The Armour Archive

Eltz-Kempenich

Very Good, thank you. This is a science experiment, in other words. I admit that I remain skeptical of the degree to which such precision is strictly necessary but I nevertheless admire and enjoy watching this process. My only remaining concern with so faithful a reproduction is that it *might* lead...

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That is partly why I ask, though. We do not have the original wearer or the original armor it was intended to fit, so it seems odd to create so faithful a reproduction when we can't account for the other variables in how the helm will function.

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Hey Mac, loving watching your process on this! I have a question and I don't mean to take a leak in your soup but why are you going through so much trouble matching it to the original? All of these photos from different angles, photoshopping overlays, etc., shouldn't the goal be to create something ...

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I must agree with Mac - good for you for demanding evidence and accepting no assumption. So much of what we believe we know about war in the Middle Ages is rooted in poor, inaccurate and out of date research. Challenge convention! Overturn the apple cart! Melt sacred cows! THAT is the true path of a...

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I do basically the same thing for bascinet liners, Roland. Cover the foam pieces in fabric so it looks like and can be sew into the helm like a period liner. I've found it works very well indeed.

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I assume this means that the skull was padded but that the sides, around your face, were not?

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Heck, by the time I was able to make it myself I wasn't so skinny anymore, either! Started hammer swinging a decade ago, but now that I have enough of the skills to attempt a 15th century harness at the age of 31, my waist doesn't quite fit the medieval ideal anymore.

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Thank you indeed! My plan was to use a fairly wide straight peen as it is my usual for most hot stretching/flaring, but I'll take your advice and give a round face hammer a try on that. The pattern I have roughed out is not in two halves but folds and gets welded at the crease, so the neck opening h...

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Mac, if you'd be so kind, I'd love to see your process and templates for the bevor when you get to it. I have one coming up really quick on my project list and the insight would be tremendously helpful. I have a rough pattern made up for one with a weld running down the medial crest, but that requir...

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Say Mac, maybe you addressed this before (and you'll have to forgive me, but there are 64 pages to this thread to possibly look through), but I'm curious if there was a reason you didn't do the poleyns in latten, as they appear to be on the statue. And thank you ever so kindly for taking the time to...

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I haven't read everything here, but I agree with the consensus that patterns are essential for beginners. Making armor of course requires a lot of different skills, but stock patterns help to alleviate a lot of the struggle that would only compound the difficulty of learning. It enables the new armo...

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FYI - you didn't actually post the rules here. I found them on facebook, though. I am very pleased to see this event taking place, both in the interest of more historically inspired combats, and because I'll have my Norse kit with me and not my full 14th C kit (which meant no Deed for me this year)....

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In conjunction with this, the used of padding under aventails becomes clearer. The entire top of one's shoulders are seemingly left exposed with appropriately sized spaulders, seemingly necessitating better protection there, beyond the obvious advantage for neck protection as well. I can see potenti...

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Second dibs on braies and chausses, if it falls through.

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Well met!

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I'll start at $75. I know its worth way more, but I don't have way more to offer...

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In the fall I'll be moving out to NH for grad school, attending UNH (Durham). While it is hard enough to have to leave behind all of my close friends, SCA and otherwise, I also fear not having any shop access too! I have admittedly been spoiled rotten with virtually free access to a well-stocked sho...

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Mac, what is your model number, manufacturer and battery life? Inhumanly good, so I can only assume you're a robot. And I want one.

Beyond impressive and inspirational as always. Can't wait for more, but take care of yourself. I can't imagine those robot joints are inexpensive to replace, haha.

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Not that I know any of you guys, but I'll be there for my first time. Seriously looking forward to it, and to hopefully meeting some archivers in person, especially the other Mafiosos fighting in the Deed.

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Get some old sweat pants. Cut them off at the knee. Draw a line that runs from the waistband, down th inside of your leg and back up to the waist on the side of your buttock. Cut that line. Then cut a line straight up the back of the leg and open it up - bingo, a pattern!

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18 ga 304 stainless.

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For all the work you'd put into #3 there you could just make an actual set of Milanese gaunts that aren't half so ugly. They really aren't any harder to make than these gaunts would be.

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I don't recall Thordeman's book saying much about healed wounds. The coifs were worn almost certainly by the Gotlanders (per my senior Thesis on Wisby, "Beyond the Soil of Gotland: Revisiting Thordeman's Wisby, unpublished), and there were no battles on Gotland within the lifetime of anyone present ...

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My suggestion with shaping the bycocket is to wear it and shape it in a hot shower. For real. Soak it, shape it and then put it on a mannequin head to dry. It may take some stretching and pulling to get it to fit right, but it should work fine.

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Well just frakking great. Between you and Zetheros, I pretty much have to stop working steel and leather both! I quit! Total jerks! :twisted: Seriously stunning work. The craftsmanship is tight and the artistic vision is cohesive and impressive. You've also sold me on this lamellar splints idea. I h...

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Randall,

in those examples you provided, I don't see anything to convince me that the hips were covered. The fronts I agree extend below the waist line, but the sides do not extend below the the waist or protect/restrict the hips.

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More important to me are the subtleties. Size be damned - are the lines right? Size is a function of use, line is a function of aesthetic and forming process, which are the important things to capture in reproducing a historical piece. Unless you're making a helm to fit a squirrel instead of a man, ...

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The front plates can extend below the navel, but a CoP will not cover the hips, nor extend below the waistline.

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Don't waste your time with butted mail. It simply gets torn apart and is usually needlessly heavy (because it has to be thick to resist getting destroyed). If you want to wear mail, you need riveted. Icefalcon is probably the best guy to get it from. http://store.fastcommerce.com/icefalcon/top-quali...

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Perhaps the rules differ in Northshield, but finger gauntlets can be legal if large solid plates cover the finger bones, rather than the scale-like plates. Padding I don't think even needs to be 1/4"; I know of several people (including the former KEM) that uses them with probably no more than 1/8" ...

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Sorry, its here. I have wanted something like this for years, these tutorial pics. Glad I found it. http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=6361

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disregard; I found the full series of pics that answered this question.

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I've browsed around Ye Olde Gaffers, and while his work is impressive, I don't recall ever seeing anything on how to do a sword belt Like I have above. He has the earlier method of running the belt through the leather of the scabbard, but not the method I am looking for. However, thanks for remindin...

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Heya! Is there a tutorial or anything that can show me how to do the fancy belt wrap around a scabbard, like so? I can't for the life of me, simply by looking at it, figure out how it was done. My search-fu is weak, since I don't rightly know what to search *for.* Thanks! http://artificers.us/images...

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I don't want to put a grill on it in the case that the bars do not correctly line up on the wearer's face and obscure their vision. I only do grills for people that I can meet up with in person.

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