The Armour Archive

woodwose

haha, velcro will fix that!

does it have any ties or anything along the edges of the door, where it would tie to matching points or loops around the edges of the door opening? does the size of the door overlap the opening?

woodwose

you may want to take a basic stained glass class or at least find some books on stained glass, making stained glass lamps, and stained glass sculpture. They should be pretty cheap books. also, find a local shop that specializes in stained glass supplies and talk to knowledgeable employees about what...

woodwose

Taschen published a facsimilie of Maximilian I's book 'Theuerdank', which can be found for anywhere from over $200 to $30. it comes with two books, the facsimile and a smaller book about media in the 16th century. the fascimilie is great for demos too if there is a place to display books on period s...

woodwose

Hi Dweezle, what about zipping it up and uploading to rapidshare? This way all interested people can download it and it does not count against anyones bandwith... Michael I hadn't thought of that, I may do so. I do want to put it online in some kind of album format though... I like the idea of havi...

woodwose

I'm looking for information on how mountaineering was done 'back in the day'. Somewhere I saw an image (in some book I had from a library I think) which I think was from the Triumphs of Maximilian woodcuts and the note next to the image identified the figures as mountain men, or mountaineers. that i...

woodwose

Dweezle, you need a good crossbow to go with that, to make the perfect German Huntsman! Well, maybe a pack of dogs, too. Cheers! Gordon here we go [img]http://www.kiroastro.com/images/hunt/crossbow.jpg[/img] I'm still working on the dogs, though one dog is likely all we'll have - and not until we m...

woodwose

I like stoppers 2 and three. those flasks are really awesome mac! I was hoping to find one of the larger size ones in metal, but I think the smaller size you've made would be much more practical for carrying around. the reason I want metal is that I plan on doing some hiking in period (16th C.) gear...

woodwose

Jas Townsend has a lot of stuff like that, but geared towards 18th and 19th century - better though than completely modern versions.

http://jas-townsend.com under cooking equipment

woodwose

I have more than 500mb of 16th century german and swiss woodcuts and paintings in a folder on my hard drive and a lot of other stuff I want to scan to add to my collection, but what I really want to do is make it all available to anyone else who would find it useful for their research. I want to put...

woodwose

Dweezle, is that that you're wearing in the pic cut like a rock, or is it based pon something else? it looks like it'd be tons easier than the doublets we've tried. Looks a bit better too, I think. The torso part is cut like a doublet, but looser so it fits over a doublet - But if I was closer to y...

woodwose

I haven't really researched it, but seeing waffenrocs only on officers (at least in imagery we tend to think of as showing landsknecht officers) makes me think that on the field and in camp the waffenroc may be used specifically as dress to identify officers. I have seen quite a few images of non-so...

woodwose

topic says it, I've been trying to find something like that... http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/bil1517d.JPG oh, I'm talking about the canteen like thing by the way. I've seen them in paintings and some look like stoneware, others silver colored metal. I have a wooden canteen from jas townsend, and I...

woodwose

wow, thats nice looking. I wish it fit my tiny 22" head as well as it fits my tiny budget

woodwose

reply to posts about darkening wood with a torch... note, I haven't tried this on rattan, but I think it would work. I randomly stumbled on this while making a walking stick a few years ago and like the look so much that I now do it to almost anything I make for myself with wood. I even thought abou...

woodwose

some very generic info, but the best advise I can think of is to look at art from the period/area you are interested in, but be careful of art with a religious theme since clothing was often a bit fancifully old-fashioned looking. what kind of social class you want to portray, and what is your profe...

woodwose

thanks for those pics! I think that my friend who made that blue helm I currently use was thinking of one of those early burgonets when he made it but just didn't bring his armor books down to the shop while working on it... some similar lines, but not quite there in a lot of areas. I think it would...

woodwose

Lord O'Quinn wrote:Nice Job!

My first time, I ended up with pink, lol.

O'Quinn

were you using stainless? I remember getting a pinkish color once when using a torch to blue some stainless maille

woodwose

Matt, the kit looks great, looks like you had fun at the demo! Wish I could have made it up, but you know, life. Did you add fluting to the front of the breastplate? Or did I just not notice it? Any plans for a new helmet to go with it all? I know you had said something about it once. *side note......

woodwose

I decided that I wanted to move back to landsknecht again after my short crusader stint, so I decided to work with this picture, of the knecht in yellow, as base for a new fighting outfit: http://www.historiclife.com/images/Research/Landsknecht/German/full/IMG_0879-2.jpg Jacket and pants are done. ...

woodwose

the cord is part of the core - inside of the cord is a single layer of 1/4" plywood strips (with steel bands on the inside edge). if it did not have the cord I think it would bend very easily, even with a couple layers of canvas. The gutter on my next one though will likely be two layers of off...

woodwose

I thought you might like that I haven't had much time to work with it yet, but the biggest problem is that the way that is most comfortable and best supports the weight - sort of palm facing out and upwards while holding it at the base of the handle, like this: [img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor...

woodwose

Uh...yeah. I'm sure we're all going to think that you're a horrible person for not having a period wooden shovel with a metal-reinforced tip. In fact, your kit is SO horrible , I'm tempted to get your address and have someone build you a period shovel *just* so we can all look at your kit and weep ...

woodwose

http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/max-triumph-pavices.jpg [img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/pavise1f.jpg[/img] well, it's not quite done yet, but I'll not have time to work on it again for a few months and I've been wanting to make one of these for a couple of years... so here it is, mostly do...

woodwose

I like the waffenroc Irish. I gotta make one of those sometime. Here are the latest photos I have of my kit http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/platec.jpg ...and I really like the messed up perspective in this one: m yeah, I really am 2'8" and then there's that thing that no one talks about 'roun...

woodwose

Either der Weisskunig, or another of Maximillians self-propeganda works has lovely woodcuts illustrating the hunt with sword from horseback, and any other sort of hunting and fishing you can think of (even Chamois hunting). I've not yet had a chance to look through the whole of Weisskunig, but I kn...

woodwose

I don't have any real answers to your questions, but if appropriate for your persona you could wear a thin linen coif under your hat.

I'm interested in other peoples answers too though. re-blocking a one of those felt hats is something I've been curious about too.

woodwose

...and one of armor too [img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/armor/newlyflutedal.jpg[/img]

woodwose

This is my current kit (pretend the shovel is something more period I guess) for outdoors/woodsy kinds of things
[img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/hunting/dwzdiggerl.jpg[/img]

woodwose

If you slip a generation later, Lucas Cranach the Elder has a pair of paintings from the hunt: Hunting near Hartenfels Castle, which is a the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Staghunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau. I haven't found any good images on-line, but a book on the painter may ...

woodwose

all of this talk and no one has asked about where to aquire our favorite pokey killing thing... I'm looking for a pike head. I tried to google it but mostly I get stuff about fish heads. only place I know of is Jas Townsend: m I know they do mostly colonial american stuff, but would that one be okay...

woodwose

I'm not involved with any real LH groups but I kind of know what their standards are like... I think it looks good. I'd kind of want to see a pic of the seam at the bottom of the original - something about the shape at the bottom of the original makes it look like it may be more than a simple two-pi...

woodwose

it does not seem like it would be too hard to work out a design for a grill that is removable - there are plenty of places where a strap on the edge of the grill could be put through openings on the helm, just need to work out the a design for a grill in thick aluminum wire and rebuild it in steel. ...

woodwose

I thought it was just some kind of residues of unburned gaz/coal, like smoke or what that stick to your piece. If it was that, then the same kind of thing would happen on other metals... though there are similar oxidation problems with other metals - really annoying on sterling silver unless you wa...

woodwose

those are lovely! I've been looking at some with similar mitts for my kit

woodwose

it may sound a little sketchy, but the thing I've seen work very well and which I plan on using for hidden knees for my Landsknecht kit - is to get some knee pads for skateboarding or some other sport where you want a good solid plastic plate over the knees, cut a simple fan shape (trying to keep it...

mountaineering, medieval and rennaisance

16th C. German image library

I'm looking for jugs like these?

hand pavise