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by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:59 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Spectacles
Replies: 25
Views: 537

Spectacles

Here's a new Italian release, in case anyone is interested.

http://www.libroco.it/cgi-bin/dettaglio.cgi?codiceweb=77682179524173&lingua=en
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:16 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Fitting greaves
Replies: 14
Views: 655

Look at the fellow furthest left. This is a very good method for taking greave weight off your instep.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:41 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Karacsonyfalva Wall-Painting
Replies: 15
Views: 252

Russ, were the paintings of the battle of Kerles done in the 14th c.? Interesting to see aventailed (round topped) bacinets and very complete limb armour (sans gauntlets).
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:29 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: how high do I suspend my sallet?
Replies: 8
Views: 354

Here's a little something to give you a visual reference:
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:41 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: how high do I suspend my sallet?
Replies: 8
Views: 354

Hey give the man a break. Lots of folks get this wrong, including... some very high level institutions, and serious reenactors. The natural tendency is to position a helm(et) so that the skull of the helmet is equidistant from the skull of the wearer. For REAL helm(et)s, this is almost always WRONG....
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:22 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: St. Joan's helm
Replies: 35
Views: 935

This is a FRENCH salade found at Compiegne, very stubbornly dated by Jean-Pierre Reverseau (I badgered him unmercifully about it) c. 1430. Sadly, it is all too rare a piece. It has some very idiosyncratic French features, such as the completely round tail. I have more pictures, but curse the 100kb l...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:48 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Another nice Flickr Armour Page
Replies: 9
Views: 440

Josh, if you go to Schloss Ambras you will see a number of armours of the same period made for adolescents that show just that feature. I don't remember any made for an adult, though, but it's been a few years.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:38 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: St. Joan's helm
Replies: 35
Views: 935

Harmand's 'reconstruction' has her wearing a visorless salade (more of a celata, really), not a bacinet. This accords with her steward's, Jean d'Aulon, testimony at the trial of 'rehabilitation', in which he mentions that at the siege of Saint Pierre le Moustier that she removed her salade, one pres...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:29 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Question about width of hand and a half swords.
Replies: 13
Views: 299

There has been a move to call hand-and-a-half swords 'longswords'. I'm working on one right now (repairing, not making), second half 16th century, that has a blade that is 1 7/8" wide (48mm), a big cutter, wider than average blade, as it does not taper much (distal taper is another matter!). Th...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:18 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Books and CDs for sale
Replies: 1
Views: 86

How much for the 'Gladiator' soundtrack?
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:47 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Full harness with only upper cuisses and poleyns?
Replies: 17
Views: 424

A mail shirt under harness is OK if you're Italian heavy cavalry in the first half of the 15th century, and even later, if my memory doesn't betray me, though it was not universal, particularly later. They weren't expecting to dismount to fight. At the battle of Arbedo (1422) many of Carmagnola's me...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:34 pm
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: I WTB a Spanish Knight, 1275-1325
Replies: 27
Views: 2066

I'll just mention the elephant in the living room; Arms and Armour in Spain II by Ada Bruhn de Hoffmeyer, which covers the period from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 15th.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:08 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: More Armor from the DIA
Replies: 10
Views: 393

Thanks! Detroit isn't a place that is big on most people's list of armour collections, but they do have some top quality stuff, and all data is good.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat May 31, 2008 3:56 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: overlapping plate direction ?
Replies: 14
Views: 442

It's simple enough. If a lance point getting caught in the articulations is your primary concern, say on a tournament harness, which is where this arrangement is principally seen, you go with the bottom overlapping top. If you are more concerned about cuts downward, overlap opposite. Most field armo...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu May 29, 2008 10:57 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: What helms go with a gotic kit?
Replies: 8
Views: 658

Here I go, trotting this out again... Armets and German 'gothic' armour did occasionally get together; at least, I ASSUME it's an armet, and not some sort of really early close-helm. No idea of the frequency, however. P.S. Olivier, that armet from Churburg is probably NOT by L. Helmschmid, but rathe...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon May 26, 2008 12:35 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anybody in Detroit? Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 524

It's great to finally have a decent look at the old boy. I'd been wanting to get a better look at the pauldrons, and one can see that the poleyns had brass borders, perhaps like the 'Sigismund' gothic. THANKS! You would have done better with large pictures on Flickr.com, though. I've seen 'em roughl...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat May 24, 2008 10:12 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anybody in Detroit? Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 524

GREAT!!! Too bad about the tripod; it's nice that the Met NYC allows them on weekdays with a permit from the Information Desk.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu May 22, 2008 1:21 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: English Armour c. 1430
Replies: 15
Views: 927

Thanks, Jiri! I look forward to seeing more of the harness you are making for Marc van Hasselt. Yes, we really need a time machine to see more English armour from the time of Henry V and Jeanne d'Arc. I'm a bit miffed at Henry VIII for cleaning all that 'old junk' out of the Tower! :x :x :x
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu May 22, 2008 9:40 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Removing ballist-oil and pickling from steel.
Replies: 4
Views: 117

Brake cleaner. Fast, but probably not environmentally friendly.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Wed May 21, 2008 12:10 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Non-British Effigies 13th-15th Centuries
Replies: 3
Views: 226

Try tracking down Roelipilami's photostream on flickr.com. That'll keep you busy for a good long while.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue May 20, 2008 4:25 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: English Armour c. 1430
Replies: 15
Views: 927

Those damned long "first quarter o' the 15thc" faulds always ruck up when you take a deep stance. You could be the "before" picture in an advertising campaign to sell mail skirts. That's a very handsome helmet! Mac I think I'm going for the mail briefs - better for ground combat...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon May 19, 2008 8:03 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: English Armour c. 1430
Replies: 15
Views: 927

English Armour c. 1430

I found this on Flikr by a fellow whose handle is Artem Portnoy. It's me at a little event in Brooklyn with my infamous mismatched gauntlets and showing a lot of linen crossing blades with someone in lamellar. My voiders hadn't arrived yet. You can tell I hadn't fought in three years or my leading l...
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue May 13, 2008 9:14 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Looking for a gorget - Again.
Replies: 14
Views: 374

I've got this one, in 18 gauge stainless... but it's $125.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon May 12, 2008 9:54 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: period way of locking pigface bascinet?
Replies: 16
Views: 463

The center mount pin is best. I was once wearing a helm that had spring pins on BOTH sides of the visor and took a really good shot that caused the visor to fly open despite the pins. The whole helm flexed.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sun May 11, 2008 2:22 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Visiting Montreal
Replies: 13
Views: 243

I live only a little over an hour away from the Higgins. We could finally meet each other!
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sat May 10, 2008 8:24 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Horn Armor?
Replies: 74
Views: 1564

Because urine is ALWAYS available! :wink: Heck, you can make it yourself!
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Fri May 09, 2008 7:20 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Massive Museum Pics....... HERE. Flickr Link Inside
Replies: 15
Views: 504

Ahhh, now that 's what I'm talking about! THANKS! Too bad about the foot-combat suits; it doesn't make much sense to display them the way they are now. They used to be in a walk-around case.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu May 08, 2008 2:06 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: The Silvered Armour of Henry VIII - is it worth buying
Replies: 12
Views: 800

My copy is autographed! Nyah nah! :wink:
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue May 06, 2008 1:40 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Return of the Waistcoat "Suit" (DONE, with new pic
Replies: 74
Views: 9306

The pauldrons LOOK pretty cool (cooler than I thought they would), but they're not gonna work. You might consider a modified spaudler design (gotta keep those squared-off shoulders!).
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Mon May 05, 2008 10:13 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Can someone make me one of these?
Replies: 19
Views: 1039

I've already put a lot of thought into 'powered armour'. I'll do it for a tenth of Stahlgrim's price and do it it 10, 15 years at the outside! Half upfront, though.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Sun May 04, 2008 9:30 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Judgement of Solomon by Bartolomeo Bon, c1430s
Replies: 6
Views: 222

I think those arms are just a Renaissance version of a 'manica', to get an 'alla antica' effect.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Thu May 01, 2008 1:31 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: SCA regs on brass rivets on a helm?
Replies: 18
Views: 507

Speaking of 1/8" shank rivets, this is a 14 gauge stainless helm I did years ago, using 1/8" stainless rivets, mostly for the look the smaller heads gave. I have absolutely no fear it will ever come apart. Nope.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:25 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anybody in Detroit? Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 524

GREAT!!
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:00 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anybody in Detroit? Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 524

Anytime is better than no time. Don't forget the backplate, if you can get at it! It's a good one. Helmschmid fans everywhere would deeply appreciate your efforts - as long as the photos are in focus!

P.S. Don't waste much time on the arms. I don't think they are real, anyway.
by James Arlen Gillaspie
Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:56 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Anybody in Detroit? Help!
Replies: 14
Views: 524

Anybody in Detroit? Help!

This harness is, I believe, the Siegmaringen armour. W. R. Hearst bought it, and it wound up in the Detroit Institute of Art. Dont' laugh; while the helmet, bevor, and tassets are a joke, there's lots of perfectly good Lorenz Helmschmid work here. The pauldrons, cuirass, and legharness are all by hi...

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