The Armour Archive

Thomas H

The person you want to talk to is Toby Capwell, curator of Arms and Armour for Glasgow museums. He has done tons of research into English armour and has a book on it too i think (unsure). He can be contacted via the Kelvingrove museum site (re-opening next year)

Thomas H

Being sold for $10 a pop in his living room

Thomas H

WOW, that is one nifty piece of black helm, kalpvisored, well padded goodness

. The bluing looks tremendous. Hope it serves you well!

(Ninja were dispatched in a timely fashion)

Thomas H

Ohh, thats not how i read it any way.

Thomas H

Just to clear somehting up to avoid confusion on your part. A Hauberk, AFAIK, is only made of mail. I've not heard it refered to as an item of clothing though.

Thomas H

I find clamping the piece to the workbench and filing down towards the floor is easier, but, that is just me.

Thomas H

I find a thin necked chippies hammer is good for planishing with a little TLC to the face (I.E, sanding and polishing). For dishing, a ball pein hammer with the larger side sanded/ground into a radius of whatever diameter is handy to have around. Don't forget to round off the corners

Thomas H

Justin Livio Guidi wrote:You wouldn't get much of a man with six million dollars...

Let's see you'd get:

A life time supply of Gatorade
British speech lessons (so you sound cool)

Why thank you Govna

Thomas H

Witchfinder, for a breastplate, depending upon what you are doing, 16g should be good. I wouldn't go much thinner even for foam weapons. There is a certain amount of hardening from forming but someone is bound to hit harder than everyone else.

Thomas H

ah, a shame. If you NEED to post photos, you could take them on film and get them onto disc at Kodak.

Thomas H

I'm the nearest archiver for miles and miles, aren't you lucky

there are avrious toerh down in hereford, london and another place i've forgotten the name of (sorry Justin)

Thomas H

Don't forget the horse!

WHy not post images of what you have so far, this could help somewhat in determining if what you have is correct.

Thomas H

Hubba Hubba

Superb work, that powder coating is superb.

Thomas H

Under about 4 feet and it's not worth pieceing together for a larger section of track. I'm sure if you go in daylight and offer cash for a scrap like piece, they won't mind. So long as they aren't just working nearby and taking money for the rail companys track!

Thomas H

I don't have a 'persona' as such. more, following along the norm of the type of character i'd like to live like. I've always fancied Tobias Tauler for a Landsknecht 'persona' though. Or John paynter if i HAD to choose a name.

Thomas H

Shandy is a week beer, common amongst chavs and alcoholics (re-enactors drink it too)

Hi to another Brit.

I see your 30 miles to the RA and raise you only 10, i live in Bradford

Don't worry about the LARP thing, there's SCA people here so you shouldn't be too out of place

Thomas H

Yep,a Barbute or Armet is the classical Italian helm of the 15th century.
A celata would work just as well (open faced sallet)

Thomas H

CharlesI wrote:I suggest contacting Paul von Katzenellenbogen here on the forum. He is/was a WW2 reenactor and is really knowledgeable on the subject. I am sure he can steer you in the right direction. He may even have what you are looking for.

Already have

Thomas H

I'm looking for things too, if'n you don't mind Glen

Must be all original, for collecting rather than re-enactment.

Thomas H

I find a good readily available chemical for stripping galvinisation is brick cleaner. i Recently stripped down a test patch of mail with brick cleaner. (beware of fumes still, this can (should) be left overnight outside) I simply put in the mail, left overnight and gave it a good wash under some fr...

Thomas H

Owen wrote:Very good. Now off to Britania with you!

Bloody Romans, what have they ever done for us...?

Nice kit, by the way.

Thomas H

I've had a look through an Original (held in local library

) and it is well worth the price. It contains lots of helpful info on the collection and its history. The armourers mark list in th back is superb too. If i had th emoney on me, i wouldn't hesitate buying the new ones.

Thomas H

I think the best thing would be to try and have one forged into a crossbow prod (never tried, may/may not work). Not sure about swords though the generally unknown alloy of a random leaf spring would make heat treating hard (pun intended)

Thomas H

Ya need a saw to get // cuts on anything that thick. What material are you using? Aluminum might be a different story. Sorry, that's just not true. The trick is to only cut a little way into the link and then snap it off. this gives flush ends, no muss, no fuss, if you will I use rings that size an...

Thomas H

That was an actual attempt?

!!!

(the joy i'm currently experiencing is tremendous)

Thomas H

Looking at the shaping and shape of that sallet and the other plates. I'd say it was a victorian (there, or thereabouts) copy. Not such a bad one either. Though i could be wrong.

Thomas H

humunahumunahumuna.

Thomas H

My olympus c-480 digicam is great. simple to use, truly a plug and play item.
Lots of nifty features, and even with a 128 meg card can hold 150-ish pictures.

Thomas H

You could make one from wood. Shouldn't be all that hard for such a lightweight crossbow. The recurve on the end is done with steam and aformer in the shape of the recurve. simply steam for aorund 2 hours and clamp in place. let 'set' for a couple of hours and it should stay in place. Simple longbow...

Thomas H

The ARS site said that they would be out by the 1st of this Month.

Thomas H

I see, i see, verrah nice it is too

Thomas H

I read a interview with Toby Capwell a while back where he talked about his newest armor. It wasn't $30k(US) it was 30k pounds (UK), something like $50k(US). That includes saddle and everything and if you think that trim was brass you would be wrong. Personally if I could afford that I wouldn't jou...

Thomas H

It's not like its because i'm in Europe either, seems to be everyone i talk to.
HAVE the journals been sent?

Thomas H

You don't have yours yet?

Thomas H

I couldn't find Brians thread so i started a new one Brian, how long do you expect util the Journal actually arrives in my hand? It seems to be taking forever and a day. Which method of postage did you use that is taking so long? I mean, two African swallows laden with a coconut could have gotten he...

ARS Journal, where is it?