Decorative borders on armour. Part One. Simple chisel work.
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Decorative borders add a lot to armour and are relatively simple to make with a few very basic tools.
Lots of medieval decoration on armour was made using the simplest of tools as evidenced in the finished work. The same quality of work can be easily replicated using a small hammer and a couple of chisels and punches.
Pictures in this video come from the interwebs. A couple have come from Toby Capwell's Armour of the English Knight 1400 - 1450, his book is an absolute must for any student of armour. You can get a copy from here: wallacecollect...
Ugo Serrano's awesome work can be found here: www.instagram.... and Douglas Pryor can be found here: douglaspryor.com/
even most of 16th century most decorations apart from higher class was done by chiseling and was rather easy
i started with an armor project just bc i am cheap and cant affort a breastplate for my reenactment period
have you tried a modern engraver? I am to lazy so I bought the cheapish one that works like a printer for 250 dollars.
Not really, I try, when I can, to do things as they did, or at least as I currently understand it. A lot of their work was rough and ready and modern engravers make it too well :)
Graham, You've been quiet for quite a while, so I hope that you and your family are well?
If you're finding it difficult to find time to make videos, perhaps you could simply "record everything" and "speed it up in editing," kind of like a time lapse video, and do a bit of voice over the videos? Several of the "smaller" channels I watch are (unfortunately, in _my_ opinion) starting to do that, or vlog-style, but I _certainly_ understand small businesses doing that in order to spend more time making a living and less time making videos! Unlike the "so-called professional UA-camrs" (i.e., the "big guys") that make their living from their UA-cam videos (and sponsors, side sales/stores, etc, etc.)
Cheers mate, tbh it's more about finding time to be in the workshop recently. An unexpected, sad, passing and a string of personal injuries have kept me out of the workshop. But I wet in today for the first time in a few weeks following an ankle injury and it was OK, so I am hoping to get some videos up and running again :)
@@GreenleafWorkshop Glad to hear that you are "OK" and healing(?) and expect to be back at it. I understand the unexpected passings and have reached the point of life where they are increasing, unfortunately. I and your other viewers eagerly look forward to your upcoming videos! ;D
Kind of quiet and I miss your videos. I hope all is well.
CHeers mate, it's been an odd few months with a sad unexpected death in the family and then just a series of injuries that have kept me out of the workshop, ... hopefully back in tomorrow and cracking on.
@@GreenleafWorkshop Sorry for your loss, injuries. Hang in there!
I bought of etsy: patterned and continious ribbons of brass, the one i chose was vines and tudor flower pedal flowers, i used gorilla CLEAR to tack some areas and vise clamped for 24+ hours. ever so since perfect glass clear dot tacks every 1 inch. i like it, sometimes riveting with bordering is way to go
I have found that a good spring will make nice chisels and punches. I like coil springs better than flat or leaf springs for tooling. A bit less work in making the tools. As far as what steel it is I have no idea. Its a coil spring so its going to be pretty good steel to begin with. I know people say 5160, but I know that's not always the case. My little chisels hold up pretty well. I just do a general blacksmiths heat treat on it.
Doing decoration like this is so hard for me to justify personally. when youre an amateur like me and you spend 10-100+ hours just making the piece, spending even more time on brass strips, or punch/file work, or elaborate fluting, is not a very pleasant idea. Id rather start work on the next piece that needs doing.
This is a good reminder that It doesnt always need to be as laborious as you might think. But even still, i think ill leave it to the pros. For now, at least. :P
Simple stuff, like most of the 14th and 15h century doesn't take as long as you might think :)
The issue i'm having with armor is wanting to try and do repousse, etching, engraving, gem encrusting/embedding gems or stones into metal, and other such techniques.
Yet, there's not much material to go off of or many people with advice or tips to help get into those techniques. Not to mention the tools and equipment to even get started with some of those techniques (like annealing with repousse).
YOu can get started on the basics relatively quickly, my hope is this shows the starting tools needed. You can anneal brass and the like on a BBQ with a bit of pipe to blow into to heat the charcoal. I always find encouragement from the fact that bronze age folk managed it with a few simple tools, so I can get started and manage a few thousand years development in a few months :)
@@GreenleafWorkshop Could i actually anneal steel with a campfire or a bbq? Trying to look around, but i thought those don't burn hot enough to anneal steel?
@@Xoroxouselric Yes. As Graham stated, you can use "a bit of pipe" to blow air into the fire to increase the temperature. It's like a blower or bellows used by Blacksmiths to increase the temperatures in their forges, which can exceed forge welding temperatures and even burn the steel if care isn't taken. Experiment & practice on expendable/scrap pieces before risking something that you've spent a lot of time and/or money making!
nice work!
Thanks!