The Armour Archive

J.G.Elmslie

Ah, that might be trickier then. cant prove a negative and all that - but if you could present an argument outlining each area that deviated from the norm in size, style etc, and then present a case arguing for a different interpretation, going by other examples that are similar, then you've got the...

J.G.Elmslie

Academic paper in a peer-reviewed journal, with evidence demonstrating what you think they are instead?

J.G.Elmslie

My portrayal is supposed to be 14th century Scot

in which case your equipment should be the same as England 10-15 years earlier.

J.G.Elmslie

Somehow, the attrition of the shoulders has made a big change in the way the armor looks on the stand. I now find that I have to keep turning it around so it does not seem to stare at me. Needs a pair of googly eyes stuck to the mannequin's face... :lol: Also, that harness is now getting quite obsc...

J.G.Elmslie

Email - put it through the general inquiries to the museum archives, they replied to me and forwarded it on to LaRocca. Never got a reply from him.

J.G.Elmslie

when I tried, they dont even bother to reply...

J.G.Elmslie

Every time I run across a pic of the black English armor I made for Toby C. I shake my head and wonder why I didn't have a better idea about the shape of the cuirasse, or the helmet, or the gauntlets, or the greaves....... :cry: Mac If you say that about the St Florian harness in 5 years time, we'r...

J.G.Elmslie

I was thinking around 10th century, possibly earlier. They really seemed to enjoy their single handed curved blades! the oldest known arabic curved sword is from the end of the 13th century. some examples, mostly later, from Ancal Yucel: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4e/eb/d0/4eebd...

J.G.Elmslie

My guess when I looked at it in person was that it was about right for my sister at 5'6". I got to take a poke at the Avant out of the case, and I'm inclined to say it might even be an inch or so less than that - What surprises me most is how its very deceptive when on the display stand - it always...

J.G.Elmslie

Mac wrote: I'm really not sure where (or if) the Germans marked their tassets.

Oh god.
No-one do the research that shows they're in the wrong place, or these ones will end up on the Reject Pile too...

Ckanite wrote:None of those images work. Just x's on the screen for me.

Working fine for me here.

J.G.Elmslie

there's at least one 16th C one in the Burrell collection with velvet strapping. I'll try to find photos.

J.G.Elmslie

as ever, spectacular to see the progress. (I can entirely sympathise with the whole being in a rut and daunting, feeling everything's just not right, while needing to get on with things too. its a soul-destroying place to be in. ) But your reject pile is utterly insane, you know that? I'm pretty sur...

J.G.Elmslie

YES! FUCKING YES!

Tell Madoc I have a grin a mile wide, will you?

Looks like the design work's in safe hands with you putting this out for 'em.

J.G.Elmslie

Additional MS 39564, the Ledall roll. English two-handed or longsword, 15th century. Steve Thurston's done translations which you can find on Wiktenauer. Its a solid translation and interpretation. Also this PDF: http://www.hemac.org/data/DeciphLedallFoot.pdf He's a good bloke. Also look for videos ...

J.G.Elmslie

Where are their personal effects? And for that matter what would they be? Coins, Letters of credit, pen knife, keys, papers of introduction? dependant on date and geography, Religious artefacts - Paternoster, Rosary, etc, would be considered essential personal items - we tend to forget those in our...

J.G.Elmslie

@Suzerain; iirc weren't you an advisor for the War of the Roses game? Cool! :) Guilty as charged. was responsible for the art department's content for every single DLC for that game, consulting for Fatshark, along with producing some of the UI stuff for crossbows, and almost all the flavour text in...

J.G.Elmslie

its a small world. I've been talking to madoc for quite some time about details.

Look forward to seeing what future content might be.

J.G.Elmslie

https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/1030/355 ... 26_4_l.jpg

Mmm-mm.
check out that lovely, lovely TIG welding bead down the middle....

Tasty 15th Century TIG welding.

J.G.Elmslie

looks great to me...

J.G.Elmslie

I've been needing to do a series of rolled pins for Langes messers.
I'm now split between curling up in a corner, sobbing at how insanely perfect those rolled tubes are, and being absolutely awestruck at them.

Thankyou for the oversized mandrel tip. going to have to use that!

J.G.Elmslie

here you go: http://elmslie.co.uk/projects/IMG_0130.jpg three different sizes I've got sitting around: 3/32nd, 1/8th, and 5/32nd. at the top are standard "round head" rivets, below them are what they refer to as "mushroom head" - lower and flatter profile, which are the ones I use more often. the he...

J.G.Elmslie

I once worked on a 'Maximilian' harness with the 'tasset-legs' whose original leathering holes (that hadn't been blown out to take giganthroid modern rivets) were 3/32" diameter. You could always take some nails that shank size and form the heads into domes. I think they'd hold; I use them on my ow...

J.G.Elmslie

Have you got a link to that? Doing the obvious search has not yielded up anything about grinders. I apologise for your now-impure browsing history, and the brain bleach you probably need. I'll see if I can extract the video he made of his rather terrifying contraption, and get it to you, unfortunat...

J.G.Elmslie

Mac wrote:
Chris Gilman wrote:Well Mac, I find you grinding technique a bit wimpy.

So do I... now

Mac

after seeing Owen Bush's modern version of that type of grinder, described as the "scrote grinder", I'm quite content with using a wimpy vertical linisher. The name alone makes me cross my legs....

J.G.Elmslie

there's another pommel in the Royal Armouries. Chalcedony, I recall, is the term used on the RA catalogue for it, rather than Jasper. (same stone, though, I gather.)

I'd do filthy, filthy things to man, beast or duck to make a replica of one of these.

J.G.Elmslie

I understand that historically, glass working was cut with very thin copper discs, with an abrasive lubricant. I cant help but wonder if the same or similar technology could be applied to this problem?

Edit: John Vernier got there first with that thought I see!

J.G.Elmslie

Hrm, lets have a think. I quite like doing thought experiments like this. Its definitely a case of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole to get Viking age kit to be "right" and not have at least some compromises for safety, of course, and the sources for it are pretty damn thin on the ground to...

J.G.Elmslie

Well, "large aluminium washers and knotted paracord." sounds to me to be very wrong, but then I'm rather adverse to alloys and plastics that didnt exist then... but squares with holes in the middle, laced together with a good linen or hemp cord over a fabric structure can make a 16th century Jack of...

J.G.Elmslie

aside from the obvious (that its good to hear its recovering now), I have to ask,
was the tossing into a fence due to ringen/ringkunst, and if so, does that make it a hemahematoma?

J.G.Elmslie

This is not a thing to be proud of, and I present it as a cautionary tale. Don't be like me. Take more notes and look back at them sometimes. Mac If anything, I'm going to be more like you, and start taking more and more records of stuff. I suspect you're seriously underestimating just how thorough...

J.G.Elmslie

This is a Langes Messer or Grossemesser depending on your preferred terminology (as with many things about messers, its a bit of a blurry line defining where one group ends, and another begins. But that's something that will take an entire book to discuss...) , of a South German fashion, circa 1495-...

J.G.Elmslie

Fascinating stuff.

I cant help but wonder how this would behave for quenching on really thin falchion blades. Going to have to see if I can find any UK manufacturers.

Thankyou, again, for the wealth of information in here.

J.G.Elmslie

I have this one, which is unreserved and could be completed for quick sale. I've been holding it for a while with a scabbard that's not yet been fully tooled. Cant decide if I go for lobate floral leaf patterns, or use punch-work based off some of the Museum of London finds, for an early or late 14t...

J.G.Elmslie

I trust that you've already got and read Goll and Dupras' PHD papers? Armourers and their Workshops: The Tools and Techniques of Late Medieval Armour Production Nickolas Dupras: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4376/1/Dupras%20PhD%20Thesis%20Volumes%201%20%26%202.pdf Iron Documents. Interdisciplinary ...

J.G.Elmslie

As a swordsmith/cutler, I think I take a different view. They were accurate, at times. but at the same time, they could be quite the opposite. I still dont quite get how Peter Johnsson manages to hand work with quite such CNC-perfect accuracy in his work, while it feeling entirely handmade at the sa...

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