The Armour Archive

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With all that precautions you could bury it for years and retrieve it in perfect condition.. is not a little bit too much for a trip?

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For his little maille aventail.

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And they work quite well too... except for a little thing called pain.. but pain makes you stay alive... sometimes.

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Denting are easier to repair, but cracking is period as hell, but it will require patchwork and brazing to repair... I think you will have to accept that your pieces will dent.. 40 Rc is not little. But if you think you pieces are not strong enough you should reconsider your choices of thickness and...

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Why there are victorian age armour that cost the same as the real stuff?

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Unless you want to start making armour in a different way than it is done in the modern age, you hardly need a big anvil, and more than that a big anvil with a mirror finish. It's true that everyone develop his methods, but for your own admission, you hardly use an anvil for your projects, and I don...

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The fellow smith I know that has one *loves* it. The Italian style means that the sweet spot covers the entire face! He had one shipped from SE USA to the US Virgin Islands for his use there! I'd get one but I'm too cheap... Italian style? It' curious, but for us those are german style anvils. :mrg...

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The shape permit to have the handle aligned with the centre of gravity of the shield, increasing handling and reducing strain on the arm. Plus all the rest.

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Well, subsidence is a common phenomenom around here, and time just make things sink into the ground, it just happen that tall and small footprinted building are more prone to asimmetrical sinking.

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We had a leaning tower in Ravenna too, but it was unsafe and it has been lowered. I remember when I was a child it's full height, it was scary how much it leaned. http://www.fondazionecassaravenna.it/getattachment/98c29d02-845b-4259-96e4-4f6dcd75f189/Otium-(5).aspx This is how it was a long ago, I t...

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Even in hot rods style?

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In Italy there has been a fashion for tower houses, they had many purposes among them: display of power and security.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_of_Bologna

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Then you don't need to peen your rivet too much, otherwise you will crush whatever material you use as a strap, a good step for a failure. Be sure that between your rivets of different finger scales there is enough space to allow movement and that movement doesn't involve cutting trough the strap it...

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Well, maille was both "round" or "flat" and anything between, it just depend where and when you are looking. Secondly "inside" or "outside" is determined by rivet heads. In original pieces usually there is a difference in the riveted part, the smoother side goes to the inside, so that is does not ca...

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http://www.actakonservering.se/acta/Kon ... fta.html#0

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Surely there was water pollution downstream of settlement where there was leather production, textile coloring, and other polluting human waste water, but from this to saying that all the water was bad it a long stretch.

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In castle Coira (Churburg) there is a maille gorget that was probably worn with a sallet, it mimic the coverage of a steel gorget but it's made of very tight ring mesh.
Sorry but I can't find pictures online.

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Many years ago, I've made a splinted arm defense. I've made with some scraps and welds, a tool to form a sort of " M " shaped splints, the central part was a shallow curve actually, but the outer edges were perpendicular to the surface of the splint. It was just 1 mm thick mild steel, 10-15 mm wide ...

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The picture is not clear enough or the effigy is a bit smoothed by time in the helm to see if what we are seeing is a bascinet with some sort of pivoting or fixed visor or a kind of greathelm fairly shaped (it still should be at least a 2 pieces construction, the skull in one piece and the visor, I ...

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Hi Randall, The greatbascinet is still in Piotr's hands. When we will receive the helm and the harness we will surely test it. In the meanwhile Piotr will make a twin armour. When both armour will be ready we will have lot of fun with spears, daggers , halfswording and poleaxes. Then I will share so...

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About the two examples of "real banded mail" shown in this thread: 1) What I notice, is that ring diameter is quite big. This lead me to think two possible explanations: 1A) That maille are of low quality, and effectively, leather bindings so big could have improved their performances, especially in...

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It's not even possible that we are the only living specie on this planet that can't drink running water. I mean, how we survived until today if this was the case? I think the mortal water issue is a bit overblown.

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You're welcome Alec, yes a sequence of picture can help you a lot in understanding how the armourer proceeded. But when it's up to you to make it, only you will know how you would do it, there are different ways to make something and achieve a particular result, it's up to you to find what work bett...

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Thank you Pitbull, it's a long time that I wait this helm (not because Piotr is slow, on the contrary), and now I can't wait to have it in my hands.
I find amusing too the stages between a dirty sheet of steel to this shiny helm. I hope someday I could be able to do something like that.

Cheers

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More than a thousand.

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I have one with 2 dents. http://www.allenantiques.com/A-65.html One more theory down. :) I don't have any good idea why it has 2 dents. Wade Perhaps the second was collected in use? :shock: I think the chance that the second bullet hit almost in a specular position of the proof mark, is a good indi...

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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to show you the last work of Piotr Feret (www.platener.eu) It's a great bascinet raised in one piece and hardened by an outside shop. This heavy piece of steel (is around 5 Kg) is intended to be used in a foot joust combat format with steel weapons. It's a friendly th...

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The S13 breastplate is not "round" in reality, this is the main error when reproducing it: from the side, the curvature is not even, is not a segment of a circumference. If you look from the side, you will notice that the apex of the roundness is lower, imagine to have a arc of circumference and the...

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Ah very good to know, I didn't remember that there was a time when hinges were all inside.

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Very good job, but I would have put the lower hinge to the outside anyway. I think most original had it that way, and I think there are good reasons to do so: 1) when opening, the axis of the hinges is less offset, making opening easier, and will create a bit more space to put your leg into. 2) when...

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I don't think it will work any way. When it was driven by a wheel, it worked thank to inertia, and the leaf spring amplified the force of the drive. But now that you have a air cylinder, that is slower no matter the airflow, it can't work the same as before, and the leafspring reduce the impact stre...

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Well, I think that what we see at the BOTN could be more similar to those festive and friendly melee of which the chroniclers talk about than actual war.

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Since those are just little tack welds that should last the time of the heat treatment, I think you should not worry too much. After that you will remove all the material.

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For starters Kit, a good gambeson, padded cuisses, helm, gauntlets and protection for elbows and knees should be more than sufficient. Obviously the force level they would be comfortable would be inferior.. but it's supposed they are beginners so it's good they learn calibration and control. After y...

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