The Armour Archive

Steve S.

That sure looks interesting. I wonder how it would perform if you drove it with compressed air rather than oxygen. Probably would not work as a cutting torch, but what about as a tool for heating metal for hot work?

Steve

Steve S.

Honestly, this doesn't look far off the mark:

https://www.museumreplicas.com/monks-robe-and-hood

Compared to some of these guys:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... pietro.JPG

Steve

Steve S.

That is very interesting, Sean! Thanks for the other period sources, all!

Steve

Steve S.

I found this: http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/Early-Academic-Dress.html In 1222 at the Council of Oxford Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Caterbury, ordered clerks to wear the cappa clausa, and he thus introduced into England the clerical outdoor dress already in use on the Continent. The result o...

Steve S.

I am looking to make some medieval academic regalia.

From the limited googling I've done, it looks like it's essentially clerical gowns.

Anyone have any leads?

Steve

Steve S.

This is some of the best looking reproduction maille I've seen. On par with Erik Schmid.

I never was able to reproduce the overlap well.

Steve

Steve S.

Most coat of plate foundations, or "jupons", are essentially a poncho. Some of them are an inverted T shape where the top of the T wraps around the torso. If you can purchase a mannequin, it helps. You can get a junk mannequin from many sources. Then, don a t-shirt and have someone cover it in strip...

Steve S.

I have not had a lot of luck with the wayback machine traversing deep links to pictures and such, but in this case it seems to be working. Thanks.

Edit: I was able to get images for all but the last 3 pauldron images, which I do not need.

Steve

Steve S.

There used to be a web site with all of the Battle of Wisby armours reconstructed.

Anyone have the link or an archive?

Steve

Steve S.

My sister in law makes knock-offs of simple Etsy woodworking projects and sells it to the soccer moms in her upscale neighborhood for insane money. Like a simple 2x4 planter holder for your porch with your favorite team name painted on it for like $200. If you took it to a roadside flea market you w...

Steve S.

Scrap sheet metal can almost always be put to some kind of use.

Coats of plates are fine in 18GA mild. Some kinds of gauntlets can be made from thinner sheet metal also.

Steve

Steve S.

Flowers.

Steve S.

Yeah one of the frustrating things for me to discover as a newb was that "patterns" on the internet almost never are real patterns, or at least, patterns that will do you any good. They are more like "suggestions". :) Ultimately you will need to make the item, and then adjust the pattern to fit. Lea...

Steve S.

Cian, that is one of my favorite helm/visor styles.

Steve

Steve S.

Looks great. I've got a armour publication around here in print in the library somewhere that goes into leather arm harness in a very similar manner, but it was actually nailed to a last and heat treated, then gessoed, painted, and gilded.

Steve

Steve S.

The pattern archive has some examples: http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/ I made the one by Alan Baldree. If I did it over again I would change the top front piece so that the front lower piece does not jut forward so much. You should consider the first article a prototype used to refine your pa...

Steve S.

Fantastic stuff!

Steve

Steve S.

Man. I don't understand all the folks wiling to let a vendor off the hook for shipping problems. When I buy something online, I am paying a vendor to handle both the product and shipping it to me. The fact that the vendor contracts with someone to do some work on their behalf is not my problem. And ...

Steve S.

Amazing work!

Steve

Steve S.

I agree that surface prep is essential, and you want to thoroughly clean/degrease the metal before blackening. Acetone works well. Also I agree that an oven works well for uniform heating. A couple of months ago my wife seasoned some cast iron with olive oil and baked it in the oven over a cookie sh...

Steve S.

Looks good!

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Steve S.

Here is an article I wrote a long time ago on the subject:

https://www.arador.com/armour/how-to-make-armor/

Steve

Steve S.

From experience, I can tell you that armouring in an apartment is going to be very difficult. The biggest problem is noise. Your neighbors are not going to want to hear you beating on metal. When I moved into an apartment, I switched to making maille. Even that was noisy, but I did it indoors withou...

Steve S.

Curt nailed it. People wanted "buddy" pricing. A lot of people went in with the stary-eyed idea of getting paid to do what you were doing for fun before, but burned out finding that all their free time was being consumed and/or they were basically making things for people for free. Today you basical...

Steve S.

They look great! I am curious how your stitching goes with the fingers riveted to the metacarpal. I did not go that route with mine; I simply stitched the leather to the back of the hand of the glove - that keeps the ends of the finger strips from pulling out from under the metacarpal. I could see t...

Steve S.

Prior to 1400, it seems that most maille was made of alternating rows of riveted and solid rings. After 1400, it is predominately all-riveted. There are exceptions. There are now tons of sources on the web for how to make riveted maille. You will want to decide if you want to make it using round riv...

Steve S.

You might want to check out my pictures of my Wisby #3 gauntlets here: http://www.forth-armoury.com/photo_gallery/wisby_gauntlets/Prototype/my_wisby_gauntlets.htm The articulation point needs to be very near the end of the lame, as Mac pointed out. The articulation on the Wisby #3 thumb is not very ...

Steve S.

The rope cap is neat. Are the coils just stitched together?

Steve

Steve S.

Count Adamar of Meridies has a shovel-faced helm that he had brass or bronze plated, you could ask him.

Steve

Steve S.

There's a fellow in Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight by Edge and Paddock that I believe is 14th century with a kettle hat.

Steve

Steve S.

You're not going to get metal fume fever using acid to eat away the zinc. Now if you try and burn it off, possibly. As was pointed out, the fumes given off by the acid are corrosive by themselves. So I would do this outdoors and away from anything you don't want exposed to acidic fumes. If you go th...

Steve S.

Here is how I made a simple, cheap, portable pell:

http://www.forth-armoury.com/photo_gall ... l/pell.htm

Steve

Steve S.

I love templates. You can be virtually assured, however, that they are never going to work exactly right. Even if someone gives you a template that is perfectly constructed and guaranteed to produce a specific item, the odds of the finished piece fitting you are pretty slim. Then you'll adjust your ...

Steve S.

I get facebook messages from Indian guys all the time calling me "Friend" wanting to sell me stuff. I can't tell if it is the heads of the armour workshops (some are I know as I recognize the names) or if they are some of the actual armourers themselves going independent, which I think is also somet...

Steve S.

If you're buying armour the seller should be willing to tell you all the details about the materials and how they were hardened. I'm not concerned about that at all. I'm saying you can't take anyone's word for it when they show up on the field with it. "Oh, I think the guy I bought it from said it ...

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looking for the website with all the Battle of Wisby armours

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