The Armour Archive

woodwose

Woodwose, who made the parts of your longsword? He either made them himself or they were made by the Late Master Gregory. I made most of them myself in the shop of the Late Master Gregory :) The blade is a 45" rapier blade from Darkwood. And just HOW bad is your vision? It feels a little restricted...

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That is a outsandingly nice looking for something made out of a chunk or rail track with an angle frinder, and great looking as a first project as well. Keep up the good work.

woodwose

I bought the book at pennsic, had no idea there was a digital part to it... now off to find out if I can buy the thumb drive without getting the book again.

woodwose

What others have said about decoration on historical armor may be correct, but it should be kept in mind that we are not looking at historical armor here - we are looking at a painting. The details that the painter painted might not be the same as actual details of any armor that the painting may ha...

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here's another pic from the same day... I have absolutely no idea what either don Jehan or I am doing here, or why there is a dagger levitating in front of my throat. http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/fencing/fkdemo12b.jpg ...and one more because I really like how the back of this doublet turned out. ...

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Rapier kit... http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/fencing/fkdemo12a.jpg lovely. is that painted or shaped? if the latter, could we see it in profile? thanks, it is shaped steel. My most recent kit pictures are from a demo on september 8th, here's a pic from a few days earlier when I was working on the ...

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Rapier kit...

woodwose

I wish i had seen this thread earlier, those would have made a nice addition to my meager collection of stakes. I'm looking forward to seeing any other tools you might offer up for sale.

woodwose

Thanks everyone, it seems like I have enough now to occupy me for a while. The press pictures posted by Mother of Heroes are examples of relief/common presses, but still very useful since I want to build one of those as well someday. The book Ursula mentions sounds like it will help out a lot. It's ...

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This might be a bit of a longshot here, but maybe someone here knows about old printing presses and has a picture or reference that would help... I'm looking for any information on Intaglio/Rolling printing presses in the SCA time frame. I thought I had a picture of one contemporary with Pieter Brue...

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Yep. At this point, I'm usually looking for one, very specific, very detailed thing, that has to be RIGHT for me to spend money on. In many cases, I'm to the point of commissioning things, because noboy carries what I want "off the rack". Or it's close, but not _RIGHT_, you know? I've got a feeling...

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...and i just went out to the shop to shut stuff off for the night and got distracted by one of the three cow horns that i also forgot in my list.

woodwose

Anyone buy anything cool at Pennsic this year? I bought a badger skin for making another crossbow quiver, a kutrolf bottle and beaker from arab boy, From billy & charlies a set of belt stud letters for a dog collar, a cast mushroom stake, Yet another deck of playing cards for 16th c, a kit to make 7...

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Yeah, birdie treats, or maybe a spot to keep the birds hood and tethers.

woodwose

Here's another early one:
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/lands ... lm1500.jpg
Lately I've really been liking the look of these early burgonets like that one, and the three comb ones. The one I linked to above, is that nub on the brow for attachment of some kind of face protection?

woodwose

I'm looking forward to hearing what tools you will be offering up. More stakes and hammers would be tremendously useful to me.

woodwose

I just ordered a basic set of tools from Gene Olsen. I had the name wrong earlier. I like being able to order direct from the craftsman. These should get me playing with copper at Pennsic with the pitch, bowl, and hammers from Otto Frei. This should be a nice way to spend some time in camp. This sh...

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The tale of your courageous hunt has brought back a memory from years ago when I was an impetuous youth of a decade and a half years of age. One day as I rode in a wagon with two friends we saw that someone had let a great brown nauga out to graze along side of the roadway. We were, at that time, ne...

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Here's a more action oriented shot with this helm as Don Scamus O'neal and I have a good time stabbing each other at Great North-eastern War last weekend...

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found this picture on facebook, from practice / the charity melee games a couple weeks ago.

woodwose

What modeling clay were you using? Awesome work though! thanks! I'm just using some cheap oil based crap I picked up at AC Moore, or the art supply store I used to go to... I threw away the packaging a while ago and don't remember the brand. It's grey, hard to work with at room temperature, but qui...

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Matt I heard you tried this helmet out at practice the other night..... how did it work out? It worked okay... peripheral vision was surprisingly good. Ventilation needed to be improved (and has been, but still needs more/larger holes), but I was able to keep the helm on for a bit over twenty minut...

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My mild steel plate does not get as much use as a lot of other people, but it has been very low maintenance for a couple years now. A couple years ago I rubbed on a thin coat of linseed oil and let it dry completely, then repeated a couple more times. I then gave it a thick slathering of carnauba ba...

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I am unsure how I will have it “connect” as I would prefer less contact with my upper body. Not quite sure what you're getting at here. You're going to end up building something with shoulder straps to it anyway, as that is one of the primary suspension points for armor. All armor has to hang off s...

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MJBlazek wrote:
On a side note... This man has a FANTASTIC landschneckt soft kit.

oh, and welcome to the armour archive Wilhelm

I'll post later describing how I kept the shoulder protection off my shoulders on my old lamellar kit...

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Now you've made my wife and i very curious and, for once, o'so glad thats the only channel we get.

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I might be able to handle something like that now that my shop is a bit more put together than it was a few months ago. Bring the breastplate up sometime and maybe we can put together a pattern. Just a couple questions... anyone have a pic of the profile of the fauld? Are these just articulated on l...

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well, I finished it up enough to try it out at the charity thing tomorrow. It is currently secured under the chin with a bolt/nut which is a bit awkward to put in place... I spent a couple hours today messing around with stuff for a latch, then realized my idea would weaken the ends of the overlappi...

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I grind them down on a belt/disc sander before plugging them into hole. They get hot (as I was reminded earlier today :oops: ) so I hold them in a hand held vise like one of these: http://www.abmtools.com/images/Small_Hand_Tools/Hand_Vise_With_Wing_Nut.jpg I must say though, if you are looking to g...

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Just some inspiration for the dread lord. http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h377/Screwloose_circus/1302651965882.jpg http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h377/Screwloose_circus/c1.jpg and a bit more! https://picasaweb.google.com/107429641124893533361/MuseeDeLArmee?authuser=0&feat=directlink#575975...

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Oh yeah. Having access to a lathe is armourer's heaven for specialty tools. :D -Badger- yes, I don't have much experience yet with lathes, but I once asked my mentor what tool he would want or find most useful if setting up a new shop, or what tool in his shop he thought was the most useful/versati...

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Here is the (maybe) alternate skull face-plate: http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/facehelm76a.jpg I've been focusing on getting the face shaped one and the other parts to all fit together and haven't really looked at the skull one since settling on some of the design elements in the helm as it curre...

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LOVE the faceplate. Very Grotesque-esque: http://royalarmouries.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/image-php.jpeg I'd stay away from the hair/stash. I agree that it will not look right. To Asian. IF you add a stash I would repose it into the existing face, or add it as a riveted on reposseed(sp?) piece. I...

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Woodwose - Are you planning to add a mustache to it, say out of horsehair or similar? Cause a German doesn't look right w/o facial hair. Grimr I've actually been thinking about that... I have something fashioned from my own hair that would work well, but I worry that it would get caught up in the s...

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Marry someone who does not mind working full time to help support you while you work a normal part-time job, then do armouring and smithing part-time as well. Find things that you enjoy making that you can make quickly and easily, and that sell... that way you can get practice in making multiples of...

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