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?
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- Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:30 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Gas torch setup? Hmm
- Replies: 5
- Views: 968
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1787
Re: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
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
https://www.museumreplicas.com/monks-robe-and-hood
Compared to some of these guys:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... pietro.JPG
Steve
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1787
Re: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
That is very interesting, Sean! Thanks for the other period sources, all!
Steve
Steve
- Mon May 20, 2019 2:59 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1787
Re: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
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...
- Mon May 20, 2019 2:11 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1787
Looking for information on medieval academic regalia
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
From the limited googling I've done, it looks like it's essentially clerical gowns.
Anyone have any leads?
Steve
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My latest rings; watershed feature
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5424
Re: My latest rings; watershed feature
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
I never was able to reproduce the overlap well.
Steve
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Pattern for Wisby coat of plates...the coat part...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 859
Re: Pattern for Wisby coat of plates...the coat part...
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...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:11 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: looking for the website with all the Battle of Wisby armours
- Replies: 4
- Views: 894
Re: looking for the website with all the Battle of Wisby arm
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
Edit: I was able to get images for all but the last 3 pauldron images, which I do not need.
Steve
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: looking for the website with all the Battle of Wisby armours
- Replies: 4
- Views: 894
looking for the website with all the Battle of Wisby armours
There used to be a web site with all of the Battle of Wisby armours reconstructed.
Anyone have the link or an archive?
Steve
Anyone have the link or an archive?
Steve
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:58 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armouring As A Career
- Replies: 87
- Views: 25307
Re: Armouring As A Career
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...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Scrap metal
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1358
Re: Scrap metal
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
Coats of plates are fine in 18GA mild. Some kinds of gauntlets can be made from thinner sheet metal also.
Steve
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:39 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Tent Canvas
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1241
Re: Tent Canvas
Flowers.
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Great Helm Patterns pre 1300 a.d. needed.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1785
Re: Great Helm Patterns pre 1300 a.d. needed.
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...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:47 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: WTB used crusader helm
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1698
Re: WTB used crusader helm
Cian, that is one of my favorite helm/visor styles.
Steve
Steve
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:47 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Late 14th Century Hungarian Splinted Armour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2002
Re: Late 14th Century Hungarian Splinted Armour
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
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Great Helm Patterns pre 1300 a.d. needed.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1785
Re: Great Helm Patterns pre 1300 a.d. needed.
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...
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:07 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: New helmets with laser-cut visors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1673
Re: New helmets with laser-cut visors
Fantastic stuff!
Steve
Steve
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:13 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: NEGATIVE REVIEW OF ARMOURANDCASTINGS.COM BEATHAN ET AL
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19078
Re: NEGATIVE REVIEW OF ARMOURANDCASTINGS.COM BEATHAN ET AL
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 ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Greenwich Buckhurst armour
- Replies: 151
- Views: 57114
Re: Greenwich Buckhurst armour
Amazing work!
Steve
Steve
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:31 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: <Help> Oil blackening with boiled lindseed oil
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1237
Re: <Help> Oil blackening with boiled lindseed oil
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...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Made some turnshoes...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1191
Re: Made some turnshoes...
Looks good!
Steve
Steve
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:23 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: How do I start making armor?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4823
Re: How do I start making armor?
Here is an article I wrote a long time ago on the subject:
https://www.arador.com/armour/how-to-make-armor/
Steve
https://www.arador.com/armour/how-to-make-armor/
Steve
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Working in the cold
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4498
Re: Working in the cold
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...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armouring As A Career
- Replies: 87
- Views: 25307
Re: Armouring As A Career
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...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 4:50 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wisby Gauntlet Questions
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3431
Re: Wisby Gauntlet Questions
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...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:19 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Riveted Mail Info?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1056
Re: Riveted Mail Info?
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...
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wisby Gauntlet Questions
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3431
Re: Wisby Gauntlet Thumb problems
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 ...
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Cervelliere
- Replies: 6
- Views: 731
Re: Cervelliere
The rope cap is neat. Are the coils just stitched together?
Steve
Steve
- Thu May 28, 2015 3:25 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Bronze electroplating for SCA helmets.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1331
Re: Bronze electroplating for SCA helmets.
Count Adamar of Meridies has a shovel-faced helm that he had brass or bronze plated, you could ask him.
Steve
Steve
- Thu May 21, 2015 11:05 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th century knight and kettlehats?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1305
Re: 14th century knight and kettlehats?
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
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Galvanized coif
- Replies: 10
- Views: 871
Re: Galvanized coif
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...
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:16 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Pells
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1213
Re: Pells
Here is how I made a simple, cheap, portable pell:
http://www.forth-armoury.com/photo_gall ... l/pell.htm
Steve
http://www.forth-armoury.com/photo_gall ... l/pell.htm
Steve
- Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Let's talk about templates.
- Replies: 119
- Views: 6893
Re: Let's talk about templates.
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 ...
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:01 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: New Friends Handicrafts?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1041
Re: New Friends Handicrafts?
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...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:49 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Price Check Spring Stainless Bascinet
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2621
Re: Price Check Spring Stainless Bascinet
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 ...