The Armour Archive

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Dimitrios. I understand what you mean when you suggest that breasts are feminine (thus it should not be a big deal to wear a breasted cuirass just as men might don a male-chested cuirass) But lets call a spade a spade and not dance around b.s..... this isnt a ""feminine"" issue....

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I've never heard of it, and google knows nothing of this term. I think it's likely an error, or possibly an invention.

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Way better than paint. It will scrape off eventually, though. So it would do to lay it on thick or have the equipment to douse it again.

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Ah, this is much different. Now we're discussing standards and norms, and what is and is not -and should and should not- be acceptable. In this I honestly tend to agree with you: in execution, a fair number of female musculata are... eh, let's call them "gauche". It seems more polite tan c...

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Bruhn Engbrecht wrote:I always thought my helmet had a scare/creepy look to it.

Creepy maybe, but no one can call a hapsburg face "scary" in good conscience.

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The main issue here is that Im not railing against breasts or fantastic metal work.....Im just so tired of the puerile mentality that to be a femme fatale fighter you must also be "sexy" with hot steel "tits." My God, havent we come far enough to get over that crap. [...] So the...

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Poor Ugo.

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Ooooo pretty. Must have! How you can afford to have it printed it for so little I haven't the foggiest, but I'll certainly take one off your hands for you.

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Every time someone marches through in one of these threads spraying omnidirectional piss and vinegar, I'm reminded of this comic. Armour -both now AND then- is a fashion statement as much as or more than it is protective. Men in armour should now (and did then) look appealing -which by definition in...

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Well that's one you don't hear very often. Essentially, you want to take your stainless and stain it up a bit -break it, in other words. Heat works great. Stick your stainless in the oven and heat it up until it changes colors. Sand the oxide off by hand. Rinse and repeat as needed. Not only will th...

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Goodness, of course they were painted. Unless you think that all those different colors in the Maciejowski Bible and the Manessa Codex were "just artistic contrivances..."

We've got examples of red, blue, green, black, and parti-color. Go wild with it.

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Not in the least. But you're welcome to say why you think so.

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[img]http://fc37.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/058/b/9/Metallic_Doodle_by_Destichado.jpg[/img] One, two: buckle my buckler! I dunno, was this a good use for a freon can bottom? Not done yet, of course. This was an afternoon's work, one shot straight through after someone mentioned how useless the botto...

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Perception, perception, perception. OH GOD those 15th century breastplates are so stupid! That wasp-waist? "...I have never comprehended how anyone would want to wear an armor which was redirecting impacts INTO one's center of mass." OH GOD scythian helmets were so stupid! Why would they p...

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Try penetrating oil first. My favorite is Kroil, from m these guys. The stuff literally works miracles. If nothing works, soak it in that over night and odds are the next day you'll be able to take it apart by hand. It's uncanny. And if that fails, you may have to get heat involved. There are two wa...

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Not all welding gauntlets are created equally. Deer, Elk or Pigskin TIG gauntlets make excelent gauntlet gloves -not surprisingly, since they're the next thing to the aforementioned drover's gloves.

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So in other words the bottom of the female section was missing/destroyed?

Use a bolt, screw or pipe extractor. There are many varieties of the tool, most will work for this application. A servicable set can be had for less than $10.

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From your lips to God's ears.

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Again, very nice stuff. Actually, I meant historically, when were helms adorned in this manner? Some cursory Googling has indicated it was used as a part of heraldry, but this is a piece of armor accoutrement I am completely unfamiliar with. Well, it sort of depends on what you're thinking of. The ...

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What level of finish do you need? Do you have the equipment or inclination to take them from rough to finished? That says a LOT about the choices you make. Oxyfuel cutting is by far and away your quickest option. Use a circle-cutting jig, or scribe a circle and use a centerpunch to mark out 1/4"...

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You mentioned your theory about this a few years back. It was dismissed at the time, but I thought it sounded pretty good. Very efficient way of going about the helmet, and I'm glad to see you followed through with it.

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That's *way* too much steel for this application. Cut out a few blades for block planes or spokeshaves, scrapers, et cetera. This is a tool steel, use it for tools. =)

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Yes, that's a field stool -of a somewhat uncommon but certainly not unknown design that pops up every few years, even now. They're primarily meant to be used when the ground is so broken that a traditional four-point folding chair would be unusable. I don't think I'd bother with one, personally, but...

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Honest question here, and I'm not trying to be snide and maybe the artistic half of my brain is in a caffieen deprived coma... but what is it supposed to be a repose of? I was asking myself the same thing. I'm seeing birds on a tree? My reccomendation is chasing (working from the outside) some more...

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This is nicely made, but it needs some context. It's meant to hold tapered stakes, obviously, yes, but how is it meant to be mounted and used? Bolted to the workbench? To a stump? Clamped in a vice? Your job stops at welding and drilling the shiny metal piece (again, very nice), but how do you envis...

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Believe it or not, I think I can top (or at least see and raise!) your "warhammer!" I took a cue from Warhammer fantasy and made a iron-banded 35# sledge out of a granite paving stone. Now, what I'm going to do with it, I have NO idea. So far it's exploded a watermelon or two, and made a l...

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I made my first helmet almost ten years ago. While it worked, and was certainly "inventive" in its construction (*cringe*), and was rather well executed for a beginner, I knew even then that it was a scabomination. My skills were not up to achieving my expectations, so -mostly because of t...

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Eamonn MacCampbell wrote:I personally like the pig helms from Excalibur from back in 78-79...They were fantastic...Wonder who did them..

It was Terry English.

http://www.terryenglisharmourer.co.uk/

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This thing gives off some old-school sci-fi vibes.

The horns are pretty impressive from the side and rear! Bu not so much from the front, for some reason. 0_o

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Oh, for the love of...

Expletive, expletive, expletive!

That is ridiculously awesome. I hate you.

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Regarding meats: Please make sure that the products you pick up are sold as shelf stable . We, for instance, make several "wisconsin" summer sausages and none of them are shelf stable, and many salted "country" hams must be refrigerated, too. We all have refrigerators, there's si...

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This is what I have done so far. I used 83.2m craft wire. I'm thinking of using a dremmel to carve my motto around the edge of the pommel but uncertain as to how it would turn out. It turns out very well, just have the right tools. I used generic diamond dremel bits from harbor freight and the flex...

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All it needs to have to be a helve-hammer is a helve -the hammer arm.

Doesn't matter if it's whippy or fast or treadle-driven or if it's got a hundred pound hammer head on a twelve foot arm, it's still a helve hammer.

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Arming doublets may have reinforcing over the elbows and shoulders, but nothing you would call padding. Don't try wearing one under maille.

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You can really see the genesis of the morion there, can't you?

You have a fine helmet there.

I'm really not seeing the "shallow" here. I know what you mean, but in modern parlance, "that's not a bug, that's a feature."

Good use for freon can bottom?

tweaking the helmet size