The Armour Archive

woodwose

I found this in another post about skirts over armour... it gave me a warm fuzy feeling deep in my loins.... I've been drooling over that type of shield for quite some time. thinking of base of a couple layers of thick hardened leather for the gutter and birch plywood and leather for the flatter sid...

woodwose

there are also quite a few bases over armour and "waffenrock" worn over armour in Theuerdank... here's a link to a google search that looks like it has a few of the pictures from that book:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... ages&gbv=2

woodwose

my understanding of that sort of doublet is that it has a wide the front is an open V shape, and the layer visable on the chest behind it is the undershirt. in the last image there is a long lace going from shoulder to shoulder (really only from one side of the top of the V to the other) to hold it ...

woodwose

here is a couple of pics, not sure wher i got them, they are from wookcuts. Those are indeed from the Theuerdank of Maximillian ...quote] which one? they are not in the taschen facsimile of the 1517 edition (I know the images from it very very well...) and it does not have any several key elements ...

woodwose

there's my old one, with perf-plate in the eyes for play with rebated blades

woodwose

Dweezle, can you please post some more pics of your kit? Front & Side, what you are portraying, etc. Please and thank you! theres usually a text link on the main page of my site that goes directly to pages with pics of my kit, incase there isn't (that page tends to have direct links to sections...

woodwose

wow, a few months ago I searched for days for hunting horn images online and found nothing useful... this stuff is very usefull. thanks...

woodwose

[img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/leather/horn2baldric.JPG[/img] I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to finish this horn... the mouhtpiece is carved into the end, and it needs some kind of rim around the other end to prevent it from splitting/chipping if it gets dropped or banged arou...

woodwose

Um Irish actually Urs Graf was a Swiss ReislÃ¤ufer. Never the less he did depict Landsknecht in his woodcuts and drawings (often not in the best of light) Then who am I thinking of? Gonna have to go back find the name. maybe Paul Dolstien, he was the landsknecht that kept an illustrated journal... ...

woodwose

my first, the ol' pikepot-thing http://mailmaker.tripod.com/helms/smallpike.jpg and a more current picture of what I wear... http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/dwzfencing.jpg skull cap with a perfplate visor hinged (post & keyhole sort of thing) to the front and leather over the sides, steel gorget, pa...

woodwose

Dweezle you have one of the best Landsknecht outfit I have seen, you have the eye for historical detail, keep up the good work. I will be displaying my coif and hat tomorrow at our crown tournement and will post pictures next week. And incase you guys have not seen this yet take a look: m thanks, i...

woodwose

The interesting thing about the reconstruction of this hat is that it is all squares and rectangles with the exception of the head hole. The brim is a long rectangle with angled ends pleated into the head hole of the top; it is the only way to get that slashed look without 2 pieces which I don't se...

woodwose

Here's a couple pictures that I think demonstrate how I did it.... There's a hammer involved with this too, which is not shown, but it's what drives the side of the rod into the gutter-shaped-hammer-head-thing - which results in a nearly instantly shaped finger plate http://members.tripod.com/~mailm...

woodwose

I made some new hose this last summer!!! They are partly based on janet arnold's patterns for the leather foundation for pluderhose. http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/hose-side.JPG a couple more pictures on this page: (sorry these pages aren't really dial-up friendly) m ...and I've been re-editing so...

woodwose

I've made a few mailly things, but this has always been one of my favorites... [img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/drgnflya.jpg[/img] actually, I like this critter a lot more, but he doesn't photograph as well... [img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/dribblesa.jpg[/img] I never quite finished this s...

woodwose

Half Price Books here in Dallas(NW Highway) has several unopened copies of the Taschen Theuerdank for $50. -Robert I found a new copy on amazon for $50. very lovely book which came with a thinner book about the 1517 theurdank and other media from the day. currently working on a deck of playing card...

woodwose

the "make or buy" thread helped me think of this... a lot of people mentioned that they make things rather than buying them if they can not find something they are looking for; which is what I often do, but maybe I haven't been looking hard enough or asking the right people... so I thought this thre...

woodwose

I've read from a few places that Durer wrote (or at least illustrated) a manual for fighting with messers. Does anyone know any thing about this? I've looked through tons of books that have supposedly been "the complete works of Durer" sort of books, but have only ever seen what seems like a single ...

woodwose

"open-faced iron helm with a nasal"

that sounds pretty well defined - sounds like one of those norman-conical things with the bit that extends down over the nose... definately does not sound like anything more enclosed like a bascinet or great helm

woodwose

I should be there somewhere... camping with the crimson scorpion - a black banner with a red scorpion.

woodwose

I got a boat!! its not at all ideal for what I want to do, but at least its wood and open on the top, so it at least works better for this new interest than my sea kayaks would, and slightly more period looking shape than a canoe (reminds me of the one in Durer's "house by a pond"). I hope to start ...

woodwose

And I have never seen the Katzbalger hung from the side or back, always in the front more like a Sax. thats what I'd always thought too, but it tends to get in the way sometimes. the way their sword belts/sashes seem to fit (too me) makes them easy to shift so the sword hangs at the side, back, or ...

woodwose

I have one of these that I bought because I thought it a nice match to Dolstein's drawing:
http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=372

woodwose

For the last couple years I've been expirementing with my approximations of 16th century german/lansknecht clothing while camping and hiking... another random interest of mine is sea kayaking and camping (I don't have a car but live next to a river that can get me to the ocean in a day or so of padd...

woodwose

not sure how helpful this is, but here's some in-progress pics of one I made a few years ago. m The pattern is VERY simple... the top is just an oval shaped cylinder (make a circular cylinder then squish it into an oval) with the seam up the back, and the top edge flaired slightly.. then figure out ...

woodwose

Dweezle, Just for the record, the image that You have at the bottom of the page on Your website m that shows the illustration of the group of men is purportedly not a 16th century drawing. In the Ospey book "The Conquistadores", the author Terence wise writes that The series of illustrations that a...

woodwose

[img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/basea.jpg[/img]

[img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/rocb.jpg[/img]

16th century german/landsknecht.
...and more pictures of some of the same stuff:

http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/crossbow.html
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/bases.html
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/dressing/index.html

woodwose

That looks great Dweezle!! I wish my outfit was 1/10th as good as yours. My only question is why do you have the legs of your ubberhosen detach? Got any close-ups of your shoes? hey, thanks. sorry, no close-ups of the shoes right now, but they are just an old pair of birkenstock "londons". there ar...

woodwose

okay, I was bored and decided to scan and upload the pictures I mentioned in my last post. here's where they are: m I'd love to hear any critisism, comments, opinions, suggestions, answer questions, or whatever about my stuff; and hope these are interesting or usefull to someone. I hope to get bette...

woodwose

Dante della Luna, the hat was made by me. Its fairly simple to make and based as well as I could on a way I thought some hats I'd seen in woodcuts may have been made. The top is a large square (maybe about twice as large as the finished top) with the corners folded into the center (on the side where...

woodwose

better for me to say how much I've been carving than how long I've been carving... I guess I started carving things about ten years ago, but its not something I've done a lot of. I don't really count the bar of soap that was carved into a cat for a high school sculpture class. Aside from that - I st...

woodwose

thanks, thanks.. yep, I need to borrow my father's digital camera again sometime to get a picture of the printing block, though I'm not sure how how it would look in a photo, since it's very black from the ink that didn't wash off.. and one of tools too. the tools I used for carving it weren't reall...

woodwose

I did this a while ago and just recently got pictures of it (though still don't have one of the actual printing block), and thought someone here might be interested in seeing it. m It wasn't quite my first attempt at relief printing, but was my first try at carving a woodcut. much different than car...

woodwose

wow, congradulations.. wish I'd have been there for that half of court

woodwose

http://mailmaker.tripod.com/glass/blondie2.html

all of the copper work on this was scraps of copper pipe and electrical wire.

a hunting horn

Re: Landsknecht Hat - Picture heavy

is anyone making a....?

Durer's Messer Book?

16th century rowboat

woodcut (printmaking)