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Steven Pearson
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Ok, my wife allowed me to create a medieval themed pub in the loft in our new house. Yes, lots of points to my wife. 
I still have some work to do to finish both the loft and my 15th century armour, but here are some photos of what I have so far.
By the way, I bought these stainless legs recently, but other than the armourer saying they are stainless how can I tell from looking at them?
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Steven Pearson
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A couple of other photos;
Just ignore the treadmill, I dont have a good place for it right now!
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Steven Pearson wrote: |
By the way, I bought these stainless legs recently, but other than the armourer saying they are stainless how can I tell from looking at them?
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Get some cold gun blue and put a little dab of it inside: if the steel turns blue it's not stainless, if it stays the same it's probably stainless. It might stain very very lightly if it's an alloy that is borderline stainless.
Tried this on a knife I wasn't 100 % sure was stainless and the gun blue had zero effect on the steel so now I'm sure. 
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Bill Sahigan
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Did Allan make those legs?
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Chuck Russell
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thats a nice room. what kind of mannequin did you get to put your harness on
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Scott Kowalski
Location: Oak Lawn, IL USA Joined: 24 Nov 2006
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So you're saying that after he got out of Ravenloft he ended up Down Under? Not a bad place to retire after his career I would say.
Scott
Chris Landwehr 10/10/49-1/1/09 My Mom
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David E. Farrell
Location: Evanston, IL Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Rod - I am curious about the blackened mitten gauntlet on a mid 14th C kit. Is that an anachronism for the sake of safety or is it documentable?
AKA: 'Sparky' (so I don't need to explain later )
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother
-- King Henry, Henry V, William Shakespeare
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused... but on a higher level.
-- Enrico Fermi
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Artis Aboltins
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| David E. Farrell wrote: | | Rod - I am curious about the blackened mitten gauntlet on a mid 14th C kit. Is that an anachronism for the sake of safety or is it documentable? |
Looks like safety thing to me, I do not really remember any documented mitten gauntlets that early.
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David E. Farrell
Location: Evanston, IL Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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| Artis Aboltins wrote: | | David E. Farrell wrote: | | Rod - I am curious about the blackened mitten gauntlet on a mid 14th C kit. Is that an anachronism for the sake of safety or is it documentable? |
Looks like safety thing to me, I do not really remember any documented mitten gauntlets that early. |
That is my thought as well, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
AKA: 'Sparky' (so I don't need to explain later )
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother
-- King Henry, Henry V, William Shakespeare
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused... but on a higher level.
-- Enrico Fermi
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Rod Walker
Location: NSW, Australia. Joined: 05 Feb 2004
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Hi guys, it is an anachroism.
These are the new gauntlets I am using with this harness now.
Cheers
Rod
Jouster
www.jousting.com.au
"Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblessed
That dare not tilt at something, ere he die?"
--Errantry, John Galsworthy
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David E. Farrell
Location: Evanston, IL Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Nice!
AKA: 'Sparky' (so I don't need to explain later )
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother
-- King Henry, Henry V, William Shakespeare
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused... but on a higher level.
-- Enrico Fermi
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Artis Aboltins
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Those certainly look nice!
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Steven Pearson
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| Jean Thibodeau wrote: | | Steven Pearson wrote: |
By the way, I bought these stainless legs recently, but other than the armourer saying they are stainless how can I tell from looking at them?
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Get some cold gun blue and put a little dab of it inside: if the steel turns blue it's not stainless, if it stays the same it's probably stainless. It might stain very very lightly if it's an alloy that is borderline stainless.
Tried this on a knife I wasn't 100 % sure was stainless and the gun blue had zero effect on the steel so now I'm sure. |
Ok thanks I will try that. I bought them from Stone Keep armoury and then seems reputable so I would imagine they are fine.
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Steven Pearson
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| Bill Sahigan wrote: | | Did Allan make those legs? |
No, he made the Pauldrons, Gorget , B&B and the Arms. The legs are from Stonekeep Armoury and the helm is from GDFB.
Now I just need some Greaves, a Bevor and some Gauntlets.
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Steven Pearson
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| Chuck Russell wrote: | | thats a nice room. what kind of mannequin did you get to put your harness on |
Thanks. I spent quite a bit of time on the room, I painted it including the stenciling, built and stained the bar railing, put in the chandelier on a dim switch and found a nice medieval looking table. I wanted to use faux stone to make the walls look castelish but its expensive for anything nice and my wife didnt want me to do anything to the walls that we couldn't change later. I like how its turning out though.
The Mannequin is something like this:
I looked at armour stands but those werent much cheaper and didnt look as good. This mannequin has arms you can move around if you want to put his hands on a sword or something.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Display-Mannequin-Male-Dr...7C294%3A30
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David Teague
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Joined: 25 Jan 2004
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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. 
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
This you shall know, that all things have length and measure.
Free Scholar/ Instructor Selohaar Fechtschule
The Historic Recrudescence Guild
"Yea though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou's sword art is with me; Thy poleaxe and Thy quarterstaff they comfort me."
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Christopher VaughnStrever
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That is impressive work with a great looking outcome. I gotta say' Awsome work on that. The pain in your hands paid off nicely.
Experience and learning from such defines maturity, not a number of age
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Bill Grandy
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| Christopher VaughnStrever wrote: | | That is impressive work with a great looking outcome. I gotta say' Awsome work on that. The pain in your hands paid off nicely. |
Agreed! Those kits came out beautifully, Dave!
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Greg Mele
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Allan Senefelder
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Dave, might just as well throw the one with the pole arm rack up as well, no such thing as to many long sharp pointies!
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