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Timo Nieminen
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| Tom King wrote: | on the 3 ~15th-17th century complete suits (infantry style harnesses, not the 80lb gunpowder era cavalry suits mind you) I was lucky enough to examine, the answer is "thin". ~18-20ga lacquered metal.[...]
for the weapons they faced for the first 9/10ths of the history of feudal japan, it was entirely adequate. |
There are Edo Period breastplates this thin (about 1mm of steel/iron, + lacquer). Also normal enough for lamellae (maybe thick for lamellae), splints on arms and legs, etc. But note that a lamellar breastplate will be 4 lamella thicknesses thick overall.
A 1mm breastplate doesn't stop arrows, so isn't adequate until the bow largely disappears from the battlefield.
"In addition to being efficient, all pole arms were quite nice to look at." - Cherney Berg, A hideous history of weapons, Collier 1963.
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Timo Nieminen
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| Pieter B. wrote: | | Do you know if they broke up the blooms while still hot from the bloomery to consolidate them or did they let the entire piece cool first before taking a chisel to it? |
The bloom is removed while still hot, but not glowing. Still hot enough to burn the wooden rollers used to help move it. Then broken into smaller pieces with a large drop hammer. Broken down smaller with sledgehammers. Don't know whether they consolidate the pieces then, or cool and sort. That's the modern process. I don't know when they started using drop-hammers.
Removing and breaking the bloom, at about 23-25 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-T5qYA1Qg
Description: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CGZPvLkmP3IC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65
Some drop-hammers: https://www.hitachi-metals.co.jp/e/tatara/nnp0107.htm
"In addition to being efficient, all pole arms were quite nice to look at." - Cherney Berg, A hideous history of weapons, Collier 1963.
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