The Armour Archive

Kristoffer

Trying to look at darkwoods catalogue but it is farked at the moment..

Kristoffer

Yeah, Del Tin is nice but three months delivery time and only custom orders.. For blades I am gonna demolish in fencing, that sounds a bit over the top.. =)

Kristoffer

I am looking for a good source for fencing blades in Drachenwald, I live in Nordmark (Sweden) and blades are pretty hard to come by around here if you want anything heavier. I am mainly looking for the wider Main Gauche type of flexidagger blades but also for some schlager / cut & thrust legal b...

Kristoffer

Where in europe are you from? There is lots of different groups around depending on where you live..

Kristoffer

Hold something 1 inch from your mouth and breathe, that way you see how it is. As long as you dont stuff the part in front of your face with tons of blue foam, breathing wont be a problem..

Kristoffer

Yeah, I am looking to make a air planishing hammer but I live in Sweden and the only air hammers I have been able to find here are the "chisel hammer" ones and I was wondering if they are the same thing.. Do you need to modify the chisel hammer in any way besides for the foot pedal? I will...

Kristoffer

Is the air hammer in this:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=97028

the same as in this:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=32940

Kristoffer

That must probably be the coolest breastplate ever.. *drool*

Kristoffer

Thats Peter Stormare.. he's Swedish, not German..

Kristoffer

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/11/epis ... tatio.html

Great show..

Kristoffer

You've got mail.

Kristoffer

I would say that you could cover your cutting needs pretty easy with a electric shear and a jigsaw so go for it.. I have a cheap knockoff electric shear and it actually works suprisingly well, if you get a good brand I think you wont be disappointed..

Kristoffer

Heinrich H wrote:In SCA-context, calling Skafte a big guy is really fun

Yes, that would be really fun, but if you look at the pictures, *most* of them shows GÃ¶ran Hoas wearing the cops.. He is a big guy, Skafte is just a tiny little twig with ears and a feather on top.

Kristoffer

Had some spare time yesterday so I did some of the backplates and put those in there, here is a progress pic of the inside.. I was going to make the cop close on the right side but changed my mind so the fantastic lines i drew on the lining to get a mental pictures of the plates ended up on the visi...

Kristoffer

m There you have a couple of the visby cops, the guy wearing most of them is a big guy so you can see how they look.. Also, I would recommend visby #1 and do the horizontal plates overlapping upwards and have the curves on the plates slightly different from eachother depending on what plate you use....

Kristoffer

So, I am all out of useful gauges of metal at the moment and the guy I usually buy from is on holiday so I have started getting creative with the stuff I have.. Started a simple coat of plates project today, its made out of a pretty nice red canvas lined with white egyptian cotton, the plates are so...

Kristoffer

Dont.. get some perforated steel and make a detatchable facemask for it.. that would be really sweet.

Kristoffer

Or just go out and get some mild steel and throw the galvanized stuff in the trash since its toxic evil..

Kristoffer

Mac wrote:I hope no one takes this as an excuse to post a pic of the "Elric of Melnibone' " helmet.....because I will just have to deny it.

Ah, come on people, I cant find any pics of it.. Someone has to..

Kristoffer

Thats wicked.. You should make full body sculptings, how cool would it be to have an action figure of yourself? Awesome..

Kristoffer

Ok, you forced me to it..

First of all.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7X9MQi7uOU

And if you havent seen Chad Vader, you just have to watch all episodes, its hilarious..
Here is the first episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0

CLANG wrote:This probaby belongs in OT, but you guys will love it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdd0edT-BeE

Kristoffer

I was actually looking at the thumb a bit, interesting one, I like the nail.. =)

Shouldnt be too hard to make a enclosed thumb tip in that style.. need to modify the hinge a bit but that should be the easy part =)

Kristoffer

Ah, the first link had some really nice inside shots, should help a lot to get the mechanics worked out..

I will when I have the articulation worked out properly do maximilian ones, with flutings and everyting so if you can dig up some pictures of a nice pair that would be exellent..

Kristoffer

Nice pics sir, its appreciated and a good start. My concern is regarding the "knuckle rows" and the articulation of the plates connected with the knuckles. There are models that have three knuckle plates and all articulation is done "inside" of those.. Have had problems finding g...

Kristoffer

Sounds like you made a good deal.. I spent about $75 on my cheap chinese electric shear.. Less then double of that for a DeWalt sounds like an exellent price.. It took me some cutting before I got used to my shear, when you figure out how it wants the metal to bend your life gets a whole lot easier....

Kristoffer

Also, training to strike the metal in such a fashion that most of the energy from the blow ends up being transferred from your hammer to your metal to your stump, not hammer, metal, hand, is a pretty good thing.. You can actually hurt your hand (nerves and stuff) pretty bad this way if you are unluc...

Kristoffer

So, how do you get the articulation of these suckers to work properly? I am thinking about making a pair of maximilian style mittens, gonna start with a simplified version without all the flutings to get the articulation and fitting working properly.. I have experimented with the articulation and th...

Kristoffer

Get the electric shear, I have a cheap one at the moment since my current workshop is too small to let me use my Beverly and it works ok, actually better then I expected. It needs some time getting used to and it cant cut the really narrow rounded edges but besides that it works just fine. Nibblers ...

Kristoffer

Very nice I must say, I really like the scimitar grill. Now post pictures of the full kit being worn so we can see what it looks like all together!

Kristoffer

Hmm, looks interesting.. guess i will do my own design and make some kind of hybrid... will post pictures when I get somewhere =)

Kristoffer

Well, what I am thinking is not what they are thinking, wich is the problem right there.. They want some kind of greave that starts pretty much on the middle front of the leg and ends at the middle back of the leg on the outside so that there will be no metal in contact with the saddle.. I was hopin...

Kristoffer

Sorry, looking for regular steel wedge riveted stuff..

Kristoffer

They are doing pretty early period "ish".. They are unfortunately not very concerned with authenticy for some reason..

Kristoffer

I am looking for the stuff i need to do riveted maille, a tong, wedge rivets, open rings and punched whole rings.. who sells em?

Kristoffer

So, this tournament group that do the regular riding stuff with catching rings, breaking some lances on eachothers shields and things like that want me to make them some armour (wich is a great step away from their knitted maille). So, they want some lower leg protection so I was thinking in the lin...

Fencing blades source in Drachenwald?

Simple air hammer question

Out of steel..[progress pics]

Late period mitten gauntlet articulation

Riveted maille tools + rings, where to buy?

Odd demi greaves suggestions