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-10 May 2005-
This is the breastplate pattern for Richard's size.
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The pattern for the tassets.
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-16 May 2005-
The pattern on the steel.
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After the plasma cut.
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Top of the breastplate.
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Before the weld.
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-17 May 2005-
After the weld and the diversion-line.
Now the feel of the breastplate comes alive.
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I welded the ends of the rolls closed.
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-18 May 2005-
The fauld can move by 1.5 inches in front.
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Now the fauld is up.
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The fauld pattern and the cut.
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Rolling the fauld.
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-19 May 2005-
Fauld and breastplate pieces.
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Two hours later about 90% of the cleaning is done.
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The fauld up.
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The fauld down, about a 1.75 inch swing.
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Side view of the armor.
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Cod fastner on the bottom of the breastplate.
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-20 May 2005-
Pattern for the arm/pit guard pieces.
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Arm guards cut out and some work done on them.
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This is the look the breastplate will have with the arm guards.
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The view from the side.
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The arm guards bend in shape.
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The top look of the guard.
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-25 May 2005-
Inside of the breastplate.
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The breastplate with the arm guards and the first part of the tassets.
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The tassets pattern and the first lame.
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The tasset lame with the off-set.
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The arm guards how they move.
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-27 May 2005-
The tassets with pattern on the steel.
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The tassets after cutting and some cleaning.
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The tassets pieces after the edges are bend.
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The bottom of the tassets one rolled the other before the roll.
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-31 May 2005-
The armor with the tassets. The holes for the straps will be made on the final fitting.
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The tassets will move out as much as needed.
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The inside view.
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Close-up of the tassets.
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-2 June 2005-
The pattern for the cod-piece and the cod-piece in stainless. I also rolled the edges.
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The look with the cod-piece.
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-5 June 2005-
The art-work on the stainless.
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The acid on the art.
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The bottom of the tassets, they are different for each side.
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The close-up of the art and the way the acid worked.
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-6 June 2005-
The pattern for the gorget. There was a change in the order, now this armor will have a gorget and pauldrons with rear-vambraces.
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The pattern for the backplate, in Richard's size.
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-6 June 2005-
The art on the breastplate at this point.
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Richard's crest, close-up.
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-11 June 2005-
The armor after breastplate and tassets are cleaned.
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The gorget uncleaned.
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The latch on the gorget.
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Just a side view.
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-12 June 2005-
Richard came over to the shop, so we can fine tune the armor.
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Richard with the gorget, the gorget still needs to be cleaned.
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-15 June 2005-
Close-up of the pauldron / rear-vambrace, which has a small Tudor-Rose in the center.
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The suit the way it will look, I still need to place straps on the lower part of the rear-vambraces and clean the whole suit.
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-16 June 2005-
125k Size Pic.
The last picture, it is done.
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690k Size Pic.
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-19 June 2005-
Richard is picking up his new suit.
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Richard in his suit.
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