The Armour Archive

Signo

There are apparently at least two "levels" of Del Tin. Most of them are good looking mass assembled wall hanger. A small percentage of it, is good quality sword. Here, in Italy, where in theory Del Tins should be produced, nobody in the reenactment community use them. Expensive like hell, and not us...

Signo

Stupid should hurt.
Who told your friend that a Del Tin was a sword for use? They are wall hangers.
The sword must return on the wall, tell your friend to stop messing with stuff and buy a sturdy sword.

Signo

http://www.laterza.it/index.php?option=com_laterza&Itemid=99&task=schedalibro&isbn=9788842070863 This should give you a good start. http://books.google.it/books/about/Deeds_of_Arms.html?id=sRmfHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y This is more focused on later forms, but if I'm not wrong, he tell something of earlie...

Signo

I google-translate the article, well, at the time, (if I remember correctly) "tournaments" had more the look of real battles, fought in a quite vast area that could include villages, woods and open lands. Knight took part in them with their troops, infantry and archers were involved. Captured knight...

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And sometimes they didnt deal with it well. At the tournament at Neuss (Germany) in 1241, over eighty knights are said to have died, having suffocated in their helmets from the heat and dust. I think they liked to launch major military ventures in the cooler months when possible. Plate armour is ve...

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Oh surely people were much more in "contact" with the environment, today we are too much insulated, we live permanently in a egg shell. We have air conditioned in our cars, homes, offices, in every single place, we control the temperature and the moisture everywhere. It's honestly crazy. They would ...

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Climate change (oh nooo!) is surely one of the factors, other factors have been already underlined: I live in Italy, and usually reenactment time goes from April to October, the peak of activities is in the hottest months. In all those years this is some of the observation I've made on the issue: 1)...

Signo

I hope soon to be able to start making some armour again. You don't know how useful to me are your horror stories.
I will try to remind each one of them, and to learn the hard learned lessons without burning my ass on them.

Signo

A badass late period brigandine that will use hundreds of little plates, each with 3 to 5 nails, for a total of over two thousands.
You're already in love with it no?

Signo

I know that it's fantasy artwork, but don't you find a bit strange to have the armpit rondel on the right and not on the left while you clearly depicted the left side more protected? I would put it on the left, if you don't plan to have two.

Signo

As I use to say to the guys in my group, recreation, reenactment, living history, experimental archeology, all have a somewhat limited scope, and they make compromises to achieve their goal. Smaller is the goal, easier is to satisfy more stringent parameters. Obviously it's impossible by definition ...

Signo

I've made a pair of splinted arms in my life, and I made splints with 1mm mild steel, and shaped them to a sort of "M" section the central part was like ( and not < , but the concept is that. They were light and sturdy, yes they suffered some damage, but I think that using a spring material could ma...

Signo

This is just because the COP was not made for you probably.

Signo

If the armourer know it's part of the job, and if you have done your homework correctly (taking your measurements) then proper padding will permit you to achieve the optimal compromise between comfort, safety and visibility.

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Were you running for a Darwin Awards?

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I would say Milanese harness of XV° century, but then don't blame me if everyone will try to date her (and I don't mean try to guess the correct period of her harness!). Ahahhahahahhaha.

Signo

You're welcome Scott, I was a bit worried that you took my criticism in the wrong way, it's always difficult to transmit fully what you think and what others understand, especially because english is not my first language, and forums doesn't help too. There is another little glitch in the archive, t...

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OHhhhh the learning process never ends.. now I know even a little of glassblowing!
Thank you Mac, you're invaluable!

Signo

I can't understand why saying the truth is always taken so harsly on this board. We are all here to learn and improve, not commenting those gauntlets was a disservice to the board and to the poster. Personally, when we talk of hourglass gauntlets, my reference is Platener, he makes many variants, ma...

Signo

The gauntlets you bought look sturdy,safe and functional, and surely will serve you well for a long time. But on two aspects the product is not to the price level you paid it for: accuracy_1 and accuracy_2. Sorry, I can't figure a better terms now. Accuracy_1: While this gauntlets are heavily inspir...

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About the first beaker, I notice a darker spike in the bottom part, looks like a very pronounced shape that even wine bottles have. I dare to speculate that this shape served to fit the beaker over the spike of the chandelier. If you think about it, it make quite some sense to be able to use a oil l...

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Well Chris, that green suit is one of those that I stared in awe too when I first approached the world of arms and armours.
So I think you inspired a lot more people that you thought. Do you feel proud?

Signo

I think it could be very dangerous to be unable to drop the weapon. It's like putting a lever in your hand that can break your wrist and elbow in the event of some freak fall or something like that.

Signo

ThriftyKnight I think you have to study BOTN more, your vision of it is quite superficial. At BOTN you can't do advanced grappling techniques, because it's a competitive tournament, there are money for prize, and there is a lot for pride. If fighters would be in the position to hurt someone, they wi...

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Baby Jesus cried too.

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The only pity is for the finger lames that looks like cheap indian knock off, while the hourglass shape is very good, just a bit of modernism in the thumb area.
Very nice.

Signo

I have that book, is there something I need to sort out for you?

Signo

You know what this means? That within 5 centuries reenactors will use your book to try to reconstruct this ritual combat of the long gone SCA.

Signo

Pay attention: Tuscany and Umbria are partially flooded. If your plan involve going from Rome to Florence then to Venice, please verify if the trains are operative on those lines. If bad weather persist, I suggest you to avoid going to Florence and Tuscany.

Signo

No matter how strong it will be, it will dent. How much it will dent is what you can influence with thickness and hardness, but you have to think where is the right compromise between production effort and durability.

Signo

Yes, beware the tourists traps. There are people there who make a living on screwing tourists, I'm so sorry of that, but I can't say nothing more than pay attention.

Signo

The correct position of such backup weapon is horizontal and around the waistline. Forget the bullshit shoulder sheats.
http://www.steutzger.biz/images/42t.jpg
Or behind are the way to go.

Signo

I would like to see some footage of the aftermath. When you don't care about the consequences of what you do, you can do almost everything. Despite we are all human beings, eastern europeans appear to care very little about keeping their bones in one piece and inside their bodies, spill blood and sp...

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Donald, is your harness in AISI 4130 ?

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I disagree. We must take into consideration that the visor is supposed to stay closed when it is important, it does not surprise me that pivot points does not describe and axis but an angle, the rest position is the closed position, every other angle generate a little deformation, that spring back t...

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