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Aussie Yeoman

Intense. Thanks!

Aussie Yeoman

I must have missed something, probably due to not being a jouster and not being in the US. What is US style jousting?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Anyone have a link to a bigger version?

Aussie Yeoman

Mac, as always, absolutely brilliant. Do the faces of the clamp not scar the surface of the leaves at all? I imagine that hinge was either from the experiments&misc box, unless you were going for the 'dug it out of the Thames' look. I'll try this out. It will be made even easier by the fact my machi...

Aussie Yeoman

If you go and buy a $5 pair of jeans from the op shop, you can use the legs and some zip ties together with some sand to make shot bags. I got a dishing stump by raiding a site where some tree surgeons had been but had not thrown all the logs in the chipper. Probably would have given them to me anyw...

Aussie Yeoman

Now that's a fine idea - filing them apart to make them match better!

Aussie Yeoman

I once got a quote for making a set of dies that would punch out a hinge blank that would have ended up looking like the first hinge pic that Mac posted. I was shocked to hear it would cost 370GBP to have it made. For that price, I could have had hundreds of blanks lasercut, sold the excess, and mad...

Aussie Yeoman

Mac, it is always a joy to see pictures of your work, even if it be from the 'Reject & Misc' pile. Always good to see the hardware of the masters too. Do you use those cutting chisels to make the engraved lines in your hinges too? How do you cut the ouline of the tabs of your hinges? Bandsaw then gr...

Aussie Yeoman

Hi Mac, Thanks for the help. With regards to the pins, I used the same rod to bend the stock around to make the knuckles as I did to make the pins from (does that make any sense?). I thought this would be a Good Thing as it meant the pin and knuckle would fit snug. How much narrower should the pin b...

Aussie Yeoman

I fugured as much. I think I shall just make some and be done with it.

Thanks for the help though guys.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Hi Mac, Yep, I coulda guessed what you'd say, and I will likely end up making them to save mulah. When you say tapered knuckles, do you mean tapered from the body of the hinge to the extremity of the knuckle? I've spent time looking at many extant and depicted hinges, and they all appear to have 90 ...

Aussie Yeoman

Ultimately I think I would need 12 '3 pointers' and 12 '2 pointers', of a size suitable for vambraces. Depending on the cost though, I may just make them instead.

Material could be brass or mild steel, 18g.

Aussie Yeoman

As much as I have looked, I can't find hinges on the website. Do you have a link to a page with the hinges?

D

Aussie Yeoman

Looks to be a good start. I like the elbows. From what I can tell of looking at originals, it seems to be that the upper definitely is as close to gutter shape as makes no difference. Not sure about the lower though. Also, as far as I'm aware, there is no keyhole for the hand protection. They are fi...

Aussie Yeoman

I know I can make hinges. I have done it and will do it again. It is not terribly difficult, but at this early stage of my hinge making learning curve, it takes a while per hinge. Longer than I'd like, anyway. Where can I buy hinges for armour, such as lower canons for arms etc? Looking for two, thr...

Aussie Yeoman

Having gone to the effort of making articulated gauntlets from damascus steel, I think the community would greatly appreciate many more photos. Closeups, when worn, from far away, etcetera etcetera.

Just out of interest, how many hours did this project take all up? How did it break down?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

I know I can make hinges. I have done it and will do it again. It is not terribly difficult, but at this early stage of my hinge making learning curve, it takes a while per hinge. Longer than I'd like, anyway. Where can I buy hinges for armour, such as lower canons for arms etc? Looking for two, thr...

Aussie Yeoman

Seconded, Mac! Sometimes it is not possible to look the part and be safe at the same time. Take bargrills for example. But it is possible to look the part, and then be safe in short order. Oh and Mac, thanks for that other advice. I must have skimmed over the earlier part where you mention using gre...

Aussie Yeoman

For an historically correct (or at least, correcter) scabbard, how much wider than the blade shoudl the slats be? What I'm asking is, how much wood/wood contact does there need to be for a good glue line? Or am I over engineering it, and one applies the leather cover to hold the slats in place? If s...

Aussie Yeoman

I made this pattern for some late 14thC elbows. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=118742 With some modification, it could easily be made to look like a 15thC arm, though I'm not quite sure which type you're referring to. Could you post a reference picture? To make this cop d...

Aussie Yeoman

You see the thing is, we want to be seeing pictures of all this.

Aussie Yeoman

All this talk of refacing, case hardening and whatnot of anvils is very interesting. I investigated, and found that these anvils have a face hardness of about 45 rockwell.

Not too bad unless cold smithing hardened steel. Which I won't.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Seconded. Video of some of the seminars would be excellent for those on a different continent/hemisphere.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Dropping on road runners mostly.

Also, armoursmithing, blacksmithing, arrowsmithing, and miscsmithing.

Aussie Yeoman

Why is wrought iron a Good Thing?

Aussie Yeoman

Hi all, I hope to be getting an anvil such as the one pictured. It will be my first. It is 50kg (110lb), cast steel. Either that or a 75kg version of the same. I was advised by someone that it would be wise to grind one edge of the face, in two parts so it has two different radii. As it is, the edge...

Aussie Yeoman

Are these based on a particular example, or is it more a case of being inspired by features from many?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Olivier, your pauldrons look very handsome. Would you care to share a sketch of the pattern of these beasts? I agree the pattern in that old publication is a little off. There are a number of problems with it, and indicate the author made the sketches based the pattern on looking at an extant piece,...

Aussie Yeoman

What sort of pattern have you made the damascus into?

Pass the popcorn Hal. Want to borrow my 3d glasses?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

I don't think these are for the purposes of heraldry, bu there are a number of tabbardy things worn in this edition of the Gladiatoria fechtbuch:

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Gladiatoria_%28MS_KK5013%29

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/File:KK5013_11r.jpg

et al

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Not only that, his dissertation does an excellent, nay, superb job of documenting and describing not only the development of English armour, but German, Italian, Western European and Italian and German export armour. Amazing. This harness is one of the most exquisite armours to be made in our time, ...

Aussie Yeoman

Here in Australia I think it is about $35 for 11kg.

Aussie Yeoman

I agree with things already said and have another point. When the knee is straight, the centre point of the lame should only just stick out from the centre point of the knee cop. If you do this, the lames are almost invisible when the knee is straight, and appear from nowhere when the knee bends. Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Marco, how much armour have you made previously? It seems that you have been able to make this armour by looking at pictures only, which is a fantastic effort! It looks beautiful.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Bender,

what is it and where's it from?

D

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