The Armour Archive

lorenzo2

The pic of the inside of the pauldron is fascinating! I have had trouble visualizing where the rivet and leather placement went since these are seldom shown in museum photos. Can we see a pic of the inside of the other one (I think its the right one? for comparison?

lorenzo2

Lovely! May I ask what technique did you use to excavate the channels for the inlay? I always have trouble getting them even and undercut enough to hold the inlay wire. Was it engraving, chasing, etching, or something else?

lorenzo2

That is a very sad story and I feel for the surviving familly. My story has a happier ending. A friend and I cast bronze frequently. One day we decided to add some brass fittings to the mix just to see what would happen. We both noticed some extra smoke during the melt. That night I had a fever and ...

lorenzo2

I use a drafting device called a flexible ruler. Its the high tech equivalent of Anders suggestion.

lorenzo2

http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/uj/ujk.html

Various end decorations were used depending on time and place, including animals on occasion, as can be seen here.

lorenzo2

Interesting! How will you approach the greaves?

lorenzo2

Endre has a good point. The crusaders explained some of their violent behavior as simply revenge for muslim invasions of formerly christian lands such as Spain. Its really the same old story, pick a time in history where things were "ideal" and justify todays actions, no matter how wrong, as an atte...

lorenzo2

What the health authorities are worried about with mercury fumes is minamata's desease, a largely irriversible degeneration of the nervous system caused by mercury poisoning;

http://www.american.edu/TED/MINAMATA.HTM

lorenzo2

Bumpety

lorenzo2

For quality of this caliber, I can wait!

lorenzo2

Waaagh;

Would it be possible to show a pic or two of the legs from the inside when you get them?

lorenzo2

These are a lot earlier than what you want but the basic components are similar. The site is in russian so you will have to figure it out from pictures and your armor books. However, it will be much easier than starting from scratch. http://helmschmiedt.narod.ru/spallacci.htm

lorenzo2

Armor bob, I'm not sure I understand this comment "will also stretch this inner line down over a bar though so the outer edge of the wing is not the only place getting major stretching, but this doesn't have to be done to get the same shape." Does this mean that you place the wing over a round bar s...

lorenzo2

Most museums don't allow flash so for me that is not an issue except for home photography. My biggest problem is the combination of not enough lighting and glare spots off of the glass cases. Would a polorizing filter accomplish the same thing for photos of armor in glass casses as a neutral density...

lorenzo2

Signo has got it. If you dish it deeper the angle the cop edge makes with the leg will come closer to the perpendicular with your leg. This in turn will permit the finished assembly toopen more. If the cop is resisting deeper dishing/raising you may need to anneal part way throughthe shaping process.

lorenzo2

Wow! those are coming along nicely. Question, the anticlastic raising of the fan tendon guard, was it done from the inside on the edge of the anvil?

lorenzo2

Hover on the word "helm" in the original post. It is a link to a pic of a sallet.

lorenzo2

You need to show some pics in the open and closed positions. With those there are folks here who can quickly offer help. Without pics, it would be dumb luck if anything said can be of much help.

lorenzo2

MDJouster has it right. The filled in holes on the cop are for pointing it to the arming doublet. The vambrace and rearbrace undoubtedly also have similar attachement points. It is also possible that in addition to pointing to the doublet the pieces were laced to each other as well. No evidence of l...

lorenzo2

Thanks A-Bob,
Having the hammers in the roll pics was particularly enlightening. Now I need to make one of those hammers with the narrow flat face. . .

lorenzo2

For globose style they mean that full rib cage style where the breast plate comes down to between the last rib and the belly botton. This style is show on Ulrich IV or Edward Prince of Wales above. Sorry, no idea where a pattern can be found.

lorenzo2

A-Bob, Thanks for the additional explanation on the stakes. Plenty of 1" and 1-1/4" stock lying around the shop waiting to become stakes. Now, on a second topic, in the last pic where the inside of the cuisse is shown, the distance from the outside edge of the cuisse to the location where you placed...

lorenzo2

Halvgrim,
That pot is really something nice. Please post pics when completed and tested. I would love to know how many tries it takes to get it working perfectly.

lorenzo2

Thanks A-Bob,
Nice selection of stakes. Looks like I have some forge work to do! What size bar is the knee creaser/ planisher and is the top of the stake where you planish radiused and polished?

lorenzo2

A-bob; You said "Anything people want pics of in particular as the legs progress?" Hmm, lets see, if I could shoot the moon. . . 1) It may be too late but I am curious what stake is used when raising the knee cop so as to blend the crest of the knee with the body of the cop rather than having the ap...

lorenzo2

Here is some museum information. Note the museum has somewhat restricted hours

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... en%26lr%3D

lorenzo2

A-Bob, I have a question about those arms. Looking at both the arms it appears that when displayed they are just short of the maximum extension of a human arm. Looking at the pics in both J. Mann's article and Mantova I can't find any similar arms of the era that are perfectly straight when extended...

lorenzo2

Ah! the denizens of the ultra secret form (and guardians of truth justice and the armoring way) have come to our aid and restored this thread to its rightful place (inserd "ode to joy" here)! A-Bob, you are right about the shape of the left guard blank, it is disturbing. The disturbing thing is how ...

lorenzo2

ARRRGH! There must be a way to get the rest of the thread back! The pics are great but the explanations are just as important! I was on vacation for a couple of days so my pics skip from finishing the elbow cop and lames to completed arm harness! Hopefully the denizens of the ultra secret form (and ...

lorenzo2

That couter is coming along nicely. The reinforce for the couter should provide some very interesting pics also. I have long wondered how they are made. If possible, I'd love to see what that piece looks like as a flat sheet as the finished reinforce is such a complex shape I have trouble with visua...

lorenzo2

I have attempted a similar project with a somewhat earlier version of these gauntlets. I like your forms quite a bit. I do think that some more finishing work could improve their appearance. There is one thing on which we seem to differ. My interpretation of the wrist is that the cuff and metacarpal...

lorenzo2

A-Bob,

Thanks for the expanation on the selective pauldron lame heating. Magma forge has got a great idea! This thread could definitely become a permanent photo essay on the archive.

lorenzo2

A-Bob, I have a question about the selective heating. It appears from the pic that the pauldron lames had been shaped cold and bolted together. Then you heated and shaped the the bottom lame and a small part of the second to bottom lame because these need more of a dished curve than the upper lames....

lorenzo2

A-Bob, that was quite clear, thanks.

Halberds, "Since you showed me once and ground my hammer...
The cross peen with the special grind closes the roll very nice" Ok, I'll bite, what is the "special grind"?

lorenzo2

Thanks A-Bob. When Ugo was experimenting with this and showing me at the shop he said there must be some sort of tool to finish the closing and make the edge have a neater appearance. He improvised with the edge of a square stake. Getting the stake to catch the edge was a bit fiddley so he surmised ...