The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

Like many of you, Ive seen the tantalizing 'sitting knight' in the red jupon with what looks like an upright bargrill without the sides. I forget the reference off hand...maybe Christ and the sleeping guards or disciples. At any rate, I was watching a U-tube documentary on the history of fight schoo...

Andrew Young

This fella?

[img]http://www.tforum.info/forum/gallery_uploads/med_gallery_1649_44_80506.jpg[/img]

Andrew Young

How far into the 15th century? Because as early as 1420 we start to see a wonderful assortment of breastplates, segmented, fluted etc....weird onion dome bascinet helmets and bean shaped proto-close helmets, and etc. We also see splint and studded armour as late as 1415-20 as well. Plenty of scales ...

Andrew Young

Do we have a price yet?

Andrew Young

I will be sculpting several as well. Im working on one at the moment....a well known 14th century "german" effigy. Enjoy! Drew PLEASE tell me it is Walter Von Hohenklingon...... Actually yes, he is being worked on now actually. One of a dozen or so effigy replicas. Also doing some touch u...

Andrew Young

I received a partial concussion from a bolt driven into my skull....a bargrill hurriedly attached so I could jump in the fray. I blew off the spear shot at first but then realized how hard it had been when my helmet stuck to my forehead and I heard a "slurp" as the bolt was pulled out and ...

Andrew Young

Nice work Rod,

Question. There are several decent theories on how these knees attached...how did you attach yours? Looks like a simple strapping ordeal...am I missing something? Please post a pic or two if you dont mind.

Andrew Young

Well there is something to be said for Victorian stuff.

Of all the periods of decor and design....it has a strong medieval flavor.

Nothing wrong with a relatively good copy if the price is palatable eh?

Andrew Young

Wow, that's great! Thanks David. ------------------ btw I forgot to add, that we are open to requests. If you have a favorite effigy or sculpture youd like to see us recreate, please let me know. We have also discussed the idea of doing larger pieces. Thought it could be seen as morbid, the idea of...

Andrew Young

Wow, I admire your persistence Doug....very cool.

Andrew Young

Ive been out of it for a week or so with a bad respiratory illness which will be requiring surgery (just now getting to a zillion PMs and emails), but I couldnt wait to show you all one of the new sculptures one of our very talented artists is working on. Not finished yet of course, but very excitin...

Andrew Young

Getting to PMs now....see post top of Classifieds.

Andrew Young

Fellas, my PM box is full....and I havent checked them in a few days.

I got hit with a respiratory bug, so been bed bound since last Sunday.

Getting to them now....

You can also email me if needed.

Andrew Young

bump....

I think I missed some PMs when my box filled up

Please try again....Ive cleared out some.

Andrew Young

bump....

I think I missed some PMs when my box filled up

Please try again....Ive cleared out some.

Andrew Young

The 5 crease ones (shown immediately above) will be given a final polish and ready this Friday.

Looking for about 60 on these.

Andrew Young

Norman: don't know which yushman you're referring to (though a leather yushman itself is interesting to me... real pity I can't read Russian)... this is the lashed/riveted lamellar finds from Verhniy Chiyurt. Somewhere I'll see if I can dig up my notes. Please do. I know that Mikhail Gorelik atribu...

Andrew Young

I enlarged the images/links above.....showing somewhat ""shallower"" cops.

Andrew Young

Dude, that last pic is way sweet. I've never seen any that go upwards like that. Is the 1351 on the pic the date, or just a pic number? Way cool. Christopher Hi Christopher. You mean with flutes? ...or the height of the piece? I think thats the date of the harness yes. Either way, yeah variation ab...

Andrew Young

While I dont dismiss the benefits of paypal and escrow services, I run four businesses. Its my opinion the simplest thing for armourers to do is to either create different accounts or credit cards: --one for materials and overhead (steel, leather, electricity , etc) --one for shipping (I average shi...

Andrew Young

Day-yum.

[img]http://www.ugopozzati.it/images/Condottaorgano3.jpg[/img]

Andrew Young

What time frame....what region....

Some lamellar is very similar to scale and vice versa.

Its believed some lameller might have once been scale.

Andrew Young

Hi, I'm new to the board, was referred here by the local SCA guys. I've been lurking around for a while learning as much as I can. I need to get my first set put together, but I know very little about metalwork and even less about leather. I would prefer leather armor, but I'm on a budget and would...

Andrew Young

Here are various images showing a wide range in cop depth from "bubbles" to flatter shapes during the relative period in question....1320-1360:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/163 ... a0.jpg?v=0

http://flickr.com/photos/roelipilami/16 ... 508791796/

Andrew Young

Cop depth is an interesting topic. I think it draws attention to the issue of effigys for documentation. Who really knows if the carver made the cop as deep as it was in reality. Did the carver even see the real armor or did they base their carving off of drawings... What do we have for extant piec...

Andrew Young

A nice try. But before wasting your time in making the flutes on them, try to dish them a bit deeper. Or better to raise them from outside. Happy hammering. Hi Jiri. Hmm, well, we were not copying that exact effigy image shown above....it was just the first example of this style of cop I could find...

Andrew Young

A nice try. But before wasting your time in making the flutes on them, try to dish them a bit deeper. Or better to raise them from outside. Happy hammering. Hi Jiri. Well, we were not copying that exact effigy image shown above....it was just the first example of this style of cop I could find when...

Andrew Young

Nice! Any idea on what the pricing is going to be on these, and what materials will you be offering them in? Hi Vasilii, These will be largely started in 14ga which ends up around 15-16 when finished. Pricing will range between 27 to 60, depending on the number of creases/flutes. These would run ar...

Andrew Young

Are you against covered steel cuisses? We make them.

Andrew Young

I will never forget a guy who had a lisp and who sounded just like one of Scott Thompsons comfortable characters from The Kids in the Hall saying...: "studded cuisses" I can just see Thompson saying: Nothing like ""thudded cuitheth"" over a ""mail"" ...

Andrew Young

I also have FOUR-crease knees in stock if anyone wants pictures. I'd like to see pics... I got confused, and thought we had a four crease in stock...but here is a five crease from a work in progress image a few weeks back ( obviously not polished yet): http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/files/1...

Andrew Young

These are actually finished but I dont have a photo yet. Here was an in-progress snapshot for fun, though I apologize for the mottled coloration as they arent fully ground or polished. They are based on cops seen from about 1315 in southern Europe to about 1340 the father upstream you go in the cont...

Andrew Young

Yeah, both.

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Andrew Young

A nice helmet display stand. Wood. Screws together. Could be stained darker for a warm rich affect to display a helmet. Has a threaded rod which can be used to attach something to sit your helmet atop. Honestly I just used a tall block of that green foam they stick fake flowers into....worked pretty...

Andrew Young

Used these on my pavilion before and they look great. I am making a custom cast finale which is why I dont need them anymore. My original idea was to cut out a cross or fleur de lis or some type of circle with a lion inside it...something like that. The spikes are more than thick enough for deep etc...

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Early 14th century Five Crease "Box Cops"

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