Finally a good tutorial! I'm a young apprentice in blacksmithing and I want to start of by cold armour forging. I wanna say that I love your channel and this tutorial will be of big help!
Holy crap the anvil rings so loud man! I hope you wear ear protection Edit - I don't mean that I a bad way it's super loud for me on the lowest possible volume. And I love your videos too. Also seems like you got more tolls and a bigger space.
Hey! For a History enthusiast/amateur smith like me, your channel is a gold mine! came across one of your vids when looking for a way to make a liner for my helmet and i subbed immediately!
Nice video, your armoring has improved a lot since the early days of this channel. I am interested in the way you made these, is there any evidence supporting the existence of riveted couters? All the ones I've seen seem to have been hammered from an always joint piece of metal.
Thanks for noticing! Like Eastern Blade said above, this type of construction is very common in german speaking areas of the late 15th century, but appear elsewhere as well. I'l believe there is a good example in the Met, but I'll try to find some that I can share :)
Very interesting. Thanks to the both of you. It seems I gotta look for the details more when looking at armor. If even helmschmied pieces had this sort of construction it must have been considered adequate even for higher end armors.
the madman is back! also just a recomendation, maybe mute or lower the audio when those really high pitched hammer noises come cuz i was not ready for my ears to bleed xD
It's all one piece, but when I close the triangular gap (ends up being a seam on the inside of the arm) I used one rivet to secure it. Unfortunately I didn't capture this very well on camera :/
Hi John, I just wanted to tell you that I started making my gauntlets with my friend. They are horribly historically inaccurate, but we’ll get better over time. Your channel has really been the driving force for me to try these types of projects. I have come to realize that I am going to need to make a dishing form in the future and I was wondering if you could please tell me the measurements for your small and large one? No need to respond quick, I understand that you are busy. Thank you
Hello, I'm very glad that I can be helpful to you and your friend, making things with my best friend got me started with all this too :) . I can't recall off the top of my head how large they each are but I think probably 3.5 inches for the smaller and 5 or 6 inches in diameter for the larger. Those two sizes usually do the job for just about everything I need to dish, but for making your own remember that hammer size is also important, not just weight but diameter too. I was lucky enough to have access to steel pipe and a heavy duty welder for making these, but they only came after I played around with different sizes in wood blocks. What works for me might not be the best fit for everyone, so definitely try to make a few different sizes to get a feel for what is best for you :)
I litterly tried to make one out of one piece. Even heated steel is fcking hard to make fully symmetric.... Fck it Im just going to weld two separate pieces together
Two piece ones exist historically too :) though in honesty, perfect symmetry in armor is overrated sometimes. Some pieces it matters more than others but even individual human bodies aren't as symmetrical as we sometimes like to think.
