The Armour Archive

Jason Grimes

Awesome work, I like were these are going. On the construction steps I would have gone a completely different direction, but I'm weird like that. :) This is just my 2 cents, YMMV. I would have done most of the work from the inside, pushing the metal out where it is needed. First I would have worked ...

Jason Grimes

I have a very easy method to make and set pins, might even be the historical method. Punch the hole for the pin 1/32" smaller than the diameter of the rod you want to make the pin from. On one end of the rod I reduce the diameter by drawing it out a bit on the anvil. I try to be careful here and mak...

Jason Grimes

I reverted the model and made it more knock kneed (I had to look that up

). I also included an image of the models I have for both female and male to see how you feel about them. The female is on the left, the male on the right.

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Jason Grimes

I'm going to just make incremental changes so I don't get too discombobulated. I have resized the pelvis, does this look better?

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Jason Grimes

Jason, That's certainly intriguing. Have you got an option for a more masculine pelvis?... or can the one that's there simply be narrowed a bit? I can, with in limits, too much and it will just look like a squashed pelvis. :) How easy it is to pose? If, for example, I post a side view that I like c...

Jason Grimes

I have a human skeleton which I can pose in Blender. Would this work for you? front.jpg side.jpg I can look at this from any angle and have any pose you wish. I can even scale it, or parts of it. The images above are isometric so they have no projection issues. I can look at them with a projection t...

Jason Grimes

At this point our intrepid armourer has finished his task. The customer did the heat treatment, grind and polish, and the final assembly and strapping. It's looking really awesome.

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Jason Grimes

Fluting the taces:

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The flutes on the taces is finished:

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Jason Grimes

Continuing to adjust the lames of the backplate:

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Rolling the edges of the arm holes on the backplate:

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Fluting and rolls are finished:

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Jason Grimes

These next images show the backplate disassembled for fluting:

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Fluting the main backplate:

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And adjusting the flutes so they match:

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Jason Grimes

Another image of the construction of the culet:

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Here the culet is set up and you can see the lines drawn in for the flutes on the backplate.

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Fluting the culet:

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Jason Grimes

Next is a test fit of the backplate, heating the fauld to get a good fit to the plackart, and the start of the culet.

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Jason Grimes

I have been negligent in getting the new images out, so lots to catch up with.

We continue our journey with more pictures of the plackart and the start of the fauld:

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Jason Grimes

As long as the program you use has the ability to have layers, you can do what you wish. Basically you setup a background layer with the image you want, and then create another layer to draw on. The layers are separate and will not interfere with each other (unless you want them to), so you can even...

Jason Grimes

Awesome, thanks Zubeydah!!

The only thing wrong I saw was on page 12, did you want Wade Allen instead of Wade Callen?

Jason Grimes

Wallace A 274 does have the working-life glove sewn to the leather metacarpal strip on the pinkie side; can't see the other. This is what I was thinking that they are there for, do you think it might be because it has more lames than are used in the past for gauntlets? Is this the one? http://walla...

Jason Grimes

I use the wires to mostly test articulation, quick and easy. I think having a loop on one end might make them nicer to use.

Jason Grimes

Not to get distracted from the idea of tools, but here is something I just now noticed about the pouldron in the Burgkmair Weisskunig print. It is temporarily assembled by passing wires through the rivet holes, just like the parts awaiting polishing by Hanns Muller in the Hausbuch der Landauerschen...

Jason Grimes

[ This is a question that has bothered me for decades. I think that the short answer is that the armorers or old could get by with fewer tools than we moderns have because they were the right tools. I've got dozens of stakes and just as many hammers, but most of them just gather dust. They are spec...

Jason Grimes

This is something that I would like to get some opinions on, especially yours Mac. Looking at the famous woodcut of Konrad Seusenhofer's workshop, there are not many stakes on the workbench. Just working from memory I think there were around 5? Do you think that this would have been enough? I know y...

Jason Grimes

Adding sliding rivets also gives you a little bit of lateral movement as well, just to add my 2 cents.

Jason Grimes

I was just ribbing Signo, that is why I added the emoji. :) I would really like to play around with a large trip hammer some time for sure. Also Patrick was suggesting a treadle hammer as well, and I'm seriously thinking of building one to see if it would work. I don't have the space for a power ham...

Jason Grimes

I have mixed feelings about this experiment: On one hand I want to see how it turns out and if it's really doable a bascinet this way, on the other hand I fear that this stock maybe too much to work by hand and that this may wear your body. That's why you get a striker or two, to help with the init...

Jason Grimes

You're off on the right track.

Excellent!

Jason Grimes

I've pretty much got both helmets ground with the 40gr, and I am starting to work on the sallet with 180gr. You may have been told that you had to use a all of intermediate grits or you will go straight to Hell, but this is not true. The biggest jump you can make is usually the best choice. It save...

Jason Grimes

How about this one? Looks like it was made for export like the helmet, short, and rounded. Maybe this one used to have the mail collar? Kunsthistorisches Museum?

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Jason Grimes

Yay!! Awesome.

Jason Grimes

Hey shamelessPuck, Do you use some oil when you punch? That will definitely help if you don't. I think that if you don't want to punch the extra holes for the heat treat that you will have to build some kind of frame or clamping system which might be a lot more work than the extra holes. You can alw...

Jason Grimes

That is very interesting Bertus, I'm thinking it's the equivalent of what we call a "hold down" or "hold fast" today. https://www.iforgeiron.com/uploads/monthly_2016_08/holdfast.jpg.866ebf04ac6538f8d4467e61859611e7.jpg http://www.metalartistforum.com/maf/uploads/monthly_10_2010/post-924-128595180659...

Jason Grimes

Also it might be helpful to think about this from a different angle. Instead of trying to imagine a tool, we should list those operations which would need such a tool. I suspect that there are many different techniques that could be used inplace of the tool?

Jason Grimes

Hi Tableau,

For right now yes.

Jason Grimes

Excellent, have you done more on it?

Jason Grimes

And finally, adjusting the pauldrons and neck lames of the bevor.

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Jason Grimes

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Fitting up the fauld...

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Jason Grimes

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Adjusting the flares on the front and back plackart...

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And doing the test fit...

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