The Armour Archive

Steve S.

I have one of the chain saw things still in the wrapper - I never used it.

Steve

Steve S.

I am partial to Tentsmiths. I have two of them and they have been fine tents.

I recommend round bar stock for tent stakes - the corners on square stock is hard on canvas stake loops.

Steve

Steve S.

I disagree with them NOT being for beginners. How many of us were motivated to go further because of Osprey books. I largely consider them to be the Wikipedia of books for history nerds. If you want more theres always more out there, but if you simply want a basic knowledge they are perfect for tha...

Steve S.

I like the Osprey books. I like them because they allow you to instantly get a good perception of what things look like based on modern "realistic" illustrations. As with any illustrations, you have to take them with a grain of salt because they are, after all, illustrations and not photographs. But...

Steve S.

I have often wondered the same thing.

Steve

Steve S.

Also my advice is to seek out armourers who do not require deposits.

Steve

Steve S.

Lots of good advice already. Pick your time period first, then you can shop for armour. The style of helm often called a "great helm", which most people use as a generic term to cover any vaguely barrel-shaped helm, covers a large period of time of at least the 13th and 14th centuries. You will prob...

Steve S.

Medieval Transformers!

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Steve S.

The top looks excellent. The side and wrapper plates are wonky. Notice in the back view of the helm that the top edge of the back plate does not follow the line of rivets on the band of the dome, and in fact ends up overlapping the rivets.

Steve

Steve S.

Cool!

Steve S.

Really nice helmets at a quarter of the costs? Forgive me for being skeptical.

I don't know anything about this particular guy, but I was having 14GA stainless helms I used to sell made to my specifications for about $100 a piece, in bulk.

Steve

Steve S.

If you are already using plastic, use whatever is easiest for you. No need to use real rivets. Chicago screws will work, you might want to put locktite on them. Pop rivets might work too.

Steve

Steve S.

Fantastic work!

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Steve S.

That's a fantastic score, and hardly even "rusty" to worry about. Spray it down with oil and it will be good to go.

Steve

Steve S.

I've got gamboised cuisses now, and I also now have a giant double bruise on my left leg. :) Course, I didn't wear my maille shirt at the last fighter practice, either, which didn't help. But I'm thinking of making some kind of splinted cuisses to match my splinted greaves. My harness is post-1350 G...

Steve S.

I have head back from the Scottish National Musuems (posted with permission): My email: ------------------ Hello, I am a student of arms and armour. I am interested in an object photographed in A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries by Laking (1920). (Cover of: A record of Euro...

Steve S.

It has been reviewed and is not nearly as good as claimed. Basically if you can tolerate a milky white residue on the object it might work OK for you. Google on it.

Steve

Steve S.

Thanks for the pictures.

I am wondering if this kind of knee defense is what is being (mis) understood as "soupcan" knee armour in its fully-extended state?

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I'm thinking of trying my hand at some of these also.

Steve

Steve S.

Thanks for the links everyone. I see what you mean, Ernst. I have been wondering how to make such a thing. If I made a skirt of scales, I could attach it to the hauberk, but this would make the hauberk more difficult to put on and take off. I could attach it to the coat of plates as "external plates...

Steve S.

Basically, I've decided to do this as additional exercise and as a gauge of my level of physical fitness. I don't think I'm ever going to be any good at this but my goal is to be able to fight indefinitely without having to stop every 5 bouts to suck air. I'm going to get light enough so that the we...

Steve S.

I have thought it would be cool to make a fauld of scales to be attached over the lower portion of my shirt of maille.

Is there any historical evidence for such?

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Steve S.

Edward, how do those knee cops behave when you kneel?

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Steve S.

Well virtue or cowhide, I've got to find something quick! :) I was using my small heater shield that I made a while back to try and get away from my huge heater that I thought was fatiguing me. Sir Robert (of Auk) told me at practice it was too small and I either needed a bigger shield or a much mor...

Steve S.

I don't even remember the last time I was in armour. Had fun. The 5 weeks into the gym has made me have much more stamina, as has the 25 pounds lost. Downside? Less padding for those leg shots! http://i.imgur.com/tsgmirH.jpg :) I need to make some rigid cuisses. Probably go with splinted. Steve

Steve S.

These are not strictly the soupcan style, but Reginald de Cobham has knees with flanges that appear to be very distinctly part of the Poleyn. It's difficult to say from the picture, but there are clearly a line of rivets around the main body of the knee cop - why can't this be a steel cop riveted t...

Steve S.

I would like to see a picture of them held up to your knee with leg extended.

Steve

Steve S.

I wonder if these are not "lames" so much as cushions for the hard edges of the cop to prevent those edges from digging into the shin and thigh? A simple cop could be attached to a leather foundation, for example, with the top and bottom edges of the foundation extending above and below the cop. In ...

Steve S.

Yup, hoop and stave, but I agree, imagine the heat required to bring it up to welding temperature! I wonder if they were able to work it in sections or if the entire thing had to be up to welding temperature? Can you imagine getting close enough to it to work it?

Steve

Steve S.

The real question is if they even exist..... I think this deserves some conversation. I have often wondered, through use and imagery, why knee cops would have such pointed flanges sticking out of them? The knee generally doesn't hyper-extend, so there is little reason for the flange/point to point ...

Steve S.

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Steve S.

Those nancy "rapier" guys in their silly "Three Musketeers" armor! :roll: You're welcome to come out here and try it, Steve, or I can point you towards several folks in An Tir who'd be happy to show you otherwise. I wear pretty much minimum armor whatever form I fight, and I've yet to have anyone (...

Steve S.

Steel for steel my lads, steel for steel.

Steel as opposed to what? Plastic? Playdough?

Or are we talking carbon steel vs. mild steel?

Steve

Steve S.

I did it a couple of times at SCA events. My regular SCA combat kit is 14th century, and I wear a shirt of maille over my arming coat and under my coat of plates, so I am virtually ready to go except I need a perf-metal visor for my basinet. I found it easy to over-power a shot - many of the "rapier...

Steve S.

Also, I think there is someone here on the archive that does CNC plasma cutting. You could get 2D elements that way.

Steve

Steve S.

I am not certain, but it looks like you are flattening prior to overlapping. If you are interested, this is ahistorical. Maille was generally overlapped and then flattened.

Steve

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