The Armour Archive

Kristoffer

Very good point regarding the hot air, I didnt even think of that. Need fresh air and lots of it to feed the burner. I will sit down and think of an alternative design or a good modification.

Kristoffer

Im gonna toss CLANG in here..

Kristoffer

That looks pretty much exactly as what I am thinking of doing. What pressure are you setting the regulator to for best performance?

Kristoffer

That link seems to be just what I need Giles, awesome.

The burner came with a brass fitting that appears to be almost identical with the thread on the burner nozzle, the question is if it perhaps could be a NPT->BSP fitting. Here is a picture of it.

Kristoffer

I am building a propane forge very similar to the one built by Eric Thing. http://www.anvilfire.com/article.php?bodyName=/plans/ething_forge/sheet_metal_forge.htm I have purchased a T-rex burner from Rex Price at hybrid burners http://hybridburners.com/ I am currently fixing the propane part of the ...

Kristoffer

I have looked around for a high res picture of that painting without any luck. Any suggestions where it can be found?

Kristoffer

I found this drawing of it:

Kristoffer

I am making a early 16th century brigandine and I will aim to do it as nice and authentic as possible. Found this one that is in the Met and I really like it. http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/aa/mobile-large/25097.jpg http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/40005653?pos=&rpp...

Kristoffer

Is there no birch available for you? We use it a lot for firewood where I live so its easy to get some good stumps of it and it works just fine for dishing. An alternative if you want a more deluxe version would be to get some 2x2 inch wood, cut to a number of pieces and glue them together to a bloc...

Kristoffer

I think Mac should make a book with drawings, templates, profiles etc. on this topic. Go Mac, go!

Kristoffer

Whats the recommended thickness of brass to use for this?

Kristoffer

Where can I get floral brass washers of the kind seen on many 16th Century armour, or even better, tools to punch them out myself (depending on washer price vs tool price)

Washers can be seen here: http://www.allenantiques.com/images/A-2 ... de-pin.jpg, courtesy of Mr. Allen.

Kristoffer

And here is the finished result. They are etched, cut out, then dished. Slightly backwards way of doing them, but it worked.

Kristoffer

Cian of Storvik wrote:Ballestrino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se_N8CrooPY

Very cool. Will look into those. I was thinking bigger but its pretty sweet. Give me more!

Kristoffer

I have developed a little fixation in technology like complex medieval locks and such mechanics, just like this: http://locksmithing.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lock_thumb.jpg I am so going to build something like that chest some time in the future. However, I got the idea to build a high-low-tech c...

Kristoffer

Mac, could it depend on how the wearers arm is bent during the fitting? I Believe that armour is somewhat sculpted on top of the bodys general shape and should follow the muscular curves without getting too exaggerated. With arms, there is one muscle that moves around quite a bit when the arm is ben...

Kristoffer

I put the edge of a paper over the pictures Mac posted and it appears that the rerebrace actually is slightly convex in shape? this could perhaps be a trick the picture is playing me, but it makes sense if it follows the tricep and flares out slightly in the area where the tricep and shoulder meets.

Kristoffer

Perhaps it could be made a bit more complicated if you add to the geographical location that it could be an harness produced by italians in german style? I think that this task perhaps could better be attacked from a different angle. Starting with defining the different kinds of rolls and then assig...

Kristoffer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzQiO9liNw
Jeff Wasson demonstrating and talking about armouring and showing how to make a folded edge.

Kristoffer

http://www.armuredube.com/Tors_Lanceque ... plate.html

Eric Dubes video of making a landsknech breastplate with big roped edges.

Kristoffer

http://www.ageofarmour.com/education/ar ... dges1.html

Tutorial by William Hurt of how to roll edges typical for pre 1500 armour.

Kristoffer

After looking at Jeff Wasson rolling an edge in the dressing in steel video I started thinking of how I do rolls and how many different variations there must be since everybody usually have their own little twist of doing things. On top of that there are many variations of rolling, roping and foldin...

Kristoffer

What is the problem? Its not very complicated to do. Let me know if you need any help setting it up.

Kristoffer

See, I told you so

Kristoffer

Egg cartons can probably be aquired free from somewhere, but it might take a while to gather enough of them if you cant find a pallet somewhere. Check with your local egg producer

Kristoffer

I think its even prettier then the original. Nice work Ugo.

Kristoffer

Sound dampening needs to be adressed on many levels since different wavelengths of noice travel trough different media differently (?!) A combination of different (!) materials is the best. One old trick is to use cardboard egg trays and staple those up on all the walls and preferrably the ceiling. ...

Kristoffer

3D sculpting in a program like Zbrush (agree regarding modeling) can be done pretty quick but takes time to learn. Now that I think of it, sculpting in clay could also be a way of understanding the shapes. I think that sculpting gives you control in a way drawing never can do since drawing is limite...

Kristoffer

I pretty much never dish anything into bowls any more and since you will use heat i would recommend a t-stake with 2 differently shaped sides over any dishing form or anvil as it is today. As people have mentioned, a flat steel surface is essential, but I would put my money elsewhere and get a piece...

Kristoffer

I got into armouring at the same time as I got involved with the SCA in the beginning of the 90s. I learned some basics from others who knew pretty much nothing, and with access to no museums, no Internet, nothing, i just built stuff. Then I got access to the internet and what I found was homepages ...

Kristoffer

For size I am looking at 45cm in diameter, about 5cm elevation in the middle.

Kristoffer

Anyone who can make one. If so, what price could be expected for such a thing?

Kristoffer

Very nice pictures, thank you! I love the black armour for some reason and I have been looking at a lot of pictures of it earlier. It has "something". InsaneIrish, the second picture has the gap I was worried about very visible. I wonder if it was worn that way or if its placed on the mannekin in a ...

Kristoffer

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:1513, but not bellows face

Yes, but that guy is wearing a bevor and I dont see that working well with the bellows face. Or perhaps something between a gorget and a bevor could be done to close any gaps around the neck. I think I remember seeing something like that somewhere.

Kristoffer

Gorget. You are right at the change over time. I expect if you were wearing a taller breastplate with a rounded neck hole, you would wear a mail standard. But with the flat topped neck line of the one you posted, they wore a big, full gorget. It would generally be simpler than this one in decoratio...

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