The Armour Archive

Just finished my new arms. Thanks to Magnus for pointing me in the right direction with the elbow cop pattern.
Hand cut, hand stitched, and wax hardened.
Hope you like em.

Those look quite burly! Well done!

Will they be hidden or no? Either way they are very nice! They have a certain professional quality to their appearance.

I like em!

Very neat, well done. I enjoy seeing your armour evolution and am impressed how far you raise your bar each time you make a new iteration.

Wot Wulfgar sed. Vivat! -- et Smaqueat!

thank you very much!
They will probably be worn under my tunic, but i thought I'd try to make them nice enough so that if they decided to peak out from time to time, no one would really care.

And it shows. Poster Kilkenny (Duke Sir Gavin) may become quite a fan of your crafting. You're ready to talk serious technique with him now.

Wow. Nice clean lines and it looks like you molded in a bit of a flare at the wrist of the vambrace. Nicely done!

Nice work! Now you just gotta come down to practice a little more.
I'd like to come up there sometime, when you guys will be there.

yes the edges are flared around the wrist a bit.

bigjon i wish i lived a little closer so it wouldn't be such a big deal for me to make it to practices there. As it is now i really have to sweet talk the wife to get out of the house on Sunday afternoon. I will try to make it down in a week or two. you going to be at newbie? if so i will see you there.

Thanks for all the compliments guys. here in a few min i will post some pics of all the armor i have finished this week. been a busy little bee this week.

all i have finished so far this week. Arms, half gauntlets, patina on the clam shell gauntlets and new cuff on the clam shells.

see you there!

Spiff man.

Hi there. Those looke great Varukh. I wish I could learn to stitch like that. Nice job. Keep up the good work.

Take care

Pitbull

Hey Swete, care to share some info on your elbows? I'm futzing around with a pattern for them, and would love to hear how you did yours. (Unless its Magnus' trade secret or something)

Thanks,
Randy

looks like my two part pattern in the pattern archive. kinda cool seeing one much like mine ( if its not ) done in Leather.

Thanks Sir Sam, I went and looked at those and it gives me a better starting point.

Would still love to get more insight from ya Swete if ya got it.

the elbow cop is just a variation of the one on the AA with the round pieces of leather stitched over the top of them just to add a little more protection on those points of my elbow. The forearm section is just a generic pattern for a vambrace that i just found online and added some leather splints to it. then i wax hardened the whole thing and slapped it together. not sure if that is any help for you or not, if you have any more specific questions i will answer them as best i can.

Thanks, that helps a bit indeed. And my bad for calling ya swete, i didn't even read the name, just glanced at the profile pic.

Nice set of arms, I like em.
Thanks for the pics.

Russet patina on the metal parts would look nice.
Perhaps... blend in with the brown of the leather.
YMMV

Hal

PS:
Chemical russit patina.
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/h ... Russit.JPG
http://www.sculptnouveau.com/
Works for me.

Heinrich wrote:Thanks, that helps a bit indeed. And my bad for calling ya swete, i didn't even read the name, just glanced at the profile pic.

Hehe! Never been confused for someone else here. I, unlike Varukh, have very little leather skill.