Make your own washers. Medieval Armour Techniques.
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2020
- A short(ish) video showing how I make washers.
They are all through armour, naturally. Originals are often quite carelessly made, at east to modern eyes and usually a lot larger than we are used to.
But they are simple to make.
Very slick! Where in the gauntlets would these washers be used? In tandem with a rivet in the leather strips?
These ones are in the cuff holding the articulation together, but they can be used anywhere really :)
Good to see that my homemade rivets look like yours. I use a few different tools, but the principles are the same. I punch my holes with a Whitney punch and cut them out with a large shear I picked up of eBay a while back that looks similar to a normal hand shear, but has part bent down to go into a Hardy hole and is about 24 inches long.
Pretty much accomplish the same tasks in the same order as you do, though.
Silly thought...
Leave them on the strip while riviting and use the strip to push the washer doen
To hold the washer in place while you peen the rivet? I've done that before. But you have to be really precise with your cutting to get them near through so a few wriggles and it's free otherwise you end up buggering around too much to make it worth it. Depends on the material being used too.
...huuh you mean warshers?
yep, pretty much same way im doing it, im just suffering with drill(cupple drill bits snappend on me)...altho im comletly into this from hobby perspective
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Generally speaking, would you say it particularly matters what kind of material you use for your washers and rivets? If you're building a piece using high carbon steel, will you use similar steel for the washers and rivets? Or do you just use alu because it's easy to work with and peen? I'm very new to the hobby, and initially got steel rivets, which were impossible to peen, so I ended up diverting to alu, but I'm wondering what a more professional opinion on this topic is.
Steel all the way, once you've got the hang of it. Steel plates will wear away aluminium rivets in pretty quick order and if they are hit then they'll likely come to pieces even quicker. When I started I used aluminium rivets for the same reason, but after giving steel ones a go for a while I got the hang of it. Keep the shanks only a 1-2mm long when en situ and then peen them. You'll get there after the first few go all over the show ... Oh and try preening around the circumference rather than straight down in the centre.
Why are they called washers? (I swear this isn't a bad dad joke. I'm just curious. Given they are pretty ancient I'm wondering on the root.)
I have no clue, the medieval one's I saw were referred to as roves, but they were for doors, so I don't know if that's specific to that trade.
Working with lead without gloves and breathing protection is pretty risky. Especially if you want to have children that don't have two heads. Take it from someone who was paid to spend an hour a day down the range shooting and had lead levels in their bollocks that you could sell to a refinery.
Consider that at the range, leg gets hot, maybe it was giving off fumes. Here, its cold. Correct me if I'm wrong though.