Posts: 409 Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Thu 09 Jul, 2009 1:18 am
Hello All,
I was hoping for better photos (they are out there, just haven't seen them yet).
We have 3 late 14th century harness in my group. I helped two of the guys build corrazinas in a 6 week period just before this event... We had just finished both corrazina that morning at 2 AM .My hands were killing me from so much armouring. For myself I rebuilt a set of GDFB finger gauntlets, reshaped the fingers, sewed in new gloves and built a pair of sabatons for my kit.
Here is a few photos;
Just before doing a harness fighting demo
The start of the demo
The second corrazina.
Yes, my hands were killing me after 100 hours of hammer work in 6 weeks. :cry:
The black corrazina is made from Doug Strong's pattern, it's a mix of 16 ga and 20 ga steel. The 20 ga we hardened with a oil quench after heating up to cherry in a coal forge. The shell is black silk velvet over a flax canvas.
The green corrazina is based off the "French" extant corrazina that used a mix of maile and plates on the rear and plates on the front. We used 18 ga though out this one and cut up a riveted
maille shirt for the large sections needed for the back. While not an exact copy, it has a lot of influence extant corrazina in it's construction.
Cheers,
DT
