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- Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The "Nurenberg butt armor"
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24172
Re: The "Nurenberg butt armor"
The butt lames look to be fully extended in the standing position. That is a good point. In my opinion, however, it has to be the opposite. So more or less full compression. To achive this without gaps it would be easier to reverse the direction of the upper lames? Otherwise you have to fight again...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:22 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making Very Thin Sheet Iron
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3020
Re: Making Very Thin Sheet Iron
Depends of the size of the sheets, I would say 
Small patches should be (easily) doable.
Was the whole shield covered in one piece?
Small patches should be (easily) doable.
Was the whole shield covered in one piece?
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:55 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The "Nurenberg butt armor"
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24172
Re: The "Nurenberg butt armor"
It looks like you have drawn the flexed state of the front part in the "streched position" of the slots?
Maybe it already helps if you draw it in the compressed state... you could also try to elongate the slots to the bottom side.
Maybe it already helps if you draw it in the compressed state... you could also try to elongate the slots to the bottom side.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
Re: Björns Junkjard
Your reference pictures are all A60 and A62 from vienna. There is no Sigismund anymore it is A62 ;-) I have no idea about the function of the cutout in the armpit but if you dont want to try it and alter the pattern anyway you should orientate yourself on 16.c. examples for the upper articulation. 2...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:51 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
Re: Björns Junkjard
This is of course nonsense, as the rivets for the internal leather are hidden under the previous lame...Christian Wiedner wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:52 amThe open hole is for the internal leather, like the two in the center, filled with rivets. So two lames are correct.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:52 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
Re: Björns Junkjard
First off, there are three things which make this arm strange. The first is that the seam is on the lateral surface, rather than being on the medial one. They are usually in line with the armpit... The third thing is that the proximal end of the lateral surface is articulated. While not common, the...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Chains and Strips of Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13405
Re: Chains and Strips of Mail
and some mail stripes on the gloves
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Chains and Strips of Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13405
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Chains and Strips of Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13405
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Chains and Strips of Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13405
Re: Chains and Strips of Mail
I have several depictions of mail stripes 1001018 Adalbert der Sieghafte, Babenberger-Stammbaum, Part Hans, 1489-1492, Klosterneuburg, Österreich.jpg Aufbruch_nach_Island_Handschriftenabteilung_Hundeshagenscher_Kodex.jpg Werkstatt oder Umkreis Wolfgang Katzheimers d.Ä., Vorderseite- Kalvarienberg; R...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New armourers Please show what you are working on.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20807
Re: New armourers Please show what you are working on.
I dont think such a much longer weld is worth it...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:53 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rene's blog
- Replies: 336
- Views: 325218
Re: Rene's blog
Niiiice, those are the true gems!
I wouldnt even think about the time you spent on them...
I wouldnt even think about the time you spent on them...
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Video of the Wallace Puffed-and-Slashed Armour
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5778
Re: Video of the Wallace Puffed-and-Slashed Armour
There are pictures of the back on the Wallace Collection USB-stick
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:37 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
Re: Björns Builds
Where do you see next to no wing?
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 3:03 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Björns Junkjard
- Replies: 119
- Views: 65193
Re: Björns Builds
This one is a repair.
There are several inside shots in Goll
ref_arm_882, 885, 938, 5055
There are several inside shots in Goll
ref_arm_882, 885, 938, 5055
- Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:09 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Rotating Rerebrace Why? When? and from Where?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6500
Re: The Rotating Rerebrace Why? When? and from Where?
I am not aware of many if any pauldrons connected directly to the arm harness as the wings restrict a rotation of the arm more than spaulders would.
There is another system, maybe even earlier, where they split the rerebrace in two sections connected with the rotation joint.
There is another system, maybe even earlier, where they split the rerebrace in two sections connected with the rotation joint.
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:45 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rene's blog
- Replies: 336
- Views: 325218
Re: Rene's blog
The finish is looking very nice. My question would be how well it is holding up, because if I hold a test piece with the entire colour spectrum on a polishing wheel, this grey area is loosing its oxide layer first even before the thinner iridescent layers. This said I had some incident in the harden...
- Sat May 28, 2022 3:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Looking to Commission First Armor, Advice Sought
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4581
Re: Looking to Commission First Armor, Advice Sought
As we are here in the Design and Construction section, show us what you have in mind
And as Sean pointed out, if you want to use it, start with everything beneath, which is a task of its own.
And as Sean pointed out, if you want to use it, start with everything beneath, which is a task of its own.
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rene's blog
- Replies: 336
- Views: 325218
Re: Rene's blog
Ok, and also to the bottom I guess?
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:47 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rene's blog
- Replies: 336
- Views: 325218
Re: Rene's blog
Oh, great!
Please enlight me: are the faulds really as thick as they look or is the upper edge folded a bit inwards?
Please enlight me: are the faulds really as thick as they look or is the upper edge folded a bit inwards?
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 919586
Re: Mac's blog
I'm curious why you are doing the edge roll *after* the fleurs. I have been shaping the pieces and edge rolling and then adding the fleurs, because if I muff the edge roll I waste a LOT of work. I *never* irretrievably screw up the fleurs, but I do occasionally mis-strike with the hammer on a roll ...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:20 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16356
Re: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
Hi Christian For explanation, I choosed the last picture to show the audience the visible differents in chiseld and ground down lines and cuted lines ;-) Well, you may have a point - but only in pointing out different approaches which may lead to a similar results... As written before, I dont think...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16356
Re: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
Rene: I still do not agree with the cutting wheel methode... But of course I agree there have been several ways to achive the results. It is most likely they used different tools - for example for the one side groove and the double side groove. And as your last picture shows obviously different chis...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:02 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16356
Re: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
As it is 16th century I am afraid there is no Goll...
Here is the official link: https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/372240/
Here is the official link: https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/372240/
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16356
Re: Maximillian Fluting by Hammered Tooling
True, but if you look at the other child harness next to it this one also has almost no engraved lines but mostly everything etched...
Nevertheless I agree with you that this is most probably not the method they used back then.
Nevertheless I agree with you that this is most probably not the method they used back then.
- Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:01 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: German soldier 1450-60, a project
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5128
Re: German soldier 1450-60, a project
Note: Every piece of armour on the Karlsruhe Passion looks like that, so it may as well be not blued but just the way the armour is portrayed. Well, that is not exactly true... there are variations (central weird helmet) also dont look only at the armour but to all metal objects. For the general va...
- Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:36 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rene's blog
- Replies: 336
- Views: 325218
Re: Rene's blog
Nice! Did you do some show-working there or was it just for display?
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Panzer Problem
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3099
Re: The Panzer Problem
Krebs is the breast plate not the cuisses.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 4:01 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 919586
Re: Mac's blog
I guess Rene is right. To me it looks like one piece too and the little dots are the rivets (shafts/holes?)
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- Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:18 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
Oh, I didnt read Scotts answer before, so yes basically what he says.
@Scott: I refered to the 3,4, and 5 pic in this thread where the arm cutouts of the paper template are to high
@Scott: I refered to the 3,4, and 5 pic in this thread where the arm cutouts of the paper template are to high
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:39 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
The size of the upper plate is almost the size of the entire plate
There are (earlier) examples where this is the case but not nessecary as it is much more work.
You need more volume and more angle. This probably means the arm cutouts are to deep.
There are (earlier) examples where this is the case but not nessecary as it is much more work.
You need more volume and more angle. This probably means the arm cutouts are to deep.
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Trying to make a gothic breastplate
What Gordon said (in his first post). There is not much sense in making a one piece pattern since the two piece pattern will look different. On this pattern: - the arm openings could be cut lower under the arms and be a bit bigger but should be straightened a tiny little bit at shoulder level. - the...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:15 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Workshop temperature vs cold dishing
- Replies: 154
- Views: 60954
Re: Workshop temperature vs cold dishing
Just put some additional lames to the cut out like on A60 and A62 in vienna.
As Johann stated there is almost always an example
As Johann stated there is almost always an example
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- Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:19 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Workshop temperature vs cold dishing
- Replies: 154
- Views: 60954
Re: Workshop temperature vs cold dishing
Nice! Yea in the front view the rerebrace is really cut out to high. For the legs. The main plate could have been higher, but I think they are ok the way they are. If you want you can add one or even two lames. It may happen that you have to cut a bit of the inside of the thighs if you get in confli...