http://alphaofficium.weebly.com/ has some Roman stuff, and can cut dies to order.
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- Thu May 04, 2017 8:58 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Replica Roman Coins?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1371
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:42 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: What style cross? ( hospitaller 1248)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1030
Re: What style cross? ( hospitaller 1248)
Is this the coin making Derian I met at RUM? It sure is. :) Can't help regarding the surcoat, but it's not too unreasonable to think that their surcoats and their banners would have the same style cross. Now whether or not Matthew Paris's depiction is accurate is a different question (and he disagr...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:27 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: What style cross? ( hospitaller 1248)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1030
Re: What style cross? ( hospitaller 1248)
In what context? On their coins? On their surcoat? At what point in time? Their heraldry seems to be a simple cross, but there's a c 1250 depiction in Matthew Paris's _Chronica_Majora_ that depicts a banner bearing a cross with slightly flared ends. Paris's _Historia_Anglorum_ from the same time per...
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Free E-book: Silver as Currency in the Viking Age
- Replies: 1
- Views: 687
Re: Free E-book: Silver as Currency in the Viking Age
Excellent, thanks Robert!
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- Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:46 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Got my chandelier done!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2511
Re: Got my chandelier done!
Cool. Looks like I'll be just across the road (Three Bears, N17). I'll have five gallons of tudor small ale that I'll be carting around during my brief visit to war (just the middle weekend). Hopefully we'll run into one another!
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- Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Got my chandelier done!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2511
Re: Got my chandelier done!
Cool!
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- Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hand stitching canvas tents?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2458
Re: Hand stitching canvas tents?
If you can point me towards period canvas I would consider it, but money is an issue, as well as enough space to hang dry after events. I think I would be rather more heartbroken unfolding a tent to find mold/rot than suffering the innacuracy of materials that last better and are lower maintenance....
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Anyone cast in bronze/brass?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1505
Re: Anyone cast in bronze/brass?
I haven't actually tried it yet, so I can't give anything more than a vague suggestion, but pressblech might be a technique to look into. You can get brass shim stock in a variety of thicknesses and I'm going to be trying positive dies out of cherry end grain and the negatives of a thermoplastic I ...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:14 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Anyone cast in bronze/brass?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1505
Re: Anyone cast in bronze/brass?
20 gauge (0.032", ~0.81 mm) is a good place to start. You may need a little thicker if you want to do super high relief.
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- Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:44 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Hot gilding onto steel
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2319
Re: Hot gilding onto steel
Another term that might be helpful in your research is "mechanical gilding". Electroplating is obviously well past 1600. I suspect you will want to get the steel extremely clean after polishing. Like, pickled in acid clean. This appears useful (and talks about using this technique on steel): http://...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:29 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Vinegaroon or Leather Black in the 14th C
- Replies: 3
- Views: 854
Re: Vinegaroon or Leather Black in the 14th C
The earliest I've found is the early 15th century, in a manuscript by Jehan Le Begue, but it ALSO contains galls. "89 To make black water Take a pint of water from under the grindstone on which knives are ground and place it over the fire and throw into it a glass of vinegar and ii oz of galls then ...
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: God bless Western museum curators
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11801
Re: God bless Western museum curators
Are you sure they're in the palace museum, and not the Archaeology museum (which is on the palace grounds)? I spent several hours in the archaeological museum and took hundreds of photos. Part of the collection in the same building as the slight medieval segment (a grand majority was ancient materi...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:04 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: God bless Western museum curators
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11801
Re: God bless Western museum curators
Are you sure they're in the palace museum, and not the Archaeology museum (which is on the palace grounds)?
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- Mon Feb 22, 2016 9:42 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: LF Books on medieval peasant material culture
- Replies: 12
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Re: LF Books on medieval peasant material culture
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I'm quite fond of "The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England", by Barbara Hanawalt.
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- Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:14 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Document: c.1315 Tournament Rules
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1047
Re: Document: c.1315 Tournament Rules
"harnois de jambes" translates to "leg harness."
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- Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:29 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th Century Gauntlet Knuckle plate find
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2263
Re: 14th Century Gauntlet Knuckle plate find
Copper alloy armour! So weird!
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- Sun Dec 20, 2015 3:50 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5875
Re: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
Perhaps it was intentional, rather than a mistake.
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- Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:15 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Leather workers! Newbie, looking for advice.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1090
Re: Leather workers! Newbie, looking for advice.
I thought so, I remember reading a bit about that when I was younger. As I recall you need to neutralize the vinegar after though. I'm assuming a baking soda dilution, but do you have any advice in that regard? Not particularly. I did a baking soda dilution, and it worked quite well, my knife sheat...
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:53 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Leather workers! Newbie, looking for advice.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1090
Re: Leather workers! Newbie, looking for advice.
I used vinegar and a bit of steel wool (high surface area makes the reaction go more quickly).Peter Baker wrote:Vinagroon is.... Vinegar and iron oxide, correct?
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- Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5875
Re: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
I engrave steel regularly, and straight lines like this are quite easy and fast with practice. Do you do much work on highly shaped steel objects, like armor? I find that the difference between engraving a buckle mounting plate and engraving a knee cop is very great indeed. Not much, but some. It i...
- Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:35 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Historical blacksmithing in the world.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 744
Re: Historical blacksmithing in the world.
Moneyers are usually shown sitting down while striking coins, often, but not always, on a specialized bench.
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- Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5875
Re: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
Why not use a graver? The original idea was to try to determine how they may have done this. Indeed. :) The errors made with a graver, and the character of the lines is wrong. I assume you are referring to the overcut? If this is cheap armour (as you refer to below), I suspect they wouldn't care ab...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:20 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
- Replies: 78
- Views: 5875
Re: engraved / chiseled lines sidewise flutings
Why not use a graver?
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- Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/593/22678967622_7690a74ca2_c.jpg nik by Derian le Breton , on Flickr From big fat half groats, to itty bitty coins again. Small coins are cool. :) New coins for the King of the Midrealm, based on Russian medieval "wire" kopecks, with a rather beat up penny for referen...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:29 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: stitching on viking pouches
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1454
Re: stitching on viking pouches
This one looks external http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/novgorod/NovgorodMus235leatherCutWork.jpg It is hard to tell though, as leather does not survive history very well, mostly it is the fittings that exist. I'm not sure I agree. There appears to be the remains of a folded edge just inside of the ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Document: 1302 Constable of France
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1695
Re: Document: 1302 Constable of France
Values given in l. (livres) and s. (sols or sous), pounds and shillings by any other name.... Not exactly. The ratios are the same (20 sous per livre), but generally the Pound Sterling was more valuable. In 1464-1526, the Pound Sterling was 8.5x more valuable than the livre tournois. -Derian.
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:22 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Herald-ifying a modern image.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 822
Re: Herald-ifying a modern image.
I'm not a herald, but this might be useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_ ... s_of_birds
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- Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:02 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!
- Replies: 610
- Views: 87663
Re: Non-Laurels Only! Please post your work!
Lovely work! Your technique continues to improve nicely.Robert of Canterbury wrote:for Michaelmass this weekend,
http://pbsn3.pbworks.com/w/page/100389741/St%20Michael
What kind of stone is that?
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- Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:24 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Size of Buttons for 14th century Cotehardie
- Replies: 8
- Views: 785
Re: Size of Buttons for 14th century Cotehardie
It's SO MUCH BETTER than it used to be, and even more better than it was before that (when they released giant PDFs once or twice a year).jester wrote:If you want some historical button examples (metal buttons) the portable finds scheme database is your very good, and very slow, friend.
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- Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:41 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Aumbry
- Replies: 98
- Views: 7126
Re: Aumbry
Does anyone here know anything about what finishes they actually used on furniture in the 15th C? Wrong time period, and not furniture... but in On Divers Arts, Theophilus instructs one on how to use Linseed oil mixed with cinnabar to "redden doors." There is also a varnish recipe which is basicall...
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:39 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/488/19135668738_9df48500b5_z.jpg 1 by Derian le Breton , on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/324/19323262595_6cedcea15e_z.jpg 2 by Derian le Breton , on Flickr https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3687/19135632210_fcd04771dc_z.jpg 3 by Derian le Breton , on Flickr Super s...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:07 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
My first coin die took me something like 20 hours.Gocauo wrote:Yeah...I'd have *way* more hours than that invested...Derian le Breton wrote:Something like three or four hours, I think. I don't really keep track.
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- Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
Did I miss what you are using as coin blanks? Totally depends on the project. I have done pewter, brass, fine silver, sterling silver, billon (20% silver), aluminum... Aluminum is by far the cheapest (<$0.02 / blank, pre-made), but of course it's not a period metal. Pewter is the next cheapest, but...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:27 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
Something like three or four hours, I think. I don't really keep track.Baron Conal wrote:How much time do you have in that so far?
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- Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:57 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Back behind the burins again...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2864
Re: Back behind the burins again...
My first half-groat in progress...
11356175_10153412948333919_1632913925_n by Derian le Breton, on Flickr
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11356175_10153412948333919_1632913925_n by Derian le Breton, on Flickr
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