The Armour Archive

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Cold Steel makes awesome: Folding knives, Fixed Blade knives, Tomahawks, specialty/novelty weapons
makes crappy: boar spears, axes
makes decent but grossly overpriced: historic-ish swords, designer knives

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Ghostpig, you'd better watch it, or you'll turn into THE go-to guy for burgonets.

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No, they're legit.

I can think of half a dozen examples just from early 15th century artwork.

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My God you can be a pissant. The raw, arrogant PRESUMPTION of that post is revolting. Who the hell died and made you the arbitor of anything? Have you been taking lessons from Piers? You were a good kid, once. Now, I'm thrilled to death that I don't know you. It's too bad the local museum didn't get...

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Hey Azmal! Good to see you updating again.

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So why not brass plate?

You can even do that at home.

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Is there such a thing? Or even a printed text of the original German. I'm interested in all the poetry and the love songs we tend to overlook when we look at the Codex. I'm afraid, though, that I don't think I'm cut out for wading through the script, only to transcribe it and muddle through a transl...

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Don't wooden goblets have a specific name, though?

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Holy smokes, yes. Like that. It really helps if you use the right search terms for the things you're looking for, doesn't it? "Double cups, or Doppelpokale , were two identical cups with one turned upside down and placed on top of the other for display. A traditional form from south Germany, th...

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not much.

Eh, I shouldn't say that. It's reasonably attractive, I suppose. And compared to what fantasy armor *used to be,* we have made such amazing progress. We really have. So hooray for us.

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15th c. Goblet, based off of a painting of the last supper. Holds 12 oz. Not yet finished grinding & polishing. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/Destichado/th_goblet.jpg pic is a link. I had already started on the project when it occurred to me that the particular goblet I was referencing ...

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I'm looking for depictions or examples of mated goblets: a pair of goblets or drinking bowls made such that one acts as the lid of its mate.

http://www.nuernberger-hausbuecher.de/75-Amb-2-279-30-v

This is all I got.

I'd really like some more. Help?

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Just a good iron hasp and a barrel padlock.

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If you do not want the look of a welded seam on the upper cylinder, I would suggest raising the top of the cylinder over a form (piece of pipe?). Essentially, you're turning a lip onto a circle. Then weld a skirt onto the lip. In my experience it's *much* easier to make the weld disappear, that way.

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Not around here.

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So THAT'S how they did it!

Aaargh. It never occurred to me that it could/would be layered like that.

I learn every time I see your work.

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It's great, you're just not finished trimming your pieces yet.

Here's just a suggestion.

Or you could do what I did, and turn them into fleurs de lys.

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Holee crap. That slice across the metacarpals is brilliant. That probably saves a good two hours of raising per set.

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The competition's getting stiffer out there.

Awesome work.

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I'm going on a little tangent, here... I'm sorry, but I can't see why we idolize these guys so much. I agree. They live in a very small nation where they have access to heritage beyond the reckoning of the United States. Museums and Medieval fortresses, towns and other remnants of the past constantl...

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Indeed.

Also of note, there are extant bastard swords with waisted blades -the blades have recessed, thickened and unsharpened sections right before the center of percussion, most obviously meant for halfswording purposes. So Fiore's contraption is definitely within the realm of plausibility.

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*Excellent* study of the SCA's martial culture.

That culture -incidentally- is as tied to historical armor as the 16th c. roman revival was tied to roman material culture. Perhaps less. Facing that honestly, this photobook *does* represent the best of the SCA.

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Is that what they're calling it now? Huh.

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Ceawlin wrote:I recall the guy I worked with said they should be water quenched, but that they didn't do that there.

Um. Work with another guy, next time.

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Don't confuse the crappy riveted mail that is being sold today with what was actually worn historically in battle. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/smilies/tk2a-eyebrow.gif Huh? And I shouldn't do that because the riveted maille we have today is... better? Because it is. Much better. T...

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So we have no archeological evidence of scale armour in the north-west europe? Well this doesn't surprise me, because it's quite evident that scale armour to be as effective as maille require more metal an lot of tiny scales. But even this way it has much more weak points than maille. If we then co...

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For heaven's sake, why? http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/smilies/tk2a-eyebrow.gif If you're heating them to red anyway, just reform them hot! Ceawlin, even a coathanger wire superstructure can be enough to prevent warping. What you need is some additional strength in the piece's weakest...

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The germans called it a stormhood. We call it a burgonet. I have a suspicion, though, from the term and from the pictures listed by the name, that what makes a helmet a sturmhaube is different that what makes a helmet a burgonet. My suspicion -based on nothing but the etymology and GIS pics- is that...

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I've got your artistic representation right here.

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That would be more funny if it didn't sting so much.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/markrabo/2892090209/

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Oh, bite your tongue! Don't you know those images are merely artistic simplifications of maille? It comes up EVERY time. 8th century? It's a representation of maille. 13th century? It's a representation of a coat of plates. 15th century? It's either a representation of who the hell knows what, OR it...

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Dan Howard wrote:I'm not sure that anyone here thinks that scale was never worn in western Europe. The contention is that mail was far far more common.

You haven't been paying attention.

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It seems to me that if you can fill it with pumpkins, it would hold a helmet and some water, and if you can assemble it in 15 minutes with a wrench, hammer and pliers, you can probably disassemble it into easy to manage pieces Well, a a hammer usually implies nails or pegs, which aren't designed to...

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On the order of Pratchet, apparently.

Now that you've provided the context, that's very funny.

Codex Manesse translation?

Mated goblets