The Armour Archive

earnest carruthers

Well my abdomen is more like two large sausages placed over each other (not muscles though), commonly known as a twopack, maybe he was a distant relative?

And his neck is rather long too.

earnest carruthers

"Q1: Englsish nastionaliysctic hype." I would dispute the 'nationalistic' aspect of that, hype certainly and perpetuated by historians too. My take on it would be more mytholigising, in the same way that Vikings are etc. There is a load of tosh wafted around by proponents of the super long bow witho...

earnest carruthers

" Actually if you look at the battle of Flodden (1513) the majority of the Scottish Army, including King James IV and a large section of the Scottish nobility, went into battle carrying pikes. " Ok fair enough so in this case the pike was pan-class weapon, in general it is a footsoldier's weapon, ce...

earnest carruthers

Cennini talks about a crest made from leather and then gesso for detail, then mounted on a core of some description, much as AAB describes. There is the dragon head crest, Italian, 15thc IIRC, don't know full construction but I think features leather. Also if you look at renee of Anjou's tournament ...

earnest carruthers

http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resourc ... chery.html

the wonders of google.

You can bet if a bow was used militarily there were hunting versions thereof.

earnest carruthers

"Why are we expecting complete anatomical accuracy from a stone cutter?" This is not the work of a 'stone cutter' who has decided to make some crude funnies on the tops of churches but a trained and competent figure sculptor. "I really think you are placing modern expectations on medieval artists wh...

earnest carruthers

"err...because he is depicting an anatomical piece of armour that is styled like that? I'm not saying the sculptor was an armourer or that he invented or developed that armour. I believe he is depicting some funky thing that existed. Just my opinion..." Sure, I was not denying your opinion and I ful...

earnest carruthers

removing the mail might have been tricky if the story is correct that the bodies started to swell and need rapid burial when the Wsiby residents came out of the town.

earnest carruthers

" On the other hand, it could be the armorer who had a tenuous grasp of abdominal musculature, and the sculptor was just being faithful to the original piece he used as an example. "

You know what I typed just that considered it and deleted it

earnest carruthers

"Because this is a skilled sculptor who clearly is able to depict structure and form." But for some reason not abdominal musculature. I raised that inconsistency earlier. The 'muscles' go way too far round and are too high up the body. So how can he be good one minute and so poor the next, it doesn'...

earnest carruthers

http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/weapons/sling.html

here you go for a pic

http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEqui ... llery.html

google is a wonderful thing to be sure.

earnest carruthers

Mordreth
"To quote one of my friends the real trick to being a Roman and alive is to have 500 close personal friends"

amen.

earnest carruthers

Alcyoneus

or

C - it is something else that we have yet to work out.

earnest carruthers

"The long staff, morris pike, or javelin, or such like weapons above the perfect length, have advantage against all manner of weapons, the short staff, the Welch hook, partisan, or glaive, or such like weapons of vantage excepted, yet are too weak for two swords and daggers or two sword and bucklers...

earnest carruthers

"Our Duke likes to use a pike...all 12 feet of it." on his own? he must be a favourite target for pretty much anyone. And no it was not a knight's weapon, quite the opposite, a block formation of common men. Whilst in the 17thc pikemen may well have been called 'gentlemen of the pike' that did not r...

earnest carruthers

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... patent&btn
G=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

join the link, back track from some of the images

earnest carruthers

Why can the sculptor model a pretty good body form and all the relevant details but not the musculature on the abdomen? Even though the side shots look odd, ie not all the squares are lined up, it seems like an odd inconsistency in the artist's skill base.

Stylised does not mean badly rendered.

earnest carruthers

"I think it gives credence to the notion that what was tossed in the graves was probably too hard to clean or simply not worth the effort of salvaging, ie, cheap iron plates.....relatively speaking." Is there not a suggestion that the bodies had started to swell too much to make removal of armour wo...

earnest carruthers

Maeryk
"I've met more than enough "living historians" who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground once they get off the script as well... "

Indeed.

earnest carruthers

Egfroth, my sincerest condolences at your loss.

And all the best David for you and yours.

A good vibe sent to both of you at this time.

regards

Jorge

earnest carruthers

Marcus, see if you can get a copy of Before the Mast, Life and Death on the Mary Rose, a fair few explanations of chests and boxes, inc expanded diagrams on construction.

As for clenching or peining, as you say, either, clenching seems really easy though, ergo quicker (possibly).

earnest carruthers

Why not produce educational pieces, ie before, during and afters, with whatever finishes and colourings that end up. That way you are not so much being artistic as creating a communication model for people to understand some of the processes, a finished piece only tells the one part of the story.

earnest carruthers

"I don't think you mean the word Romanesque and honest I don't know the right word for the mixing of how the painter percieved the classical" Anachronistic or ahystorical, all those suffice, also there is the allegorical portrayal tied within that which adds to the confusion. Re the hoops, well who ...

earnest carruthers

LT "Also; many people will not trade effientcy for authenticity." And authentic is inefficient, how? Well made armour does the job, ie protects the wearer, well made clothes work well etc. People wont trade what is easier to achieve for what may appear to be more challenging to achieve, even though ...

earnest carruthers

Hoop? why a hoop or a wheel, the Basel tent has neither, is crows feet only. The image by Bettinni showing a tent being erected does not show hoops, just crows feet, and if you have crows feet you don't need a hoop. Also a model of one without hoops, just guys, angle has to match that of the roof, o...

earnest carruthers

I would go for outright drying and not using oil, why? because copper reacts with most oils and 'dries' them leaving a semi-permanent residue - a varnish. You don't want a residue that is a pain to remove or hard to see to remove. Clean with wood ash and water, scour with light sand and or charcoal/...

earnest carruthers

How is the kettle hat prevented from unwanted swivelling over the eyes? I ask because there appears to be only the one pin and no scope for a strap.

earnest carruthers

Loads of stuff is coming from the Balkans, no doubt it is original, the problem is that it really belongs in the Balkans, in some museum somewhere being catalogued not sold off before any recordings can be made. A lot of that is not really rare, at least not now. It would cost a fair bit to reproduc...

earnest carruthers

Museum of London has a few hones, as does the Museum at Whitby, Yorkshire. Whitby has a number of very fine small stones, possibly for razor sharpening, apparently orginating in Scandinavia. Also the Mary Rose, a grind wheel was made form millstone grit. Mary Rose yielded 19 whetstones, variety of r...

earnest carruthers

What is the web site?

The kettle hat itself is ok, just needs a bit less of that 'just beaten' look. It is the assembly that looks odd, to me. Looks made up and the gorget, it looks like rather than a bevor looks like something a cylon might wear. But as we know odd stuff turns up every day.

earnest carruthers

We have lead free bronze pots, no problem, avoid cooking overly acidic foods, and clean and dry after use, also clean before use with a light abrasive. The copper in the bronze can give rise to copper acetate, verdigris, which is a known cumulative toxin, however sensible cleaning and drying will pr...

earnest carruthers

You need to look online for UK public records offices, also local county archives, many of which are starting to appear on line. All kinds of correspondence existed, as you wold think for a rising mercantile class and early modern period. There is the famous Jodrell pass, issued by Edward the Black ...

earnest carruthers

babywalkers, quite well known pics.

earnest carruthers

nice work matthew.

Out of pure interest as it relates to somethign I am having made next year, how are tubes that fine made in the early periods? is it sheet then solder etc?

earnest carruthers

J D P

" Sweet! Fun for the whole family! "

If I may be so crude

Fun for the family hole? possibly?

It looks very sophisticated, properly working screw thread and all.