-9 July 2016-
The general concept. |
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The pattern for part of the gorget. |
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-14 July 2016-
The mechanical way to build a truncated cone. |
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What I need is 20 inches on the neck and 22.5 inches on the shoulder. |
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| The general concept, this is a new way for me to design this piece of armour. |
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The pattern for the gorget neck guard, which will be build out of 6 pieces/lames. |
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| Spoke with customer changed neck to 19 inches. |
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This is a better tool to change sizing very quick. |
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-19 July 2016-
The first part on steel. |
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Cutting the first half of the upper lame of the neck guard. |
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| Setting this up for 9.5 inches per side. |
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Run out of steel had to pull a new sheet out of 16ga. 304. |
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-21 July 2016-
The raw hinge for the upper gorget lame. |
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-22 July 2016-
The opening to the gorget. |
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It is 19 inches inside the gorget. |
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-25 July 2016-
The gorget anchor ring. |
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-27 July 2016-
After I started to work the edge it became a little small, you can see how I got it back to the correct size. I should be done with the gorget by this weekend. |
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-30 July 2016-
First time I ever used my arbor press in this way, it word better then I thought. Keep in mind this is all raw work. |
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-4 Aug. 2016-
Been working, just did not post, here is a view of the latch on the gorget. |
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-8 Aug. 2016-
Worked on this over the weekend, did not have time to post. |
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The gorget is almost done, this just takes time, there are no short-cuts. |
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-14 Aug. 2016-
The general idea of the look, will need to work the edges and sink the neck guards into the gorget. |
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-16 Aug. 2016-
The end of the gorget. |
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-21 Aug. 2016-
The general pattern for the breastplate. |
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-23 Aug. 2016-
Did some fine tuning on the pattern. |
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Ready to work the breastplate. |
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-28 Aug. 2016-
Rolled the edges on the upper part of the breastplate. |
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Using the English-wheel on the lower part of the breastplate. |
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-31 Aug. 2016-
Driving the lower part of the breastplate. |
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The general idea, still a lot of work to do. |
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-24 Sept. 2016-
The raw back plate. |
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Rolling the edges. |
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| New pattern for the elbow cop. |
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Second view. |
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-8 Oct. 20016
Making the hinges to be mounted inside the vambraces. |
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| The hinges. |
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The parts for the vambraces. |
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| Filling the spaces for the hinges. |
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The over angle of the elbow-cop. Note: This is not made for fighting, but for looks. |
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| The look of the mounted hinges. |
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Working the second vambrace. |
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| Both are done. |
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Working on a pressure latch. |
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Closed. |
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| Back working on the breastplate/back. |
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May 19, 2017
Pauldron design. |
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May 19, 2017
Shaping the pauldron. |
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May 20, 2017
Working on the neck-guard / hawk-guard. |
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May 22, 2017
Kevin came for a fitting. |
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May 25, 2017
Reworking the tassets. |
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June 7, 2017
Working on the heavy pauldrons. |
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June 8, 2017
Working on the pauldrons lames. |
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June 9, 2017
Working on the rear vambraces. |
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June 9, 2017
Straight arm. |
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June 21, 2017
Some of the last parts for this armour. |
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June 9, 2017
Straight arm. |
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June 21, 2017
Some of the last parts for this armour. |
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Aug ~20, 2017
Josh working on the pauldrons. |
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| Working on the arms |
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| View of the armour |
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| How the pauldrons attach to the breastplate. |
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| How the pauldrons attach to the breastplate. |
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The breastplate.
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| Pauldron pattern 1. |
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Pauldron pattern 2. |
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