The Armour Archive

Frederich Von Teufel

A huge issue in the industry is sustainability, i.e. a vest that can still pass the IIA test after 6 months of continuous wear. As anyone who has worn a vest can tell you, you sweat more than normal. Most of that sweat goes into the vest and it's cover. This doesn't bother the Kevlar much over the l...

Frederich Von Teufel

Here you go: You can either search for "Beverly Shear" or just go to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41958&item=3824086625

Starting at under $100 U.S.

Frederich

Frederich Von Teufel

I find that the $10 (US) a pound (which is about what you find on EBay) is about right for most "scrap" quantities. I consider myself lucky if I can get it for less.

Frederich

Frederich Von Teufel

Welcome back Andy! Good to know that you're up and about. I bought a pair of your gauntlets back in...um...must have been Pennsic 24. They were number 128 or 218 or something like that. I eventually passed them on to another fighter, who passed them on, who passed...well, you get the picture. For al...

Frederich Von Teufel

Frederich von Teutel (Teufel?) had a great article on the how's and why's of pricing. Don't know where it ended up though. On the "Essays" section of the AA. Called "Running an Armoury" now, I guess because "How to Run a Profitable Armoury and Other Various Topics (as Told by a God amoung Men, who'...

Frederich Von Teufel

Thank you Agincourt, all is forgiven.

Frederich

Frederich Von Teufel

You know, someone should write an article on how to figure pricing, and post it in the Essays section; maybe call it "How to run a profitable armoury" or something...

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Frederich Von Teufel

I'll save you a bit of time. There is no "typical" landsknecht armour. I've looked at hundreds of period woodcuts of landsknechts, and there is no "common" style of armour, and typically there isn't much armour at all. If at all possible, pick up a copy of "Landsknechte und Reislaufer: Bilder vom So...

Frederich Von Teufel

These books are the only place you can find a fair representation of the armour in the Wallace collection. They are worth it. Doing a quick search of used.addall.com will give you an idea of what these books are going for on the market. re: European Armour: Although the Wallace only has a few peices...

Frederich Von Teufel

I've done a few of these. As with all raising, the issue is support. First, do some research and get a good conception of what the finished product is supposed to look like, particularly just how deep the boss should be. This style boss tends to be quite narrow, and very deep. Begin by sinking/raisi...

Frederich Von Teufel

What Brian said. I spent an entire afternoon in the V&A, but less than 2 hours in the Brit Museum. The Brit is nice for early period stuff (pre 12th century), particularly if you want artifacts in addition to armour, and what armour they have isn't to be sniffed at, but the V&A is simply better. I'l...

Frederich Von Teufel

Andrew, I find it interesting that you implicitly link "unbelt" with "unskilled". Perhaps I'm just reading something into your post that you didn't intend, however, so I'll assume that you didn't have that intention. My Barony, the Barony of Storvik, is perhaps a bit different from most. We have a l...

Frederich Von Teufel

I just came back from London this past Monday. You'll be pleased to find that you can get to pretty much everything by train or bus; the train to Leeds (Kings Cross to Leeds) was 49 pounds each way; but you can get a multiday Travelcard that will save you lots of money and get you unlimited travel o...

Frederich Von Teufel

The best way to know what Landsknecht looked like, is to look at the art of the timeperiod. Here is one of the better books published at the moment: "Landsknechte und Reislaufer: Bilder vom Soldaten" by Matthias Rogg Much goodness; hundreds of paintings and woodcuts of the Landsknecht at play and at...

Frederich Von Teufel

I tend not to add to these topics when they come up (do a search of the archived Archive and you'll see that this topic comes up about 2-3 times a year), due to one very large fact. I feel like I am robbing people of the joy of discovery by giving them a book list of what I consider to be "books wor...

Frederich Von Teufel

Welcome Tarquinius. I'm certain that I and others on this board can help you, but you need to help us more first. Telling us you are having "trouble" doesn't narrow it down enough for us to give you an answer; it's like telling a car mechanic that your car is "running funny". We need a better descri...

Frederich Von Teufel

Bad Wyrmspleen! No scooby snack. You've been here long enough to know better.

A search of the archived Archive or the Essays page would have given you all the answers you wanted. Such as my essay.

Frederich

Frederich Von Teufel

While I'll pass on answering the first question (I've been fighting with my off-center grip oval for so long now that I can't remember whether I was able to come up with documentation for it or not. I believe I was, but I could well be mis-recalling facts.), I will answer the second. With center-gri...

Frederich Von Teufel

Titanium is actually closer to 3/5ths the weight of mild steel, not 1/3rd. Titanium is light, but not that light. I agree with Markus on .050 (18 guage). The trouble is not that thinner titanium isn't strong enough, it is, it's that it's also springy. Real springy. To the point that a curved peice o...

Frederich Von Teufel

There is mixed evidence as to whether they were strapped across the bottom, pointed to the shoes, or both (or some unknown third method) on sabatons. I can point to extent sabatons that seem to suggest any or all of those options. I have come to the conclusion that there was no one "right" way of do...

Frederich Von Teufel

Also, if I'm not mistaken, later armours were made from pieces pressed into dies. I'm not too sure on the validity of this, but I remember reading it somewhere. Don't believe everything you read. As a matter of fact, believe only what you can see and touch with your own two hands, and be suspicious...

Frederich Von Teufel

While there are quite a few gothic backplates that show minimal shaping, I tend to follow a closely anatomically correct form. The suit I'm doing at the moment has the backplate following it's wearer very closely due to the fact that I had him actually in the shop when I was raising it. The backplat...

Frederich Von Teufel

I presume you mean "flutes". Check the Essays section.

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Frederich Von Teufel

Niklas, if you are free this Saturday, think about going to the Atlantian University (there is a listing for this event off the atlantia.sca.com website). I'll be teaching a class there where I'll be bringing around a hundred armour reference books that you'll be able to look through (the class is c...

Frederich Von Teufel

Hey Julian. If you had come by the last few weekends, you would have see me doing a crap load of rolling of edges. ::poke:: Unfortunately, most of the edge rolling for the Gothic suit is done, so you missed out on a personal demonstration. We do still have some left (such as on the bottom edge of th...

Frederich Von Teufel

I've been making armour for more than 10 years now and have never used a forge once. On the infrequent times I need a peice of armour heated, I do a spot heat using my oxy-acetyl torch. Welding is done using the O-A torch or MIG. 95% of all modern armourmaking is done cold, heat being not needed eve...

Frederich Von Teufel

That's "fire scale" a byproduct of the manufacturing method. If you do a search on the Archive you'll come up with a good number of subject threads on what it is and various methods to get rid of it. Fire scale is a sign that you have hot-rolled steel. It's not a "coating" as such, at least not one ...

Frederich Von Teufel

Been out of business a long time now, 5+ years. Had a "crash and burn" and left a good number of customers hanging.

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Frederich Von Teufel

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Frederich Von Teufel

My suggestion on your next harness would be to dish the elbows much deeper. While the amount of your articulation is acceptable (although I'm uncertain of how "straight" the arm can be flexed due to the angle of your photos) the amount of dishing is sub-standard. To give you an idea of how mu...

Frederich Von Teufel

Put that stick down and step away from the horse. True "minimum wage" is the amount that you require to keep you in food and shelter (and all those utilities that go along with "shelter). Now add in all the cost of making a peice of armour (in other words, everything that will pay you back for your ...

Frederich Von Teufel

The shape of your stake is determined by what you want it to look like when it's finished. Generally, if you want the finished peice to look round and globular, then the stake you raise it over should look round and globular. If you are raising flutes, then the stake you are raising on should look l...

Frederich Von Teufel

This topic comes up with regularity. Is the search function of the archive not working?

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Frederich Von Teufel

I can confirm that silversmithing (and ergo coppersmithing) raising technique is essentially the same as in ironsmithing. You don't need to be quite as "polite" with the peice you are working on when it's steel, but otherwise... And, with good technique, you can actually get quite deep with cold rai...

Frederich Von Teufel

It's a very strong block. Your sword is supported on both ends, making it nigh on impossible to "blow through" the block. That being said, it's not very flexible nor very protective and I haven't seen anyone do it in years. I've also never seen anyone called for it on the field. Frederich

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