The Armour Archive

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Do you have any interior pics of that harness? I am very curious about how it is put together... I don't...sorry. You might be contact Will (Galleron) and see if he would snap a pic or two for you. In order to allow them to collapse, did you rivet the fauld bands along their lower rather than upper...

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Very beautifull, and a very convincing replica/reconstruction! Why did you choose to extend the flaps behind the base of the cantle? The raised seat still puzzles me, it makes the saddle look very unstable. Does anyone have pictures that show the underside, back and /or front of the original saddle...

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Thank you Jiri!

I also hope that it is destined to be treated with some respect; but when you get right down to it, the "bottom line" is that people are going to sit in it.

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I think that when I put forth "Macs infallible rule of fauld length", I was thinking too much of what was typical in England, and not enough about what the Germanic peoples were doing. I need to think more carefully before I begin typing......Or at the very least, before I press the "...

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Ushumgal The fauld is made of hoops. They overlap so that the lower ones are inside the upper ones. That is, opposite the way they typically overlap on later armors. Like on the Lincoln misericord, the chest defense extends around to cover about 1/3 of the back on each side with narrow horizontal pl...

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Thank you Chris!

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I did. It is based on a number of sources, including the brass of Ralph Knevynton m and the "falling knight" misericord in Lincoln. m The groin protection is also from a number of sources, one of which is the Pistoia altarpiece which appears earlier in this thread. We opted to make it a re...

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No.....These *are* the juicy pics of recent work.

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Some of these guys are not obeying "Mac's infallible rule of fauld length"! Perhaps it is really "Mac's typical guideline of fauld length"...... I think the examples where the rivets (and thus the plates) expend below the hip belt, probably represent faulds of small plates, rathe...

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Thank you Gorden! Thank you Dougal! No, I'm not really a horse guy at all. Thanks for the offer of measurements. I don't think I need any right now though. The saddle pad is something I made to go with the saddle. It is the same shape as the bars, and is tied to them with points. It is based of surv...

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I was thinking more like 1380 to 1400 and if you look closely at the original, the fabric covering is torn completely away right at the rivets on the last hoop and I suspect there are a number of hoops missing. It should come down lower than it does. Contemporary Illustrations depict this type endi...

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Graham, Yes, I think the finger scales were covered as well. I don't think that the flexibility will be impaired. The scales are small and numerous; each articulation has to do very little. I admit that the transition from the knuckles to the singers is difficult to understand. I suppose that the in...

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Chris and Alex have a very good point about using a router.

Years ago, I played with designing just such a router based Lance-0-Matic. No one seemed interested, so I never tried to build it. I am sure it would be better than a conventional lathe.

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Graham, The plates go inside on this one. While it is true that the artist who drew the illustrations did not show space under the rivet heads, I don't think this means that there was no space there before they were let to oxidization for 600years. If these rivets were supposed to hold the plates to...

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Mac, the saddle looks gorgeous. Too good to use! May I also add a request for more pictures, especially of the construction. I am reminded of so very many times where you've said of a helmet "if it doesn't pass the 'would it fit a human head?' test, it isn't likely a genuine helmet." (ton...

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Thanks Andrew! I'm not much of a documantarian. I can barely bring myself to take pics when a thing is done, much less while I'm working on it. I might have a pic or two of what it looked like in the semi-finished form in which it languished for years. As to the tree; let us say that it looked very ...

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Felix Sarazin wrote:Makes sense.

How would this come together with other pieces of an outfit? Would hosen still be tied to the waistband?

The hosen would be pointed to the doublet.

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Thank you Olafr!

Thank you Blaine!.....Its made from scratch from the ground up. A modern tree just won't get ya' where you have to go.

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And, just for fun.... Here I am seated comfortably... [img]http://billyandcharlie.com/saddle/seated.JPG[/img] Here I am standing on the stirrups with my butt propped up on the top of the rear arch..... [img]http://billyandcharlie.com/saddle/standing.JPG[/img] Ditto, with a lance..... http://billyand...

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Some years ago I began a saddle based on the Henry V saddle. The project languished when it became apparent that it was a bit too narrow to fit any horse that is currently being used in the joust. This spring I have finished it up, and today I shipped it out. It is destined to be an interactive disp...

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Thank you Gerhard! I'll have to get someone to *show* me how to do that....

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I believe what these fellows in this cut by Durer are wearing is pretty standard for the early 16th C, and probably remained so as long as codpieces were normal.

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http://www.steveartgallery.se/spain/picture/image-42325.html

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Jo Jo, It sounds like the leather is too thick, especially so if it is veg tanned. What ever leather you use, it is good to "break" it by pulling it back and forth over a (suitably dull and polished) hatchet stake until it is supple. There are two other things to watch out for. One is the ...

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I used metal for my first tent frame. It was made of 5 curved pieces of 1/2" EMT, and held together by the screw type connectors. The frame worked fine, but my method of attachment was unsatisfactory. I had provided loops in the canopy and loops on the walls. Everything had to be threaded toget...

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Chris,

Clever and innovative, as usual.

Did you bend the dowels?

I see the frame has quit a bit of waviness. Would you attribute this to the round dowels twisting in their sockets, or to the flexibility of the sockets?

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Jeff, I've done three different flavors of flat hoops in my full size tent. I have also made up several models with slat hoops of different sorts. In my experience, they are not good in the wind. The windward side of the hoop flattens and the shoulder drops down. This is one of the places where my m...

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Mac's tent is pretty much in accordance with what we've been figuring on. My conundrum is how to make the hoop in segments. I'm considering fabricating a set of steel sockets from pipe, tinned. Do love the way the last photo of the series gives the illusion the tent is full sized. :) Jeff, This run...

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Right, I was thinking one could make a larger valence on the top and add ties for a hoop and still get the leather grommets to work like the Basel tent; since the Basel tent had an internal structure for display reasons in the museum. I'm having trouble understanding. Can you make a sketch? Mac

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Alcyoneus, My impression is that after over two hundred years of being typical, tent frames go out of fashion in the 17th C. , and they return to the earlier practice of stretching their canopies with ropes. On the Basel tent, the cone is acute enough to make this practical. The tent (s?) from Graz ...

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The sleeve of the hauberk is open on the ulnar (4th finger) side, like on the roughly contemperary brasses of Sir John D'abernon (Jr.) and Sir John De'Creeke. In this case, the sculptor has turned back the mail, rather than letting it drape naturally.

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James, The tent (s?) from Graz have leather grommets on a flange above the valence. The tent in Basel has a flange in lieu of a valence. Both (all) of these tents are 17th C. and do not appear to have had a frame at the shoulder. The Graz tent that toured with the exhibition *did* have internal ties...

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It has been a week now since I posted a short manifesto about
tent frames and some pictures of my reconstructions in miniature.
I was hoping to provoke further discussion, but instead there has
been silence......

What's with that?

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Dougal, If you mount the tail stock across the room, you will still need someplace to rest your tools along every inch of the intervening ten or twelve feet. You will also need to use some sort of "steady rest" to keep the middle of the lance from wobbling out of concentricity. All in all,...

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Bravo Jiri!

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Dougal,

How long is this lathe?

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