Hello again!

After finishing the late XV c. italian export set I have come back to XIV c. I want to share with you my new version of cuirass based on exposition of men-at-arms from silver altar in Pistoia cathedral, circa 1371. First version I have made about three years ago. This time I change few details: the breastplate is deeper, fauld is wider and the characteristic V shaped bottom lames are more narrow. Cuirass is fully made from medium carbon steel, heat hardened and tempered. Breasplate is extra equipped with V-neck guard. Weight is 4 kilos. I add some pictures during raising the breastplate.

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After heat hardening and tempering:

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very good works Piotr. impressive.

I REALLY like your pieces, Piotr, especially that composite harness with red leather. Excellent job!

Thank you very much Maciej and Radovan :)

I wish to share with some new armour pieces:

My interpretation of Wisby n. 3 gauntlets. Each gauntlet is consist of 68 steel plates which were riveted by 260 rivets.

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I add also several photos during the production of polished plate arm harness for the end of XIV c./begin of XV c.

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More photos you can see on my website.

Little website update before end of the old year.

I add photos of armour set based on german knights effigies: Beringera von Berlichinge 1377 and Voita von Rieneck 1379 which I made in the end of last year. Thanks to kindness of my client I can share them with you:

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Also I wish to share with you refresh version of arm harness which I made few years ago. Plate arm harness with gauntlets made from medium carbon steel, second half of XIV c. Gauntlets are made without welding. All heat hardened and tempered up to 38-42 HRC = 372 - 416 VHP.

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More photos during forging the gauntlets you can find here http://www.platener.eu/wprodukcji_en.html

I wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Kurva! Your stuff is off the hook Piotr! Really really nice! Any chance you have a sallet you wish to share with us? Keep it up man. Love your work!

Thank you very much Rim for such enthusiastically comment :)

I don't have photos of sallet to share with, however if someone will order such helmet in my workshop I will try my best to do the work.

It is a combination of the hand of Wisby gauntlet #3 and the forearm of Wisby gauntlet #2. All details on them can be found in "Armour from the Battle of Wisby: 1361" book. I know Roland had one made this way too but I'd be amazed if he was the first person to think of combining these examples in this manner.

Roland Warzecha is from Germany too, you know. So with two different clients ordering two different pairs of gauntlets (inspired by the same source) from two different armourers, this might be the start of an interesting trend among the German reenactment and HEMA community.

Good day!

I wish to share with some new pieces which I made recently:

Leg harness made of medium carbon steel, late XIV c./early XV c. Fully heat hardened and tempered, final hardness is 38-42 HRC. Weight of one full greave - 1,260 kg. Weight of one cuisse 1,950 kg.

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Hourglass gauntlets made without welding from medium carbon steel, second half of XIV c./begin of XV c. Heat hardened and tempered up to 38-42 HRC. Weight of one gauntlets 830 grams.

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And little controversial interpretation of early XV c. italian pauldrons of symmetrical construction design for foot combat. Heat hardened and tempered up to 38-42 HRC.

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Another version of full cuirass made of medium carbon steel, end of XIV c. - begin of XV c. Fully heat hardened and tempered, final hardness is 38 - 42 HRC.

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And last but not least another version of visored bascinet based on helmet CH16 from Churburg. Visor have additional ventilation holes and side lock. Skull made from two halves raised on hot from 2,5 mm steel. Visor raised on hot from one piece of 2 mm steel. Helmet weight 4,250 kg.

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More pictures you can see on my website.

Absolutely beautiful!

Well done for the excellent interpretation of the King Louis bible helm. Well researched and executed.!

Thank you Neil!

Mark that pot helmet was my first helmet of that type and so far the only one, I'm glad that you like it :)

Very much. I've been studying these quite a bit to help a friend just starting out armouring and I'd noticed that harldy anyone pays attention to the actual method of construction and have been either making things up, misinterpreting the info or simply copying other peoples mistakes. So it was nice to see you'd put some effort and thought into doing it in a style I believe to be more accurate.

I look forward to one day having something of yours in myArmoury :-)

Griff

Great work, Piotr! So clean and shapely.

Mark thank you again. I made this pot helmet some time ago but I remember that I want to make it a little different than others reproduction I saw so far.

Thank you very much Jeffrey, it's really nice to hear it from other armourer. I like your work and I'm impressed how great you deal with armour reproduction from acient times up to renaissance period.

Greetings everyone!

I wish to present you most interesting armour pieces which I made since my last update.

Refresh version of leg harness with pointed poleyn for end of XIV c. - begin XV c. Fully made from medium carbon steel, heat hardened and tempered up to 38-42 HRC.

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Another refresh version of leg harness with sabatons, also for end of XIV c. - begin of XV c. Fully made from medium carbon steel, hardened and tempered cuisses up to 38-42 HRC. Weight details: cuisse 2,1 kg; full greave 1,3 kg; sabaton 0,460 kg.

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Another interpretation of CH 16 visored bascinet from Churburg armoury, this time with brass gilded visor like visible on early XV c. iconography. Skull made from two halves raised on hot from 2,5 mm steel and welded together. Visor raised on hot from one piece of 2 mm steel. Helmet weight 4,230 kg.

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Visored bascinet based on helmet CH16 from Churburg with additional visor made in style of Wallace Collection A69. Skull made from two halves raised on hot from 2 mm steel and welded together. Each visor raised on hot from one piece of 2 mm steel. All made of high quality mild steel of 0,3% carbon content. All heat hardened and tempered up to 30 HRC. Helmet skull weight is 2,380 kilos, weight of one visor is 1,270 kilos.

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Much more photos, also during the production process, you can see on my website.