The Armour Archive

Sasha

Okay. I heard you the first time!

I have no experience of the big no20.

I do own a xx and it is well suited to my needs.

Sasha

Sasha

That, Egfrothius, is a very nifty site indeed!

Go on. Impress me again.

Sasha

Sasha

Do you mean the roper whitney XX or the Number 20? Roman numerals were not the marketing department's strong suit. The XX is the G-jawed hand operated portable that is the notch up from the 5jr. The number 20 is a much larger affair that looks like a demented boltcutter mating with a hydraulic cylin...

Sasha

18g is way way way too thin to start with. If you are playing SCA 14g will get dented pretty quickly if you are not doing anything fancy with it (like fluting). I start with 3mm... When I put the calipers on at the end I get a reading of about 15g in the bowl and I just grind the lip form the inside...

Sasha

AH HA!!!!

Yoshida must be Arc.
Quick. GET HIM!

Sasha

Okay I admit it....

I am Sparticus..errr...no...I mean....

I am Arc2012

Let the world tremble before my feeble wit!

Sasha

I understand that the sale of archeological finds like buckles has been stamped on pretty hard lately. You might need to find a crooked museum somewhere to ship you some. There are also a few reputable auction places...but you will be collecting for a long time to get a matched set of buckles dug up...

Sasha

I use single capped speed rivets with the shaft end through the brass (so that only one thickness of .4mm brass sits higher then the brass). there are some applications when this will not hold. In these I use small hollow shaft rivets made form aluminium that I picked up in a demolition sale years a...

Sasha

cool. thanks for that.

It also explains why stainless spring steel is less prone to corrossion, even in the presence of other metals.

So I now need to make my next harness out of stainless spring..... Brother, can you spare $6000 just for materials?

Sasha

Sasha

ummm....not meening to offend...but that is a very labour intensive way to go. I just cut out my steel plates and then use the same templates to mark the outer edges of the brass work. I mark the inside edge by hand...but you can use the edge of a matchbox or a jewelers compass or something to give ...

Sasha

Okay...my scanner is definately pooched. I will use the one at Margaret's parents house tommorrow. I have not forgotten. Sasha P.S The pics are of a supposedly ceremonial falchion made for a Barony champions token. This did not stop us from "testing" it by hacking straight through slightly elderly S...

Sasha

Yeah. We have this anual raffle to see who gets to be the asshole dejoure. Your name came up and you did such a fine job from your very first post that we have had no choice but to extend your season for a while. You say you are after ultimate armour that will protect you from harm? Try a simple gag...

Sasha

We have just packed up soem friends to move to Anchorage, Alaska. Other friends are busily breeding in the Bay area and should have spawned in a few months... At this point it is looking like we might get there in time to do next Pennsic or next Estrella. We will be staying for quite a whiel and tra...

Sasha

I feel it is a good point to offer a community announcement at this time.... Clay (PoD) is the one amongst us who does not fight by the general conventions of medieval combat as practiced in this day and age. Clay is part of a small lunatic fringe group (in the nicest possible way) that basically po...

Sasha

Byzantine armour was a direct and unbroken evolution form the classic Roman harness with influences form the east rather then the west. Makes for a fascinating study. Not at all my field, but when I sometimes wonder why a bit of european armour does something that seems to make no sense i will look ...

Sasha

You already know the answer.

Sasha

Sasha

There are moments when it is a sheer pleasure to watch you fellows at work. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I get to giggle at the (deliberately)ignorant and learn some stuff. That is two of my hobbies right there. Arc. I think you were after the Long Japanese Sword With The Built In Ligh...

Sasha

I do indeed make falchions.

I will try and scan in apic of one of mine. A little fancier then you may hav had in mind. but the basic unit is the idea.

Out of curiosity...why do you want something with the subtle grace of a long bladed axe?

will send a pic shortly

Sasha

Sasha

To answer the second part of your question, we like O/A becasue it is a forge-on-a-stick. Totally controled heat on demand without sudden groundings and surprises. One of the most versatile cutting, tempering, heating,welding,brazing,soldering,barbeque lighting, ant incinerating and etching accelera...

Sasha

Close. Specifically repouse is working metal form the back. Metal is placed into jewellers pitch or lead and then worked with formers and punches form the back so that the force is cushioned by the lead/pitch (like working atop a leather cushion to prevent the anvile damaging a decorated rivet). The...

Sasha

Yep. there are a couple of examples, but filipo negrolis dragon harness is the best known example. the basic forming seems to have been done over a shaped stake and then the entire thing was turned over for fine detail work in repouse. I think you would get a good result form just using a shaped for...

Sasha

Patterns? For a houpelande? Actually, when I first read the topic I thought the problem was that you seemed to find yourself fighting with your houpelande. One of the local baronies uses houpelendes as there baronial tabbards and I fought on their side and got to wear one. In the photo of the charge...

Sasha

There are other patterns. I like to do a spiraled stepping run that gives a look reminiscent of some seashells. Stepping is a single sided ridge. It means that you get a sharply inclined face that lifts a whole section of steel. The three ridged chevron is usually a feature of late period German hi-...

Sasha

Go for the steel they use for pressing out bathtubs. It doesn't work harden and can be woked like crazy (about the same as working copper...apart form the facvt copper is more expensive and will work harden to cracking). This stuff can then be chemically or electro plated. It will eventually grow a ...

Sasha

Almost anything that has spiral stepping on the inside of a concave surface.... Basically, armouring is like cooking but with more dire consequenses. No individual stage is ever impossible....But if you do not do things in the right order then it is often impossible to "reverse" and insert another s...

Sasha

I'll just address another point here.

Attach the anvil to the stump. Your feet will thank you for it.

Get some long nails or bits of barstock or thinnish straps of metal and do a staple-like arrangement around the feet of the anvil (secured to the stump). Anvils actualy move around a lot....

Sasha

Sasha

A middle eastern maille and scale armour that came through as part of a touring exhibition at the museum (the only item I wanted to take home even if I had had free reign to adopt anything. Gold is just an ugly metal). Anyway, said suit of armour had a gold damasc motif running through the scale pla...

Sasha

kerbump.

Sasha

Hi folks. I am in need of someone that would be able to accept delivery of a B2 shear (HOLD IT!!!!! You do not get to keep it.) and be able to Hand it to Portia/Meisje/Queen of the West as she heads back to Australia in the week before easter. This would save her having to lug it on domestic flights...

Sasha

One simple rule with aluminium.
treat it the same as plastic. Cover it with cloth or leather. Both sides.

Sasha

Sasha

I will try and take some pics of a helm around here. Hope I can get the digital camera to talk to the comp at last. As for documentation on the toggle catch... Your library is far better then mine....But I do remember seeing an example attributed to the early 1300's in some coffe-table style armour ...

Sasha

Slow down and explain a couple of things. What kind of welder were you using? What kind of weld were you trying? what thickness and type of material? As for how long it takes to become proficient. I leave you with what the Blacksmith I apprenticed to said to me. "It's a shit of a game, this. You spe...

Sasha

I would guess that the common style of closure for this era of helm is a toggle hook with either a round cross-section (made form wire/rod) or a flat one (cut form sheet). The round would anchor through a hole drilled in a proud rivet and the flat would loop around the shaft of the proud rivet. Both...

Sasha

Perth is actually THE PLACE in australia to pick up steel mill balls. Go to the Monedelphus site in the industrial south. They will give you all you can carry. failing that JR's or any of the other mining engineering places that maintain sites in Perth will help you. If you head to the Freemantle sh...

Sasha

That face plate looks strangely familiar, Mykaru

Nice work.

Sasha

I neeeeed someone in L.A (hopefully close to the airport)