The Armour Archive

Uilleag

All of you metal plate armourers, come to the dark side!

All of the cool kids are wearin' leather!

Uilleag

The rest of the harness will progress through the year as I try to keep up with commissions. Slow down production on the repro stuff, and order a pair of your very own! Seriously, the support and high praise that I have recieved over this project has been overwhelming! I'm very honored by all of you...

Uilleag

oops!

Didn't even notice it until you menttioned it. Shot these pics in a hurry this afternoon, before fighter practice.

Uilleag

Meaddrinker, Just for you!

Uilleag

This piece has already been sold, but the pattern will now be used to reproduce a new product line.

They will be available with a variety of tooled designs and colors of your choice. Please contact me for details!

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Uilleag

Here is the Finished Piece! <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress45.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress46.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress47.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress48.jpg"> They...

Uilleag

Almost finished! Just need to clean up some of the dishing marks, then polish and buff. The strapping will be on hold until I get feed back from the museum. <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress40.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress41.jpg"> <IMG src=...

Uilleag

While the piece is bake drying, I thought I would post pics of the shaped piece. The pictures don't show it very well, but notice that most of the detail of the tooling stayed crisp. <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress33.jpg"> This first picture shows the dishing form and dish...

Uilleag

Personally, I think the guy that suggested that the embossing tools supplied the heat was full of it, though admittedly I haven't tried it. (I doubt that he did, either.) I would think that the heat applied during embossing would distort the pattern. I'm not sure if Mr. Blaire attempted this techni...

Uilleag

Hi all.

I appriciate all of the suggestions I have recieved thus far. I have decided to take it off of the web for now.

For all of you whom have taken the time to read it and provide helpful suggestions, I greatly appriciate your time and efforts.

Uilleag

Shaping and hardening pics will be posted sometime tomorrow/later today. I am holding off on strapping the piece until I get word back from the British Museum on some questions I have. The final sealing will be done by buffing out natural animal fat on the piece. This will polish it as well as seal ...

Uilleag

Brian, this sounds like a great deal! I submitted my application today. Having reviewed your stuff, I will be honored to offer your products from my website!

Uilleag

Cathal, 1500 century Ireland would be wearing late 14th century English, or 15th century imported stuff. By this time in Ireland's history, the only folks that had armour of any note were British Nobles who were at war with the Irish. There is nothing indegenous to Ireland of that time period that I...

Uilleag

How about authentic cuir bouilli month?

Uilleag

That's the piece! Thank you for posting the link! All of my sources are copyrighted, so I couldn't post them. Haven't really had time to search online links, so I really appriciate your finding it and sharing the link!

Uilleag

That would be floral, done with a spiral motif.

Uilleag

I don't have any pics that I can post, but they are called Tassets.

Uilleag

It was great to meet quite a few archivers this weekend! For those of you that were able to attend Atlantia's 12th Night, the piece was displayed as a work in progress in the A&S display. I hope you had the chance to go see it. I am currently finishing up the research on some hardening and shaping t...

Uilleag

Now that is a funny story!

I wouldn't buy them, but I will remember this for quite a while!

Uilleag

Depends on content and cost. Tentitively, yes, I would be interested.

Uilleag

what kind of a blade are you using in your swivel knife ullieag? i use a ruby blade angled, amd trying to find a straight one I am using a 3/8" straight steel blade. I also use a 3/8" angled ceramic blade, I love them both. The angled blade works very well on very tight curves and such, the straigh...

Uilleag

BdeB wrote:
Vitus wrote:Oh
my
God!!!!
Oh my God!
That is so awesome.
Must find money.
Must find money.
Must have cuisses and greaves like that....
must

Get in line there Skippy!!!

Gentlemen! No need to fight over it, I can fit both of you onto my commission list!

Uilleag

Just gotta say hats off to you, my friend.... that is BEAUTIFUL work.... I hope you bring it to the MAG meeting end of the month, I would love to see that first hand and up close.... I am hoping he brings it to the meeting, too! Excellent work! Keep it up, man. Have you discuss the posibilty of cas...

Uilleag

WOW. thats come along, A LOT and in such a short time. Thats natural talent at its best. Do you plan on keeping it or selling it?(just curious) Thomas, this reproduction is already sold. Details of the sale are confidential, however, I will retain intellectual and image rights to the piece. With th...

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Chef, I didn't say that they didn't use cheese glue. The more I read this thread, the more inclined I am to think so. Whatever kind of sizing they used in cuir bouilli, if any, should be able to withstand the elements. No sense in wearing something that got soggy and tacky in the rain! I was answeri...

Uilleag

No idea, just that it does not seem to be the case in Theophilus, I am not questioning whether they did or didn't just the absence of that in Divers Arts. The cheese glue is 'waterproof' without cooking but again I don't know regarding it being cooked. I would ask why they would want to waterproof ...

Uilleag

I couldn't sleep with that little bit left to do, so I stayed up and finished the tooling. <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress31.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress32.jpg"> I will see if I can resolve the focus issue before I post pics of the finis...

Uilleag

That bit about the "grotesques" was very interesting. Well, I got home from fighter practice this evening and had to emboss one more row before bed. And here it is. <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress28.jpg"> <IMG src="http://houseofthewolf.com/13centuryarms/progress29.jpg"> <...

Uilleag

Gregory,

As a matter of fact, I have a leather working tutorial on my website. The Url is in my signature line. From the main page, go to my gallery section, you will find the link to the leather working tutorial on the bottom of my gallery page. Thank you very much for your praise!

Uilleag

Here is today's work. I finished up the second row of beasties.

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Uilleag

Not sure if the number of beasties signify any thing but back in antiquity, there were 13 months, there are 13 full moons in the year, 13 new moons, etc.....lots of symbolism in the number 13. I would love to have the information abut the beasties, I await with everyone else.

Uilleag

The documentation I have doesn't speak to that Thom, but I don't doubt it had some signifigance. Notice there are 13 beasties in all....hm might be interesting to research that.

Uilleag

I even found documentation on what the little beasties are supposed to be, in the article written be A.V. Norman. They are, from left top-down; "First row, all turned to the viewr's right, a cockerel, a human-headed and bearded biped, an owl, a human-headed biped, and a long-tailed, bird-like creatu...

Uilleag

Now the question is Uilleag are you going to add the gold leaf to it? It wouls look awesome. Luckily, there is no evidence of gold leafing on this particular piece, so as a reproduction, I will not. I'm still playing with different techniques for applying leaf to my projects. There are some documen...

Uilleag

Matt all the pics show up for me, not sure what the problem is.

14 century Rebraces now available

article on 14 cen rebrace (LONG)(review and comments please)