The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

Make sure you reinforce the pointign eyelets I almost ruined mine in my rush to use it. A coulple of heavy canvas swatches, a few steel washers and eylets and your golden. I had help from a friend and his wife and now it's nearly indestructable. Cheers, Leo Good advice BroLo! Got the castle pics bt...

Andrew Young

Wow this is fascinating. Are there any extant coppiced trees still around? There are records of coppiced trees hundreds of years old, which would have produced vastly more readily useable material than a single tree ever could. It's a continually- harvestable crop What about soil depletion? Id think...

Andrew Young

Do a play on words; it was quite common actually. I did. My avatar being a Chi Rho (bespeaking my religious side) is a 'play' on Parts and Technical...which is also a Han Solo line in Return of the Jedi. (Im a Star Wars fan, btw) So my avatar and armour mark tell several stories. Here is something y...

Andrew Young

Most of these will fit or could be tailored to fit someone 6'2 ish and up. The prices are quite reasonable. Nothing outlandish. And Ill accept up to 2 payments (if necessary...ie, your married or in college .) A nice late 14th early 15th century half-welded cuirass. The bottom has a rolled edge and ...

Andrew Young

Thanks for the plug Otto. We do several variations on fully shaped SCA frontals for around 125. In fact Ive been thinking about doing a short run of greaves as a sort of ""end of summer sale"". Probably around 95 a pair--various stock sizes which should fit most guys. If anyone i...

Andrew Young

adamstjohn wrote:You should photograph yourself lying on a long box in a church. Seriously.

Id pay to see that.....

when people get close, jump up at them.

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Andrew Young

Amen.

May the congregation please be seated.

*ouch*...what then about BPUs?

Andrew Young

When does Rum come into the picture? a bit off topic,..I posted this a few weeks ago: I recently had a shot of 300 year old rum found on a spanish shipwreck. The rum was technically english, later commandeered by the spaniards. Inside the bottles they found coconut fibers, lemon juice and fish oil.....

Andrew Young

This is interesting....so if Im understanding this correctly, the concept behind coppicing is that the land/square footage used by a single tree can be managed such that it produces multiple trees from a single base? This would make some sense (and I appreciate your post as Ive never heard of a copp...

Andrew Young

I have debated asking this question for fear it looks rather silly....but the more I thought about it...the question was so basic and the apparent answer so elusive that I thought Id pitch it yalls way and see what you guys come up with. Simply put.... in any given medieval town or village, where do...

Andrew Young

I tend to agree. Ive been researching axes and wood felling/hewing/working tools and its very difficult finding a comprehensive site showing a really detailed the evolution of tools. And if you come across an old tool (there are originals floating around and the owners dont know what they have...I j...

Andrew Young

Aussie Yeoman wrote:I've just now come by all the steel I need to make myself a helve hammer. I got a motor, and the components for the spring and drive-mechanism. I just need to get the components for the hammer faces and dies.

Gonna save a lot o' elbow grease.....

Dave

Geesh.....gonna save a lot of elbow.

Andrew Young

Maeglin Oronar wrote:they look good, honestly they look a bit short... but that's probably just me

-Brian

Well thats partially because they were. The longer pauldrons came down and locked into the arm harness. ...generally speaking.

Andrew Young

Indeed, I wish the bargrill could be replaced by something more chinese....for whatever that means.

Andrew Young

Very cool!

Andrew Young

Looking for folks who do commission work for bread or barter. Something like one of these (pre-printing revolution) [img]http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~pavp/genea/kirby/images/firspage.jpg[/img] Also, if anyone can do something like this...a 1560 indenture contract (hand written insanity : [img]http://img...

Andrew Young

Looking for folks who do commission work for bread or barter. Something like one of these (pre-printing revolution) [img]http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~pavp/genea/kirby/images/firspage.jpg[/img] Also, if anyone can do something like this...a 1560 indenture contract (hand written insanity : [img]http://img...

Andrew Young

http://www.sindelarmuseum.com/Stone_Age_Medieval.php

give it a second or two to load...the music is great.

Andrew Young

BaronConal wrote:part of what you need is practice

the more you work together the better you will get.

sharpening and polishing the saw will not hurt though....

True but Im now convinced much of the problem was the pinching of the kerf into the blade.....rather like a vise.

Andrew Young

Just checked the blade...

The teeth --all of them-- are in alignment. So I doubt they were all straightened, no signs of bent blades

However the bevel on every other tooth is the same.

Rather like this:

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Andrew Young

But not with antique dull rusty blades that have been hanging over someone's fireplace for years.

or worse....in the bushes. ...and then over the fireplace.

Andrew Young

My thoughts, were they of any value to yall... The first things to remember is that while we can identify general styles and trends, the wearing of armour (which also followed trends) also requires more intimate modification to it....you have some room to fiddle with what feels best and what works b...

Andrew Young

This looks like a great series...

http://www.history.com/video.do?name=axmen

Andrew Young

Oh.. another point. If it's red with rust and pitted, it's gonna stick. Period. Polish it as best you can with steel wool or the like, then apply a coat of a paste wax, like Johnsons, or even paraffin or beeswax to the blade. A lot of the "jerk" you are getting is because it's hanging up....

Andrew Young

chef de chambre wrote:As Maeryk pointed out, inline teeth indicate a specialized ripping saw, to saw board.

How old is that saw?

I dunno to be honest.

Ill take some pics of it and post.

My guess is at least turn of the century.

Andrew Young

bkillian wrote:I thought the teeth were supposed to be offset. that might be your problem. Also the other guy might be pushing when you are pulling or vise versa. This page has a little on the subject.

http://www.scrgeek.com/woodwork/aboutSaws.html

Great site...thanks!!!

Andrew Young

Try SHARPENING the damn thing. ANything lying around that long, and/or _rusty_ is dull as a dishrag. Cast about on the net, and figure out how to sharpen it. If the teeth are "in line" with no set, it might be a ripping saw, for sawing apart boards. In that case, you need it really sharp....

Andrew Young

As I recollect, for sawing board, they were usually placed in a sawing pit (in a cradle), with a man above and a man below - perhaps they work easier that way than on the level. Yes I have thought of this....except Im sorta not inclined to dig too deeply into my hard...at least now. Ive seen X shap...

Andrew Young

Anyone ever used a two man saw... .they are rather like a marriage...one pulls, than the other pulls, until you get to the end and realize it was easier with one person. I bought one last weekend...about six feet long. Similar to this: BUT THIS IS NOT MY SAW..... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

Andrew Young

*sheepishly*....I have researched poorly.

*just as sheepishly*....thanks Karen

Andrew Young

Worth noting that Utube is filled with treadle and power hammer videos...

but this one is worth a cheesy chuckle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZjE6HzpMo

Andrew Young

So you expected some freak of a charactor from a Rob Zombie flick....(thats another story) nah....Im seeking images of leather bottles, flask, jugs, and just about anything else that would classify as a vessel made of leather from say Rome to 1700... Ive hit up Karens site and found some pictures, b...

Andrew Young

Well said Gwen.

Andrew Young

Yes I prefer the foot operated for several reasons. First, and quite truthfully...exercise. One of the reason I love armouring is because of the semi workout it can provide. Second, I prefer to be able to set up a piece and then stomp And then third...I prefer simplicity. (unless I lived near a vigo...

Andrew Young

I have some clients who have commissioned full harnesses for SCA rapier combat with peascods. A few have cited the Smythe harness shown above as its quite magnificent indeed.

FS: solid BREASTPLATE brigadine fauld and back SOLD

The disposable lumber trade....firewood. Where and how.

X-post seeking: Illuminated Manuscript Artists/Caligraphers

seeking: Illuminated Manuscript Artists/Caligraphers

Cool Tool Website....

Thoughts on 2 Man Saws......or....damn this is hard.

FLESH CONTAINERS...mu-huhahaha