The Armour Archive

woodwose

I've been working on this for a while... I'm not sure how long, since the top of the helm is recycled from my previous rapier helm that I often wore a hat over, which I made in 2004. The perf-plate face plate has been replaced by a repousse steel face (the original nose cracked so I ground it off an...

woodwose

Very nice work Zanetto, that is the first reproduction of one of those that I've seen. Nissan, will that be going to Pennsic with you? If so I would love to take a look at it in person.

woodwose

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tlD_ie3LD68/T99yQS36eWI/AAAAAAAAAGU/GWm01taFXvg/s512/456597_10100116704405844_239442973_o.jpg First and foremost that is an awesome kit, and please don’t allow my comments/questions below to make anyone think I believe otherwise. Something about this picture screa...

woodwose

I've had similar things happen with stainless mail that I've made. I've heard that it is oils from manufacturing that get dirty and rub off, but I've cleaned the mail several times and it would still turn stuff black after a while. I'm no metallurgist or chemist, but after almost twenty years of pla...

woodwose

Nissan Maxima wrote:I am looking for an image of a rapier hilt with a very long handle that protruded back several inches beyond the fancy foofery. Maybe one of you have seen ths image?

Here's another...
http://pics.myarmoury.com/view.html?3longswords.jpg
bottom of the three.

woodwose

Psst. Photoshop. the purpose is "teh Inarwebz funniez" I would have said the same thing, had I not seen a similar set up on a saber before. No, I'm pretty sure thats real. Purpose is another six or so inches of reach. If that is the purpose, would it not be more effective to move the hilt down too?...

woodwose

Robert of Canterbury wrote:
Kilian_the_warlike wrote:
Anyone know the purpose of this? What is that, a two handed saber, or eppe?
Psst. Photoshop.

the purpose is "teh Inarwebz funniez"

No, I'm pretty sure thats real. Purpose is another six or so inches of reach.

woodwose

I'll give him some prodding on facebook and point him towards this thread.

woodwose

Thank you all very much for the advice on forges and everything. The T-Rex came in the mail last week, followed by a crazy hunt around town for the right regulator (ended up ordering on from amazon :cry:, where I do not need a propane/gas license to by a damn propane regulator) "I'm looking for a hi...

woodwose

I picked up a couple decks at Pennsic two years ago. One was the a Jost Amman deck that several merchants were carrying (I'm guessing its the same Jost Amman deck that has been previously mentioned in this thread, though I'm not really sure...). The other was a deck originally by Hans Schaufelein (p...

woodwose

I have a few tools in progress, posted in another thread, On the subject of tools.

I'll probably get some more pictures this week and post them here, since a couple in those pictures have since been finished and I have some other junk that I really want to make into something.

woodwose

...not quite what I meant when I said I wanted armoured joints on my harness.

woodwose

Thank you Brian, I thought that would be the answer. I'm working on a similar style face for my rapier helm that I am rebuilding. I guess I have at least one more question on the subject: The way that the cheeks and face plate overlap on the helm I posted above - would that configuration be a proble...

woodwose

from the Rapier Marshals Handbook: "The face must be covered by either 12 kilogram mesh (e.g, a standard fencing mask) or perforated metal. Such metal must not have holes larger than 1/8" (3 mm) in diameter, with a minimum offset of 3/16" (5 mm) and shall also meet the definition of rigid material."...

woodwose

My first SCA kit was welder's leathers that I cut up and retailored into the generic poncho style coat of plates shape that I saw a lot of people wearing. I then riveted leather squares all over it to make scale armor. I think I had football shoulder pads under it, and football thigh pads (?) covere...

woodwose

A local junk/surplus/salvage store had piles of different jackhammer bits a couple years ago so I bought few, started modifying them, then got caught up in school stuff and never really finished them. I have a few tools I've been working on occasionally, and other things that I think have potential....

woodwose

I finaly set up my new tent today. Its a start anyway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72939713@N02/7177454200/ That does look nice. I may have missed it in the pages of this thread, but where is that from, or did you make it? It looks similar to what my wife wants to replace our little wedge tent wit...

woodwose

I second the suggestion of a bottomless dishing form. http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/couter2.jpg This is a pic from several years ago so some details are a little thin in my memory, I may have started dishing it into the dish that in that stump, but I know did most of the work by dishing it into ...

woodwose

yup, I had a pound or so brick of oil based plasti-something clay. Its just cheap stuff from ac-moore or maybe the local university's art supply store, and I expected it to really be a bit too soft for this, but worth trying. It was too stiff to press into my project by hand, so I cut the clay up an...

woodwose

Before you buy, design, build or decide, go here. http://ronreil.abana.org/design1.shtml Done, read, and bookmarked :) Much simplier to make yourself would be a burner with a blower attached... I've considered it, I used one in the sculpture studio in college and in the shop I used to do most of my...

woodwose

Oooh, clay?! I think i have a block of that stuff, and a couple things ive been repousing over stakes... i thought i had found a small pot of pitch at a used tool sale a while back but when i went to heat it to plant my metal in it quickly became obvious it was something else,, maybe buffing compoun...

woodwose

For some time now I've been going back and forth between building or buying a venturi style forge burner. They seem dead simple to make, I know a couple local people who have made them, but they seem to take a bit more trial and error and tuning than I want to bother with right now, so I'd rather ju...

woodwose

I saw at least a couple helms come off. Chin straps are a good thing.

woodwose

Bulby37 wrote:I think you could put spam on your walmart bridal registry. If that's not your bag, try vienna sausages. Vienna sausages would look pretty awesome in a birdcage.

????

In the can or out of the can?

woodwose

I have a "convertible Wedge" from Jas Townsend. My only complaint over the last five years of using it is that it does not have the mud flaps things that similar tents from other companies sometimes have.

http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.ph ... ucts_id=53

woodwose

I've been progressing slowly on this. I took a break to make a leather apron and refining my improvised hammers and stakes. I never thought to ask because I'm using whatever suitable seeming metal I can scrounge... but what gauge steel would folks recommend for these? My initial plan was to use an o...

woodwose

GuntherofOrkney wrote:naw man its just a welded on 1/4" thick round bar.

so is it welded to the bottom-edge or the brim rather than the edge-edge of the brim? I hope that question makes sense... regardless of how its done it looks great.

woodwose

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=147606 Dansknecht's post (linked to above) on the classifieds board inspired me to set aside some other armouring projects that I had been thinking about and try making a pair of almain rivet arms. Its been almost ten years since I've done a...

woodwose

I think I have pictures of the ones at the Higgins, but first here's a picture of some others I snagged online somewhere... http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/almain/almainarms.jpg and here are the ones from the Higgins: (pictures are around 1.5mb) http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/almain/higgins-alm...

woodwose

Yessir. The arms and only the arms. Do you also want the extensions to cover the back of the hand? Have you accepted an offer on a set of these yet? I'm just getting to the point where I feel I could do something like this in my own shop, and its something I have been wanting to make a pair of for ...

woodwose

Wish I could see the front of that Henrician gear. But a very nice setup nonetheless! Assuming you are talking about the pic I posted, there are a few on Facebook that show the front - here's a link, there's some in there somewhere: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000217989131&sk=photos I...

woodwose

I've been enjoying this show. I hope the history channel has a secret surprise for the season finale - Mike Loades jousting against Larry the Cable Guy.

woodwose

Don Frasier Mcleod and Master Matthäus Kettner

woodwose

yep, concentric circles (like a bulls eye / target) drawn with chalk or sharpie really helped me keep track of hammering when I was raising stuff back when I actually made some armor. I liked to hold my work in vise-grips with leather in the jaws to protect my metal from being marred. I'm finally ge...

woodwose

This got me thinking about dishing stumps... How do people care for and maintain them? Mine is maple about 2 ft in dia. and close to 3 ft tall. Very heavy (used a backhoe) to get it out of the bush! I want it to last... Cracking and spliting are my biggest concern and I have started to oil the surf...

new Rapier (SCA) Helm in progress

Re: Landsknecht helmet by Robert Mazza

Re: Show off your Soft Kit 2012!!

Re: Stainless mesh rub-off

Re: very long rapier hilt

Re: very long rapier hilt

Re: very long rapier hilt

Re: Harold the bear

Re: Forge Options?

Re: Playing cards

Re: JUNKYARD WARS

Re: Deaths head burgonet

Re: quick ? on rapier helms

quick ? on rapier helms

Re: I your first kit as bad as mine?

Re: On the subject of tools.

Re: Ways to deal with non period camps around in the SCA

Re: dishing deeper

Re: wax vise? for engraving, repousse?

Re: Forge Options?

Re: wax vise? for engraving, repousse?

Forge Options?

Re: Armour Failures at the BoTN

Re: Registry

Re: Places to buy a tent.

Re: Almain Rivet Arms

Re: Need to show this gladiator helmet off.

Almain Rivet Arms

Re: Pricing Almain Rivet Arms

Re: Pricing Almain Rivet Arms

Re: Pics that would inspire new guys. (UPDATE 8/31/2011)

Re: Full Metal Jousting

Re: Pics that would inspire new guys. (UPDATE 8/31/2011)

Re: Three things I learned this afternoon.

Re: Stump Doming Dishes