The Armour Archive

Hew

With the exception of clergy coifs seem to be totally out of style in the late 14th century. And of doges, under their phrygian caps. m - 1545 m - 1553 m - 1555-ish Doge without phrygian cap, but wearing armour and coif. m - 1575-76 Chaperons seemed to hang on with elder statesmen, scholars, and su...

Hew

A hook/eye closure can be seen in the fur at the neck of the figure immediately to the right of the cross in van der Weyden's "Deposition". Hmm. I zoomed in to 200% at m and I see something there, but it's difficult to say exactly what. I also see that the right side overlaps the left, as opposed t...

Hew

Uh - I stand corrected. Evidently, the word "tippet" is usually for a long sleeve or dangly cuff, but I have seen it used for the long pointy hood or liripipe of a chaperon. Now that I look at the photos again, Issard's torse looks like it's just red and white, but there seems to be some black as we...

Hew

I'm curious about the strapping in that last set of photos.
- I notice you have sliding rivets down one side, and leather straps on the other side and the middle. Is there a reason for that?
- Is that for the left arm or right arm?

Hew

From m : Arild Barrett (Legio X Fretensis, California) on making lorica hinges: "I cut the rectangular blank. Fold over in the vise and form the hinge tube. I've had to use contact cement to keep the top and bottom from springing apart. Cut the lobate pattern with a jeweler's saw. I make the notches...

Hew

Let's see how this goes: <img src="http://www.photodump.com/direct/dartaghan/PICT0320.jpg" width="816" height="544"> (Your image was not actually shrunk, I just used html to display it at 1/3 height and width. I can't do anything about the rotation.) <img src="http://www.photodump.com/direct/dartagh...

Hew

Salios wrote:Also, does anyone know if this design can have simple articulations attached?

By that, do you mean hard articulations, where the cuisse and/or greave is fastened by loose rivets directly to the cop, instead of using leather hinges?

Hew

As Thomas suggested, angle iron should work, the heavier, the better. If you want additional heat-sink, you could clamp a couple of steel (or better yet brass*) bars to the work above the vise. Mass is good! Or you could just wrap a wet rag around the base of the work down by the vise; it will star...

Hew

Here's a few photos of Lord Issard of Ironwolf Northpack (in scale armour) with a red and white torse.
Not sure if there's a mantle as such, but the dags on the (tippets?) are more elaborate than I remember.

(about 130-170 kB per image)
http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/bbb ... P03184.JPG
http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/bbb ... P03186.JPG
http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/bbb ... P03187.JPG
http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/bbb ... P03189.JPG
http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/bbb ... P03190.JPG

Hew

Well, that was interesting, particularly the "tournament helm", for the stick battles. It would seem that they had the same sensibilities as we do for helm design, when the application most closely SCA combat.

Hew

This: [img]http://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/111/gfx/large/8732ap1l.gif[/img] It has 5/8"-11 internal threads and will fit the right angle grinders or the 5/8"-11 bench grinding arbor. They come in various sizes and work great for inside the viking oculars. Gee, Hal, that looks great, might be exactl...

Hew

Huh.
Now that's a casual look.

Hew

Looking for Info :? A more descriptive subject for this thread might snag a few more folks into taking a look. One thing that might help you decide is being able to find documentation for a given culture or time period. Generally, later European is easier, since the paintings get better. That gives...

Hew

... nor any fastening other than a pair of buttons at the throat ... This is the first mention of any kind of front fastening I've ever seen. I've always wondered about that. The method looks invisible on any paintings I've seen, but it always appears to run full-length, and you never see any gappi...

Hew

I seen spoons made two ways. [snip] 2. Missed the pouring but whole spoon was flat. Then small hammer and die. The die was a massive cube with various shaped and depth molds. I was just thinking that railroad spike heads make wonderful "spoon stakes". It would seem to be a lot easier to carve a mol...

Hew

Howzer wrote:(be aware i only have 1 hour to speak)

Say what?:shock:

I should think you could have taken any ten (or fewer) lines and filled the hour, easily.
It took me almost that long just to read the outline.

Hew

I'm pretty obsessive about filing edges of plates to a nice harmless round edge. I usually use a flat file, like this: http://shorinternational.com/images/Images32/32498s.gif Called a "farmers own file". Great for straight and outside curved edges, but not so great for inside curves. I also use it t...

Hew

A polarizing filter will help some, but it won't work as well as a neutral density filter. Polarizing filters are for enhancing color saturation and depth, but they do reduce glare a little. They don't do very much indoors, though. Polarizing filters reduce glare a lot , assuming you've got it turn...

Hew

Aside from possible damage to the vise, if you used insulating jaw covers I should think it would allow the piece to be heated up quicker, since the vise would not be sucking away all the heat. Maybe two blocks of pumice from the Bath Accessories section of a drug store? Tiles from the space shuttle?

Hew

eoghan_mw wrote:Found what I need by doing a search on the archive. MMMMM, love that search feature, should have used it first...

Now I am curious. What did you find?

Hew

No armour, no weapons or sticks. Try "Tai Kwan Leep", as popularized by comedy troup "The Frantics". (580 kB MP3 file) m A transcript follows... MASTER: Approach, students. Close the circle at the feet of the master. You have come to me asking that I be your guide along the path of Tai Kwan Leep. Bu...

Hew

James B. wrote:You do however want to stuff the shoe to keep its shape while wet if you do not have a "last" (a wood carving of your foot).

How about a "shoe tree"?

Hew

Then, what do you think of this one of Maese Martin Vazquez, a Knight of Santiago? m Uh... I think there are too many periods for that to be a real URL. Or something like that. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Faculty/rosenbergj/Images/Siguenza.doncel.sc.jpg on this server. Apache/1.3...

Hew

A friend of mine said she would let me borrow her legs for a while (which sounds a lot creepier than it is ) because they fit me quite well. They also bend nearly 330 degrees, without any sticking and very little (maybe 1/8" or so) gapping (ie. between the surfaces of the lames, not the edges). Two ...

Hew

Hey, Dalewyn, think Alchemy Armory could make these? Maybe? Hmmm? Hopeahopeahope... Well, FWIW, he did make a nice-looking plastic Japanese kit for Crown Tourney a year ago - m - but I haven't heard that he's going to offer it in his catalog yet. He does offer several variations of a CoP kit - m . ...

Hew

Just a thought - One kind of arm protection that could be made without dishing is the Manica, a Roman Legionary (and sometimes gladiators) segmented armguard - m http://www.larp.com/legioxx/manica2.jpg However, due to the thickness of the plastic itself, each successive lame (or band) would have to ...

Hew

About the elbow cop - I would worry about it catching a glancing blow on the edge and snapping right off. If you really want to use plastic that way, get it to dish somehow, even if it has to be cut and curled into a bit of a cone. You don't want the tip of your elbow actually touching the surface t...

Hew

Odd. Nothing exactly like it on m Almost: http://www.symbols.com/pics/big/14/1406.gif (excerpt) Ã‚Â "During the Bronze Age [symbol] was an often used graphic structure for decorations of artefacts of all types. In ancient Greece it was common on vases and amphoras, and often signified water or the s...

Hew

Just wait until people get a load of my future Spangensmurfentatachurburg kit. It's gonna be a real time machine accident (1400 year span), but it will be comfortable, practical, easy to get on and off by myself, and safe.

Hew

We got photos... Knee cop and two lames in fully bent position. The lower lame (on the right) is temporarily bolted in place, but the upper one is merely taped in position with the rivet hole in the cop lined up with marks on the lame. No gap between the lames and the cop. this is good http://northe...

Hew

Background: I started to make some elbows, using "Constructing Articulated Joint Armor" from m . I figured "Oh boy - patterns based on body measurements." Measured my elbow as instructed, did the calculations (B=45% of A, etc.) drew the template, cut the steel into a nice little flat fish, filed cor...

Hew

Don't forget the most important preparation for Crown Tourney: New garb for Feast and Court.

Hew

I agree with all of your points Ean, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about accidents. Not someone getting mad and not pulling his shots or going for the throat (though you should take that into account too). And if insurance companies and lawyers get into it, the "injured par...

Hew

Cut your legs off, slightly below the knee. Using a very hot iron, cauterize both open wounds. Pack the legs in ice and ship them to your armourer...he will then beable to work with your legs and get the best fit possible. Once he is done, take your legs back and have them reattached. There might b...

Hew

Okay, here's a third reason. Some marshals just don't dig leather gorgets. Heads up, I have a 18 inch neck. Rules for Ansteorran Rapier Combat Specific Standards: - Abrasion-Resistant material is the minimum allowable protection for any area of the body. All portions of the body not specifically re...

Re: In search of a specific Poleyn pattern

Smoothing inside curved edges - what tool?

Re: Byzantine symbol - need explanation.

Yet another articulation thread

Re: Mantle Gorget