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- Sun May 15, 2022 7:44 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: St. George 1410ish With Hourglass Mitten Gauntlets
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3722
Re: St. George 1410ish With Hourglass Mitten Gauntlets
The back plate is certainly interesting.
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Carter's Blog
- Replies: 99
- Views: 17576
Re: Carter's Blog
Wow! I've been off the archive for a bit. Carter, you have done a lot of work and it looks really great!
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Bascinet build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2245
Re: Bascinet build
Wow! Nice work.
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:34 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: German Copper smith videos
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2017
German Copper smith videos
Hi, There is a whole series of German videos from the early 60's that show crafts that are disappearing. I found these copper smithing videos that show some interesting hammers. No water powered hammers. preview 12 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWGhNBoW6Q&list=WL&index=2&t=0s full video 51 mi...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Where is this?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1033
Re: Where is this?
Is this armour belonging to Ian LaSpina?
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:20 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Looking for photo showing asymmetric gauntlets
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2142
Looking for photo showing asymmetric gauntlets
I seem to remember a photo showing a knight with different gauntlets on each hand. 1 fingered and the other articulated plate. 15c? And I remember it from here.
Anyone remember them?
Anyone remember them?
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:30 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Tod and Co's Arrows vs. Armour Test
- Replies: 47
- Views: 26426
Re: Tod and Co's Arrows vs. Armour Test
So this raises the question for me: "How did Medieval armours determine how thick to make the armour?"
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Broadband helmets (Bandhelme) = Spangenhelme?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1517
Re: Broadband helmets (Bandhelme) = Spangenhelme?
I think the first one is actually an very early SCA helm. The rivets look like the head of a nail.
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
- Replies: 766
- Views: 137835
Re: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
In the mean time, though, I've been experimenting with brass borders. I started with a well annealed strip of .032" (.8mm) C260 brass, and tried to get it curved enough to rivet onto a knee cop from the dung heap. The trick is to get it bent around with its inner edge off the anvil surface.... Mac ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:59 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
- Replies: 766
- Views: 137835
Re: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
Chuck, do you know of anyone else who has information on that hammer other than Boccia? I will see if he says anything about the size, the pictures of Tod's reproductions seem to have the same sort of proportions as the B&W photo of the original. I don't think I saw it when I was in Venice, I visit...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
- Replies: 766
- Views: 137835
Re: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
I have only cast bronze once (from a horse**** and straw and grog mould in a clay furnace) but I think that the 'fire-breathing dragon' warhammer in Italy was made that way, and casting the ottone rondel around a iron pin would probably work. That bronze/steel war hammer has a steel core that is al...
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:01 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My latest rings; watershed feature
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5191
Re: My latest rings; watershed feature
Is there a cross-sectional drawing of the watershed overlap?
- Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: To Whom Should I Go to Make This?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 712
Re: To Whom Should I Go to Make This?
Try posting to the For Sale forum as a Looking for post
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:47 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
- Replies: 766
- Views: 137835
Re: The Palazzo Ducale bascinet.
Hey Mac, For the visor, are you using your visor form?
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:20 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 736217
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
That maille looks too long for my taste.
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: We just lost Tom Justus.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1707
Re: We just lost Tom Justus.
We have lost a good man. I shall miss him.
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
I propose a raid on Mac's shop to obtain that scrap pile!
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Hey Mac, On the bifurcated gauntlets of Charles the 5th, The plates on the inside are articulated on leather, so there are not plates rubbing on each other
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:07 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Advice on working with stainless steel for plate?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1778
Re: Advice on working with stainless steel for plate?
I use a 4 lb steal hammer for my 13g stainless bascinets. For 12g mild steel, I use a 3lb leather faced hammer.
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Ya know...your little pointy salad would look good on the composite armour (1440-80) in the Royal Armoury
[img width=850]https://collections.royalarmouries.org/ ... 5572_2.jpg[/img]
alright, how do I set the width of a photo to 850?
[img width=850]https://collections.royalarmouries.org/ ... 5572_2.jpg[/img]
alright, how do I set the width of a photo to 850?
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:31 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Ok, My question is that this barbute seems to be dated to mid-century, why not stop rib or rolled bottom edge?
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:50 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Thanks Mac, posting photos can be a pain.
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
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- Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:58 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Sorry, it was not Tommaso Missaglia. It is signed by the unknown Maestro P. Of Lombardy and is in the Met. They have it attributed to Pietro da Castello (Italian, Brescia, documented 1469–86, died before 1498)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22223
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22223
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:24 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
I have it at home. but it is tall and does not have a rolled lower edge or an opening stop rib.
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:24 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Hey Mac,
Do you have a reference photo of the early barbute by Tommaso Missaglia?
Do you have a reference photo of the early barbute by Tommaso Missaglia?
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:09 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Source on clothes being donated by Nobles?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1015
Re: Source on clothes being donated by Nobles?
From the life of William Marshall Just a note: even on his death bed, William first and foremost thought about his household knights. On 13 May, the day before he died, when asked what to do with the rich robes which lay in his wardrobe, the Earl, ignoring his clerk Philip’s suggestion, would have t...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:46 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Number 2 has a lovely BOLD crest. I like it!
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Make sure the toluene is completely dry before getting anything close to it that has a flame or even a spark. The stuff is highly flammable. It does not need a flame to start. Careful!
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:08 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I made my little daughter a Gothic half-harness.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2740
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:06 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Ohhh, that sounds like serious surgery! Good Luck Mac.Mac wrote: I think I can grind open the crest in the middle and then re-weld and reshape it to look better. Wish me luck!
Mac
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:33 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 931297
Re: Mac's blog
Those marks look like Missaglia? But I can't see them straight on.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Brass Rivets on a Helm?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 899
Re: Brass Rivets on a Helm?
Check with your kingdom's Earl Marshal for rules on rivets.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:32 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Raising armour like chocolate pudding?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1854
Re: Raising armour like chocolate pudding?
Wade, didn't you and Valerius(Aaron) use the squash technique for the "Baseball Hat"?
- Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 736217
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
Mac, If you need your shop cleaned out, I can be there in 20 hrs or so. :D Valerius would get frustrated with a project from time to time and put it in the trash! That was my cue to start sweeping the shop and taking out the trash. When I would lift the trash can, he would yell "put that down" and t...