The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

Gorgeous work Gaston and Ugo....bravo.

Id love to hear more about the pressed leather.

what is the film about, btw? (not asking for spoilers, just topic)

Andrew Young

No Ken.....you work the commando matrix gig....storm in, shoot em up....and crash through the windows. Let them fear: Academia Man.

Andrew Young

Man, thats neat. Reminds me of the Capt Nemo's Nautilus.

Andrew Young

This is how I am envisioning the Mary Rose lantern construction, partly based on Kels description above: Either a small wedge is inserted from above to effectively widen the cylindrical end of the "pane divider" thus making it hard to pull out...or a horizontal pin/wedge is inserted from t...

Andrew Young

I've seen them in the exhibits at the Naval museum. They are well documented in a chapter of "Artefacts from Shipwrecks" Mark Redknap,ed. Oxbow Books 1997 ISBN 1900188392. The lathe ends have pins shaped into them for the last 25mm to fit holes in top and bottom disks. Each lathe is groov...

Andrew Young

Pins weren't usually used in woodworking though. Friction fitting a peg is amongst the most commonly seen technology, more so than nailing, then nailing, and nailing on ironwork for reenforcement (obviously, not oin a lantern! Nailing in any way is out of question). Dowels and wedges were used, tha...

Andrew Young

There seem to be quite a few images with exposed steel breasts too. Especially in German and Eastern European contexts

Andrew Young

The lathes may have fitted into slots or may have been nailed to the top and bottom. The lathes had slots to hold the horn panes, I think. I'm afraid I haven't looked at that section of the book in a while Oh ya know, that just occured to me....I realize the wood had slots...it was how the pieces h...

Andrew Young

Just saw this Hal, thanks. Yes we had some issues with some new paint that took some getting used to.

Andrew Young

You do have to be careful though because these do leave a wheeled finish which can be a problem for living history stuff.

Scotch brite does make the bench grinder wheels but I have yet to find them...anyone have a source/link?

Andrew Young

Wow....I can see making you stop photographing but to stand over you and make you delete the photos is a bit much. Did the guard carry a gun or was he compensating for a small billy club I never understood such policies....if anything seeing great photos makes me want to visit a place even more....

Andrew Young

btw Karen....thank you so much! I fogot about your site.

Andrew Young

Ironically found this in Karen's site...whilst hunting around for latern info:

http://ark.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O ... 32&Param=C

Andrew Young

I totally dig that. Can yu show the pattern of the pieces? Are they all the same? varied by location? The pieces are just pieces of an old fauld I cut up. Its not pretty on the inside, but I dont think they really needed to be. It works well. The fauld is 20guage mild...but just big enough that the...

Andrew Young

I made all the rivets by hand.

(hand cut and filed out the buckles....made them about 12 years ago, just prior to the internet (or the number of people who now cast such things who had websites ...God bless them.

Andrew Young

Interesting Chef, Ill look into that. Thanks

Andrew Young

Working on a wood/horn lantern. Nice shape to the wood. Got the panels finished...And now its time to put the puzzle together. My inclination would be to use something akin a hide/hoof glue...something like elmers (yeah, yeah, I know its not hoof glue anymore---but its still tastey Anyway...does hid...

Andrew Young

Does anyone have more information on this COP ? I understand it recently sold at an auction.....who, what, when, where....etc. Any pictures of the back of it?

Andrew Young

Murdock...if your open to suggestion.....may I suggest shortening the height of your lames... Generally speaking the lames themselves, when all are extended-- shouldnt be any (or much) longer than the height of the cop if your going for 14th and early 15th century styles. Based on your pictures Id s...

Andrew Young

So who is the genious we can attribute the notion of carpet armor being....ahem....authentic???? Ive alway wondered how in the world a shag rug looked like armor to someone....sheep skin???? I guess we could chalk it up to the 60s and extracirricular studies influencing analysis. Weird. .

Andrew Young

Yes Im in Mary's Land...or as the quaint colloquial tongue goes, "Murlun." Camp Springs, 20748 to be exact....about 8 miles past the Wilson Bridge over the Potomac...about 3 miles from Imperial City. ...we are about 2 miles from the Suratt House (the lady who assisted Johnny Booth after hi...

Andrew Young

[img]http://www.jubilex.com/oldramparts/combat/rainbow-1.jpg[/img] thats a great picture Scut. Sorry, but you all look like a bunch of mexican farmers in armour there... Ah, how wrong you are....these were the devil's Salvatrucha rejects. The merciless colors of obliteration. .

Andrew Young

Hmm and suprisingly Ive seen very few scale faulds being used today....even though they appear quite a bit...probably 1 out of 35 odd persons is shown with one in 14th and early 15th century illustrations...often German and Eastern European, Poland, Russian, Czech, etc. My fighting cuirass has what ...

Andrew Young

One thing that should be noted.... These are line drawings, not photographs. I am not sure if they are traced via a photograph or not...however just in case, that unknown reality should be taken in stride. For example, I have noticed that even the great outline sketches of Claude Blair are definatel...

Andrew Young

Thought Id jump start the forum with a cup of coffee and a thought or two: I am always thinking about the expectations of modern customers vs. original period armour. One of the things I often look for (or appreciate) in modern armour reproductions I see, are greaves, the shape of the cuirass, pauld...

Andrew Young

Ergo....CLICK and SAVE.....CLICK and SAVE

Andrew Young

What happened??

Andrew Young

so all four sides effectively.

Andrew Young

In this image, the vertical lines could also be tassets hanging from a fauld. Id wager thats more likely the case, but its hard to say.

Andrew Young

Thomas

thats the beauty of the internet....I stumbled across them under search terms akin to spanish armor.

Either way they do appear 15th century given the style of the armour.

We could reverse trace them....dunno if this will lead to much. But worth a try.

Andrew Young

I honestly cant tell you. My horror was only tempered by the serene calmess of the cigar.

Andrew Young

But I am curious as to how that twine or braided metal wire is held in place....my best guess was some form of compressed metal clamp which appears to be a knob that goes into the highest vervelle on the face.

Andrew Young

I used the tube vervelles approach with my old bascinet. ---I cut out roughly 2.5cm/ 1 inch wide slits...rolled them around piece of bar stock.... ---then the ends were brought back together .....the ends were then slid inside the thin bascinet slits ---finally I opened up the loops ends...like stap...

Andrew Young

The method I devised, in some measure because rivets are not always obvious in period artwork, is to put in flush rivets that hold a leather strip. To this strip I sewed the cuisse in. Very durable and still flexible. Similarly, for a pair of early 15th century polish floater elbows, I attached inte...

Andrew Young

There is another big problem with DS's diagram; the liner extends below the poleyn cop Do you mean my liner extends down too far....or doesnt extend far enough? Im confused. So James, do you mean I should extend the leather in the diagram down to the poleyn...or raise the leather in that image up? ...

Thoughts on Glues or "Pins" for Horn Lanterns

Drawing a Line Between Modern Expectation vs Authentic work

So what were we talking about....