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Chris Gilman

Good choice.

Chris Gilman

Sounds great. Can I bring anything? Plastic amour perhaps oh wait...Can I come? Years ago at Pennsic, I observed a young women in a nice 15th C rig. A Complete suit of plate. For the SCA, it was well made, cap-a-pie. I do not remember to exact style of helmet but a marshal was cranking her head way ...

Chris Gilman

That is very nice looking. Well done.
What (if any) type of edge treatment are you using?

Chris Gilman

I have been using kydex for 25 years. Your 1/8" choice is fine. It is a bit over kill to use 3/16". In fact I normally use .090 for arms and legs. May I suggest you do not glue a leather or fabric cover over you plastic. If it is a breastplate you want to cover, make an arming coat. This w...

Chris Gilman

Nice to see these being used. If I may offer my two cents. The breast plates should overlap. If you experiment, you can get the corners of the leather to come together nicer on the back side. This will keep them from tearing over time. You could get a more authentic look by using different rivets. (...

Chris Gilman

Outstanding!

Chris Gilman

Sap-Bling

Chris Gilman

I put flap in quotes to refer to the section of mail attached to the face opening of the bascinet. Not an actual flap.
your diagram is upside down. The mail is narrower at the top than the bottom. (Top being near your nose.)

Chris Gilman

No, I'm referring to an aventail on a bascinet. Not a coif. I'm sorry you feel your blood pressure rise. I just do not agree with your logic. I do not agree that an armourer of the period would prefer to leave more links in an Camail/ aventail and lace them up with a leather thong, than using a corr...

Chris Gilman

But it's a hell of a lot easier, and you can't screw it up. I've often taken out too many links when I shouldn't have. I'm sure it was done sometime by someone. I imagine there were well-made camails that were shaped as you describe, and munitions-grade ones with lacing. How can it be "cheatin...

Chris Gilman

Off topic, But since we are talking about "bling" what would you call amber in modern slang?

Chris Gilman

I don't think that is the correct solution. If you look at effigies of the period, the aventail has a bit of a "corner" to it on the face opening and is flat across the face. In order to achieve this you must remove links at the top of the face opening. If you visualize the piece of mail i...

Chris Gilman

There is another thread about Freon cans, perhaps you could get a stainless freon can helm made for this armour.

Chris Gilman

Here is something I experimented with a couple of years ago for steel fighting in Europe. Titanium plates sewn to a Kevlar glove. Worn under a leather glove. Pattern needs work, but they worked pretty well. http://www.globaleffects.com/Temp/gauntlet67.jpg http://www.globaleffects.com/Temp/gaunlet66....

Chris Gilman

Wow that was a great "blast" of images. I have a huge library and it still amazes me how much reference is out there that isn't printed or I haven't seen. Thanks.

Chris Gilman

Thanks guys. Some of these I have not seen and others are better scans then I have, thanks. Cet, Mac (McPherson) may have asked for the pics for my harness. So I will likely see them. However, if I could get a copy as well, that would be fantastic. Much appreciated. There was a thread on My Armoury ...

Chris Gilman

I think Mac may have finally convinced me into having him make me a Kastenbrust armor. I'm looking for images. I have some, but they are often not identified as such and therefore difficult to search for. Any sources?
Thanks

Chris Gilman

Oh freakin UGO again.....

Chris Gilman

Things are going very well. We released our first real spacesuit and Pia has been busy whith her clients as well as a complete Global Effects web site upgrade.

Cheers

Chris Gilman

My wife is Finnish and here is a basic guide to what the site is. This is a collection (public and private) of pottery (ceramics) in support of the study of archeology at the University of Helsinki. Â· Rautakauden keramiikka = Iron age pottery (ceramics) Â· Kuvien valintasivu = picture selection pag...

Chris Gilman

the copper can be pretty thin. The one we built had a stainless steel liner that I welded the corners, but copper would look better.

Chris Gilman

I think I'll let this simmer. I would not want see your goose cooked if the price went too high. I'm sure I will be stewing when I see you at an event with this over the fire and I'm using a boy scout enameled pot and thinking if I could have stood the heat a bit longer, that would have been mine. B...

Chris Gilman

I may be coming in on this a bit late. I helped make one for a Viking camp I would alter the design a bit. Here is basically what we did/ would do and it has worked wonderfully. We picked an overall design based on boxes/ chests of the period. The scaled it on height of common bottles or containers ...

Chris Gilman

Chris Gilman

The greater the difference between the inner circumference and an outer circumference gives you the strength to keep a ring stiff and helps keep it from opening. The thickness, in the other direction, adds only a marginal amount of strength. So by eliminating the thickness you eliminate a great deal...

Chris Gilman

Trigger around the index and middle fingers is a substitute for a lanyard. Leverage is all wrong for being any kind of aid in initiating a blow. Dunno about the initiation, but firing a shot with a relatively loose grip and then tightening against the trigger downward does give a decided snap at th...

Chris Gilman

True story: Iâ€™m down at NASAâ€™s advanced suit lab at JSC (Johnson space center) (1997 or so) with Luke Apker. (armourer) We are down there to make a mold and do some research on NASAâ€™s new advanced Mark III spacesuit. While we are there they are testing the Mark III with some different types of...

Chris Gilman

Chris Gilman

Durasteel, many thanks for the clarification. In short, no. you are not making the metal thinner. You are compressing it. If you had a tube made from clay, and you squeeze it, it gets smaller and the material gets thicker because you are compressing it. Yes, that's the approach you're using, which ...

Chris Gilman

In short, no.
you are not making the metal thinner. You are compressing it. If you had a tube made from clay, and you squeeze it, it gets smaller and the material gets thicker because you are compressing it.

Chris Gilman

Your welcome. It is tough to get your head around at first. Start with some scraps and see what happens. One thing you can try, Take a piece of steel tube heat it up in a spot a little way from the end and with a convex hammer or a raising hammer, gently, â€œcaveâ€

Chris Gilman

Let me try to illustrate the,.. shall we say, â€œpreconceived notionâ€

Chris Gilman

Well spearweasle, you did a fine job of sidestepping the point of my response. First, whether it started as a party or as a group of Yale grad students portraying Agincourt, it still has rules and these rules are either held to or broken. Second, It is a issue to me, otherwise I would not have bothe...

Chris Gilman

Everybody is free. I am free to walk about in my 1570-ish period samurai kit, and you are free to dislike my presence there. Huzzah! But please don't speak about my kit and those like it in the same breath you would about elf-eared, vampire fanged sexkittens in chainmail bikinis, or men in leather ...

Chris Gilman

nkante One of the things I think people may have been trying to express (that can be interpretted as borderline racisim or segragationalism--accidently) is the intent of trying to strive or capture a specific age and place. For the very same reason, elves, gothis, vampires etc have been slowly sque...

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