The Armour Archive

RenJunkie

You certainly have an artistic hand that I lack.

Good job. Looking forward to seeing this one after coloring.

Christopher

RenJunkie

God, I love when you post pics, Stanislav.

I don't often get to see that kind of gaunt in the first pic, with the flat cuff that fits close. I like it. Something like that would be intersting for SCA-legal almayne gaunts.

Christopher

RenJunkie

Dude, I would be terrified of the falcon that could take a deer or a boar...lol Any idea why don't they allow bow for larger deer? They might eventually allow white tail deer hunting with a bow, but I'm pretty sure that falconry and spear hunting will never be allowed here. GrimR Christopher

RenJunkie

Vitus's shields will last longer than the stick. He impregnates them with epoxy, and other wizardry and gets a shield that goes a long time. Rattan will not last that long. It's striking the edge of Vitus's uber-shields, and that's just the way things are. However, twenty dollars is ridiculous. He's...

RenJunkie

Thanks. It was expectation of the learning curve that made me do low shoes in leather I didn't really have a use for. That way, I'm not wasting the good stuff klinking out the details...lol I did notice the seams feel rather prominent on the inside. At least the vamp part. Is this normal, or is ther...

RenJunkie

Thanks. It's not scary if you're not terribly worried about the cost of the leather. I'm usually shoe stringing the budget for my personal projects, so sometimes I freeze just to not waste the leather. But if you don't risk the leather, nothing gets learned or completed. That's what I continuously t...

RenJunkie

Now, here's the part that really is making me crazy. Thank God this is not necessarily a finished pair. Otherwise, I'd be awfully unhappy. Turning it was a bear. I'm sure there is a technique, but the first third especially was tough. So, here is where the sole and upper meet: m And the obligatory f...

RenJunkie

Ok, the newest developments in the "me wondering why I wanted to make shoes" saga. After about an hour of making stitch holes in the sole (just one), about 3 or 4 hours of actual stitching, the first shoe is...done? Some pics of it before turning: m m m Wicked fuzzy but: m I'm not real thr...

RenJunkie

Careful...meat girl is classically trained. And good at it when she wants to be. Which is, admittedly not often.

Meh, I can do without Clemens. Never was impressed by him. Not my taste. Like Cooper, tho.

Tolkien is amazing.

Back to pipes and tobacco...

Christopher

RenJunkie

I was afraid that would be the case. It's the figuring out what each plate should be that's always given me pause before. Looks like it's not gonna change any time soon. My brain just doesn't judge these things well. One or two I can visualize, but that many plates just sends me into mental apoplexy...

RenJunkie

Those arms are the same model as the ones at the Higgins.

Oh to have that kind of disposable income...

Christopher

RenJunkie

....aaaaaand, I'm spent.

Jeff J wrote:http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectId=5356506

Christopher

RenJunkie

If I were to make a CoP in the style of a Wisby 8 thru 18 with the vertical as opposed to horizontal plates, how do I gauge how much curve goes into each plate? Particularly for a sort of roundy fellow. Probably a stupidly simple question, but since my metal shaping experience goes about as far as b...

RenJunkie

Ok, that doesn't sound too awfully hard.

How do you secure the lacing on these boots?

http://www.historiclife.com/images/Hist ... CT0022.jpg

That's how the test shoes are gonna lace up. I hope.

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

Try writing Weta Workshop. Last time I wrote them was two or three years ago, and they said they were looking into selling the plastic maille to individuals instead of to film and stage productions exclusively. Maybe they finally got around to it.

Christopher

RenJunkie

I appreciate the link and the offer, but I've embarked on making my own pair. Or pairs...lol.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=122665

I'm hoping to stitch the uppers to the soles tonight.

I might need some Westland gloves, tho....

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

Ohhhhhhh, ok. I think I got it now. Is it hard to keep the welts close to the shoe when stitching the outer sole on? I like the boots you have from early 2007. That is almost precisely the shape I'm going for (I'm opting for the rounder toes). How to they stay shut tho? How did you do it on those la...

RenJunkie

Okie dokie. I have let the ILL lady know.

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

This is awesome. I am so gonna do this. When I have a yard again.

Baron Eirik wrote: I toss my cigar butts around our yard. It keeps the grubworms away and thus we don't have a mole problem like our neighbors.

Hemlock and arsenic are natural.

Christopher

RenJunkie

In the essay section, the one called "Construction of a 13th Century Armoured Surcoat", there is a reference to Claude Blair's "European Arms and Armour". I put in an ILL request for this, and got an email back asking if the title ""Studies In European Arms And Armor&qu...

RenJunkie

Vinyl. I don't like the stuff. But it's a lot cheaper than leather. Six bucks a yard at 4 or 5 feet wide is a good way to do a mock up when leather costs you 4 bucks a square foot. So, I took my posterboard pattern, and transferred it over to vinyl (which is a green I'd like to reproduce someday): m...

RenJunkie

Ok, I've started trying to lock down the mystery of shoes. This isn't a tutorial, as I've never done it before. This is just me documenting this particular experiment. It may fail utterly...lol I'm trying to get this sort of thing: m I just really dig the look of these in the manuscripts. And in Sho...

RenJunkie

I don't remember the book. It was more about the Company era of Jamestowne (mostly setting up that the company really REALLY didn't want people growing tobacco, they wanted staple crops). His scholarship may not have been correct, or maybe Strachey misidentified the tobacco he was seeing. In either ...

RenJunkie

Rolfe couldn't get the Spanish leaf to work, tho. He wasn't the first to try that. He had to work at crossing different varieties to get a sweet-leafed tobacco to grow here. But yeah, he had to be sneaky about getting the desirable Spanish leaf in. I think he experimented for 2 or 3 years before he ...

RenJunkie

Oh....

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

I'm going to suggest this one: m I should be trying that one due to simplicity, but I've never been one to do something simple for my first try at something You can sew a heavier sole to the bottom before gathering the whole thing up, and you can probably play with the height to make sort of a bag b...

RenJunkie

Well, by the time James I took the English throne, there were hundreds of tobacconists in London. He even wrote "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". James did not approve of smoking. So, it was well established by 1603 in England. But about all tobacco until 1614-1615 came from Spanish sources. N...

RenJunkie

Yeah, the outermost layer would be to hold on the knees and elbows. It still wouldn't be the layer the world sees, just the outermost layer of "padding" The way I was thinking about it was a couple or three sleeveless surcotes over a couple of full tunics My understanding is that most padd...

RenJunkie

For a heavy fighter, would it be practical from a movement point of view for an earlier period guy to just wear several tunics in lieu of a padded arming garment? I mean if at least the outermost was a canvas or something heavy enough to point the required SCA bits to? Would you be able to wear enou...

RenJunkie

Ok, I think I got you. Mostly. I'll show this thread to my wife and she'll know exactly what you mean. Yeah, the CdB grand aissettes are...well...grand. But like you said, those are up high, most of their size is how far into the chest they cut. I was curious about these, since they drop so far down...

RenJunkie

PM Sent about Aluminum plates.

Christopher

RenJunkie

Here's a place to start:

http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/o ... varpat.jpg

They're kinda generic, tho. There's cuisses in Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction. It's focus is 14th Century.

Christopher

RenJunkie

Not a T-tunic, but a T arrangement. The sleeves look to me like trapezoids sewn in at a right angle to the body, and the seams being totally straight: m Now, mind you, that's how it looks to my eye, not necessarily how it really is. I am awful at visualizing the 3-d in a flat drawing. Thanks for the...

RenJunkie

Set sleeves? All the patterns I currently have show it more as a T arrangement on the St Louis. Am I misreading these? I'll have to sit my wife down and see which ones she's willing to give a try to...lol I'd like to try the Kragelund, but I hear "I hate gores" every time I mention it. Jus...

RenJunkie

As far as the natural waist thing goes.... If you're like me and your natural waist is....rounder than it should be, then wearing pants there causes them to slip down...a lot. But there is a period solution.....Flemish Breeches! (at least I think that's the term). Basically, it's breeches that come ...

Re: FS - 15th C Italian sallet. $30,920

CoP Plate Curvature for Vertical Plates

Claude Blair Book-Proper Title Needed

My 13th Century Shoe Project

Multiple Tunics as an Aketon?