The Armour Archive

Aussie Yeoman

I think the idea here is that the paste does the etching.

I might be misunderstanding though.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

for a bit of thread necromancy......Mac, did you ever find your notes?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

What in the world does A&S stand for?

D

Aussie Yeoman

I had promised myself that on this harness, I would not do inner canons to make the lower part of the vambrace enclose. However, yesterday I found myself working on some and all too many hours later, they are at the stage they are now. I found the gentle curves of the inner plate fairly easy, which ...

Aussie Yeoman

That's kinda good, but not quite the outcome I was hoping for.

I was thinking more along the lines of outside, everyday shoes, that anyone would just wear around the traps.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Hi all, I was thinking about shoes recently, and I wondered, just maybe, if there is any evidence for making the upper part of shoes out of cloth, like heavy canvas or some other stout fabric instead of universally being leather. I'm talking 15thC Europe here. If there's not, as in, there's evidence...

Aussie Yeoman

Thanks Ckanite. I wanted to have them a bit more flutey in the body of the elbows, but my stake won't reach in there. Hi Wade, I ammended my post accordingly. Credit paid where credit's due. Thanks for the tip re-cutting the slots. How much slot per lame? I was guessing something like 1/4" or s...

Aussie Yeoman

A very little progress: upper canons of the arm harness. Fluted. My converging flutes seem to be improving a little, and the apexes of the chevrons almost line up properly. http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/P8310102.jpg http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/P8...

Aussie Yeoman

Hi all. A quick question or two about later German arm harnesses which look like this: m but instead of having each component individually pointed to the arming garment....the bits are riveted to a strap, so essentially the whole kit and kaboodle hangs from the spaudler. I can understand how in flex...

Aussie Yeoman

Can people who have them, post some pictures or links to good, 'general' raising hammers? What qualities makes a good one?

I trolled thrpugh the hammer source, and couldn't find a 'raising' hammer. What else are they called? Is this one-

http://www.hammersource.com/Metalworkin ... mm_x_10mm/ ?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

I got to work on it some more yesterday. My original intention was to do some really nice full Gothic arms and pauldrons. I still will, however for the sake of expediancy and learning opportunity I decided to go with a Gothic splinted arm defence with spaudlers and besagews. I took a pattern of Wade...

Aussie Yeoman

Matt, excellent work.

Would you be willing, at all, to share a bit about how you made the figure 8 buckles on front and back of the cuirass?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

More work today. I got the other elbow to the same stage as the first, and it took nearly half an hour less. Then after looking at many effigies and toying with the idea of different ways to flute them, I went with the minimalistic approach. Mostly as I want this haness wearable as soon as possible....

Aussie Yeoman

Just for funzies, what make ye of the gauntlets in this image:

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre ... imageseule

where the gauntlets on left and right have a curved row of rivets on the cuff, parhaps to hold a glove in place. Might we conject that the cuff is enclosed?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

I guess the follow on question is, what is a good realitve height for a working surface? Elbow height? A little below?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Hi all,

If I were to get a post vice, to hold stakes, and sometimes hold projects directly, how high should it be? Will I have to know the height of the stakes first to firgure out the final hammering height?

D

Aussie Yeoman

Though helpful, that's an answer I wasn't looking forward to hearing, what without having a heat source and all. I know, I have to suck it up and get one sometime soon. Can't do without it really.

I wasn't expecting to hear from you Mac...I thought this was your mega-busy season!

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

A little progress. I initially planned to fold the wing into the V shape then stretch the edges, forcing the wing into the curved shape. http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/P7230163.jpg For whatever reson, I decided to do it differently. I reflattened the wing and bent it into th...

Aussie Yeoman

Hinges can be a bit dreary to see a lot of, I think. Tonight, I did some work refining my pattern for an enclosed Gothic rerebrace, after the fashion of that seen on the A21 harness in the Wallace collection. I had templated a pattern, but had received Sound Advice to cut a template out of steel, a ...

Aussie Yeoman

Sean, When using the angle grinder, I would cut from barrel to back, and leave a mm or two uncut, then snap the last bit off. Well did I recognise that these little hinges could cause massive damage if caused to fling about the workshop at Mach 3. Thomas, While I agree that it does give the hinges a...

Aussie Yeoman

I did try a crude jig. See below. I found though it was difficult to use accruately, being right handed, cutting on the left side of the jig.... I did think of a better way to do it (see below again), however today I just eyeballed it and went nuts with the angle grinder with cutoff wheel. It would ...

Aussie Yeoman

I made some hinges today. Some will be for the lower canon, some for the greave. I think I will make a slightly different style for the cuisses: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/hinges/P7090116.jpg http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/hinges/P7090115.jpg I d...

Aussie Yeoman

On my first arm harness, I used piano hinge. While it worked to an extent, it was a long way from looking good, and was not at all historical. I thought it was time I bit the bullet and tried to make some hinges for my Gothic harness. I wanted something that was a little different to what most peopl...

Aussie Yeoman

This is getting a little off topic, but: why does the inside edge of that pauldron have a lining of leather? To prevent scratching of the breast/back? To reduce noise?

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

So there's been a little talk of spring steel lately. So far I've made all my armour from mild steel, hot and cold rolled. But eventualy I'd like to use spring. So, the question is, what sort of spring steel should I get? I see 1050 bandied around a bit, and earlier this evening I saw 4120 or someth...

Aussie Yeoman

Hi Mac, Find below a sketch: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/dg2clarke/armour/tent.jpg It's done by computer, but a sketch nonetheless What I had assumed from my cumulative knowledge (about 20 minutes) at the time was that the walls of pavillions were either sewn to the canopy or were tied on...

Aussie Yeoman

Mac, those are some sincerely handsome models! How did the round-section tent hold up against the model hurricane? I'm not up with tenting nomenclature, but in this pic: m ...the lines from the top of the wall to the top of the post - could they be guys which hold the walls on which would otherwise ...

Aussie Yeoman

Sounds great - any more pics or video?

Aussie Yeoman

my guess would be that there's another kind of rerebrace that is integral with the spaudlers to protect the upper arm.

Aussie Yeoman

In this picture is something I've not seen (read: noticed) before: m At the distal end of the inner lower canon are distinct lines in the surface ans subtle, but abrupt changed in the angle of the outline. There are also a couple of arming nails near those lines. It seems to be...that...there are so...

Aussie Yeoman

That strapping configuration can also be seen on some German greaves into the 15thC as well.

D

Aussie Yeoman

This is a quick market research question. How many people would be interested in buying hinge blanks? Lemme explainify. To make my own armour construction a bit easier, I have been considering having a device made that will make blank hinge halves in one swift motion. When I say 'blank', what I mean...

Aussie Yeoman

This is a quick market research question. How many people would be interested in buying hinge blanks? Lemme explainify. To make my own armour construction a bit easier, I have been considering having a device made that will make blank hinge halves in one swift motion. When I say 'blank', what I mean...

Aussie Yeoman

Whoa!

www.bellsprings.com.au sells sheets of spring steel. Be warned though it isn't cheap.

I'll aska contact or two if there are any other sources.

Dave

Aussie Yeoman

Where abouts in Australia are you?

D

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