New pieces of armour.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Here's some of my new stuff. Greave over new Sandlar boots.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

More pics of the greave.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Cuisses by me- knees by Luther.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Half-gauntlets.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Half-gauntlets again.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Arms. Elbows by Luther- vams and reres by me.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Arms again.

[Sean Powell]

Sir Vitus,
Do you find that the holes through the steel tend to cut the shoelaces? If not, do you have a good deburing technique? I have debured the holes in mine rather well but my elbows are thinner spring-steel and I loose a lace every 2 practices, usually at an inconvenient time. I have been debating making flower-headed brass gromets but haven't had the time.
Thanks,
Sean

[Tom B.]

Looks great!
Is this your new stuff?
Are you wearing it to Border Raids?
Looks like none of my new armour or mail sleeves will be here in time.

I will however have spiffy new scabbards and belts for both my sword and dagger.

Tom

[dragonjohn]

Don't mean to muoch on the thread but,

Sean,
I use 3/16" or 1/4" grommets for fabric in elbows and knees as i like the tied look rather than riveting the pieces, you can pop them in quick and when you tie them up their almost invisible, or use a different color for accent (I.e. brass on blued, copper on silver) got the idea after using them in cloth cuisses, figured I'd try it out on the knee I was attatching, no breaks yet

[Sean Powell]

Don't mean to muoch on the thread but,

Sean,
I use 3/16" or 1/4" grommets for fabric in elbows and knees as i like the tied look rather than riveting the pieces, you can pop them in quick and when you tie them up their almost invisible, or use a different color for accent (I.e. brass on blued, copper on silver) got the idea after using them in cloth cuisses, figured I'd try it out on the knee I was attatching, no breaks yet

Too modern looking. but they were an early thought. I'm going to see if I can do something more authentic looking or have some custom cast.

Sean

[Jan van Nyenrode]

Sean,

You could file the above grommets a bit in a flower shape. It would be easy enough. But to be fair, 0,5 mm brass sheet is easy enough to shape into a similar grommet.

Cheers,

jan

[AaronCarter]

I roll some 400 grit emery cloth long enough that a tight roll just fits through the hole, Then chuck that into the drill, I rarely loose a tie. I also use better ties than shoelaces. Next time you see a prtetty girl with a lucette sit down and discuss comissions

Sir Vitus,
Do you find that the holes through the steel tend to cut the shoelaces? If not, do you have a good deburing technique? I have debured the holes in mine rather well but my elbows are thinner spring-steel and I loose a lace every 2 practices, usually at an inconvenient time. I have been debating making flower-headed brass gromets but haven't had the time.
Thanks,
Sean

[Tom B.]

Sir Vitus,
Do you find that the holes through the steel tend to cut the shoelaces? If not, do you have a good deburing technique? I have debured the holes in mine rather well but my elbows are thinner spring-steel and I loose a lace every 2 practices, usually at an inconvenient time. I have been debating making flower-headed brass gromets but haven't had the time.
Thanks,
Sean

Take a look at what Jiri Lucius did with T-nuts in this thread.

Couter Pic

Tom

[Tom B.]

Your new gear looked great.

I need to take some pictures of my sword scabbard and post them for you.
I also need to make a new dagger since I gave away my sweet bollock dagger.

Tom