The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

I really think the BS is over rated as an amouring tool. I've had a BS for 20 years and used it all the time. About 5 years ago I bought a cheap ($199) Harbor freight band saw and put a fine tooth blade in it and it cuts all my sheet material. Mild, spring, stainless alluminum, brass and so on. It ...

Andrew Young

Russ you need to calm down. Im not out to hijack your thread. ...nor browbeat you. Your post was somewhat hazy as to what area you were talking about...but I assumed you were talking Western Europe in which mail predominates. Then, I said that the scale and lamellar that was used was not used in gre...

Andrew Young

Klaus the Red wrote:I'm interested- can you give dimensions?

These are sized to a 6ft man, average build.

Im sure you can open them slightly or close them slightly

Ill get specs for ya in a few....

Andrew Young

Indeed Patrick these are a rarity...in bronze at least.

Prices yet?

Andrew Young

Okay.

Ill take measurements tomorrow.

Andrew Young

btw if you want to cut leather.......they sell scissors for that.

They work well.

Andrew Young

Russ Im only going off of what you posted.... I'm familiar with your arguments, but not yet convinced that this was a universal arrangement. This is Central Europe , ca. 13c. Did you mean your focusing on Eastern Europe? (which is a favorite of mine btw) If so, then scale and lamellar were used in f...

Andrew Young

Lord_Wolf wrote:
Andrew Young wrote:I also have FOUR-crease knees in stock if anyone wants pictures.

I'd like to see pics...

Will do. Look for a pic by Wednesday

(Im uber busy finishing up some sci-fi pieces at the moment)

Andrew Young

lol you have poor timing! Keep offering these and I may pick up a pair after the new year. Adam What a world eh! I am slowly changing the direction of my business so we will be gradually producing more and more armour. One of the elements of my armoury will be an "instock or no sale" appr...

Andrew Young

My perspective on this, as I happened to be the primary researcher for Craig's project, and have continued (serious, not amature) research since, independantly, follows. The term brigandine is from the Italian. It seems to be a case of Middle Eastern technology making its way into Europe, through v...

Andrew Young

Very nice!

Rawhide rocks doesnt it!!!

Its an insanely tough material, the grip and strength is unbelievable.

Andrew Young

Looks like the COP is spoken for.

The skirt/fault remains....

Andrew Young

Cool. I gotta picture of me in my full plate and celeta about ten years back. Always fun to find yourself.

Andrew Young

I'm familiar with your arguments, but not yet convinced that this was a universal arrangement. This is Central Europe, ca. 13c. Ah, well then the frequency of scale and lamellar has greatly diminished. Its not used in anywhere near the same numbers as mail at this point....if in Western Europe. Tha...

Andrew Young

I use my HF cheapos cut checks. But actually I just broke my blades.... anybody got that replacement blade link? m I heard b-1 blades fit the HF model. I don't know for sure but as fast as mine chip on stainless, I've considered giving it a try. m Yeah mine chipped on stainless too One thing I do l...

Andrew Young

I also have FOUR-crease knees in stock if anyone wants pictures.

Andrew Young

No longer need these folks...priced to move. They are generally smaller frames. For example, the man is a 5'7 build, however with a build up layer using a movers blanket, you can achieve a proportionately bigger size if you want to mount a bigger breastplate, costume, dress, etc. Woman....$26 [b]Sol...

Andrew Young

...from the website description: MID - 14TH CENTURY CENTURY "three crease knees" --appropriate for suits from about 1330 to 1390 such as the Battle of Visby --common to many English, German and Eastern European personas --angled sides that peak in a gentle arc matching the central crease -...

Andrew Young

I use my HF cheapos cut checks.

But actually I just broke my blades.... anybody got that replacement blade link?

Andrew Young

Lawrence Ive already referred to art a number of times above, but okay... I dont necessarily define art so much as let ''art'' fill in the gaps. Tools are the things we use and which have some type of physical or near physical use....from wrenches to arithmetic 'flashcards' to teach children how to ...

Andrew Young

Dierick

Im sorry to see you selling this man....it was such an unusual project to watch unfold....

Drew

Andrew Young

check classifieds....I responded to you there Matt

Andrew Young

Matt Regarding your Design forum post... Why not just do an internal hinge rather like a later period gauntlet...just mount the hinge on the inside. Similar to what your doing, we went through a bunch of designs with respect to the thumb for our hourglass gauntlet prototypes It was difficult when tr...

Andrew Young

Russ What is your period in question. I contend that many scales and lameller, particularly in centralized areas were held together with rings and staples. There is certainly enough evidential suggestion (lots of pieces of evidence) vs little to no evidence for wide-scale leather lacing....leather i...

Andrew Young

Apollonian wrote:Those are nice, Ulf. I would bid if they weren't blackened.

Falcone

You can remove the black....takes some elbow grease but its possible.

Andrew Young

I think you are all reading more into what I meant than what I said..... It is not that those of us in the co op would work on each others projects/orders (although I certainly have no problem collaborating with someone on something specific). It was that we would all pool our resources to rent a l...

Andrew Young

I dont know that that idea would work per se. What would be the defined objective? At risk of being called the popular slur right now........ a communist/socialist ..... DUN DUN DUN.... I have been in favor of a professional armourers guild/union for a while much like many other metal working profes...

Andrew Young

double post
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Andrew Young

Oh I see...so you want me to slip up and say that people in uniforms are tools too eh?!?!? Sasuke......why wouldnt anyone complain? Why not? Shouldn't ""art"" be open for criticism? Or, for that matter....dont I have a right to voice an idea that could lead to an even better appr...

Andrew Young

This is a controversial topic....which really shouldnt be as its more a case of looking at a spectrum from different ends....same spectrum though. I feel strongly that they are the inheritors of the Coat of Plate technology which more or less branched into several directions... corrazines, textile b...

Andrew Young

While I actually havent done copious amouts of gothic, I do a lot of nazgul and lord of the rings armour (too much!) and many of these pieces have flutes,. John Howe the costume designer for the films is also the coauthor of The Medieval Soldier , a great book about late medieval campaign life...so ...

Andrew Young

Truly, it is an uncanny similarity. The pointed nose. The pointed hat...bascinet. The collar....aventail. The baggy shirt...jupon/cotte The flaring cuffs ....gauntlets The narrowing paints...armoured legs. The pointed shoes.......medieval shoes/sabatons. http://tfootitt.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/w...

Andrew Young

Here's a picture of my bascinet. The one on the left with the aventail. Vervelles would probably stay more parallel with the bottom edge of the helm rather then turn up at a 45 deg at the face opening (I aim for 1360's, and so it's not a big stretch). But note the profile of the helm. Very gentle b...

Andrew Young

InsaneIrish wrote:basket hilts.

I would say spears or one handed swords....or both.

Andrew Young

I agree with you Chef, not on the Pollock bit though. My thoughts are on how they are viewed today, and that seeing these things as works of art is not detrimental, I donâ€™t see it as " trivializing the functional use of armour for its aesthetic appeal" as Andrew sees it. Over time items...

torso: SOLD, shipped out

Early-mid 14th: 3 & 5 crease "box knees"