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Erik Schmidt

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by flonzy: Erik You nailed what I am going for exactly. I have a few more questions. Thought the upper cannon and elbow cop very rare what do the few shown look like? The jupon...

Erik Schmidt

Thanks for putting up the bascinet links Gilbert, a combination of the two is the sort of style to be aimed for.

The effigy link was unavailable when I tried.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

Gibert, I would also like to see that effigy, sounds interesting. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be of any help when dealing with Germanic armour of this period as it was very different from the English style. Flonzy, you have chosen a time of transition between the CoP and early breastplates. I h...

Erik Schmidt

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Evil_Merlin: ... and the 50 cents one are more authentic... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> On what do you base that assertion? Personally I think the price looks to be reflected in t...

Erik Schmidt

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by montecristo: an iron Pourbaix diagram can be found here: http://www.voltaicpower.com/Thermo/images/ironE-1.gif (for basic conditions) The site it belongs is here [/B]<HR...

Erik Schmidt

I would like to clarify one thing, which may be of some use. Or then again, maybe not. Soap is a form of 'surfactant', a nice word coined from the two words 'surface' and 'actant'. The one characteristic of surfactants that makes them so useful is the water/fat solubility polarity of the molecules. ...

Erik Schmidt

The center mount is what characterises the klappvisor. Globose or flat visors where in use throughout Europe before the pigface came to be. There are so few representations of them left, that it's hard to say if there were strong regional differences in the overall shape. The center mounted types te...

Erik Schmidt

If using Germanic examples from around 1350, the knees often have three very deep vertical flutes. They are usually very bulbous and without fans or articulation. The elbows, well, when they are actually there, can be in the form of small cups, round discs or similar to the later large and deep form...

Erik Schmidt

The best area to portray with such a visor is Germanic, where they were common, but you could also do north Italian and some other areas if you can find proof of their use. Typically, I see the globose klappvisor as being in use into the late 1370's, at which time the pigface comes into use. By the ...

Erik Schmidt

Thanks for posting that Steve. How will you apply the soap next time so that it's won't rinse off on dipping in salt solution? The use of tallow soap to protect the mail would be something like using a wax to do the same. Any reason to favour the soap over wax? Careful Steve. Whatever you do, don't ...

Erik Schmidt

Anders, you have once more proven you have an amazing ability to move metal. Beautiful.

I don't know if you have seen it, but somewhere on the web there are extact dimentions for the original bascinet.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

Good article and great to see you posting it for all to use.

However, I would have to agree with WMA about your statement. Seperate coifs are not difficult to prove in both the 13th and 14th century.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

I have a suggestion that may help you, but no, I don't know how long the cutters will last. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/frown.gif You could get your spring steel wire annealed(softened), then wind, cut and weave before getting it re-tempered to become spring steel again. Your cutters will not w...

Erik Schmidt

Thanks for the information Vegard. It's a beautiful piece of craftmanship.

I also make my own rivets, but the heads are quite flat, not so tall and rounded like yours.
I make them from 3.2mm tie(soft) steel wire and hammer pein the first head with the cut wire in a jig.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

I don't have any patterns, but you might want to give a time range of about 20 years. Then we can help you figure out what your choices are.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

I made my aventail out of 8mm ID 16 gauge spring steel rings.
There's a guy here in Australia that gets them made and he sells them for AU$8.00 (US$5.00) per thousand.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

Wow! 14 gauge, that makes it even more impressive.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

You seem to have great skill in forming the shape. The curves on the 'Norman' one are very beautiful. What thickness of metal are you using? From the look of the polish one it looks to be quite thin. I hope you're going to replace those screws with rivets. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif ...

Erik Schmidt

That is indeed very nice work. It's good to see people taking authenticity seriously, and with such materfull skill.

I would love to know Anders, how much do they weigh? (I in kg please)

Erik

Erik Schmidt

I'm not in the SCA. I am in a metal weapons group which uses pulled blows, but I haven't gotten to the stage of having a full kit yet, so I don't fight. Most of the metal weapons fighters I know use a very thin padded gambeson under the mail, mostly to stop rubbing from the armour. That is not to sa...

Erik Schmidt

The first breastplate over lentner(coat armour) I have seen is that of Walther von Hohenklingen from 1386, which is out of your period. There is no indication of anything being worn between the mail hauberk and either the coat of plates or the breastplate with fauld, the former being replaced by the...

Erik Schmidt

Derek, from the link you give, are you talking about the knee cops on their own, pictured just below the full arms set, or the articulated ones pictured between the pigfaces? The ones on their own suffer the same problem of having those flared upper and lower edges. The ones pictured lower down are ...

Erik Schmidt

Aha, hiding at the bottom of the page. I would love to see some sort of evidence for such knee and lower leg defences for 14th century Germanic. The knees are nothing like the ones I can find, the problem being those flared upper and lower edges, which just don't seem to show in period art. I have a...

Erik Schmidt

Gawain, I have finally managed to sort something out with the getting wire. A wholesaler called White's Wires supplies 1.25mm black annealed tie wire to just about any of the retailers. You can't get it direct, but they supply to Bunnings, Mitre 10 and Metalcorp. It's just that most of the retailers...

Erik Schmidt

Just to be picky; The bascinet is the helmet itself, and it's shape is not related to it's visor and is something you should be considering in it's own right. The visor could be mounted in the klappvisier style of the Germanic regions with the single brow mounted hinge, or as was common elsewhere, m...

Erik Schmidt

Clermont, Walter died at the battle of Sempach where the Swiss once more defeated the Habsburgs(I think it was them). I think he was on the Swiss side.
I would suggest you check on the web for info on the battle of Sempach. Maybe some genaeology sites to find out about him.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

Derek, the period you chose gives you quite some choice of armour. We know from Museum pieces that armour such as bascinets was being imported from Italy, but we ofcourse can't tell from art or effigies what is of local or international manufacture. Another thing to remember is that the Holy Roman E...

Erik Schmidt

In short, yes, the Germanic armour had special features.
If you can narrow down your date to a five year range, it would help greatly to discuss specific features and examples.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

I think that idea has come up a few times already, and it's sounds great. Like a motorised compost tumbler. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif A few weeks ago I tumbled a piece of rivited mail I made in a jar of sand to see if it would shine it up, but it did very little in over 15 minutes o...

Erik Schmidt

Not only is the helmet very uneven, it has a totally incorrect shape for a bascinet. I notice that the vervelles, which are too long and made of too thin a material anyway ,to compare with period examples, seem to be attached to the brass strip, instead of being attached to the helmet and passing th...

Erik Schmidt

You might be referring to this post;
http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/009056.html

There are some useful links about half way down.

Erik

Erik Schmidt

This is the way I do my rings, except I anneal large numbers of rings at once with a torch. I don't know if an oil lamp will get the metal hot enough to anneal it and also, if it does, the rest of the ring will draw the heat out very quickly and possibly reduce the effectiveness of the annealing pro...

Erik Schmidt

If you are trying to emulate period examples, the number you use will depend on the type of bascinet you have and the time period you are trying to portray. The earlier bascinets with tube vervelles have around 10-16, whereas the more conical type of bascinets, made after about 1380, had the stud ty...

Erik Schmidt

Does it still exist? I have never looked into this as the armour is past the time of my main interest, but it seems to me to be connected with the "S. Maria della Grazie", also known as the "Santuario della Madonna della Grazie". There's a collection catalogue for the "Museo Diocesano di Mantova, Le...

Erik Schmidt

You may have trouble getting Iron wire. I use tie wire, which is a very soft steel wire. It has only a little carbon and therefore will not become so hard like your spring steel. Your problem with the punch breaking the metal could have a few different causes. 1/ Your punch could be too big. 2/ The ...