Thank you so much.. that is a great help!!

I know this is a little off topic but does anyone have measurements or a design for a Quintain? Any help would be greatlyappreciated.

Thanks in advance.

It looks to me as if he is stropping (sharpening) a drawknife on a leather strop, the bag in front of him having rouge or another abrasive in it.

Mike

Geez Ryan, you are in Brisbane and you want to do forging??
for those that dont know it, you can suntan in the middle of winter in Brisbane, it's that hot! )

Still.. I'm not one to stop a budding armourer!

Mike

Frederick, Wonderful and very informative shots of your maille making process. Does your punch have a sharp point and stretch out a hole in the metal or is it flat on the end and shear out a plug of metal? Also what diameter wire are you starting out with? I have a zillion 1/16" rings here to make r...

Hi I own a Stainless Steel fabrication business and have a lot of experience with steels work hardening while drilling and how to get around it. there are several methods but this is the cheapest. I have also successfully used this method to drill 5/16" holes in 3/8" tungsten tool steel blades. Simp...

Rivet sets quite often come up on Ebay for only a few bucks.

Mike

Did you try searching under Cuir Bouille?

Mike

Making Rivets from scratch. I did this a year or so ago when I needed a bunch of rivets for a Brigandine, about 1500 if I remember correctly, except I wanted copper dome head rivets. I simply got a couple of lengths of key steel (a medium tensile square steel used for making keys for keyways) becaus...

A few years ago when I was attempting <yet again> to continue to make my own armour, I went to a machine shop with a bunch of different diameter pieces of medium tensile shaft. The shop had a CNC lathe and machined them into balls for me. They left a little shaft on the the ball to weld the leg onto...

m This sword appears to have had the basket modified. (perhaps for horseback?) the back ring that encircles the hand does not appear to be complete and there is a square hole in the pommel where it appears the basket may have terminated. I cant quite make it out but the basket seems to go into squar...

Thanks for that info... I have been thinking about this. It appears in some of the pictures that the basket is not screwed to the pommel but affixed to it in another way perhaps welded or perhaps riveted. There is an example in those links you showed me, that the basket fitted into holes in the pomm...

Perhaps these will do.. $59.99

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Hi, I posted this the other day. It is the way I make (butted) maille but can be used for rivetted. The way I do it is this. I do not attempt to make squares of mail or to make an entire panel from the outset. First I close half the rings. You can do this while watching tv as it takes no real concen...

WOW thank you so much.. I do particularly like No 192 the english /scottish of 1560.. If the pommels are hollow how are they affixed to the blade? I intend to make a double edged side sword blade and the tang must go through the ball. I dont believe they would be braised to the tang as that may make...

In this day and age of mass produced plastic, it sure is nice to see we still have artisans about!
Did you pattern weld the steel yourself? I tried it myself but it was difficult keeping my coal forge to the right temperature ,soI have yet to successsfully complete a piece

I have been in the reenactment game since 1997 and the biggest problem is finding a good source of quality information. The good thing is that due to the popularity of the sport now, there is a good quantity of quality information available to those of us searching for correct answers. Forums like t...

Thank you so much.. very much appreciated!

Thanks Thomas.. I intend to make a steel blade and a wire basket would be perfect. great timing!

Thanks Thomas.. I intend to make a steel blade and a wire basket would be perfect. great timing!

I am studying paradoxes of defence by George Silver and need a basket hilt sword. Does anyone have a pattern for the basket hilt itself? either a wire cage or a formed, punched sheet one will do. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Your idea of a punch is a good one. I have done this successfully though it would possibly be wise to anneal the brass before doing so. The secret is what you punch it into. a piece of lead is fine, depending on how hard your punch turns out to be even aluminium may do. the ideal of course is the en...