The Armour Archive

Armourkris

I've thought about doing some kind of integrated mitt, but i couldn't come up with anything that had the right look and would still protect adequately vs rattan. I've got some gauntlets on order from Gruber here on the archive, they probably wont match the rest of the armour much better, but they'll...

Armourkris

Here's how my kit is looking his year. I'm considering extending the sleeves a few inches and maybe shortening the skirt by 4" or so, but both are pretty low priorities. I also need to re-jigger a few things on the greaves, but over all i love my kit. Eirik, I love the weird round shield, I've got o...

Armourkris

Invest in an angle grinder and modify any hammer for what you need, good for about a million other things as well.

Armourkris

Eirick, Is your shield convex? and are you running it strapped or as a center grip?

Armourkris

1> current setup is a quilted suspension liner attached at the brow with a 4 point chin strap. linen shell and terry cloth on the inside. 2> I started out with kung fu head gear. it was hot, got sweat in my eyes and slipped around in my helmet. switched to armaflex insulation foam, much better than ...

Armourkris

That is a fantastic. I've been wanting to make myself a dr doom harness for a few years now and that just fired up the bug again.

Armourkris

I'll get the new socket bolted to my bench today and I think by tomorrow I'll get to try them out. Sean, the doughnut started out as a giant eye bolt a buddy gave me a few years ago, I chopped off the threads, ground the shoulder off smooth and polished it up, Then it's welded to a 1 1/4" piece of 4...

Armourkris

Sometimes I like it when it's slow at work, particularly the days where i get paid to tinker with my own projects all day rather than clean the shop I cleaned an hour earlier. Today I made myself a new T stake, an offset ball stake and a dishing doughnut, I guess tomorrow I'll need to make myself a ...

Armourkris

I vote for powder coating. If you do it right it's damn near indestructible and it also and opens up the potential of a whole other line of potential side jobs.

Armourkris

I love this thread and seeing everyone's kits. This fall I changed it up from my usual Indo-Persian awesomeness and made myself a new kit. It was for the gladiator fights at Wasteland Weekend and as such it's post apocalyptic rather than historical, I gotta say apocalypse gear is fun to make. This p...

Armourkris

I use both a buckler and a shield with the 2 U's mentioned above, Instead of having a cutout and a center boss there is just a pad on the back of the bukler. you leave enough space between the U's that when it's gripped it presses the pad across the front of you're fist and tables it across your knu...

Armourkris

What losthelm said.
Adding to that however, My bazubands are quite close fitting and angled fairly steep at the elbow, I can't straighten my arm 100% but I can still get 90-95% of the way there and that's close enough for me to have never noticed any lack of mobility when I actually fight in them

Armourkris

Thanks everyone
Jurgen,did you just add it to water to use it or what?

Armourkris

I've got some aluminum that i'd like to make less aluminumy, I've seen people get some pretty ideal results with ferric chloride on here in the past but I've got no idea where to get it from. the internet says radio shack, but I'm pretty sure they don't exist any more. Where should I look to find th...

Armourkris

I'd be interested in a pacific north west meetup, what with living there after all, especially if it's in Vancouver

Armourkris

Any of the elbow patterns in the pattern archive should work for the elbow cops. For the vambrace start by measuring from the point of your elbow down to just before the bony lumps on your wrist. next measure the circumference of the thickest part of your arm and make a note of how far from the poin...

Armourkris

I'm afraid i didn't take any in progress shots, but i'll be doing another one in the not to distant future to try and shave down the weight, I'll take progress pictures of it for sure. The strapping system is maybe historical? I found similar mounting points on pics of a number of indo-persian shiel...

Armourkris

I've been working on this on and off for the last couple months, mostly off to be honest but last night and today I finally got around to finishing it off. It's about 23.5" across. The body is made from 2 layers of 1/4" plywood with gores cut out of them to give me the convex shape. The steel strapp...

Armourkris

Does it have to be full gauntlets? A plastic basket hilt and demi gauntlet is pretty easy to do

Armourkris

Just to jump in, If i were trying to do a grill like that I would start by cutting out the rough shapes from 1/4" stock. Next I'd grind in the bevels into all the arms and weld them onto the center bar. Once they are welded I'd dress down the welds and then do my shaping over a ball stake or somethi...

Armourkris

thems are what I'm thinking, but in plain steel to match the rest of my kit

Armourkris

Wade, your pictures of rotted bits were invaluable, I spent a lot of time staring at those pictures while I was planning. they especially helped with the topmost back plate. In the end i also ended up going with fluting rather than filing and chiseling but that is a rout I would definitely do some m...

Armourkris

My buddy took this picture on Saturday while we were testing out the new axes. That's me on the left and my room mate on the right. I gotta either put some kind of fabric lining into the maille or invest in some kind of kaftan/gambeson sort of thing. maybe wire wheel the red off my gauntlets to make...

Armourkris

Back in January there was a post in the classifieds forum about ottoman armour. Fortunately for me I poked my nose in there at the right time and saw it because I've been wanting to make one of these for a few years but have never been able to justify one for myself, and haven been able to talk anyo...

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OH hey, thats my instructable, glad it was helpful.

Armourkris

I don't think I've actually gave anyone any especially painful shots, nothing out of the usual at least. Most painful shot I ever received was about 10 years ago at a fight practice. A fellow by the name of Oak managed to drop a shot down onto the point of my hip in just such a way that it hit me un...

Armourkris

Something like this? Made for my little brother from a machete. It mostly gets used for fighting me now since a new baby ate his WMA fund. I've also got a pair of trimontina machetes that I tossed basket hilts onto for some post apocalyptic "swords" They have seen 4 or 5 years of use and abuse now, ...

Armourkris

When i first started learning to make armour I used the pattern archive extensively and tried, usually unsuccessfully, to re-size them to me. They were good for learning though. 16 years later I make up new patterns for almost every piece of armour I make because I now know that no 2 people are shap...

Armourkris

but that's just the book, not the flash drive as well, right?

Armourkris

oh man, i want that so bad, but damn, it works out to nearly $400 Canadian with the shipping. I am doing 18 hours of overtime instead of having a weekend though....

Armourkris

I think it looks pretty cool in a post apocalyptic sort of a way.

Armourkris

I'd really like to get an aventail to put on my new helmet, I had planned to get one from customchainmail.com but it seems they wont sell to me in Canada I'm looking for 9mm mild rings, ideally alternating riveted and punched, being blackened would also be nice. Anyone have any recommendations? Kris

Armourkris

I don't know what the current rules are for C&T, but I'm pretty sure a fencing mask with hardened leather back of the head protection is legal. I know it was a few years ago. I wouldn't be surprises if a 20 gauge helmet is comparable in weight, but i have a feeling 18 gauge was the minimum thickness...

Armourkris

I'll have to get my room mate to take a picture, I've done some upgrades since last years show your kits thread

Armourkris

When I click the link it takes me to a WordPress installation page, I gather it's not supposed to do that?

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