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Konstantin the Red

On e621.net, of all sites on the Interwebs... :shock: Keep those eyes peeled in that startled expression, you're in for a treat. Yes, it's that site that's thick with furry porn. But the moderators don't delete non-porn stuff... such as 15th/16th-century plate harness, nearly all of it palpably Ital...

Konstantin the Red

Thanks to everyone for the answers. But I had in mind a slightly different aspect of the question. Not HOW to build a castle, but WHY? How to use him, in terms of reenactment, events, and purposes ... What would you do if you had a small castle? Pour boiling oil down on door to door salesman... fli...

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[Applause] This looks like it's going to be a good recipe for some Armourcake, Johann! (I haven't used the cake-word in so long I thought I ought to capitalize.) I can imagine an international armorsmith of olden tyme looking over your blueprints: "Mhm. Mhm. Yes... yes indeed... and in other news to...

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rotccapt, can we get an update on this? I'm considering something similar and would love to hear what (if anything) you would do differently, and how well it has held up. I suppose the scheme of taking 2" or more wide springy steel pallet strapping, lightly cold-dishing it and snipping it into rect...

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Sorry, but I know no one around NYC. Anyone else got somebody? Some minutes' googling on "armor maker" and "NYC" might yield what you're looking for. And would that be SCA-style armour or more carefully historical style harness? This thread and the initial question lean to SCA gear. If so, inquiry w...

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I am curious if there have been any test comparisons between modern padding materials and ancient methods of it. Later period knights around the late 15th and early 16th century would have used their hair as padding to an extent, so I am curious what has been written and tested in that regard. Can'...

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My first and only crack at sleeves à grands assietes came out just fine. I was amazed at the superb mobility at the shoulder, even with a sleeve close-fitted to the forearm. I followed the pattern given in Tournaments Illuminated, lo these many years ago now. The method ran a) measurements and layin...

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I figure the medium-hold kind of Loctite would help the blingies stay on, yet be removable enough should there ever be need. Think LocTite comes in about three strengths? Mild, medium, and like welded shut forever?

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Nice, Patrick! You've come a long way from those plastic bearpaw gaunts of yore. Really quite a handsome rock-basic SCA bucket even with the mild faceting that's visible -- and getting better results with a basic daisy-top than most do. All in two working days, no less!

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Keeg, your arms will ease if you throw more columnar expansions into each elbow -- I can see the mail at your elbow is stretched to the max at present. You can get a naked-arm mobility by putting in the expansions. The expansion should begin right about at the distal and medial sides of your elbow j...

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Indeed, welcome back.

Konstantin the Red

You may also find "hausses," sounds like somebody not pronouncing "hoses" right. Same thing. They appeared as added defense of the neck against lance thrusts, and as you've heard, are a later feature.

Konstantin the Red

I too think this is a wood-hewer's tool to square logs into beams. The homicidal meataxes for war had centered blades, also flat of cross section through the blade, and oftener than not a pointier extended toe for some hook-and-thrust capability over a shield, for instance. Something that doesn't mu...

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FOR THE RESURRECT-O-THREAD

Thirteen months on, how'd this come out?

Konstantin the Red

Between Hal's post and this post, we skip 2020AD altogether, and do the Snoopy dance. Rattles real funny doing it in plate harness.

Konstantin the Red

C. Gadda wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:37 pm
Konstantin the Red wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:31 am A Will of Iron, and a Fred of Bronze.
Weird thread necro....

Though I had missed it BitD so I enjoyed going over it.

Yup, necro -- "Breathe, Little Thread!! Breathe and be Cute!" -- that being all I intended.

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One of those relative few gems, I hope, is Jamesedgarson and me thinking over What Is The Most Amateur Friendly Helm To Make? http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=169379 -- with me putting in everything I could think of for how to make simple barrelhelms fast and with teamwork....

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A Will of Iron, and a Fred of Bronze.

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Been to the Walters Art Gallery; it's everything they say it is. A collection with at least two executioners' swords in it is notable.

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The scenery and night sky is better here though. :wink: Being long ago bitten by the astronomical bug, I'd suggest saving for a 10" astronomical telescope of some type, like a Schmidt-Cassegrain or its cousin the Maksutov. Or save up less and get the same aperture in a Newtonian scope in a Dobsonia...

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Bonsoir et bienvenu, Hobo! Aluminum vs. steel: aluminum is most tractable in simple curvatures; compound curvatures (bulges) should be shallow things -- large radius. Aluminum fatigues quickly and severely, which makes it harder to hammer-form than you might like. Steel can be curved much more deepl...

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That bronzeish bicep piece -- I don't know what they called it back then -- seems to me a "piece of advantage," an optional extra for use in the tilt, adding to the safety of your arm. An item of sporting goods.

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Little bit of a revive, but I thought you folks would be interested to know that there's a new knockoff Whitney punch available, at Home Depot of all places. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/be/5f/92/be5f92651229c128efae1d70d6e76ba5.jpg https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stark-Portable-Metal-Hole-Power-Punch-Set...

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I would suggest you consider Scottish castles of the Z plan. There are many and they are smaller castles. Have a look. This. Basically, strong rectangular-plan stone houses, with stone towers kitty-cornered at either end. Popular in the Borders region, where it was hard to assemble a lot of capital...

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I'm using automotive-style clamp-on edging. It will pretty much stay on by itself, but I'm using adhesive also. The corners are stress points, which is why I want to reinforce them. Ayup. And nice helpful pic too. Gorilla Glue will save you drilling holes to mechanically fasten the corner pieces do...

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I faced my curved aluminum heater with light ounce leather to lend it some ballast - and display my device therewith using colored chrometanned. I cheaped out on the edging and just wired heater hose all around. In further stylistic sinning, I did not cover the back. Definitely none of the mundanity...

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Sounds like you'd construct them like you'd build a stitched-together pouch, rather in the fashion of a cartridge pouch. It's cut darts and stitch, if you get this fancy. Depends on whether you choose a boxy thing that embraces and covers a whole corner, or are just putting tabs either side of the c...

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French spelling... you can call them "sleeves à grands-assiètes" which seems to mean "sleeves à la giant armholes." Even for French, the phrase seems a little odd.

Sollerets, not "sorlettes." SOL-er-rets. (We *did* know what you meant.)

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Sounds like there's a selling point to use: Care & Maintenance Instructions that say Think of rivets as "wear and tear items", like tires or windshield wiper blades. That goes for all articulated joints; even SCA knees. ...with a bag of replacement rivets included in the price and the package -- say...

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I overheard a fellow at a construction worksite talking about a rather peculiar folding ruler he toted . . . "You've got something rare -- a scientific instrument. That's a folding meter stick." Well, dang; so it is. Rare? Depends on perspective I guess... the 1m ones are less common than the 2m on...

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I overheard a fellow at a construction worksite talking about a rather peculiar folding ruler he toted for its convenient size for quick little measurements -- funny length, he said: thirty-nine inches and change, total; clearly made that way and not cut down from something longer. "Turn it over!" I...

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What Galileo said, for the above reasons. I neglected to mention this time (though it's said in other threads) it takes at least four layers of cloth strips in the construction to get it strong enough for SCA rattan. The 2-layers-at-first trick is so it will dry to shape quicker than four or five. O...

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The biggest drawback is the missing neck protection - great bascinets were much longer in the neck while this one simply looks like an oversized bascinet. Unless you want to try for an early, c.1400, configuration -- with a two-piece neck protection. Roughly, front half and back half -- mightn't su...

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Thank you, things got a lot clearer, I will follow those confirmed examples. And that cross-eyed horse with tongue sticking out is pure gold. Most binocular equid I ever saw. @Mac: what an improvement over the nad-tasset of fame! I suspect, though, that "lamed codpiece" isn't the term we'd want to ...

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. . . a stylistic development of the Italian Sallet (often called a Chelata for reference). He'll probably want to look into getting greaves to hold up the knees - it's far more comfortable. The "vampire point" as you call it, is stylish and prevents lame gapping, but isn't a great option unless yo...

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