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- Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Cuisse Leathers with Studs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3128
Re: Cuiss Leathers with Studs
I suspect that there are still grommet style eyelets that are hidden. This is an upper arm in Dresden https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHeniQyf6JzSmP5CwOQ2tP1iJzaJl2D_Mo8zN5d-Z1spWaYbvguGVyTM1GQjG9tLi5q1jneMcJKUEqOA5X7ormq7unaPnRX45lJ4DmEt_2ggrflQq7MR8Y_EQq7GUJ4w7AyARXAd5SJWRG-8g0nkmoU6MQ=w1...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: How do the grips of hand pavises work?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4272
Re: How do the grips of hand pavises work?
Not sure who has tried the 'bull's pizzle' handles. I was very skeptical about this until more or less recently. A couple of years ago there was a discussion (somewhere.. ) on Face Book about it. I was maintaining that the extant material looked like bovine leg tendon, and that the bull pizzle was ...
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:04 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Tony's blog
- Replies: 59
- Views: 35781
Re: Tony's blog
Your photos are now showing up now.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:18 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Tony's blog
- Replies: 59
- Views: 35781
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:05 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: FOUND! Armour of the English Knight, 1400–1450, by Tobias Capwell
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10205
Re: Wanted: Armour of the English Knight, 1400–1450, by Tobias Capwell
The publisher still seems to have copies available.
https://www.olympiaauctions.com/about-u ... s-capwell/
https://www.olympiaauctions.com/about-u ... s-capwell/
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:19 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Something completely different
- Replies: 105
- Views: 38910
Re: Something completely different
Now my own suit and helmet is in a wareable status, i will try to start with changing parts and a sallet with rotating bevor for try out its benefits and function. I noticed that a well shaped collar with a thin springy leathering is standing by itself, filling it with your body and textile garment...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:42 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Can anyone help me find this manuscript?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12970
Re: Can anyone help me find this manuscript?
Maybe Theuerdank?
Definitely gold armour and adventures but I don't recall red hair and forked beard.
Theuerdank YouTube video showing some of the manuscript
Definitely gold armour and adventures but I don't recall red hair and forked beard.
Theuerdank YouTube video showing some of the manuscript
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Armour museums in Vienna Austria.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1297
Re: Armour museums in Vienna Austria.
Unfortunately I think you are out of luck until the renovation is complete. I think what you are seeing, in the image from the article, are the armours crowded into a storage room during the renovation. In the past the museum was well worth the visit but like most museums most of their items were in...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1045675
Re: Mac's blog
Mac's grinding disk mounting & truing up process It's one of these guys. I spend a lot of time making them run nice and true and use them a low RPM. I described the truing process somewhere here... perhaps in the "cobwebs" thread. https://www.airgas.com/medias/CM-000000C1EN-Product-NOR66253049104-4...
- Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:21 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1045675
Re: Mac's blog
Scott,
Look through the images in Goll's thesis he has some good photos of A62 that show that the various latten borders are made in 2 layers.
You also can see here (KHM page for A58 gauntlets):
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/547358/
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:39 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Identify a harness??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4010
Re: Identify a harness??
I think that it was previously displayed in this configuration (2014) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nDhy_7wHNd3qiIIfQ3LdoKT5fDFfwFa2StQfavBvce4WQOvCXjHOiM75gX0hmKHK9euZhtASG1UriB8MuYpfjwz_mjeOB1824IVAumS8NqtuTWxpvgpYp7zAJ2vR2ZwVPJiSVPMsBNJzOegkAoTW1_S0aZL0lhSgmrh69Noh-rmbt8rZv_B5Q5nCdABU_got8gj2...
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:57 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How to clean a mail shirt
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3651
Re: How to clean a mail shirt
RexDavid when you say "original" do you mean that you have an extant historic artifact, something that is perhaps 400-500 years old?
Most of the above advice seems to be given with the idea that you have a modern reproduction.
Most of the above advice seems to be given with the idea that you have a modern reproduction.
- Tue May 25, 2021 9:44 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Splittens"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3833
Re: "Splittens"
I think if I were to go this route, I'd follow Mac's path and build a pair of mitten gauntlets, then cut them up the middle and install leathers down the "center" outsides, as this is how the gauntlet was actually constructed. If you go this route I'd suggest using a jewelers saw (using a #0 or #1 ...
- Tue May 25, 2021 9:03 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Splittens"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3833
Re: "Splittens"
Mac & I have been collecting images of bifurcated gauntlets on a Pinterest Board.
We have sections for examples from historic art, extant gauntlets &, for modern made pieces.
https://www.pinterest.com/macs_shop/bif ... gauntlets/
We have sections for examples from historic art, extant gauntlets &, for modern made pieces.
https://www.pinterest.com/macs_shop/bif ... gauntlets/
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armour Caliper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2259
Re: Armour Caliper
Here is a nice image showing how this caliper compares to a more conventional deep caliper. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0_EKVPHZRTvNfDKy_OrWRT2nFj29LvTimr39OZdYNQRW_XuZADNLk0e8MaMW3Bw2bnhv9FCZ109RGf-TYAgAJ_okb8UvzTC2ObnlnztbfUQhavzyVy86JTHz2CeBDkUYZH6CKWLDl0RaGO1PeHvVlQWcYr-TbugFPBqAj6-tYkkQrd...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 481
- Views: 104188
Re: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
New sleeve mods are looking much better. A few of comments: 1. Armpit cross grain joint, I would have expected it to be a bit wider. Maybe about 25%ish of sleeve circumference at the shoulder. If what you have works then it is not be worth messing with. 2. It is hard to tell in your photos but the c...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:12 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Sky's Blog
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3003
Re: Sky's Blog
Sky,
Have you sketched your design over a head profile?
Do you have a front view?
I think there maybe some things to learn here on paper that will save you time an frustration if they are learned with steel.
Have you sketched your design over a head profile?
Do you have a front view?
I think there maybe some things to learn here on paper that will save you time an frustration if they are learned with steel.
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 2:07 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
- Replies: 71
- Views: 52861
Re: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
Details of A62 gauntlet
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:47 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
- Replies: 71
- Views: 52861
Re: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
Ilkka Take a look through Mac's Blog thread where he is fitting the knuckle plate to the metacarpal and tweaking things and back to the same on his Dusting off the Cobwebs thread. Mac's Blog Page 13 Dusting off the Cobwebs Page 30 There is quite a bit of distortion in your photos that makes it harde...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Technique of blackening armour using cow or goat horn
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3706
Re: Technique of blackening armour using cow or goat horn
Mac wrote:Theophilus describes something similar for spurs and other small items in iron.
I think the text is probably online somewhere as well. Perhaps someone else has it bookmarked.
Mac
Internet archive has it
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 1:26 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 481
- Views: 104188
Re: A vision of a dream - cuirass speculation
also this one
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:00 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81623
Re: Pewter stuff...
Pics are visible to me.
This is an exciting project
This is an exciting project
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 481
- Views: 104188
Re: A vision of a dream - finished greaves
The Video Link works now. It is not clear but you also might benefit from revising the armpit construction of the sleeves. Could you take some photos of the armpit of the mail? Here are some photos of Wallace A1 https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7d/11/4f/7d114ffcccec0a63ddb38a2a8de21687.jpg https://i.pinimg...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:23 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 481
- Views: 104188
Re: A vision of a dream - finished greaves
A good place to start for sorting out the sleeves is to take a step back and mount straps instead of a fabric yoke. This will allow you to play with the fit and tension through adjusting the strap length. Once you find the strap lengths that work best you can use this to help with the proper size/pa...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A vision of a dream - mail sleeve alterations
- Replies: 481
- Views: 104188
Re: A vision of a dream - finished greaves
The mobility test video link gives me a permission error
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- Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:57 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Carter's Blog
- Replies: 99
- Views: 18897
Re: Carter's Blog
Carter, Added Note: You may be intentionally departing from the the two extant examples you referenced if so disregard the comments below. Also it looks like your sketches are closer to the RA example, it seems that CH19 that must be what I was thinking of when making the comments below. If you are ...
- Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:06 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
- Replies: 71
- Views: 52861
Re: 1480 Gothic Gauntlet progress
Scott, I have to set you straight about this; the combined weights of all the components of A 62 KMW is 47 lbs 12 oz. I doubt, even after aggressive cleaning to get the parts ready for Ferdinand II's 'Hall of Heroes' and subsequent cleaning (we must remember that old school cleaning basically meant...
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Actual Medieval Armour Weights / thicknesses
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4799
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:28 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Actual Medieval Armour Weights / thicknesses
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4799
Re: Actual Medieval Armour Weights / thicknesses
Here is some of the thickness info that Rene Kohlstruck has provided for us. Note red shaded parts are modern replacements. 15.th german sallet, exhibited at the GNM Nuremberg https://i.pinimg.com/564x/df/77/61/df7761132e89c88a34571e30f808ca78.jpg 15.th gothic breastplate at the GNM Nuremberg, artic...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:02 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: West Coast Armoury Backorders (Official) Last update Oct2014
- Replies: 57
- Views: 37643
Re: West Coast Armoury Backorders (Official) Last update Oct
He also has a FB page: West Coast Armoury - Armourwork by Brand Lancaster I hope that the people waiting on items/refunds really do get what they are due. (Bolding & enlarging below by me) West Coast Armoury - Armourwork by Brand Lancaster - October 18, 2019 · Shared with Public Armoury Update Resta...
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:31 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1045675
Re: Mac's blog
I had not seen these before! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/M086YFeybOADqnp-08rZrgAeX5jKArzOulv_zYJL6MRJLDDLU0GMftH8H7xoRUOCts8L3-EU8t_WL5ZHj1IVJIcs1vtL0m4edBuHBgvN0SLtZZbkpeGK5Hv6x2_uWzFhmWOfct_Gq6z6FZxG2Mpjb5aCFqK1TU8rOGJYmrWNmgQ8SxV7bQqpRkiL3-hRRxpjV7AndeuopuVR4YK1s7rSFvRyWOKDoikwhgApiUEViFtk...
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pics)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pi
Some finger & Thumb details from the Freiburg gauntlet https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gYWveY-epW7CbsUXL0T3S71Thr2flaBIJsdFbh94H_FsRjhPHniTGmq-5OvS6d8cf-XvCPbcN3zuC90hX0F8xmIqqSE2fCzOnIV0TAUrd5_exBHzgzO_MXSwXcEitcRbKlgRBE5U5HyMD8834AZBJAn6Qqaq7N08AX0XTzYRCD2L7n4cQs7M5ZItN1DbOYLgsNnmlaF8OqvnjE2BM1G...
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:17 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pics)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pi
Here is another set of images that show what I think is an often overlooked detail in reproductions. When viewed from the fingers the knuckle plate's arches can extend much deeper between the fingers than expected. E88 from Madrid (photo from Last Knight Exhibition at the Met) https://lh3.googleuser...
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 7:45 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pics)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pi
Tom, that Met gauntlet is gloriously over the top in the spiky department! that would take a lot of work to create enough volume so that it could be pulled back down to that spike. Interesting to see the cracking on the brass of the A62, I am curious whether that was cast or formed - the raised det...
- Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:09 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pics)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Making 1480 Gothic gauntlet knuckle plates (Updated / pi
Just because I dug them up here are some more photos: A62 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WxYyCUnewORFka57f2VLt2b1Wx-wsKF9P2A_tlgakPXQw9GJRhzZs25hSIIRJppZKIwDjuS7aKYPc5jU7ok-NXY1LMh5IIZAPGRZbxA7p7WFSBfVQt6TJ_NZfjqMqoUSnWuYpBCkvNuJ_lw0J-3XDAsqXDc4PXcKqd5aKt7AknTsJOKfIXpJd897bZrNEAwTqKnRhxblhc-YCt_v...