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I make medieval armor.

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J:
that really is quite awesome.

Jace:

--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Jul 2013, 06:48 ---Impressive work! Did you form the "caps" of the spaulders (learned a new word!) by hammering over some sort of anvil?

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The general term for rounded armor that covers/encloses the joint is a cop. Shoulder cop, knee cop, elbow cop. They also have fancier names, I don't know the one for the shoulder (I suppose just spaulder), couter for the elbow and poleyn for the knee.

I formed them by hammering the flat piece into a dishing form (probably about 1/4 of a sphere in shape) carved into a stump. I start at one corner and go around it in a circle until it is flush in the form. Then I hold the piece on the edge of the form to dish deeper. I could also have used what most armorers call a dishing donut, literally just a large ring of metal. I could also have formed it by hammering it over a "ball stake," a metal ball mounted on a stake, that technique is called raising.

After it is formed, it needs to be boughed or planished. Boughing is setting the outside against a smooth anvil and hammering the inside with overlapping blows to smooth out the bumps from the forming step, then we cheat and hit it with a 120 grit disc on an angle grinder to further smooth it out. Then we polish it. I originally wanted to take these up to a mirror finish, but the material is a little weird, and to save time I chose not to.

GarandMarine:
Do you take commissions? I've been looking for a good source for a single arm rig for a costume for ages.

Jace:
Yeah, we'll do commissions, but no fantasy stuff, only real armor. For the next couple weeks there's a big ol event so I'll be out of the shop, but after that we can chat.

GarandMarine:
I like fantasy stuff, but I wouldn't waste anything more then like, paper mache on it.

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