The Armour Archive

Armoured Air Bear

I might be interested in the bascinet. (but it proably won't fit my noggin though

) what is the gauge?

If it would fit, would you be willing to trade for some leather goods?

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Thanks for the help. So I'll soak my leather, finish the edges, tool it and tack it onto the built up plaster mould and put it in the oven? does this sound about right? and I dye before the oven correct? Another question about plaster- how would I make both a posative and negative mold? would I just...

Armoured Air Bear

I'm goona see if I have school on Wed. - Hopefully not.

you said you have Wisby? got to Page 316 and look at the image on the right. that's kinda what I'm lookin at, with a few things changed.

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

The ailettes were real short lived, kinda like parachute pants i don't think they go with the rest of what your doing. We could do the soupcans in my shop, i think i have some mile 16 ga lying around, course Rob has the beverly, mine's at Erics in Birmingham. We could cut em out at Robs and work on...

Armoured Air Bear

Thanks. For the splinted pair the splints will most likeley be on the outside so I still think thinner would work. As for documentation- that's exactley what I'm doing- taking several effigies of the time and combining them. of course gonna make sure it's accurate. I would not be seen with inaccurat...

Armoured Air Bear

Hi all, I'm about to start work on some early 14th century leather armour. I am goin to be hardening it in an oven. now for the greaves- I want them to be very form fitting, so I was thnking to make Plater of Paris mold to my leg. can any of you give any insights on how to do this? I was thinking pu...

Armoured Air Bear

okay- so costrel it is. another quetion for the armour though. if I'm going to be hardeinging and using metal splints, I don't have to use heavy 15oz leather correct? I could probably get by with something like, 5-7 oz? this would be for just the arms and the legs. I guess I'm not basing this on a p...

Armoured Air Bear

I got some shears if you want to use them. there a cheapo version of the beverley but much better than HF. also got a bunch of hand shears. and a pair of electric too. for puncing the hole you could get one of those metal rods that has a point on them. they are usually used for punching a guide for ...

Armoured Air Bear

When looking for a stop-rib en franÃ§ais, try for lisiÃ¨re d'arret. Ahh, that's how it's spelled. I can't spell for beans . for the finger bucklers (which may or may not be accurate) you can spiff em up by adding brass pattern cut outs riveted to the steel. or like what I'm doing- gonna roll the ed...

Armoured Air Bear

Murdock wrote:

i've never tried a bevor

but you know you want to cause there so friggin cool

Wednesday if you're at armouring I'll bring the few kestrels I'm working on so ya can see them.

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

First of all great choice of century -what kind of bascinet are you making? a klappvisor, or sidemounted? -elbows/rerbrace/vambrace- look at the Churburg 13/18 for the arms. you can use the basic pattern for it and modify it to suit your needs. many of the 14th cent arm harnesses you see on the feil...

Armoured Air Bear

okay I finally found some cool floral tooling. now I have a question about it. when I swivel knife it in (very lightly) do I use a pear shader on the leaves/petals, and bevel it all? or do I skip the pear shader and just bevel all edges? another question- when finished tooling, stretching/dyeing, sh...

Armoured Air Bear

I've had the oppertunity to handle that sallet by Mr. Thaden and see it up close. let me say it is truly a great piece of work.

I think I saw it las sunday at the ARS seminar. I'm not sure if I met you or not though?

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Cool!

Ya think it would work for kestrels too?

When I'm at that point, ya think you could help me with it?

Aaron

BTW- how would one go about making one of those "bevors" similar to the one on Don Alvero?

Armoured Air Bear

Hi all, I'm startin a new leather project (noooooo not another project ) anyways I want to make some cuir bouilli armour. particularly in the 14th century. I'm mainly interest in the late 14th cent, but I'm gonna give it a break and work on some earlier stuff. (still waaay into the latter 14th cent ...

Armoured Air Bear

Hi all, I'm about to harden some leather armour as well. I've got a few questions. does this sound right (the whole hardening process.) -first soak leather -then do edging, tooling (if desired) and other decrative elements -then form, eithe to limb itself, happer into a form, or tack onto a form -le...

Armoured Air Bear

they have real nice swords. the hilt fittings are pretty good/historical. but the blades are phenominal. if you want a "working sword" than a Gus is the one to get. if you want a historical sword, one that feels and looks like an original, but mabey that you would be afraid to cut with (ca...

Armoured Air Bear

Lookin good!

I always like to see others tooling as I do tooling myself. also have you thought of taking step by step tooling pics? I do that a lot. (and would post but I'm computerley challenged)- yes computerley is a word.

that looks great, can't wait to see the finished result.

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Since we're kind of on the subject of the felt hats...how would one go about stretching one of these to fit we of the fatter head group? you're in luck I have a wrather large head as well (according to murdock that is) but anyways about stretching felt m I can get you some more info on felt (hats) ...

Armoured Air Bear

Thank you all for your advice. Well I only got one kestrel done today. - the one shaped like the one found on the Mary Rose. all this week (after school) I'll be making many more of the "gourd" shaped ones. these ones will have tooling. I think I'm gonna sell a bunch of them, and make a fe...

Armoured Air Bear

Gregs shield is SWEET! I've had the oppertunity to hold it, and everything- and I mean everything looks and fells authentic. it feels very solid in the hand too. Okay about extant shields though. if you are looking for pavises? (-spelling?) cause if I'm not mistaken there is several at the met. Best...

Armoured Air Bear

Theres a GREAT book about Negroli armour that I own. it's got really good color pics, and lots of info on each peice. heres the link to the book: m about $70.00 but if you look hard you'll find it cheap. I got mine for around $30.00 Also check out the Mets website. (metropolitan museum of art in NYC...

Armoured Air Bear

Nice work! I too really like the Ailettes- nice tooling. how big are they?

Keep up the great work

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Thanks for all the help. As for the "required" cut half the thickness of the leather- I read it in a book once. it said to get really good clean details and good results carving. so thats how deep I usuall cut, but I'll have to do some expeirementing with the stretching part. gonna look up...

Armoured Air Bear

Wire brush on a drill/screwgun?

That's waht I'd do.

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Ya know you could definetley pull off something like the monks in the 1:33. for the helmet- prabobly the simple kettle. and mabey get some "stealth" gauntlets. definetley stick with the buckler. keep your armour under the robe. and you'd could pull off the 1:33 look. it would be really coo...

Armoured Air Bear

I love those hats. this summer I'm gonna felt one from wool (from our sheep

).

About felt (hats) it can be stretched and formed. so with a hat like that you can corm differnt shapes, differnt brims- there are a lot of possibilities that you can do with a hat like that.

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Cool I just made my first Kestrel today!!!!! In all I think it turned out pretty good-for a first try that is. it took only about 4 hours from pattern making to letting it dry. so right now it'd drying (probably for a day or two) but I think the shape came out well. when it's dry, I'm gonna put the ...

Armoured Air Bear

Looking good I have several comments for you. these are just constructive comments, on things that you may want to try next time. instead of trying to get the musculature right (the subtle shaping on the front-that you achieved very well) I would worry more about the overall shape. what I mean by th...

Armoured Air Bear

as for the leather- when you rivet the vambrace/rerbrace to the couter make sure that the edge that is riveted to the couter is very far in. in other words, the riveted edge shold cover up both of the lames or close to covering bot lames. this is at least what I've done in the past with good sucess....

Armoured Air Bear

Thanks Karen.

I saw a page on Gaston Phoebus with closeups of all of the different kestrels used. am I using the right terminology for these leather canteens- kestrel/costrel/coestrels?

Thanks,

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

thanks for the help.

Kestrel (costrel/coestrel)=leather canteen

http://clang.adkinssoftware.com/canteen ... %2001.html

http://www.geocities.com/ladysveva/Leat ... tions.html

Looked up manuscript illuminations- found a little bit, but will do more searching tommorow. thanks,

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Hi Jess. Thanks for the link. Thats sort of what I'm looking for, some floral designs but more detailed-not just stamps. but I must say thay do have some really nice brigs. BTW- if anyone has line drawings of any of these "patterns" I'd like to hear about them as well. I'm thinking to just...

Armoured Air Bear

is it a book? if so I think Murdock has it. I'll have to ask him to bring it to armouring.

Thanks,

Aaron

Armoured Air Bear

Cool

Dang those are really small

how are you gonna punch them?

keep up the good work,

Aaron

need help molding plaster

cuir bouilli help