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Dan Howard
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 Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 4:37 am Post subject: Ulfberth Mail |
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I haven't seen any Ulfberth mail for a couple of years. People have said that their recent mail is improving and is now better than the Indian stuff. Does anyone have a close up pic of some of their recent mail? Is it getting better?
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Johan Gemvik
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| Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 5:29 am Post subject: |
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I just bught some Ulfberth loose ring bags with rivets and solid rings kfrom GDFB.
When you get it pre assembled it has the usual flaws, mainly the rivets are rounf head on both sides and the front side sometimes has this matchstick head shape which is the pre shaped end of the tiny rivet.
The material needs to be sorted as some rings aren't useabe (about 20-30% of the rivetable rings) but if you accept that the rest has great potential when put together meticulously. I'm experimenting with grinding the rivet head flat and putting it in from the back side. Then I rivet with my one sided dome plier. Then I grind the riveted ring to get the teardop shape. These actually look better than my own rings but still lack watershed of course.
The solids are a bit thin but better than anything else commercially produced today. I put together some weave with my own solids to compare. They do lok better of course but for what it is it's quite nice looking.
I have photos but on my phone. Will try to post some when I get home from work tonight.
"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on" -Coleridge
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Johan Gemvik
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| Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 5:32 am Post subject: |
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Dan, did I mix these up? I bought some GDFB roman maille. They sell a lot of ulfberth stuff. Is this the one you meant?
"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on" -Coleridge
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Dan Howard
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| Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Don't care. I'm curious if there is anything on the market today that more closely resembles historical mail than what was available a couple of years ago. If there is then the "riveted does not equal historical" thread needs updating.
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Sean Manning
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| Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Not everything on that list is true for the Indian maille I have seen. I will post photos of a burst link to that thread to show what the maille that FindIt Armoury was selling in 2009 looks like. I would have written it something like "Riveted maille made in India today is quite varied, but all of it has a number of differences from late medieval maille. Depending on the manufacturer and date of production, these can include: ..."
Edit: I would also add the lack of tailoring to the list, since whether your maille is tailored properly is a "three metre problem" while rivet shape is a "thirty centimetre problem" and alloy is a "under a microscope or in a laboratory" problem. Its irrelevant for testing, but you don't just cite that thread for armour tests.
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Randall Moffett
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| Posted: Tue 13 Nov, 2012 9:47 am Post subject: |
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I am looking to make some of my own riveted mail but been looking myself Dan. I'll have to watch this thread.
RPM
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Johan Gemvik
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Kai Lawson
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About how many mm of material is there in the overlap? Would it be feasible to create watershedding and/or the secondary drift bulge around the rivet with pliers or a press? Or is the ring just too thin at that point to bother with it?
"And they crossed swords."
--William Goldman, alias S. Morgenstern
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Johan Gemvik
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| Posted: Mon 19 Nov, 2012 9:12 am Post subject: |
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In short, yes you can!  Pics on phone, will try to post them tonight if I'm not too tired.
"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on" -Coleridge
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Johan Gemvik
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| Posted: Fri 23 Nov, 2012 11:06 am Post subject: |
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Kai, you already found your way there, but for the rest of you guys I posted the stuff on my Gjermundbu thread.
But in short, yes, watershedding post riveting can be done with a second plier pressing. From my most recent trials It seems it's even the most likely way that the original gjermundbu links were made.
"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on" -Coleridge
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Ellen Bergwerf
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| Posted: Wed 05 Dec, 2012 4:05 am Post subject: Ulfberht mail |
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Some time ago I bought Ulfberth mail at this Dutch webshop http://www.celticwebmerchant.eu/c-1748088/chainmail/ I think it’s almost the same as GDFB (they sell GDFB mail too). I think it doesn’t make a very big difference. Although the distribution of chaine mail to the European market is sometimes scares.
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Johan Gemvik
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| Posted: Wed 05 Dec, 2012 10:24 am Post subject: |
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So Ulfberth maille is flat with round rivet, or is it like the GDFB that have all sorts of variants available?
"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on" -Coleridge
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Augusto Boer Bront
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Ahmad Tabari
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| Posted: Wed 05 Dec, 2012 11:56 am Post subject: SPQR mail anyone? |
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Have any of you worked with the loose riveted rings offered by SPQR? I ask because I might buy riveted rings soon and I too am looking for the best quality.
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Mark T
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Dan,
If your question extends to tailoring, not just riveting, then Robert Macpherson, Wade Allen, and Andre Sinou are currently working on a project to make mail sleeves available: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewto...p;start=70
Chief Librarian/Curator, Isaac Leibowitz Librarmoury
Schallern sind sehr sexy!
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Dan Howard
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One thing I'd like is a link that doesn't remind me of a soda can ring tab.
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Sat 08 Dec, 2012 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Dan Howard wrote: | | One thing I'd like is a link that doesn't remind me of a soda can ring tab. |
Yup, period accuracy may be a high end goal but it would be nice, at least, to not look like one is dressed in pull tabs made from Lilliputian tiny tiny soft drink cans: Not very subtle when Sun light makes all the tabs " sparkle " and sort of screaming their presence.   
I'm not really a purist about maille authenticity by period or culture but it should look O.K. at 10 feet: I have very small ring sized stainless steel welded maille shirt that although totally not period at least doesn't have the soda can tab look.
( And I'm safe if I'm ever attacked by a shark .....  )
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