The Armour Archive

Kristoffer

So is there a good alternative to the roper whitney punch available in Europe? And what sort of punch is it you use? I imagine it must be a bench mounted one since a handheld won't be strong enough? I have bought mine from Ebay and from Trick Tools in the US. I can always buy another so if you want...

Kristoffer

Invest in a proper 50x2000mm belt grinder with a VFD. I bought mine from a guy called Marcin Jucha whom I found on Facebook. I can really recommend it, it is a good investment. You will however need a variety of wheels and addons for the grinder to allow it to do everything you want. A buffing machi...

Kristoffer

Here are a couple of alternative approaches. 1. Roll first method around a brass wire. Melt brass wire out once shaping is done. This gives a round, hollow roll that can be hot worked with a chisel from the outside to sculpt the roping. For finer roping, just roll over a wire, chisel and file the ro...

Kristoffer

Build the pattern out of cardboard stock and try how it fits. Cardboard is cheap, fast to make iterations in and easy to mess around with in the comfort of your kitchen or living room.

Kristoffer

I am jumping in with some hopefully helpful input here. To make things easier when designing leg articulation you can think of the knee assembly, the cop and lames, as symmetrical on both sides as the "default". To accommodate the "S" curve in the leg, you can tilt the connection between the cuisse ...

Kristoffer

I got mine from a local farmer that use firewood to heat his house.

You can also post a wanted ad in your local facebook sales group.

Or find someone who sells firewood who lives close to you.

Kristoffer

German gothic armour seems to have used sliding rivets frequently wich allows things to be built more "straight" since the sliding rivets takes care of a lot of angles and curves. If you look in Macs Blog post, he has a nice "chapter" on building some gothic gauntlets, that should help you a lot.

Kristoffer

I am not sure I can help you enough through written means, but I will try to give you some pointers. There is very little that is symmetric in a gauntlet and bad modern gauntlets are often built with an abundance of symmetry. This is very different from how historical gauntlets look and are made. Th...

Kristoffer

So, I finally got some time to do the initial rough shaping of the skull. I pushed in the welds, roughly folded out the neck line (so now it can be placed on my head) and roughly pushed in the start of the comb. Everything is quite wonky at this point but that will be taken care of when I refine all...

Kristoffer

This is what I do to get google image pictures to work:

I move the pictures to a shared folder, then go to the folder, open first picture, right click and "open in new window", then copy the URL from the new window. That URL I can then post here.

Repeat for each picture.

Kristoffer

It looks like Tableau has not put the images in a shared google images folder.

Kristoffer

Yesterday I was able to get the patch welded in place and I should now be ready to shape the top. I expect that I will have to make a stake for the comb at some point. The rest of the shaping should more or less just happen with a flat faced hammer over air, over a stake and against the anvil. As a ...

Kristoffer

It really just refuses to puddle or weld on the inside of a seam for me, I only get sputtering and heat. I'm guessing all of it needs to be cleaned thoroughly. This is more or less what I do in my own shop if I will tig weld anything. - I wipe off the pieces on both sides using acetone and fresh ra...

Kristoffer

Really curious as to how you manage to weld the seams on the inside. You'll have to show me one day! Jan Everything was done with a TIG. Ideally one use a short back cap and a transparent gas cup and a swivel head. Unfortunately, we did not have any of those things but managed to do it anyway. I wi...

Kristoffer

Ok, so the can is now welded both on the inside and outside and the outside welds have been ground flush. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV87YhRtB4ZdeQ_Rd0Pnlzu7PizCnFX8JZWys2LL4rgVaEJWAXV7OrMfDwIuex0_qkDSPdJhJBrHFZt9mqjjt8y9aiQqTHuK_TLVdPWrZURnJyrj4e5PtE0DmJGldm6Z1xjouPgQ-_-hC0kJJDTtBkym4=...

Kristoffer

I am planning to do that. I found myself a few millimeters short, wich was annoying. I have updated the pattern to correct this. I would not want to hammer anything that has a slit in the edge, that is to ask for cracks.

I am eager to progress on this, unfortunately some holidays got in my way.

Kristoffer

Ok, so welding is done, except that the last weld will need to be melted from the inside as well. It will have to wait until next year when I hope I can do it, then trim the welding tabs and clean up the edges and welds on the outside and get to shaping the can into a more helmet like shape. The bot...

Kristoffer

I used a jigsaw with a very low teeth count to cut everything. A fine tooth blade will overheat and be useless very fast on anything thicker than 1mm C45 steel so a blade rated for thicker than the metal you are cutting is needed. You also need to make sure the sheet is not vibrating even slightly o...

Kristoffer

Mac has a nice pinterest board for this:

https://pin.it/6LOkkdD

Kristoffer

I made the whole helmet, not just half. Mainly just for fun. The product I used was just cheap canned foam. If I would want to do a more finished sculpted helmet, I would probably use insulation board like XPS or possibly carving foam and glue and just skip canned foam. Carve with an exacto knife un...

Kristoffer

Soooo, long time no posting. Covid happened and I did actually sell my house and move half way across the country and is now living on the island of Gotland, just outside of the city of Visby. I am renovating my house and will not be able to get my shop renovated probably two more years. I have some...

Kristoffer

Nice legs! We are eagerly waiting for you to get to the (even more) interesting parts.

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Kristoffer

Looking very nice. Are you doing long tassets with detachable knees?

Kristoffer

I am happy to see that Lumpy is getting some more attention!

Kristoffer

A bit late here perhaps, but there is always the option of a 16th century fantasy armour alla romana if all else fails.

Kristoffer

So the next step now is to drill and file a whole bunch of little lillies? Do you finish the piercework before drilling the holes for attachment rivets?

Kristoffer

Sky, I believe this thread might have valuable information for you:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=157286

Kristoffer

A quick update is in order. I was able to get my hands on an actual 16th century upper back gorget lame so now I have a good idea of how the shaping should be done. I shall see if what I have can be reshaped reasonably or if I will start over. It will however have to wait since I am in the middle of...

Kristoffer

Are they made for you? Could we ask for pictures of you wearing them as well?

Kristoffer

Hah! Its funny how Toby looks just like one of those squires wearing his knights helmet with a big grin on his face!

Kristoffer

Damn, now you have to invest in a new gas saver.

Kristoffer

Mac is right. If you are set on that style, the one in chicago would be more fitting for a normal human being.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106314/sallet-barbuta

Kristoffer

Oh, you were looking for the maker of the one in the picture! Sorry, language confusion..

Kristoffer

Are you talking about a closed sallet? Jiri made one for Tom. But I think Mac made one for Toby as well?

https://www.pinterest.se/pin/182325484892775621/

Kristoffer

That is Albert Collins from Via Armorari in Sweden. But several people have made this kind of articulation.

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