horse armour

frank drake · Post by **frank drake** » Sun Jun 10, 2001 1:21 pm

I am starting a four year old percheron gelding under saddle and would like to make some show armour for him. He is about 18 hands, need to find patterns for face plate neck and chest for horses. I am in trimaris for reference on location.

Sasuke · Post by **Sasuke** » Sun Jun 10, 2001 5:21 pm

Patterns are pretty straight forward on the horse since there typically aren't a large amount of dishing or compound curves to confuse things. I suggest finding as many pictures of horse armour as you can. Study them to get a feel for the lines and then cut out a bunch of cardboard mock-ups.
A lot will depend on how complicated of pieces you want. Many chaffrons are just a single plate that only covers about 3/4 of the face or so.
If you have Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight (AAoMK for short), look on pgs. 126, 146, 164, 167, and 175. If you don't have the book the local library probably does or can get it.
Sasuke

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JJ Shred · Post by **JJ Shred** » Sun Jun 10, 2001 5:31 pm

ABHAMMER makes a beautiful stainless steel chamfron and crinet to fit a draft horse.

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Sasuke · Post by **Sasuke** » Sun Jun 10, 2001 8:45 pm

After writing the last post, I went out to my shop and built some armour for my dog ( I have been planning on doing this for some time now just never seemed to get around to it). I wanted to be sure I wasn't just talking out of my anus when I wrote saying the patterns were pretty straight forward. Here are some pictures:
http://oaksarmoury.com/dog.html
Granted the chaffron and crinet (are they still called that when used on a dog?

) still need adjustments to the patterns and are rough looking, but they gave me the basic idea of what would be needed if I did a "real" set. I stand by my initial feeling that as long as you aren't going too complex of a design the patterns would be fairly easy to make.
Sasuke

P.S. I made a crinet for a horse but not a chaffron. Yet!

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AB Hammer · Post by **AB Hammer** » Sun Jun 10, 2001 10:00 pm

Use some paper or cloth, wrap it over the horses head, make sure you get the eye holes
in the correct place and quick. Then you can finish up your design to fit the horse.
Make sure the eye holes are large.
Here is one I did recently.

http://www.creative-net.net/~armour/008.html

ABHAMMER
http://www.creative-net.net/~armour/

frank drake · Post by **frank drake** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 10:00 pm

abhammer love the pics but i think i will start with aluminum for now and then try stainless. will try you again later for tips.