The Armour Archive

Signo

Otto you are a real gentleman, I would really like to imitate you and donate a little bit to Jiri, but I'm broken like never before and I need every single euros that I've left.
Kudos to you.

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For what I remember those findings have been made in a place that was damaged by a fire and the building collapsed, the breastplate was probably intended for some combat sport.

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Randall, the idea that someone wore a maille coif under a bascinet doesn't dismiss the bascinet from having a liner. Especially if we are talking about common soldier, that had equipment of lower making that the stuff we se usually in museums, then I can see how it could be comfortable to have the b...

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I live nearby their territory, if you need some info try ask something, it's not my personal interest, but if I can find some info, I will translate them for you.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii
The english page of wiki has some reference to books in english at the bottom of the page.

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This italian english vocabulary of 1611, simply say this (sorry)
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/141.html

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The hive mind is always useful. Obviously this is a long term project, but in my idea I would like to use a hammer head just the size of hammers that I would use by hand, I think that the power I can put in a hammer with my arm is quite good if we consider that I can't beat the metal at 100 BPM by h...

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With a bit of further thinking, a free fall hammer, could achieve around 150 RPM with a travel lenght of 200 mm, this can give apparently more power to a 10 Kg hammer, but I can't think how tune the hit force while working.

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It's quite some time that I dream of a powerhammer, in my dream I plan to make a tool specifically designed to work on armour more than on stock. I have a quite precise idea on how it would be shaped and which kind of hammer and stakes it would use. But there is a thing that I don't have the means t...

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The old saying teach that one bad apple in the chest make all the apples rot. This is true only if you don't remove the bad apple as soon as you discover it, so other apples are still good, but you know what you do when you find one... you check all the others. I've never met anyone here, but I know...

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A) Because it's fancy
B) Because it get chicks horny
C) Because indian Knockoff katanas can't cut them

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Pitbull, from the pictures I would say that the upper lames, those toward the neck, tend to sit too upward, I feel they should follow more precisely the angle of the shoulder, but probably they sit odd just because the pauldrons are not hung by them but just sits on the stand.

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There is no debate about the quality of the armour.

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Maybe it's old pakistany?

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I've never seen the baidana that Konstanin mentions, but in Ernst's post I can't see a circular pattern, I see a normal T construction.

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Mair lived probably 3 centuries after Lutegerus or how it was called, for sure teachings depicted in I.33 were not exclusive of one master, and I think it's quite normal that they were known later, known and probably affinated, evolved or slightly adapted to the weapons involved.

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I'll let Mac, Wade and Signo jump in, they've played with a lot more of the real stuff than I have ;) Scott Martin Please, don't put my name in the same sentence with them, they are real armour students and master armourers, I'm only an amateur that is lucky enough to live near some of the good pla...

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Which is the diameter of the rings? For a hauberk of butted maille of 10mm I.D. rings, I was able to weave 1 Kg in 2 hours, I think you will take much less than predicted as soon as you start to optimize your working process. :shock: :shock: :shock: Holy moly that's fast! :shock: :shock: :shock: I'...

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That is pretty fast! I think I know the chaining method process, fortunately butted maille is no more one of my passtimes.

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I see a potential functional problem with this setup. The weave appear to be stretched in both directions over the shoulders, this make it quite rigid when the full weight of the maille will pull it down stretching it to the maximum. A solution would be to reduce of two or three courses the circular...

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Ok, now if you want I can share with you some of the horror stories from the Stibbert Musem. Let start with something easy: For those who had not seen pictures of the Stibbert's Museum, I will tell you that a lot of the armour on display are on mannequinns, completely dressed, and this is quite inte...

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I've never seen a maille built with this method, is there a period counterpart to this construction?

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I've heard horror story too about the Stibbert Museum in Florence, but I didn't think it was so common.

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I don't think you should be disappointed, how many helmets have you made? Each one of them will always teach you something, have some flaws, and disappoint you for something. I think you catched the spirit of the original, sure, maybe you could do better, but I don't think this should disappoint you.

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Welded WHAT? Into WHAT?!

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The roughly same steps are in italian language.

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I bet a good light ale is much more electrolyte friendly and healtier... and period!

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In italian, corsaletto, (originating from french corsalet) refers to a kind of armor that protect only the torso, in later period described a kind of plate armour, but I'm unable to find online when the word first appear.

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Wow that's very interesting!

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It is an interesting account, is it possible that he had a stroke? I know that you could die if you drink too much water in a short time, but I hardly think that it could be the case. Is there a medic around here?

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The picture are a bit stretched? Otherwise your waist line sits too low, or maybe you are just very slim and tall?

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Well, the hood could be a camail, there is a faint darker line that could indicate a separation between hood and maille.
About the sleeves, I've heard of sleeveless maille in venetian area, I will ask my friend if he has documentation about them.

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Armour works, intention, and rules are what try to keep people alive.

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p.s. What kind of Flos Duellatorum he is practicing if he doesn't make gioco stretto? As the book is entirely on it I find hardly other material. As a side note tell him that gioco stretto is perfect for stage combat, you just need to use it as a conclusion, and you can have counter moves to exit an...

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For starter there is nothing wrong in making stage combat, one must always be honest with himself, if he like it and doesn't sell it for the "true path of the sword" then kudos to him. Then he will need some training sword from Jiri Krondak (http://fabri-armorum.com/english/?id=obchod.php) ugly but ...

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