The Armour Archive

Andrew Young

Wonderful! Thanks Thomas. Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, J Seymour Lindsay; "They rank amongst the earlier of domestic metal implements and are illustrated in many illuminated MSS". "Pot hooks called variously 'cotralls, jib-crooks, hangers and tramelles' are frequent...

Andrew Young

Thanks everyone!

Andrew Young

There are loads of problems with this cuirass. Its based Bashford dean cuirass that was cobbled together with several different pieces.

Ie, its not a reliably accurate reconstruction:

Andrew Young

Transitional plate is also roughly what D&D gamers referred to as "plate-mail." Sorry, my inner gamer had to put that out. The term isn't used as much these days as fighters' interest become more specialized within what all used to just be "transitional" and fewer D&D pl...

Andrew Young

I might be able to assist Celeste.

sent you a PM (see your messages above, right hand side of screen).

Andrew Young

Cant someone etch a piece or latten edging....than go over it with an engraving point to sharpen up the lines? I mean, we know that 14th century pieces show evidence of chisel lines to sharpen up such areas as the occularia/sights and breathes.....so it doesnt seem out of question that an etched are...

Andrew Young

Adrielle wrote:Hm not sure on the weight. They can probably tell you though if you email them. The wool page worked for me......... http://www.periodfabric.com/Wools.htm

Weird...I still get what looks like chinese characters.

Andrew Young

It means several things. First it does refer to the evolution from mail to plate. But it begins earlier than 1300 and lasts longer than 1400, which is more of a time frame of convenience. We start to see warriors adding scynbalds (shin) and foot protection as early as the 1230s (possibly earlier) as...

Andrew Young

Nissan asked me to post whatever pics I had up here so he could it. Not much to see really; but it something. The neck and armpits will be receiving the big roped edge treatment this Thursday and Friday. Back plate to be roughed out Saturday during class- and Sunday he gets fitted again. Are you tr...

Andrew Young

Thanks Tascius Try these guys m I've ordered thier fustian before and used it for jupons and pourpoints. cheers Thanks Adrielle. How heavy would we suppose this is: [img]http://www.periodfabric.com/Images/Lem304.jpg[/img] Whats up with their wool page btw? All asian characters!

Andrew Young

My two cents. I have a circa 1400 cuirass. That cuirass is such that if I bend over too far, or too fast, sometimes it can push into my adams apple if looking down too hard also. I solved that problem by making a half steel gorget with bevor that sits under the cuirass. The catches the top of the cu...

Andrew Young

I found some 14 dollars a yard stuff....but its rather course like burlap (although the image is quite enlarged). m Looking for best prices. Objective: Got a few projects --a few coats of plates to a nwe arming cotte in mind. Thoughts on this stuff: m Two cents welcome btw

Andrew Young

To venture a thought .... remember the Magna Carta was authored in the 1215 and was a fairly revolutionary statement. The first thing we always need to do when studying history is try to leave our preconceptions behind. Im doing a lot of studying of early navigators and explorers/colonists from the ...

Andrew Young

That would be neat to see Thomas.

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Very cool Patric!

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Making me thirsty Mac!

Andrew Young

Stepping Through Time has some info though I have to confess the details on 16th and 17th century footware (ie, the century turnover era) is surprisingly and annoying light on info. Far more on medieval shoes and later period shoes.

Andrew Young

Thank you so much!

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oh brother...

The Smartasses Guide to History

Andrew Young

Thank you Gobae.

What are the dates of those Dutch trammels, if you know?

Andrew Young

I had to update my pc and lost some bookmarks. I have the original book but cant find my link to the online Thordeman Visby armour book?

thanks

Andrew Young

Not exactly period, but highly functional and efficient. We use the cross for spit work if we're doing a beastie (we've done sheep & deer in the past). Ignore the chair and the blue kettles. It was early and the need for coffee was great. [img]http://www.wraithstudios.ca/photos/albums/Medieval/...

Andrew Young

Trammel does google pretty well if you can avoid the scribing tool Its got a pretty long lifespan....from Maciejowski images (and surely earlier) to the 19th century.

This is what I was referring to
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16277/16 ... es/033.jpg

Andrew Young

Having given over 1,000 talks since 1990 on history, surely you should be the one to make the first 'Speed History' post. Don't you think? Gwen Yeah I have, for public/private schools though; its what I do full time in the spring. I wouldnt call it groundbreaking or novel research...in fact sometim...

Andrew Young

THANK YOU BOB!!!!!

I was going nuts trying to find that term.

I finally remembered to flip through MOL series Medieval Household as welll.

btw...do you guys have good pictures of your cooking/fire ironwork you could post...Im sort of looking for some inspiration here.

cheers
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EDIT....looking for the names of things too...might help with googling. What is that zig-zag that hangs over the fire, used to adjust a pots height??

Id love to see reproduction pieces also.

Andrew Young

Thoughts...ideas?

Andrew Young

well in this day and age I think that the strength has as much to to with shape and the quality of the riveting than the shape of the rivet itself.

Ive seen some really, really bad wedge rivets and some exceedingly good pin rivets. Just depends.

Andrew Young

On the heels of this thread: m I got to thinking something...I, probably like yourself, enjoy learning about the gist of historic events, people, etc (arcane or not) through the varied posts here. Like many I dont have the time to delve into every topic (much less read book s or lengthy articles on ...

Andrew Young

This winter, we will have patterns for late C14 in our line. Click and bookmark the link in my sig! Bob Bob This is exciting news! Id love to see you guys expand your line with a lot more patterns for both medieval and high medieval things (earlier medieval patterns are pretty straight forward). So...

Andrew Young

Trust me, not trying to belabor a point.... Just saying that the forum can exist in addition to a yahoo group which could drive traffic there....A few ideas Im just tossing up there: --15th forum on eastern europe (bring in historians too..makes it academic) --forum on eastern european arms and armo...

Andrew Young

Chris - GSMBristol wrote:Here's how one of my guys made one.

http://www.gsmbristol.org/forums/index. ... wtopic=615

The forum may make you log in.

Chris

I sent Tom Foolery an 2 emails per his request and havent heard back....is he out there?

Drew

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Wolf wrote:reprint of H Russell Robinson's The Armour of Imperial Rome

with corrections right!

Andrew Young

I dont check the classifieds very often, so best to email me fellas. Well, we got moving along there and things got kinda hectic. Here is where we are at. I ordered a full size european male skull (real skull.....mu hu hahaha) We molded it up...made a few casts.... And are now basically replicating ...

Re: AD&D

Re: Nissan's breast plate...

hunting around for HEMP CANVAS: best prices

Battle of Visby ...online version link?

Speed History: an idea