[Bryn-gwlad] Armouring Thursday night. Now with classes!

[Zach Most]

We'll be armouring from 7 to 10 in my shop on Thursday the 10th.  You can't help but pick up ideas from making armour, but this week I'll be beginning a series of little formal classes on basic practical armour skills and knowledge done in bite size chunks of 15 minutes a week.  Here's a sketch of the class schedule for the month:
 
Jan 10th  Riveting.  We'll cover rivet types, sources, what kind to use where, rivet sets, how to pein, and ways to remove them.  We'll also look at some pictures of 14th century rivets which you can do really cheaply.  The hands on part of this will be limited to 5 people.
 
Jan 17th Metalurgy.  Carbon content, heat treating, what the relevant technical terms mean, and what some Medieval artifacts were made from.  This will mostly be theoretical, but we might fire up the forge to do a demo.
 
Jan 24th Articulation.  I'll do an overview of shell articulation, the general idea of how and why it work, cover a method that lets you do it on your own, and touch on some tips and tricks to making articulation smooth and pretty.
 
Jan 31st Armour picture show.  We'll look at as much armour as we can cram into 15 minutes to get a better idea of what it's really supposed to look like.
 
That last one touches on a bigger project which Master Peter (Max) has been working on which we need help with.  He has a ton of pictures from various armouries and books which need to be organized.  We'd like to take an afternoon or a long evening with a bunch of people with laptops to sort them by origin (and hopefully by type of armour if we have time).  If you have a decent eye for armour and could man a computer let me or Max know and we'll arrange a photo (sweat) shop.


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