The Armour Archive

Congrats on the new baby, If your half as good at making babies as you are at making armour, shes got to be a beauty. Keep up the good work! Otto

Congratulations, Patrick! Thanks for the welder.

I got to try on most of this armour the other day. I was surprised that I could squeeze into the legs in particular. This is an unearthly beautiful suit.

I think I got this figured out. Patrick ACTUALLY has a time machine!! He's done kidnapped some poor German guy and is forcing him to make him armour!

Congrats!!

Congratulations from the Netherlands.

I hope you & your lady will have a happy time.

(first years of baby maintenance will consume an enourmous lot of time, you won't have much rest & sleep, but eventually it will become better )

haha, finally back in the game, baby and mom are home and doing well, had a baby check up today and she's healthy.
Here are some new pics of the gauntlet, basically just need to attach the gloves.



more to come

What are some recommended sources for quality gloves for gauntlets?

I have a pair of mitten gaunts with short fingers that I'm going to re-glove and add this style of finger lame to. Are you going to sew yours all the way back to the leather on the cuff? I might have a wider flair than that (but not as long). The used pair I got has a work glove split to the wrist and riveted to the cuff.

Your next big thread should be baby armour. Or at least the baby sleeping in a new kettle helm.

The thread was falling into the second page, so I had to bump this up.

Can't let it go unnoticed.

Good Gosh Patrick, that thing fits like a glove

Great work, I really DO like the way it fits so nice and snug. Looks like it was built round the glove.

I was going to post a pic of the gauntlets with the gloves all stitched in, but I think I left one of the gauntlets somewhere...not sure where, hopefully I'll find it soon....
well, here is the start of the tassets, the one is all roughed in the other showing the start, not real exciting, but down to the tidbits...

Wow looking good!

I dont know if has been asked but what do you use to heat the working areas. Just a gas torch.!

Fantastic

couple more of the tassets and such



Patrick

that is sooooo good lad, if more people were like you the world would be a better place

Keep the piccy's flowing

Vae Victis

Continuous flute pattern from front to side tassets? That is going to look great.

Patrick -

Again beautiful work!

So what is the deal with the exchange piece on the back fauld? is it for saddles or for foot combat? I guess I am curious about the purpose of that inverted fold? And with the tassets are the buckles the only fastening to the faulds? Is that just the way they work or is there going to be another way to secure them in place so that both the cuisses and faulds don't get banged up, a tasset cozy maybe?

VRIN wrote:Patrick -

Again beautiful work!

So what is the deal with the exchange piece on the back fauld? is it for saddles or for foot combat? I guess I am curious about the purpose of that inverted fold? And with the tassets are the buckles the only fastening to the faulds? Is that just the way they work or is there going to be another way to secure them in place so that both the cuisses and faulds don't get banged up, a tasset cozy maybe?

Nope. The full set of faulds is designed to sit in a war saddle - not for foot combat. The cantle usually V's slightly, and the cullet plate fills the gap. The tassets, in fact cover every part of the jip and upper thighs not covered by steel saddle or cuisse.

Tassets on historical suits secure by buckles - riviting 15th century style tassets in place on permanent strapping is an SCAdianisim and Reenactorisim.

That is some nice armourage

How cool, this makes 42 000 times this post has been viewed. Awesome. The people love you Pat. Keep up the miracles

So where are all the pictures of the baby in armour?:D
Just kidding.. Just bumping so my favorite thread won't get lost...

Patrick, or anyone

Is fluting best done cold or hot? I have been trying it out and any tips or insight on the process would be great. I have seen the archive demo and found it hard to control long spans, and keep them straight or gentle curves.

It is a good demo of where to start, and big thanks to whoever put it up!

I am asking because one of your photos on jan 30 (the back view) shows some heat markings on one tasset and not the other? I know its sort of a heat as needed thing, but...

VRIN,

This essay should help - it's from the AA, so it's gotta' be good.
http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/armour_fluting/

-Justin

Hello again, sorry for the delay, got sucked into a "little" side project that needed to be done, don't ever believe anyone that tells you it'll only take a couple days....even if it's you telling yourself that.....
So here we are back to the suit, or the lance rest actually, yep, I'm welding on this piece, sorry not going to forge and drift and file all the parts to do it the way they did, I like to speed up a few of the processes when possible, like polishing

here is the rough blank


and a staple blank
[img]http://www.thadenarmory.com/customers/suitprog/lancerest/IMG_0195.jpg[/img]
as for the fluting, I don't do it like the little how to that was posted, the reason you see one heated and one not on the tassets is that I shaped and fluted the first one and decided I wanted more depth so used heat to move the metal about a little without having to worry about the flute so much. The second one I just added the depth I wanted in shape prior to fluting . I normally don't use heat on fluting and do it entirely from the outside, I prefer to see my flutes layed out on the outside of the piece to ensure I like the placing.

here is the first staple and the pin, should have it all together tomorrow. Oh, and I do believe I'll be offering a very similar lance rest kit for sale soon all the parts ready to go, you just have to drill 4 holes according to a template and peen the staples into place. Patrick

here we are


it'd make a better cup holder if it had some type of ring to keep the can from tipping off though

Should have pics of everything all put together and hanging on a REAL peson next week. so long as I haven't forgotten anything.....

Thanks A-Bob.... That is uber cool.

This is the best thread ever.

Bar None....

Hal

Ditto on Hal's statements!!!

-begs- Please more!!! I'm hooked now

This thread is dreamy!

Everytime that mantova book makes it into a photo I start salivating! Too bad you pretty much have to sell a kidney to get a copy anymore.

V

a big pile O' parts

and a pic of the tassets hanging, I'll be getting a pic with a real person wearing the suit tomorrow

fantastic.

Amazing pictures as always!

Amusing to see it all in a heap like that, too. And again, we all find ourselves looking at Patric's workbench to see what we can find...

Is that the paint-job you're putting on the breastplate that we see over to the left there? Looks awesome!

Patrick,

I wanted to ask you about your tassets. Specifically about the double concave curves meeting a point where the hip bends. The lines of this shape meet to make a nice symmetrical contrast to the faulds, looks great.

I would think that you would want to have a duplicate curve for the top of each tasset with roughly the same radius of the faulds. With that kind top, it would seem to me that the tassets would ride up with greater stability when one kneels and avoid pivoting at the apex. Or does this not happen do to the chosen strap length? Will you develop a heavy vertical scratch on the faulds quickly? Or is all this ok because it's for riding in a saddle?

Thanks,

Waveicle

Kase Villand wrote:Is that the paint-job you're putting on the breastplate that we see over to the left there? Looks awesome!

Oh man, I'd cry if he put flames on something so beautiful!

I believe it's a welder's mask, by the way.

-Justin

well, here it is all put together and hanging on a friend (not the owner of the suit) as well as a couple pics of me trying it on, I'm a little short for it but not by too much.






a couple more pics can be found here
http://www.thadenarmory.com/customers/s ... lsuitpics/