The Armour Archive

losthelm

It depends on shape and how the garment is tailored.

Often trunk shapes don't work on people with curves.
Modern SCA tend to be more late period German then early English in body type.
People can overcome this issue by having it build custom or having help tailoring the garment to fit.

losthelm

Depends on what you making and quality of the product. UGO sells armour as fast as he makes it. Thining depends on how much the material is moved and how much planishing and sanding you do. A slack belt sander with a 80 grit takes a lot more material the steel wool. Because its hammer formed you end...

losthelm

Often enough to talk with the scrapyard, and leave a list. Anvils, shears, slip rolls, bar benders, stakes, hammers. Drops of steel and stainless. Copper and brass kick plates. Aluminum street signs. Smaller motors and pullys. Hobby to contractor grade tools. Saws, lathes, and drill presses. Larger ...

losthelm

If you need a heavier hammer or mallet you may need a thicker matt. I have been using hockey pucks lately for punching holes and strap ends. Fairly useful if your limited on space or travel with your project. If your bench or work table flexes try working over the leg or building a better bench. Any...

losthelm

You want something softer than your stamp.
Brass may work, or you sometimes can get lucky with eBay.
Larger plastic,dead blow hammers, or wooden/leather mallets like garland/Thor, or Greene and tweed.
Bowling pins may also work.

losthelm

What all do you need? The jacket, and hood are something you can make yourself. It takes a little sewing but a few people in the Hael can walk you through it. The jacket from ZWA is a little heavy for what we do. A doublet/shirt combo also makes thing easier to wash and is a lot cooler at events lik...

losthelm

Where are you looking at lumber? Big box stores like lowes and home depo mostly stock building pine and a little remodel but not much else. Adding another leg halfway down the long side can help distribute weight and solve some of your concerns. Beware of extenders used to add hight, they can slide ...

losthelm

What are you going to use it for?

To me it looks like rattan or bambo and banana leaves.
The lashing around the edge and handle looks a lot like rattan furnature bindings.

losthelm

If you have it 309 or 312 should work.
Welding dissimilar metals can be a littl tricky and prone to cracking.
A few people just up the amps a little and apply additional metal after the root pass.

losthelm

accdntprone, hjamlr, otto, and ironmonger are likely your best options.
Otto has been doing ok with keeping up with current orders but back orders have not showing much improvement in the past few months.

losthelm

The smallest two are a little on the light side for 16 gauge cold rolled steel. Annealed or hot rolled should be easier. Fournier, daggertools, Eastwood, tptools, woodward-fab, and garland make similar shaped hammers. Most are hdpe, uhmw, or nylon. If you know someone with a lathe you can have them ...

losthelm

Having a supplier of scrap definitely would save you a few bucks. If you have an arbor press or drill press a jig should speed up punching holes. As for dye vinagroon is fairly easy and makes a decent black dye cheap. Though you likely will want a seperate space for dyeing the leather. Vinagroon is ...

losthelm

Belt blanks can be an expencive option. A strap cutter and leather will likely cut your cost 30% or more. The belt end punch is one option to cut the point. Prices on leather vary a lot between vendors and tannaries. For what your making flawed or blemished hides are easy to work around and often a ...

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If you can start with pre shrunk marine canvas such as sunforger.

After market treatments are difficult.
There is a fine line that's bothe water tight yet breathable.

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There is a box diagram in the "fighters handbook"

losthelm

I make them using chainmail weaves, stainless or brass/bronze is fairly heavy duty. Brass and bronze being fairly heavy as well. There are some safty concerns when wearing them on the list. If caught on someone's thrusting tip or quillons it can cause neck strain and whiplash. To accommodate this a ...

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There are some earlier Viking style turn shoes that are fairly quick. http://www.aidan-campbell.co.uk/PDFs/Guide%20to%20Viking%20turnshoes.pdf The ones on page 8 require about 2" of seam... they are basically bags on your feet so you want an inner sole of some type and possibly add another layer of ...

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Hand sewing it machine?

What kind of turn shows?

losthelm

The gladings would be purely decorative.
I see similar construction with steampunk and military scify/fantasy.

losthelm

At this point they are still legal for rattan weapons.
Aethrlmearc, Middle, Atlantia, and a few other kingdoms have similar rulings in reguards to mandrake tips on fiberglass spears.
Ask you local marshals for information.

losthelm

If you can find aa few kids running a test session can help avoid some of the pit falls of the live event.

losthelm

The intresting thing is to see how different kingdoms go about incooperating this new ruling. Will it be an automatic elevation of all white scarves, OGR, ect. Or will it be a seperate recognition? Will the society as a whole creat a new title or unify what already is used? How long will it take for...

losthelm

A lot of cultures have their own "knights" or elite warrior class.
Western civ this time around may work but its also worth doing another region depending on the population and intrest.
Jaguar knights, samurai, Gurkha, Zulu warrior ect.

losthelm

Those are basically two seperate rings with little eyes on the joint and a singe small jumpring connecting them. A lot closer to the articulation on jack chains. A few different gauntlet styles rivet plates to strips of leather and sew them to a glove. The sort cut conduit type your talking about so...

losthelm

3003 or 4043 aluminum is great stuff for sculpture and fairly in expencive. 18 gauge or 16 gauge should let them use hand tools to bend, cut, and form the pieces. Wiss snips are enough to cut out pieces. If you get the go ahead from school or what ever talk with local shops about materials. You may ...

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With pole arm learn to strike and move at the same time. Generating power and speed when fighting in tight. Footwork. A few kata moves from karate work. A few naganata moves work. A few quarter staff moves work. Many don't, the limited targets or other sca regs just make them dificult. Search YouTub...

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Also check your blankets, some wool blankets have real value.
The last one I brought home from goodwill was a Hudson bay 5 1/2 point.
Some of the old army blankets are valued by civwar reinactors because they are close to the original design.

losthelm

Moving blankets are going to be hot, most are simply poly fill batting... In the past I have used terry cloth towels. What age group are you targeting and how may adults do you have to help supervise? Are you covered by the schools insurance? I think Talbot at one point did something similar years a...

losthelm

Where are you located and are you able to cut it down into more shippablr sizes?

4x4 or smaller can ship with something besides freight.
Shipping from New Zealand or Australia gets expencive.

losthelm

It sounds a lot like a long Hudson Bay point blanket.

losthelm

Looks like a good fantasy pieces, what was your influence?

losthelm

I just posted a few images to the businesses facebook page if your interested. https://www.facebook.com/losthelm?ref=aymt_homepage_panel The edges still need to be trimmed and I have to take the sharpie lines off. not sure yet if I'm shipping these as they are or wiping them down with oil like you w...

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I would sugest 16 gauge stainless... Fairly common in industry and can be shaped a bit without distorting the holes beyond minimums. The other benafit is durability. A number people in Aethelmear started with the standard 3 weapon mask for cut and thrust. They where wearing the masks out after 6-12 ...

losthelm

Fit and convenience more than anything else. A lot of mannequins are close but miss some of the details depending on construction they can also be fairly fragile when hanging armour from to make adjustments. Male tailor mannequins are harder to find. The site listed used staked sheets of foam at $50...

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I x posted this to the AE marshals Facebook page.
Though Tess the Huntress made a similar ruling a while back.

Please make sure this info gets to less intragrated groups.
New tips now will save a lot of stress dealing with inspection at other events.

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