How to make cuirass. Forging armor 

Makes you realize why full plate armor cost as much as a house

700 years ago they still had power hammers. They were powered by waterwheels but a lot of the process hasn’t changed over the years

Well they had pretty brutal tools back then as well, machine-like hammers and such but usually the blacksmiths were in the service of the king and the materials were hard to come by.

I'm sure you could just look it up on RU-vid back then too

@@Kingdomkey123678 not likely though. There's very few places in Europe where you have streams that are right for water wheels. And usually water wheels were used for the general good. Since they are incredibly expensive marvels of engineering. It's not until the industrial revolution that water wheel power was used for smithing purposes. And it was mainly smithing for trains or mass market things. For anything sensible you'd just have a few guys with hammers.

whats so bad about hammering

@@cohenposey7495 it takes sooooooo long

He would have a lot of help too. Someone to keep the forge going, others working on different pieces, making the chain mesh, re-heating each piece, cutting out the pieces, and carrying it to the blacksmith for forming. I can picture a shop-like atmosphere rather than as in the old West movies where there is just a blacksmith working alone. I have seen a video of making chain mesh and it is literally one link at a time, woven into a large piece.

Most of the machine tools used here can be created with wood, leverage and gravity. I don't know if there is any evidence of smiths using them, but they are certainly possible for even a basic carpenter to construct with 2x4s.

before mechanisation came child and indentured labour. mass education emphasises reading and writing; apprenticeship didn't need it. so nothing recorded but the armour made speaks for itself. a lot of labour under strict supervision.

The modern armoring community is not that large, but we are around.

sadly what he makes is rennaissance armor. not medieval :D that's why it has a hole in the folds for the codpiece to stick through ;D

So here's the thing, im willing to bet there is an armorer near you, if you join the United League of Armorers on Facebook, you can ask if there are any smiths near you, and I can just about guarantee that there's one close that can teach you

@@countbyran thank you dude.

Thanks!

Same, except *I will*

Nah, your toxic trait is thinking "Yeah, I could make this without practice, completely perfectly right the first time." There's no such thing as skill without training.

1/16 gauge 1.6 mm

@@mariajosefacarlon5184 thanks

I think the thickest cuirass used was 9mm at its thickest point

@@Themanwiththeplan1899 wow. That must have been pretty heavy

There is a market for medieval armour production! Plenty of full time armourers out there.

Yes, it’s because without the bulge the edge of the chest plate would cut into your skin or anytime you bend forward. Even if the metal is smooth and rounded it will still dig in and potentially cut off circulation. Hope this answers your question.

Also, the bulge allows more room for any weight gain.

Just remembered this: the bulge can also be used as a small storage area (coin purse, a small loaf of bread, documents, etc.)

Спасибо! Но вы же видели все эти видео на основном канале :)

Как вам вариант без слов и музыки?

@@howtomakearmor мне лично больше заходит именно со словами и музыкой а этот я поддерживаю чтобы хоть и немного но больше людей заметили этот канал включая основной и как минимум оценили а этот наверное для любителей асмр)

@@H0RtiDICK Я просто поражаюсь как некоторые авторы ничего не говоря в кадре собирают миллионы. Вот например ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eNyzFmfiJr4.html В виде эксперимента решил сюда закидывать заготовки без голоса. А на основной канал уже чистить и как-то интересно сводить

Покупатели на такие вещи находятся? Не дешёвое наверное удовольствие.

ke-ras = hard

steel, duh

You should also really consider changing your cutting style. Sometimes you show a lot of slow progress and document every little bit of it wich lengthens the video a lot and sometimes you speed scenes up so much that the progress isn't even noticable.

That would be very heavy

would not work to brittle would crack if hit hard

Tungsten is too brittle

when in north alpine europe wehre pyramids build??!?! the armorers gild literaly controlled markets and kept prices up to guarantee every member a living wage income

Where did he say historical? Are you a historian? Just a little bit of research showed me that he was actually using fairly historical methods. They didn't have angle grinders either, nor bench grinders. Of course he was using more modern tools. But they did use rollers and such, and general shapes were formed with cold forging but would often heat areas that required a finer adjustment in order to forge them to their correct shape. I'm sure whether or not the plate was too thick is subjective. I'm sure there were thicker and thinner plates.

@@Epiphalactic they would make it thicker on the center and front of a breastplate, limbs and other places where thinner, he could be doing it better, theres lot of things he should be considering but ain't, looks ok but it lacks the form and finesse historical armor has, the armor shaping was mostly cold, the properties you want in a piece of armor are different from what you want in a sword, even with tools, if you watch other armosmiths on youtube you see theres much he can improve, if the armor isn't perfectly shaped/thick and fallowing the forms people made in medieval times, sure it will still be better than nothing, but it might hurt you/make you sore/tire you needlessly / be cumbersome and obstruct your movement, just compare what he did with what other armorsmiths do, id never try to do reenacment combat nor jousting in this armor, but he can get there. just compare what he did with a milanese suit (wich was a simple mass produce late medieval era armor) he should be trying to achieve that first before trying to inventing, just my opinion tho.

@@felipeaugusto6991 this, if I am correct, is a late 16th century design, and it is pretty historically accurate. Milanese armour was NOT mass produced, that was three quarters, or Munitions armour, which the lower class, or poorer men at arms used.

this steel armor could survive a 5v5 or a skirmish in buhurt since it is 3mm

@@graemesmith6599 it is not just the thickness, but the form, how it sits and transfers energy, and the quality of the material, what im saying is that by comparison with historical armors this is not a good fit, if i were him id try to learn/copy from historical armor much more, or go with a easier kind of armor to fit like a coat of plates or brigandine, it looks off in general and ofc some armor is better than no armor, but there are things you must get right or you will hurt yourself even with armor, and thickness is really important where it is needed, if you do it all around you will get a suit that tires you and with unproper fit it can even hurt yourself, much a like a sword without proper form it will be much less effective.