2.) North Italian
c. 1570
This is a closed loop guard.
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This elbow piece is in the Tower of London.
Note: Update we changed from this cop type to a more decore' type. (26 Aug. 2006) |
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-7 Aug. 2006-
This is the sized pattern for Kenny's pauldron.
This is just the base piece of the three part shoulder protection. |
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-8 Aug. 2006-
The pattern on the steel. |
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Both left and right are cut. |
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-10 Aug. 2006-
The pattern is taken shape after the rolling and roping. |
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The inside to view the roll. |
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-11 Aug. 2006-
The main lames are shaped, holes are drilled for the rivets. |
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A inside to view. There is a lot of contour on these pieces. |
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-13 Aug. 2006-
The gorget pattern on the steel in Kenny's size. |
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The main pieces cut out. |
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The roping and semi rolled. |
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All the way roped. |
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The locking pin for the gorget in the lath. |
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The pin after cleaning. |
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The front of the gorget, also see the hook with the pin. |
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The back of the gorget with the contours. |
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-14 Aug. 2006-
The parts which makeup the neck for the gorget. |
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This will give a good idea what it will look like once it is done. |
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-15 Aug. 2006-
The neck part for the gorget. |
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The inside. |
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The front of the gorget. |
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The side, all I need to do is clean and rivet the neck. |
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-16 Aug. 2006-
The front of the gorget. |
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The back. |
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-21 Aug. 2006-
The pauldrons with the lames. |
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All the lames are made, now they need to be shaped and the one lame rolled. |
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-22 Aug. 2006-
The pauldrons with the parts for the rear vambrace. |
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This is the way it will attach to the pauldron. |
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-23 Aug. 2006-
The inside of the pauldrons. |
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Close-up. |
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The pauldrons with arms. |
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Just another look. |
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The pattern for the elboe cop. It taken me about two hours to design this piece. |
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This is only one half of the cop, two will make a whole cop.
The two will be TIG welded as one. This type of cop is hard to find.
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-25 Aug. 2006-
The elbow pattern on the steel. |
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The pieces after they are cut out. |
| The pauldrons with the flange guards. |
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-26 Aug. 2006-
The elbow cops before the TIG welding. |
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| The elbow cop rolling the edge. |
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That is a view looking at the channel before the wire is placed in it. |
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-27 Aug. 2006-
Getting ready to TIG weld. |
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The piece after it is done. |
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The look of the elbow cop as a whole. |
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-29 Aug. 2006-
This is the second cop. |
The hardest part of making this type of cop is the aligning of the two half's. They have to be with in about 1/32 of an inch together before TIGing. |
I forget to take pictures from the first one after the TIG welding. |
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-30 Aug. 2006-
Both cops are cleaned. |
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I will make the new flange guards better looking by TIG welding the support. |
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-31 Aug. 2006-
The first flange guard done. |
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A close up of the guard, it does have a better look. |
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-3 Sep. 2006-
Kenny, and his friend David, drove in from Louisiana for fitting and pickup. |
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This was the tie point the way I planned to do it originally. But the knot became a pressure point. |
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Front look. |
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Back view. |
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The vambrace inside the new elbow cop. |
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The old pattern is now to long with the new cop. |
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Side view. |
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Kenny, making copys of the armor patterns, Kenny and David also make armor themselves.
Thank you David for taken these pictures. |
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-5 Sep. 2006-
The Pins for the Pauldrons. |
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They are about 2.25" in size. |
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View from above. Keep in mind they will be a 1/4" shorter once the are mounted. |
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Side view. |
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The vambrace. |
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-6 Sep. 2006-
View from the front. |
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Side view. |
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Close up of the pins / tie point. |
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-9 Sept. 2006-
Kenny picking up his Armor.
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