The Armour Archive

woodwose

The ash poles I use in this video came from Peavey, the place that Otto linked to... https://youtu.be/FJPJsYC6wEA?t=328 They seem pretty happy to do custom work. The poles I got are 10' and 16' ash pickpoles with dowel shaped ends instead of handle shaped ends. 15 or so years ago they also made me a...

woodwose

I was going to post more about this but the longer post I had did not post for whatever reason... anyways, here's a short video of what I've been up to lately with my 16th century mountain hiking/climbing thing: https://youtu.be/BRaInoQpPxk I have a bunch more of the same kind of stuff in a playlist...

woodwose

... as for the tongs - that does look like a nice collection of useful ones to have. Some look more "handmade", which could be either a good or bad thing depending how they are. I would buy any of those tongs if I found them at one of the local antique tool shops.

woodwose

Not counting the tools, I think it is way overpriced at $1200 for an anvil of that size and condition. I usually buy used tongs for $15 to maybe $30 for each one.

woodwose

Seems I've read somewhere about a mixture of linseed oil and soot. I cant remember where. I'm thinking it would be painted on and fired, but maybe just painted on and allowed to dry? Basically a lampblack oil paint. Lamp black / soot mixed with linseed oil is a legitimate way to make black oil pain...

woodwose

So i'm sure the detail on the print is a kind of artistical freedom to show the viewer the characteristically atributes of the guys that are shown. The possibility that the artist forgot to reverse the details for the woodcut is quite likely. sounds good to me. I've worked in printing for a while a...

woodwose

http://mailmaker.tripod.com/climbing/chamoiss.jpg full image: http://mailmaker.tripod.com/climbing/chamois.jpg Off and on for the last few years I have been working on getting together a recreation of kit for one of these chamois hunters from the Triumph of Maximilian. I found a place that makes a ...

woodwose

I don't have a stake plate, but have glued up thick leather to the sides of my tapers to make the fit holes in my stump... I wonder if doing something like that could work to snug up the fit in a stake plate.

woodwose

TravisM wrote:Any landsknecht clothing going up for sale?

Not at the moment. I have a few personal clothing projects to finish up then I hope to start making some stuff for people.

woodwose

with the summer event season pretty much cancelled I've decided it is time to start selling off things I have been saving up to sell at events. All my own handiwork. I plan on adding more items as I have time.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 0217989131

woodwose

an observation that might be of interest - I've been wearing symmetrical cow mouth hosen and shoes for years and they do eventually develop a sort of preference for left or right, but I can wear mine on either without discomfort As to the "handedness" (footedness?) of cowmouth shoes, the Durer drawi...

woodwose

I guess its almost time for me to go to New York again

woodwose

Someone told me once that fencing me is creepy as heck because of my helm, and that I should stick a gopro camera on my opponent so I could see... So, I finally did that. Also with this video, I wanted to play around with a high frame rate so the video goes from normal speed when we are just standin...

woodwose

The faint lines in the gap could be Pentimento - details of the painting that were altered but are still faintly visible through the alterations... happens a lot in renaissance art. But also, I do seem to recall some of Christ's tormentors from a painting by Bosch had sores and bandages (really weir...

woodwose

Make sure that you have plenty of ventilation in your work space if you are burning propane. For my small propane forge I keep a roll-up garage door at least half open and another door open for good air flow. Its for venting out carbon monoxide which is a byproduct of burning propane. If I'm doing a...

woodwose

wow... so a few weeks ago I finally got set up for gas welding. I remembered this thread from a while back and wanted to try out this method, so I went into the search function to look it up... I read through it during my lunch break. now I get home and decide to stop in and see what has been going ...

woodwose

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=102862&hilit=cranach Its finally almost time for an update on this project I started thinking about nine years ago. Here is a public photo album on facebook for this project: https://www.facebook.com/matthew.johnston.77985/media_set?set=a.2...

woodwose

This one is from Matthaus and Veit Konrad's "First Book of Fashion" http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-conten ... ge-113.jpg

woodwose

Here is "A signboard for a schoolmaster" a painting by Hans and Ambrosious Holbein, from around 1516. http://blogs.litnet.co.za/abrham/files/2010/01/0c10d936-7c26-46cb-b8c6-28de407558f1.jpg and the other half of the sign... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambrosius_Holbein_-_Signboard_for_a_...

woodwose

...also, I try to avoid using electric hand tools when its cold. Angle grinders make a very cold wind on my hands, and the physical action of filing the crap out of something by hand warms me a bit.

woodwose

Keep an extra pair of gloves in the inner breast pocket of your coat where they will be warmed by your body heat. When the gloves you are wearing get cold switch them out for the ones in your coat... Might have to do that every few minutes, but thats how i keep my hands warm. Where i am in Maine it ...

woodwose

Have you heard anything on your chairs yet? I tried contacting him a couple times before this last Pennsic and never heard from him. I couldn't make it to Pennsic, but once again arranged for people from my camp pick up the chairs and pay off what was owed. I guess it took several visits to his tent...

woodwose

I have mine sitting in the weighted pedestal base of a barber's chair. The base has a hole in the top where the chair would fit into it, and the leg of the vise is held tight with wooden and steel wedges driven in around it... this does not hold it as tight as I would like so I am thinking about fil...

woodwose

...somehow I dont get the point in taking all the effort to get rid of oil and fat and in the next step applying it... Clean the metal off, down to just the metal, and you will get a more even finish when applying something else to it... Leave a bunch of greasy gunk, then try to coat it with someth...

woodwose

I wonder, do they have no laws against dueling in peaceful Germany? Here in the ultraviolent United States of Amurderca this would get shut down quick. In Maine laws against dueling were repealed in the 1990's... Bangor police actually broke up a few duels in downtown, not because there were people...

woodwose

I liked the part where the guy tried to drown the other guy, but I turned it off after that because I had better things to do... like post my review here.

woodwose

The red and black background looks a lot like Lukas Zeiner, but the quality of the faces in yours is far superior. I've now looked at some of Lukas Zeiner's work and read up on him a bit. He was active a few decades before when I thought this looked (judging by details of clothing, and artistic sty...

woodwose

I'm inclined to think that it's a modern piece for several reasons.... --my first impression of the faces said "modern" --the armor has features that put it at odds with what a 16th C artist should know. The overlap direction of the tassets is not the usual one, and the knee armor is strange. --the...

woodwose

oh, here is that edge that I peeled open a little bit:

This is on the bottom edge under the piece that says Zurich.

woodwose

I think it had some restoration done at some point... Here is a picture where I can see some old grout that is sort of reddish brown, and newer stuff that is gray. Both are nearly gone, and I usually find a couple more crumbs have fallen out each time I lift the panel or turn it over (which is not o...

woodwose

Thanks for the input... here are a few measurments: The overall size is 335mm wide by 425mm tall. the came is a pretty consistent 4mm (or roughly 1/8"), a hair narrower in areas where it has been formed into a more domed shape. The surface of the came is mostly flat, but slightly rounded/dome shaped...

woodwose

...and no, the price was no typo. My parents are amazing flea market pickers and found this for $3.50

woodwose

A while back my parents bought a piece of stained glass for me at a flea market in Florida. They sent me some pictures of it and asked if I thought it was worth $3.50... from the pictures I thought it looked like a modern reproduction, something that could be found a museum gift shop or mail-order c...

woodwose

Also, you don't need to wait for them to be made.

woodwose

Oh my... sorry for doing such a lousy scan of that 17 years ago

Re: Spear Shafts - Hickory?

what I've been up to lately

Re: Thoughts on this anvil/tools listing on Craigslist?

Re: Thoughts on this anvil/tools listing on Craigslist?

Re: Technique of blackening armour using cow or goat horn

Re: Hunting knife question

Hunting knife question

Re: Pexto question

Re: Starting to sell off my stockpile

Starting to sell off my stockpile (1500's gear)

Re: 2-Piece Shoe Last

Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili

Gopro on helm

Re: Sewn into your hosen?

Re: Workshop temperature vs cold dishing

Re: Breastplate from a can?

Leaded glass window

Re: Where is this fauldstool from?

Re: Where is this fauldstool from?

Re: Working in the cold

Re: Working in the cold

Re: Known World Treasures - Woodworker

Re: stand question for a leg vise

Re: Oil-Blackening Mild Steel

Re: Live steel. Without armor.

Re: Live steel. Without armor.

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: stained glass: is this piece authentic?

stained glass: is this piece authentic?

Re: For Sale: Albion Maestro Line

Re: I wanna be a LANDSKNECHT