The Armour Archive

Steve S.

"Sure tell him "I'll take one of each...and I hate you.""

Bwhahahaha! That was too funny!

Steve

Steve S.

If you're going to go with butted maille, I'd go with the stainless. Really your material choice will be a less noticeable anachronism than the butted rings themselves. On the other hand, if you're going to go with mild steel, go with riveted! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif We will be of...

Steve S.

I would like to tin a copper pot I have. Can anyone tell me how to do it?

Where can one get tin?

Steve

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Forth Armoury
The Riveted Maille Website!

Steve S.

(warning: I've never worked with boiled leather) From what I've gathered listening to other folks work with this medium, it doesn't matter how you bring the leather up to temperature, as long as you do. Evidently the leather itself (not what goes into it) changes and becomes harder. So you can use h...

Steve S.

Steve S.

No spurs, I'm afraid. The knight bits and pieces came from Sir Kytte Meleoria Stephenson, or however ya spell it.

Steve

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Forth Armoury
The Riveted Maille Website!

Steve S.

I'm going to build a gas forge at some point. Does anyone have URLs to those?

Steve

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The Riveted Maille Website!

Steve S.

I made this for a friend who works at a doctor's office. They got this lamb from a drug company. The slogan is "Gentle as a Lamb Tough as a Lion" or something like that. They were supposed to dress up the lamb and send it back. The winning lamb gets a trip for 2 to anywhere or something. Anyway, I m...

Steve S.

"I had that same idea, brought it out to the local practice & everyone screamed 'no no no'. Apparently, the fear being that *actual* metal tape would sliver off on a helm or bargrill, & enter the eyeslot. This seemed entirely bogus to me; but I have to fight somebody, so majority ruled." Yeah, I go...

Steve S.

"The downside, well you try milking a billion spiders to make a vest and let me know how it turns out." Within the last year or so I remember reading about a genetically altered goat who produced spider silk instead of milk... I think we're screwing with Ma Nature here but the possibilities of mass...

Steve S.

"Maille and a gambeson in period were not exactly light either." I'd like to point out that my shirts, made of 18GA riveted rings with 3/8" ID, weigh a mere 18 pounds. Maille gets a bad rap because people are used to the butted stuff which weighs a lot more. [img]http://www.forth-armoury.com/temp/m...

Steve S.

"Anyone know where to get linen tow online?"

http://www.twinrocker.com/sfiber.htm

Steve

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Steve S.

"suspension-style liner for a few weeks, but I disliked the feel of it. Now I have straight coif-style liners that look (and feel) really amazing." I'm having trouble visualizing the difference. I thought the basinets had a coif-shaped quilted "thing" stuck up in the helm, and it was stitched into ...

Steve S.

Likewise, I would not advocate a "newbie" or a "I'm poor" clause. Yes, I understand that the SCA is today an extremely inclusive society. However, it should be understood that if you raise the bar so far as quality goes, you will, by definition, be raising the cost (either money or effort) to play t...

Steve S.

I think Vitus has done his helm that way, but I'm not sure. After reading the chapter on it in Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction by Brian Price, it looks pretty easy to me. I'm gonna rip the foam out of my basinet and go with a period quilted liner! Steve ------------------ Forth Arm...

Steve S.

"What's the difference between mild steel wire and annealed wire?" "Mild" indicates the carbon content. "Mild" simply means "low carbon". Low carbon (or mild) steels do not appreciably harden from quenching (rapid cooling after being heated to a high temperature). Mild steels can still work-harden ...

Steve S.

Oh I think any mid-late 14th century leg harness would look just fine and be quite appropriate with the Churburg, don't you think?

Steve

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Steve S.

This is what is known as an A.S.O. - Anvil Shaped Object. (I stole this from someone else, forgot who sorry). I have one of them myself for doing riveted maille work. It's fine for that (flattening rings, wire) but even with mine the face is crumbling. It's not a real anvil. Steve ------------------...

Steve S.

Man those look so cool I want to do them. You know, Sasuke, I think good gauntlets, especially finger gauntlets, are like the riveted maille of plate armour. It's few and far between the craftsmen that make them at all, let alone the ones that make them into works of art. Great work! Steve ---------...

Steve S.

"Unless they are making something like Mithril Drake's new helm they are making a derivative of someone else's work. The maker may be dead 500 years or more, but..." I knew as I typed it that someone would make that comparison. Obviously all medieval designs are derivative works. This is not why so...

Steve S.

I agree with the above. Besides, if it's really such a sweet helm do you want to bastardize it by cobbling something into it to make it safe? My advise would be to ask the armourer making it if they can do it in a thicker metal. If it's a commercial piece (ala Museum Replicas) then you might conside...

Steve S.

What does:

Material JÃ¤rn

mean?

Iron?

Steve

Steve S.

"I recall sharper image had a kind of sleeveless vest in it once that was (I think) supposed to be a bullet proof vest. it was thin, and the model looked like he was wearing a thick t-shirt. Was this B.S.? could wearing one of these under your regular flack vest save a soldiers' life? Are these thi...

Steve S.

"I went the other route for our Y1K Irish group and forged out a sheet iron pot. The first one was 1 gallon, now I have to do the "large ones"... I want to try a rivited one as well" Thomas - can you point me in the direction of documentation for such creatures? "Steven, mixing<>cooking. I've...

Steve S.

"All in all, it seems to be a completely different game with completely different rules. If SCA took up live steel like this it would have to be a completely different combat form with different authorizations and no mixing. Like fencing and heavy combat." I wouldn't mind that - another subset of c...

Steve S.

I dunno. I'd think it was a fluke - I mean they're nice an all but geez - $330? I guess the bottom line is you should sell them for as much as people are willing to pay. If you can consistantly get $300 for them - go for it! The problem (or benefit) with Ebay is 2-fold. 1) Often people who are biddi...

Steve S.

No prob - it's just my canned response to this thread:

"Just let me know when/where to send the money."

Steve

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Steve S.

Screws, nuts, and bolts are useful when making a plate object as it allows you to temporarily join plates together for test fits.

I would not use them for making armour, though. Use rivets - they are more correct.

Steve

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Steve S.

Great prototype work! As you've already noted, it seems you did not dish the ridge band enough to match the helm bowl pieces. However, another remedy to coax it along during assembly would be to place the rivets for the ridge band closer to the edges of the band; this will crank down those edges as ...

Steve S.

"The only advantage of the power shear is that it is handheld and you can cut "on" the big piece of sheet metal instead of having to hold it up to a beverly." While I haven't used this kind of shear before, when I worked in a plater's shop we used an electric nibbler to cut out the pieces roughly f...

Steve S.

I'm reminded of The Wizard of Oz scene where the wicked witch says, "Hey, Scarecrow...want some fire?"

Steve

Steve S.

I've been looking for a solution for cookware for the Templar living history group I play with. Cast iron is pretty much out for pots and such at 1189 - as I understand it it's pretty much a 15th century and later thing. I considered (and actually bought) several copper/brass cauldrons off of ebay, ...

Steve S.

"Can you tell me what the primary target is for a spearman in Meridies?" Legal targets are legal targets, regardless of weapon style. Anywhere you can be hit with a sword, you can be hit with a spear. "Can you tell me what the calibration rule is for face and head thrusts where you are?" Again, as ...

Steve S.

I was plinking with my SAR1 this weekend (an AK-47 variant) in, of course, 7.62x39. I took a shot at one of those "spinner" targets - you know, 3 disks of steel hanging from a rod - designed to be shot at by .22 caliber. The disks are somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4" thick. The 7.62 blew a hole right ...

Steve S.

"The Q-tip design of the spear is more like hitting somebody with a boxing glove than a rattan weapon, which is why excessive headshots are so dangerous, shots are shrugged, and shots go plain unnoticed." My point exactly. I am not convinced that a raquettball on the end of a fiberglass shaft hits ...

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