Raising a magic mushroom:-)
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Raising a magic mushroom:-)
Hello guys,
in the beginning the plan was to practise rising on something pointed, originally "norman" conical helmet. I started with 12 ga 42 cm diameter starting blank. After first dishing pass and four rising passes things looked fine
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k5.jpg[/img]
but after four more passes I got something, what my girlfriend called magic mushroom, not so bad shape in my opinion but very large for the norman helmet
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k9.jpg[/img]
after forming a conical helmet, there would be so much material wasted on the lower edge, so I changed my mind (as this was not a custom work) to go with the kettle hat. I forged the formed brim on the anvil using a cross-peen to make it wide enough and added another 1,5 cm on each side to it (it also help to make the brim thinner)
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kf.jpg[/img]
then just rolling and planishing and polishing... still needs padding and strapping
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom3.jpg[/img]
I hope you will like it
all the best
Jiri
in the beginning the plan was to practise rising on something pointed, originally "norman" conical helmet. I started with 12 ga 42 cm diameter starting blank. After first dishing pass and four rising passes things looked fine
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k5.jpg[/img]
but after four more passes I got something, what my girlfriend called magic mushroom, not so bad shape in my opinion but very large for the norman helmet
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k9.jpg[/img]
after forming a conical helmet, there would be so much material wasted on the lower edge, so I changed my mind (as this was not a custom work) to go with the kettle hat. I forged the formed brim on the anvil using a cross-peen to make it wide enough and added another 1,5 cm on each side to it (it also help to make the brim thinner)
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kf.jpg[/img]
then just rolling and planishing and polishing... still needs padding and strapping
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom3.jpg[/img]
I hope you will like it
all the best
Jiri
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The latter, of course. The helm is just horrible. Send it to me...Jiri Klepac wrote: adamstjohn, you mean like a) for wearing pointed hat or b) for working with magic mushrooms:-)?
Actually, I meant both.
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Do you think you could make something like this to fit me?
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Idon't mean to be rude, but that armour looks very similar to the work of B$%^&#$$%^#&D, and is from a website which lists him as "armour for the discriminating martial artist". I'd be wary. at least it's not from the one I found a while agowhich listed him as "probably the only source of historically accurate armor in existance". (no joke!)
Jiri, that is a fine looking mushroom you've raised there, you just need to bue some big spots on it, and druggies might eat it it's so good!
Jiri, that is a fine looking mushroom you've raised there, you just need to bue some big spots on it, and druggies might eat it it's so good!
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Alcyoneus, thank you for providing me such a insipirating material:-) Of course I could make you happy and make such a suit for you, it would be some.... some.... some... 30 000 bucks send me PM with measurements:-)
Btw the idea of pointed helmet came first time when rising elbows for theese
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[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/chrbarms3.jpg[/img]
Btw the idea of pointed helmet came first time when rising elbows for theese
Jiri
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/chrbarms3.jpg[/img]
You always put out some fine work, Jiri.
I'm shocked that anyone would actually post an image of that armor on this topic! They should burn in hell for that.
I only posted a link, I'll just stay pleasantly warm.
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I only posted a link, I'll just stay pleasantly warm.
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Re: Raising a magic mushroom:-)
Jiri, could you tell me what your trainng was?Jiri Klepac wrote:Hello guys,
in the beginning the plan was to practise rising on something pointed, originally "norman" conical helmet. I started with 12 ga 42 cm diameter starting blank. After first dishing pass and four rising passes things looked fine
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k5.jpg[/img]
but after four more passes I got something, what my girlfriend called magic mushroom, not so bad shape in my opinion but very large for the norman helmet
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/k9.jpg[/img]
after forming a conical helmet, there would be so much material wasted on the lower edge, so I changed my mind (as this was not a custom work) to go with the kettle hat. I forged the formed brim on the anvil using a cross-peen to make it wide enough and added another 1,5 cm on each side to it (it also help to make the brim thinner)
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kf.jpg[/img]
then just rolling and planishing and polishing... still needs padding and strapping
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.volny.cz/j.klepac/pix/kettlemushroom3.jpg[/img]
I hope you will like it
all the best
Jiri
I see that Czech republic still has a lot of artisans who work well according to traditional methods.
Could you tell me how these traditions survived?
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Bruno,
I don´t know about many surviving traditional crafts here. It seems to me all crafts in here are rebuild from ashes. Personally I just listened to the calling of the steel and fire:-) I am self thought + reading + Internet armourer. I learned most from watching original pieces and watching the work of ´bastards´ like Patrick Thaden and others who make armour with ease and ellegance. My biggest engine is the amount of things still to learn...
Jiri
I don´t know about many surviving traditional crafts here. It seems to me all crafts in here are rebuild from ashes. Personally I just listened to the calling of the steel and fire:-) I am self thought + reading + Internet armourer. I learned most from watching original pieces and watching the work of ´bastards´ like Patrick Thaden and others who make armour with ease and ellegance. My biggest engine is the amount of things still to learn...
Jiri
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Very nice.
Did you log the hours it took?
Did you log the hours it took?
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Same situation here.Jiri Klepac wrote:Bruno,
I don´t know about many surviving traditional crafts here. It seems to me all crafts in here are rebuild from ashes. Personally I just listened to the calling of the steel and fire:-) I am self thought + reading + Internet armourer. I learned most from watching original pieces and watching the work of ´bastards´ like Patrick Thaden and others who make armour with ease and ellegance. My biggest engine is the amount of things still to learn...
Jiri
i'm taking a hot forming course from retired power hammer smiths in a remote valley in north italy.
They were hot forging buckets , spades and similar agricultural tools using waterwheel powered power hammers (magli), same kind of magli that were used in the renaissance in Milan and Brescia to rough form armors and sallets.
I have acces to XV century still extant maglio, with toools that date back some centuries, but techniques for armoring are gone.
The power hammer is some meters long, an oak trunk in fact, when it strikes the noise is tremendous.
A friend of mine still operates it, he is the chief armourer at the Marzoli Museum in Brescia, where he keeps armor and swords mainly from the renaissance.
In this maglio he produces exquisite damascus knives, again his technique is modern.
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Infinity steel - don´t know exactly, but about 8 days, too long I know, but as I wrote last time, I have got a long way to go:-)
Bruno, pure envy about the maglios you have acces to. I have seen some small ones in my life, but nothing special or extant from middle ages. I visited a big steel works recently for information. This changed my opinion about what is possible:-) (the "log" is about 3 metres long..) Bruno, If you could post some picture of the power hammer this would be definitelly interesting for lots of people in here.
What is the name of your friend in Brescia, is it Massimiliano? I think theese people help moving armouring forward!
all the best
Jiri
Bruno, pure envy about the maglios you have acces to. I have seen some small ones in my life, but nothing special or extant from middle ages. I visited a big steel works recently for information. This changed my opinion about what is possible:-) (the "log" is about 3 metres long..) Bruno, If you could post some picture of the power hammer this would be definitelly interesting for lots of people in here.
What is the name of your friend in Brescia, is it Massimiliano? I think theese people help moving armouring forward!
all the best
Jiri
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I'm preparing a reportage on the Mglio Averoldi in Ome. I will be also taking pics of old timey scissors that are the ancestors of the beverly shears, U shaped tools that are rude but effective.Jiri Klepac wrote:Infinity steel - don´t know exactly, but about 8 days, too long I know, but as I wrote last time, I have got a long way to go:-)
Bruno, pure envy about the maglios you have acces to. I have seen some small ones in my life, but nothing special or extant from middle ages. I visited a big steel works recently for information. This changed my opinion about what is possible:-) (the "log" is about 3 metres long..) Bruno, If you could post some picture of the power hammer this would be definitelly interesting for lots of people in here.
What is the name of your friend in Brescia, is it Massimiliano? I think theese people help moving armouring forward!
all the best
Jiri