The Armour Archive

Signo

Don't you think it would be interesting to understand if it was born as a military fashion because it worked that way, or it was just civilian fashion adopted in war equipment?

Signo

I was thinking to make a good two (or more) parts negative where you can make wax positives in it, then you can use standard techniques to make a lost wax cast with sand or other mediums. In this way the prototype is not lost, and can be reused indefinitely, and retouchs by hand are not a problem.

Signo

Hmmm... I just can't wrap my head around why there are two different styles of depicting maille in the same picture... Some illustrations have three or four. There were dozens of different types of mail - varying link sizes, weave densities, types of riveting, etc. Many look distinctly different fr...

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As a first, I would say they are quite good, but there are a lot of details that you should notice for your future projects. 1) articulating lames should be closely fitting together, their shape and placement should permit movement and very little gaps or steps between the lames. 2) scale fingers ar...

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He was meaning the neck chain.

Signo

It's very sad, I, like everyone, hope you will be able to do what you love soon. Keep in touch with the AA, armouring as a profession is hard per se, if someone try to F$%k you it's even harder.
Good luck

Signo

Recently I had the chance to exchange some word with mr. Paggiarino. He told me that was very surprised to find the helms he photographed very heavy in the front, enough to notice handling them, maybe this is one of the things that helped them sit in the proper position, togheter with tight fitting ...

Signo

Wow this is one of those story where people are all teary and hug eachother.... uhm too much gay for armourers... so raise a pint!

Signo

There should be a section of this forum exclusively for Mac's posts.
No, this is not enough, there should be a temple where we could venerate them... and him.

Signo

It remind me something from Encyclopedie Medievale of Viollet le Duc, I will check it later. If it is there, probably it is some interpretation of some kind of source, but this say nothing about how accurate is this interpretation of that source.

Signo

There are some italian guys I know among them.

Signo

I think you can simply put the rivets you intend to work in a steel block with a hole sligthly larger than the shaft, deep enough so that the shaft don't touch (a passing hole is better) . Heat the rivet head, smack it hard, flip the steel block let the rivet fall in a container or eventually use a ...

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Rubber? unless it's pretty full of holes, you will hate sweating in it. Other than this I think it will be pretty heavy and cumbersome in thickness that can offer impact protection. I think padded garments are the way to go. Wool, felt, linen, cotton batting, I think all those materials will outperf...

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The first thing that came into my mind was trial by battle, I think it was widely used well into the XIV° century, at least, for what I know, in Italy it was just in this period that this kind of judicial system was criticized because it was largely unreliable. I'm not sure we could tell that those ...

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Beware Pitbull, if you go in Czech Republic, you could fall in love with it and never come back.... or at least, you risk to not come back alone.

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I would like to see if signals that go to the muscles are equal or different in intensity in this same scenario. I think there should be more factors that work at the same time, for sure coordination an timing are important in delivering kinetic energy, but muscle reactivity and contraction velocity...

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Ernst, no matter how stiff is a visor hinge, in combat the visor will lift from his position., but in combat only a loose hinge will permit the visor to always return to the natural position, that doen not mean you could not be able to completely open it and let it stay there when walking, riding or...

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You need to look at the website... You bastard. why would you say such things when there's young and impressionable types around who would'nt expect such filth to be lurking on line? could'nt you have been merciful, and linked them to Goatse, or something? Ahaahhaha they have to man up at some poin...

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In the bascinet era, the idea was probably to detach the visor for foot combat, or allow it to flap in front of you. Latch systems are later.
Proof of this is in combat manuscripts that teach to raise the opponent's visor with the left hand to strike it with your weapon.

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Now it comes with jousting saddles and shields!
You need to look at the website...

Signo

I like your shop, and I especially like to see that you use with good profit that burner setup that I've seen for the first time on this forum many years ago.

Signo

Look, someone called it three times some days ago, and now this picture emerged from the underworld to be our nightmare.
Beware obscure powers you can't grasp.

Signo

Go to the arms and armour forum, register, they have an online collection quite big and subdivided by museum. It will be easier to follow what you want after you know where it is. I would not bother to download all those pictures, unless you are the kind of guy that is able to catalogue and put ever...

Signo

The problem to me is that none of you has the slightest idea of what you should do with a sword. You accuse him to parry with the edge, that is perfectly natural, so I can't figure what kind of techniques are you employing. The fact you swinged sticks or wasters for 13 years doesn't mean you grasped...

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They are going to do it with sharps?

I thought it was a mistypo, but they say it twice.... The mass of their brass balls is going to create a black hole.

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Onions, Olives and Pepperoni ... a pizza I suppose.

Signo

This is not strange at all, it may depend on where they had the chance to look, and to whom their comment where directed. Maybe they had an interest in say good things of the place they were visiting and / or maybe the writer had not the chance to see the poorest part of the city, that was quite big...

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The problem are the rivets, if they are similar to those I used recently, they need a good annealing, they are so hard that when peened they are able to break the ring if you push too much. This should not happen.

Signo

I'm not a history expert, but I think in Italy flowed very high quantities of cash in that period. The proof of it are in art, architecture, literature and in everyplace you put your eye or hands.

Signo

We usually envision charges as a head to head attack, but for sure the advantage of cavarly was to rapidly move outside the front of the enemy formation. But is "direct" charge the only kind of attack that cavalry formation made? There weren't "ablative" charges? I mean, instead of going straight in...

Signo

Apart the fact that you should really listen what everyone here told you, there is another thing to take into account. Soft bulletproof vests really really dislike everything that cut. Soft bullet proof vest, are not antistab vest, unless specifically designed to do so. That being said, it will be a...

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I think it's a wonderful setup for baton games, full visibility, full protection, full safety what else you want? Ah.. cool looking armour...

You should not bash armour of period SCA.

Signo

AWESOME! Thank you!

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Have you considered to rivet the thumb to the outside of the metacarpal instead of the inside ? I know you don't fear sharp points catching between the plates, but I think it will help with blows too.

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Only the hammer can give you the correct shapes, and hammered pieces retain shape better than bended ones.

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