor, the top, spread larger a...

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The brass rings are there as a decoration, as where the sewing would fix it to the textile part, or both ?

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The weight is hardly a good indicator of thickness because the construction techiques are probably completely different.

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I don't think the visor is worth the effort.

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Wow, marvelous!

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Apparently young kings, just like picky girls, change their mind easily.

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But the question it: why the rules changed? Maybe he or his opponent developed some problem that made the use of the tonlet armour the only solution, or maybe his opponent could not have an armour with such requisites ready in time, or whatever. There is some documents that talk about the issue?

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Maybe it's possible that after the XVI° century steel plates for armour making was imported, or if not imported, the idea of layering different materials could have come together with europeans.

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Considering how round and broad was a common sword tip back then, it would have had a good efficiency against sword thrusts too.

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Now I can't find it, but it was here on the AA some years ago. The main difference between medieval armour and those "sandwich" munition pieces is forge welding of the different layers. The priest account, in short say that an armourer described him how good armour is done, and the "recipe" is to pu...

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The practice of layering metal sheets to make armour, was already known in XIV° century, as Saint Bernardino da Siena appear to describe the process in a letter around 1380 or something like that.

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RandallMoffett wrote:Signo,

Why do you say that? We have textual evidence for archers shooting from the back ranks?

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I mean that while a crossbow is a viable weapon to be used in formation, a bow maybe not, at least for a close packed formation.

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I don't think this argument is valid for bows as is for crossbows, but as far as I know, crossbowmen were among other infantrymen in formations, so, shooting at 20 yards was quite common I think. Infantry formations were much more mixed in equipment as strategic wargames seems to portray, but probab...

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Thank you Glen, I will look for this book.
Regards

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Caius, the bar has lowered so much that impaired people not only reach adulthood, but even have the chance to reproduce. Child mortality in the most advanced countries is so low that when a child die of some illness, a doctor is sued. This mean that all those child, that back then would have died in...

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Glen we have archeological and documental proof that tell us that people survived a wide range of injuries, diseases and even infections back then. Skeletons from Towton, Mary Rose, Wisby, and other parts, tell us of a world were broken bones were quite common, and so were injuries to the head bones...

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Dealing with body protection and wounds, there is also the psychological/cultural aspect to be considered. I think this can influence things quite a lot. I figure that for the same "injury" modern people would on average consider it worse than their medieval counterpart. The consequence of this can ...

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Interesting discussion, but it appear (from a fast read) that nobody questioned the chronicler bias. C'mon the writing is much more a political manifesto than a factual description of the events portayed. This is not to saying that it states the false, but that accurate choice of words, some little ...

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Galileo: Place your stake plate on the ground.
Steve: You can have my plate, when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Galileo: Your proposal is acceptable.

Freeky adapted from MIB.

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Hi Steve, do you screw a stake holder or it or do you just make some holes to stick stakes on it ?

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To avoid this, you can put the burner not at the bottom of the well, but angled upward and tangent to the well circumference. In this way firescale will fall down but the burner will always be clean, if you find the right position you may find a way to heat your piece even and fast.

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Thank you, this is the greatest christmas gift ever.

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Many of the Boccia's Book, have been printed in runs of <2000 copies , in fact, usually they are numbered. The book of Mantua armours, is one of the most avaiable, and it runs at about 180€ , while other older and larger books run from 300 to 600€. Baron is right about the channel of distribution of...

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Boccia was an architect for what I know, he was passionate with arms and armours and wrote or helped write so many books. I would dare to say that most that can be find in italian is based on Boccia's work. Boccia's appear to have been one of the first to study armour in a modern way, taking multipl...

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Just to be picky, if you weld with CO2, it's no more MIG but it became MAG, because CO2 is an ACTIVE gas and not INERT.

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Thank you. For first I would like to say sorry for the amount of errors in my writing. Now I will spell check it all. Sean , I was hoping in your contribute, :mrgreen: but aside from the technical trouble of this operation (your post gave me several ideas to semplify the whole design of at least a m...

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From time to time, strange ideas enter my mind, it would not be a great problem.... if they would go away at some point. My last idea is to build a "sheetmetal lenticulator" ok, calling it a sheet drawing implement would not be as fancy. This stuff would be made of two pieces: 1) a black smithing ga...

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We have enough veteran and active duty military on this forum, to go, kidnap, take him to a shop in some desolated place, and force him to pound piece after piece until he will pay for his own ransom. :-) After that, with the armours and the money we could "acquire" even more goodness. (Obviously on...

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They don't want you to have 220V in the shop because otherwise you could use import tools instead of those funny 110V american ones?

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Well, in 1998 conservation, nothing has been added or at least it's not reported. But the fact that some lames are marked while others not, may suggest that someone at some point restored the garment. not knowing the complete history of this item, there are always grey area.

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Before the discovery of metals, life should have been so boring for our ancestors. It's amazing how metals can be shaped.

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Re: How to build an armour bench. With drawings and picture

Re: How to build an armour bench. With drawings and picture

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OH Hive mind, I invoke your power!

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