The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

schreiber PM sent. ----------------------------------------- I agree with Sean that different jobs require different approaches to heat. Being a stickler for more period approaches I just dropped about 700 dollars on a new 30 x 30 x 25 inch propane forge designed to be big enough to handle large bre...

Andrew Young

I had a thread up a few months ago about correct barrels with wooden hoops. On a pure lark, I stumbled accross this site.....thought the info was really interesting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A medieval barrel from Paul Street During excavation...

Andrew Young

Indeed I think this is a question of experimentation...which I think should be really interesting to study.

Andrew Young

Funny you post this. I just dyed an emerald green wool houpplande a darker forest green using no less than three scarlet red bottles and three blacks...and some salt. Seems to worked. Although my objective was to go more of a deep reed than darker green...but I can live with it. Try the Dharma Tradi...

Andrew Young

You read my thoughts Andre....Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone else !

Andrew Young

Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States (Hardcover) by David Nicolle # ISBN-10: 1853673471 # ISBN-13: 978-1853673474 (if you're only going to buy one book for the fighters, make it this one) Ditto. Very comprehensive first glace book, tells you a lot....

Andrew Young

However I guess I have to question how likely it would have been for a weapon to fly down and and then upward so easily such that the dip would really (I mean really) do that much. The efficacy of a floppy dip of mail seems pretty dubious to me unless the banded mail concept gave it ridgity....then...

Andrew Young

Made this about ten years ago...man does time fly

Hand hew planks
rawhide edging
bunny rabit padding (rocks btw)

Andrew Young

While the 2d representation of folds theory holds water, I feel that it doesn't fit with the way the other fabrics are shown as fairly straight across. It does make sense to me that the maille would be tailored in the skirt, as it would make it more difficult to get a nasty old weapon up the middle...

Andrew Young

Here's to a speedy recovery Adam!

Andrew Young

K

Do you have a link in that website...I poked around and didnt find anything per se.....then again I cant read it,

thanks

Andrew Young

DROOL...yes thats it ! Lovely pouch.

I contacted him earlier this year about them.

How fast was the turn around?

I need a new pouch as soon as possible and my figure it faster to make my own...but if he is "fast" I may just buy one to save the time.

Andrew Young

There's a part of me that wonders if this is in fact a flat, 2D representation of mail sagging between the legs of someone lying flat.... I agree with Effingham in large measure here. While that second pointed mail image is hard to argue with, I dont think most mail dipped down like that in "r...

Andrew Young

Your early medieval helmet reproductions are excellent !

Andrew Young

I couldnt get the link to work.... is there another?

Andrew Young

Like this....

Ive seen:

--Raymonds Quiet Press
--some fella in eastern europe (a member posted pics of his pouch)
--anybody else?

Dont need the pouch, just the mounts.

Thanks!

Drew

Andrew Young

Ziad wrote:. It has been said that, by the time of the Reformation, there were enough pieces of "True Cross" being venerated in Europe to build a pretty sizable tithing barn.

Z

Well, maybe Jesus was taller than we thought

Andrew Young

He hasn't replied to an email since October 22nd if I recall correctly. He's been paid and received it, and I think Olas said he even told him he would ship it the next day. Getting a bit silly. A delay is understandable with a crafted item, and even then if the seller keep communication open. But ...

Andrew Young

Fantastic work gents.

I have long thought that bargrills needed some rethinking after years of doubling for barbecue grills. After cutting out my 1/4" stock grill by hand with a friggin saber saw, one learns to appreciate the luxury of lasers and waterjets!

Keep up the great work!

Andrew Young

Well, take it from me please....dont assume anything until you are dead sure something is truly, totally amiss. Sometimes things get accidentally delayed or sidetracked that werent intentional and/or devious. Have you done a search (upper right hand corner?) Do you have tracking info for your money ...

Andrew Young

Very nice Baron. We dont see enough painted furniture replicas with period artistic imagery no less.

Good luck with this.

Andrew Young

Its a cute idea but a bigger picture would be in order....

I cant make out anything in those small pics.

Andrew Young

Fulke wrote:Picks?

I think that won the "nasal surgery" reference, lol

Thanks Chef.

Andrew Young

Randall...get a dremel. We use the dremel for many things. They sell lots of small bits. Diamond bits...grinding bits, etc If you only have a handful of links to remove its not worth it... but if youre going to be removing more than 30 or 40 of them...Id suggest saving them as they would be useful f...

Andrew Young

To make a cone; you basicly skip a link every X number of rows or, the opposite of an expansion. You can use the same size link through the entire piece. Yeah I know ~that~ ....I guess I was curious as to whether earlier haubergons might have been upgraded with long sleeves. Its curious to be sure.

Andrew Young

And he shattered the known world with his avante garde fashion statement while at it!

Andrew Young

That said, fashions migrate across Europe. East-Central Europe's women adopt fashions that are very "Spanish" by feel and design due to the Habsburgs, and gradually, men adopt Hungarian and Polish clothing habits. Rick Orli's got some of that up on his site... but the principle of taking ...

Andrew Young

Interesting then that leather was used for such a common armour; i wonder why it is superior to jack or plate of jack? Or brigs? Metal costs were certainly low enough, for the munition grade stuff. Ancel I would be careful in assuming "leather" was used for armour per se.....in the same s...

Andrew Young

Well, you could just grind off the rivet....thats what Id do.

Save those suckers man.

You might need em..and its not like they sell at wallmart.

Andrew Young

Thanks. I thought there was an existing pair of 14th century chausses? Granted not from the 12th or 13th century but something to think about. I believe it was formed into a connected pair of "pants" later on, but the legs were still period??? Well, would it be possible to add onto an exis...

Andrew Young

David Stifler wrote:Andrew Young has won, no further bids.

Not really...I just repeated myself.

Repeated myself.

Ibid.

Andrew Young

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Andrew Young

As many have you have read in other posts, I am looking to modifiy my armor to better suit my needs Pic 1 is a pic of my armor (yes it's the one from Pittbull aromory), I am wanting to make it abit more inline with pic 2. Now hear are my problems that I face and need help with... 1) the lower torso...

Andrew Young

I've been doing this since '02 or '03... problem is getting all the variations in riveting (and, of course, the freakishly large expense... I've got a baby on the way and can't blow 3 months' salary on research costs any more). First, congratulations dad! . ..your first? But I do hear ya...the expe...

Andrew Young

Im not a mail guru so I offer this unto you all who know more than I.... Im thinking of making a nice 13th century mail suit. ...well assembling the components of it for a mannequin. The question that keeps bugging me is how typical it might have been to see rings that descend in diameter as they re...

Regarding Barrels with wooden hoops.....

poking around for SWANKY PURSE MOUNTS

Re: Suggestions and advise please

MAIL CHAUSSES and SLEEVES : descending diameter ?