i wounder why we just have Kevlar vests? What about full body Kevlar? legs, neck, head, arms, hands, feet, waist I mean wouldn't that be safer than just chest? Yeah your heart is important and a helm that shows your face...might be finish. i'd i'd like my whole face covered my arms and legs safe too. maybe my hands and feet also. I am sure it can be made. just because this is old doesn't mean it isn't smart to copy from. Saved lives way back when before.
@fastitslol kevlar is heavy as fuck dude...a kevlar plate doesnt stop all kinds of firepower and its really heavy...there are full suits of kevlar but they are for the dude who difuse bombs (see the hurt locker)
@fastitslol kevlar is very weak ,not as strong as you've imagined,velar agains an rifle is like chain maile agaist long bow,thats why the soldiers are trained to take cover and understand strategic positions instead of letting the enemies shoot their new armors..
@blackblack8888 As detailed as they are, I'd imagine it'd be up around that $20,000 area...maybe even $30,000 because of all the extra ornate bits. But I've been wrong before. Worst you could ever do is ask an armorer and show them a picture of the suit in question~ Armorers have websites too. :3
haha you do not fall over if you put armour on top to bottom. what a load of bull. and i didnt see him temper the armour so you could stab through that with pretty much anything that it would come up against
Is the voice-over recorded by an actual person or buy a computer generated voice? Unless it's recorded by the woman who was taught to talk by computer. Her pacing and phrasing seems odd somehow.
i tAk3 5Ick PlasUre in MuH Sp3lin Mi5kat3s. Liv3 wiT it :P
as for the armor however. i know people who can make allot less complacated armor which would cost allot less and be fourm fitted to your body. what gauge steel did they use in the video? probably 18 or 19 because its easier to work with and just slightly less strenght than 14 gauge, which is what you WANT to use for REAL BATTLE armor. suits made like whats shown in the video are whats called Deco'
14, 16, or 18 gauge steel armor can be made for as cheeply as it cost to buy the raw materials and tools to shape it. everything else sanding, and polishing can be done by hand. ive known people who have made several suits of S.C.A. legal combat armor that has been made for ALLOT less than 3-20k
$20,000 for a stainless steel suit? I could see it for 1050 or even 4130 high carbon steel that's been hardened but stainless? Not a chance. Stainless is heavy and meant as a wall hanger. For re-enactment uses it has to be made much thicker and heavier than period pieces as stainless or even mild steel isn't nearly as tough heat treated high carbon steels.
@snickers763 I'm trying to attach a link to a picture of a water powered hammer used to break up ores from the 16th century, but it doesn't seem to want to let me. A quick google of "medieval water powered hammer" should be sufficient to point out some examples, the picture I'm trying to send comes from the wiki page on the trip hammer.
besides everybody knows that Troy was the most historically accurate movie ever made. ever. little known fact: the movie is actually under the documentary genre.
@SoldierCyfix you are talking about the late greek period, at the time of the trojan wars about 700bc metal armour was not worn except for the helmets it was a composite lamellar suit consisting of fabric, thin brass sheets and leather glued in various layers that was good enough to ressist most light spear or sword blows.remember that the weapons weren't that deadly in those days so armour needed to provide less protection.so the Brad Pitt/Eric Bana armour is probably accurate in Troy.
@janak19771977 thats a valid point, even if it was heavy, if a person wore and trained in it, they would eventually get used to wearing and fighting in it.
@TheBigfatjerry1 Speak for yerself!!! thats easier said than done...its not like u can make one looking like a medieval badass in your backyard, besides, its not like YOU can do better. >_>
lol i know that! im saying its impossible to make strong, durable armor like the ones in the medieval times today. if you can, your a freakin legend smither.
@TheGarcia350 it just takes a little more time is all, armour made with heat is inferior and weaker, it was actually a law at one point that whitesmiths, (jewelers, armourers, anyone who worked metal without heat) because the product was so weak and inferior. Hand-made armour is made stronger by taking the piece and slabbing a flamable oil all over it, then it is lit on fire (it arranges the molecules in the steel), or it can be planished upside down with a greater amount of force.
can someone please tell me what that machine is i looked for metal stamper machine, stamper, automatic hammer, and modern hammer on ebay and found nothing like it?
@ElchinMendes I forget what this discussion was about. I've seen harnesses for sale online for 3 000, 4 000, 5 000, and I've seen some going for 20 000. You have to shop around and see what you like.
20K? We have lasers, computers, and templates for god sakes. Can't we just take a piece of thin metal and put it in a template based machine and have it pounded into the perfect shape? Better yet, just use chemicals. No one in their right mind would pay 20K for a suit of armor. I don't think that armor is stronger than a car.
If you are very interested in medieval plate armor, then spending $20,000 makes sense. I wouldn't pay $20,000 for a car, but some will pay $200,000.
As for using modern hammers to pund it into place, that type of equipment is for mass production of industrial equipment and, armor doesn't have that type of market.
Custom motorcycle makers use similiar techniques to make gas tanks and, splash guards.
Oh, no, no no no no, I have armor made from metal stamp machine. They or Hmmm ok at best.
Hand made ones are a work of art and light and much stronger too! Just better made all around!
No one uses this in present time? Not true at all. Armors from the past has the same concepts on armored vehicles, military tanks and on many things such as in can goods and in space suits as well as robotics... People dealing with these things often come to Ancient armor exports...
I read some people are trying to do something like that...
People got to see how Armors from the past have the same concepts on armored vehicles, military tanks and on many things such as in can goods and in space suits as well as robotics... People dealing with these things often come to Ancient armor exports...
Hehe, thats a young Eric Dubé!, or either way a beardless one, it didnt know he also used a mechanical hammer, but i guess one has to, if you want to make a living out of it.
@Kazu1193 depending on how long you keep it under (they move fast!!!) kinda like placing your hand on a table studded with metal beads and slamming it with a metal baseball bat about 40 times.
I'm sorry but no it would not. when you temper high carbon steel you don't just temper it you heat it to red hot quench it in water or oil depending on what your doing remove the black oxide then reheat it to different colors depending on what qualities you need E.G a spring which is very good at flexing and not going past it's yield point I think is heated until it has a blue color on it. Sorry if i seem like a know it all but i spend like every lunch at college in the work shop stuffing round
You clearly need to spend more time in the chemistry lab, because if you did, you would know that spring steel and carbon steel are two different things.
If you do nothing but temper high-carbon steel that shit will shatter like the fourth of july. It's why Katanas had a soft back, to give it flex to that hard edge.
no I don't think you know as much about tempering steels as you think you do high carbon steels (which this type of armor was/is made from) is not brittle unless you temper it to be so when tempering high carbon steel you can make it so brittle that you can snap it as if it were glass very hard but not good for much what you then do is reheat it (as i said before) until you have the properties you need for the job hard for an edge or very good at flexing and holding shape for armor
also please be open minded to the fact that you are not all knowing any engineer will say the same as I have also about spring steel and high carbon steel being different yes and no spring steel is a type of high carbon there are many many types of high carbon steel depending on percentage of carbon and other elements in trace amounts
This response is factually incorrect. Tempering, by itself, is almost exactly the opposite of what you just said. Tempering is the process of taking steel which has been made brittle by quenching and releasing some of the internal stresses to make it strong and ductile again.
At first I felt offended at seeing an automatic hammer. I make it by hand only. Even the polishing, and I derive satisfaction from that. But like Andy Warhol, industrialising the process makes it available to so many more people, and can only improve popularity and further business. In short, I want an automatic hammer now...But for my own collection? Nah...blood, sweat and tears, milord. It's feeling connected to the past that is the thing, and the whole of the thing.
To be clear, I don't rank knowing and being able to make armor exactly as it was "in the day" as a completely useless skill like learning Klingon, or High Elvish. It is good to keep knowledge and tradition alive so that people can understand the skill that went the creation of some things. It all depends on your reason for wanting it in the first place. If I'm filming the Crusades, I don't need 1000 authentically made suits of armor.
That's what technology is for! With that line of thinking the crossbow would never have replaced the longbow.
"Be a real man don't use that cranequin!"
Because nobody making a suit of armor today is doing it because someone is going to use it in real battle, it's for historical purposes,reenactment groups or the movies. Being a purist is okay, but not everybody is into it to that extent.
whats with all modern machinery, sorry but if im gonna make a suit of armour i'd want to do it the way it should be done, i mean, a machine just to do the sandpapering?
get some elbow grease going! hard work never hurt. medeival people didnt have these things. just wouldnt feel worth doing to me if im gonna cut corners and not do it exactly how they did.
i'll be fair, if its a business and they have to make several in a week, then yeah, speed up the process, otherwise do it right
I see what you're getting at, but they're not really doing it "wrong" in any way. Take the hammering of the breast plate, for example. They're using the same process, just with better technology that saves the smith from the long term injuries that old smiths developed.
If they had used a machine to press a flat piece of metal into a pre-formed shape in one pass, then yeah, that would be shoddy. At least this guy's actually working the metal.
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AliniumGaming 1 week ago
Love it!!!
MrCouchmen 1 week ago
I can get functional armor for 700 bucks. A good leather for 400 bucks
TheRebelEye 3 weeks ago
suits of armour weren't invented in the 15th century...The Greeks wore them in 500 BC !!
thodkats 1 month ago in playlist How It's Made Playlist
@thodkats This type was. Greeks wore a much different type of body armour.
luciferiexcelsil 1 month ago
if we had time machine, all we need is a Automatic gun (m16, ak, etc) with lots of ammo and we will pwn those medieval noobs
VGMoney 2 months ago
@VGMoney you dont need them . Ottomans horseback archers enough for this armour .
CEMOLTU 2 months ago
WHERE whats the website??
NemanorTheAlmighty 3 months ago
THOR!
Brand0nK1mm 5 months ago
So seriously impressed!!!
RosebudliasCabochons 5 months ago in playlist CRAFTS
Kevlar's not all that heavy. The EOD suits you're talking about weighed about 42lbs.
NotJustYouNoob 5 months ago
god i hate this generic music
crazedxfighter 5 months ago
I will stick with chainmail and quilted leather gamberson think you.
maltacross1987 6 months ago
i wounder why we just have Kevlar vests? What about full body Kevlar? legs, neck, head, arms, hands, feet, waist I mean wouldn't that be safer than just chest? Yeah your heart is important and a helm that shows your face...might be finish. i'd i'd like my whole face covered my arms and legs safe too. maybe my hands and feet also. I am sure it can be made. just because this is old doesn't mean it isn't smart to copy from. Saved lives way back when before.
fastitslol 6 months ago
@fastitslol kevlar is heavy as fuck dude...a kevlar plate doesnt stop all kinds of firepower and its really heavy...there are full suits of kevlar but they are for the dude who difuse bombs (see the hurt locker)
Undeadmudge 5 months ago
@fastitslol
I think SWAT gear and crowd control gear often consists of full body Kevlar, but it would be expensive to equip every soldier with it.
AmunRa1 5 months ago
@fastitslol kevlar is very weak ,not as strong as you've imagined,velar agains an rifle is like chain maile agaist long bow,thats why the soldiers are trained to take cover and understand strategic positions instead of letting the enemies shoot their new armors..
Jake4595 3 months ago
Wow, I bet it took smiths years to finish plate armour back in the day.
viperxeon 6 months ago
Armour ready? Great..... make it flat again !!
transploft8 6 months ago
For NARNIA!!!!!
RhinocerosProduction 6 months ago
this should be titled "how they make armor for 33yrd virgins"....not how they made it for combatants in the 16th-18th century.
jbyrd0861 6 months ago
OMG. Yeah. Flutes are crazy expensive!
gmmakesmehurl 7 months ago
what a job!
marosticadriano 7 months ago
I want one.
g4111 7 months ago
so how much would it cost to make a armor as good as a Final Fantasy XII judge ?
blackblack8888 8 months ago
@blackblack8888 As detailed as they are, I'd imagine it'd be up around that $20,000 area...maybe even $30,000 because of all the extra ornate bits. But I've been wrong before. Worst you could ever do is ask an armorer and show them a picture of the suit in question~ Armorers have websites too. :3
Draezik 7 months ago
They make them too shiny the modern way, they look less like aluminum non-polished.
Iambloodcrazy123 8 months ago
It still costs less than the mother fucking FLUTE?
RainfallFantasy 8 months ago
2:08 who needs an anvil when you have abs of steel?
MyVillageIsBurning 9 months ago
can someone tell where such custom armour shops exist? I really want custom armour made profesionally and not out of some dude's garage.
If someone knows where suh shops exist like in this video Please comment or message me.
SuperSylar1 9 months ago
@SuperSylar1 Google armourarchive look at the links there and ask at the forums.
venomx2 8 months ago
Biggest drawback of a full suit of armor: when you're dented in battle you need a canopener to get out...
BarneySaysHi 9 months ago
@BarneySaysHi
I really hope you are not serious...
EvilxMerlin 9 months ago
@EvilxMerlin I don't think canopeners were invented back them... But no, I wasn't serious.
BarneySaysHi 9 months ago
@BarneySaysHi
Well they had a type of can opener... =)
EvilxMerlin 9 months ago
@BarneySaysHi fun fact the can opener was invented about 20-40 years AFTER the invention of metal food cans.
elgostine 8 months ago
Damn it costs a lot!!
deltaforcedf 10 months ago
shes lying about the weight of the armor.
you can easily move around and do somersaults in one.
tehkill3r 10 months ago
this guys a beast I hope I get as good as him some day!
AngelsArmour 10 months ago
haha you do not fall over if you put armour on top to bottom. what a load of bull. and i didnt see him temper the armour so you could stab through that with pretty much anything that it would come up against
renegade94pro 10 months ago
Is the voice-over recorded by an actual person or buy a computer generated voice? Unless it's recorded by the woman who was taught to talk by computer. Her pacing and phrasing seems odd somehow.
speshk99 11 months ago
And every single suit of armor fits the armorer exactly lol
Trenchf33t 11 months ago 2
put spikes on mine chief!
bozoka11 11 months ago
@SIVIOSH
i tAk3 5Ick PlasUre in MuH Sp3lin Mi5kat3s. Liv3 wiT it :P
as for the armor however. i know people who can make allot less complacated armor which would cost allot less and be fourm fitted to your body. what gauge steel did they use in the video? probably 18 or 19 because its easier to work with and just slightly less strenght than 14 gauge, which is what you WANT to use for REAL BATTLE armor. suits made like whats shown in the video are whats called Deco'
RSdarkknigth13 1 year ago
ROHIRRIM!
TO THE KING!
uxtalzon 1 year ago
EHHHHH WRONG!!!
14, 16, or 18 gauge steel armor can be made for as cheeply as it cost to buy the raw materials and tools to shape it. everything else sanding, and polishing can be done by hand. ive known people who have made several suits of S.C.A. legal combat armor that has been made for ALLOT less than 3-20k
RSdarkknigth13 1 year ago
at least this one cost less than a flute
aoxilus 1 year ago
fuck that music is gay
JOELBRAHH 1 year ago
Cool and awesome :D remember kids, even tho it may be shiny and very defensive. That shits heavy.
Devine5496 1 year ago
@LukeVerrierTV well altair wore chain mail at first, but anyways you would have to be insanely fit.
SuperSylar1 1 year ago
plate armor, extra protection for pregnant woman...
Roystonc1997 1 year ago 3
@Roystonc1997 oh wow lol
FinalSmashBrother 1 year ago
OPS
i ment 1440 xD not 1940 =x
anterlic 1 year ago
O.o ?
are we in 1940 again .... how is this vedio so usefull since no one use those things outside acting =/
anterlic 1 year ago
@anterlic who used plate armor in the 40's anyway?
Slic3R1 1 year ago
Dove la compro una di quelle??? XD
EreboR4n 1 year ago
is this american in the uk we have a male narator
toxichampster2 1 year ago
Oh, man! That armour looks so awesome! Maybe I'll buy one of these in the future.
Bidmartinlo 1 year ago
$20,000 for a stainless steel suit? I could see it for 1050 or even 4130 high carbon steel that's been hardened but stainless? Not a chance. Stainless is heavy and meant as a wall hanger. For re-enactment uses it has to be made much thicker and heavier than period pieces as stainless or even mild steel isn't nearly as tough heat treated high carbon steels.
brainplay 1 year ago
I bet if you have a car accident this guy can fix your car in notime.
JustDaryus 1 year ago
i would love to do custom stylish armours
dfghj241 1 year ago
Lol in the old times they didn't have automatic hammer think about how hard it was back then
agent866 1 year ago 55
@agent866 wrong. :) they had versions, but couldnt dontroll the power (that well)
Oblivion4pcand360 10 months ago
@agent866 It wasn't that hard.. there are a lot of armourers who still make armour without pneumatic or electric hammers.
viper8red 9 months ago
@agent866, thats why armour even small chainmail mail costs so much that the rich could only afford.
guardman12345 9 months ago
@agent866 Or ready made sheets of steel, or band saws, etc etc. Could take a smith and his apprentices weeks or months to make a good piece.
shannon1664 8 months ago
@agent866 I made a suit of armour for SCA. It's a total pain in the ass to do with a hammer!
EdvvardCash 7 months ago
@agent866 Actually, in the high medieval period they had water powered automatic hammers, but only very rarely I would imagine.
ASaxonAtHeart 4 months ago 2
@ASaxonAtHeart not until the industrial revolution
snickers763 3 months ago
@snickers763 I'm trying to attach a link to a picture of a water powered hammer used to break up ores from the 16th century, but it doesn't seem to want to let me. A quick google of "medieval water powered hammer" should be sufficient to point out some examples, the picture I'm trying to send comes from the wiki page on the trip hammer.
ASaxonAtHeart 3 months ago
@ASaxonAtHeart hmmm well wiki isnt always true but ill give it a look send me the link if your right i apologies
snickers763 3 months ago
@snickers763 Yeah I agree, I try to be as sceptical of it as I can, but contemporary carvings are quite persuasive.
ASaxonAtHeart 3 months ago
@agent866 i have made medieval armor for about 10 years, i have done all of it by hand, with the exception of polishing equipment. check out SCA.org
avelloch 1 month ago
@agent866 it wasnt hard... it was .... epic!
dfghj241 2 weeks ago
TO BATTLE!
1UltimateFighter1 1 year ago 74
@1UltimateFighter1 and victory!!!
tbk0507 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Why am I watching this?
lennic95 1 year ago
id love to learn how to do this for my ren faire guild
mouthforwar17 1 year ago
first 20 secs looks like an armour advertisement lol
zYumiz 1 year ago 4
*****
Congratulations, You have advanced a smithing level.
Your smithing level is now 99,
you can now make Rune Platemail.
HunyKyr 1 year ago
@HunyKyr hahaha!! ;D
ThePowerBanana45 1 year ago
Skillabilities dude!
TheDilski 1 year ago
8 people dont have their platemaille on
TheSpunFire 1 year ago
imagine making hundreds of these without electricity!
trje246 1 year ago
how did soldiers move in these things? too damn heavy.
i think samurai had the right idea
SoldierCyfix 1 year ago
@SoldierCyfix i think samurai didn't have very good protection.
ishouldplayzelda 1 year ago
@SoldierCyfix
they were fat back then ;D
marsbarz 1 year ago
@marsbarz aah, i guess brad pit gave me the wrong idea about ancient soldiers when he starred in Troy
SoldierCyfix 1 year ago
@SoldierCyfix
lol i have no idea i was just being an ass
besides everybody knows that Troy was the most historically accurate movie ever made. ever. little known fact: the movie is actually under the documentary genre.
marsbarz 1 year ago
@marsbarz likewise, and greek armore was not made of steals, it was bronze and leather
SoldierCyfix 1 year ago
@SoldierCyfix you are talking about the late greek period, at the time of the trojan wars about 700bc metal armour was not worn except for the helmets it was a composite lamellar suit consisting of fabric, thin brass sheets and leather glued in various layers that was good enough to ressist most light spear or sword blows.remember that the weapons weren't that deadly in those days so armour needed to provide less protection.so the Brad Pitt/Eric Bana armour is probably accurate in Troy.
sushanalone 1 year ago
@SoldierCyfix actually because the wight is distributed evenly and it is like clothes raher than a backpack it does not feel that bad
and the fact that knights trained their whole life for that and di not really du much else helps as well
janak19771977 1 year ago
@janak19771977 thats a valid point, even if it was heavy, if a person wore and trained in it, they would eventually get used to wearing and fighting in it.
SoldierCyfix 1 year ago
..Yup never know when your going to need a suit of armour in the 21st century.
Bathoric95 1 year ago
On this account take on the complete suit of armour. That you mand stand against .....
Ninearm 1 year ago
i literally just watched this on tv and it had a male voice but they said exactly the same words...
TheBigfatjerry1 1 year ago
>_> why not $1000 or umm $1500??? i would buy if it were that price
TheGarcia350 1 year ago
@TheGarcia350 you could just make it yourself....
TheBigfatjerry1 1 year ago
@TheBigfatjerry1 Speak for yerself!!! thats easier said than done...its not like u can make one looking like a medieval badass in your backyard, besides, its not like YOU can do better. >_>
TheGarcia350 1 year ago
@TheGarcia350 armour was made with hand tools without heat 1000 years before band saws and automatic hammers.
zachr121 1 year ago
lol i know that! im saying its impossible to make strong, durable armor like the ones in the medieval times today. if you can, your a freakin legend smither.
TheGarcia350 1 year ago
@TheGarcia350 it just takes a little more time is all, armour made with heat is inferior and weaker, it was actually a law at one point that whitesmiths, (jewelers, armourers, anyone who worked metal without heat) because the product was so weak and inferior. Hand-made armour is made stronger by taking the piece and slabbing a flamable oil all over it, then it is lit on fire (it arranges the molecules in the steel), or it can be planished upside down with a greater amount of force.
zachr121 1 year ago
do i look fat when i where this?
danboyproductions 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
its over 20 000!
Sedudon 1 year ago
heh breast plate xD
ihatehaters9 1 year ago
What if he fucked up and had to start all over???
SiiCKMUSiiC 1 year ago
the guy looks fat.
11funnydude 1 year ago
from the look of it, he looks FAT.
11funnydude 1 year ago
how much for iron man's MkIV? =P
zyrofillica 1 year ago
why would you want one that fits you? arent they just like statue ornament type things?
AlexxPie 1 year ago
Ima make one today
hersafox6 1 year ago
Because they're custom-made, handmade, and made of metal. It adds up to a high cost.
kikihappy54 1 year ago
Great video youngsters need something to do . t.y. *****
sagecreeps 1 year ago
I like the second type of breastplate
DMoore6977 1 year ago
can someone please tell me what that machine is i looked for metal stamper machine, stamper, automatic hammer, and modern hammer on ebay and found nothing like it?
youraregoingtohurt22 1 year ago
its a power hammer
SesameMom 1 year ago
I want SAURON's Armor!
DreadLordBalnazaar 1 year ago
thats so shiny
looks really polished and really good work
MAKE ME ONE! :D
ElchinMendes 1 year ago
@ElchinMendes Ok, 20k.
NoisemakerArrow 1 year ago
@NoisemakerArrow 20k?!! why so much ;d
ElchinMendes 1 year ago
@ElchinMendes havent you seen what it takes to make them??
weetnietgeen 1 year ago
@ElchinMendes I forget what this discussion was about. I've seen harnesses for sale online for 3 000, 4 000, 5 000, and I've seen some going for 20 000. You have to shop around and see what you like.
NoisemakerArrow 1 year ago
So that means 24k for ordinary ones, 160k for luxury type, if in $HKD.
Enry08 1 year ago
This armor makes you look chubby, the breast plate is too round. LOL.
haloarchers2009 1 year ago
i agree that armor made him look fat
youraregoingtohurt22 1 year ago
It needs space in the belly, otherwise you won't be able to bend backwards
nong333 1 year ago
@haloarchers2009 It's round so impacts glance off instead of hitting squarely.
aptshr 1 year ago
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20K? We have lasers, computers, and templates for god sakes. Can't we just take a piece of thin metal and put it in a template based machine and have it pounded into the perfect shape? Better yet, just use chemicals. No one in their right mind would pay 20K for a suit of armor. I don't think that armor is stronger than a car.
Khalduknight 1 year ago
@Khalduknight
If you are very interested in medieval plate armor, then spending $20,000 makes sense. I wouldn't pay $20,000 for a car, but some will pay $200,000.
As for using modern hammers to pund it into place, that type of equipment is for mass production of industrial equipment and, armor doesn't have that type of market.
Custom motorcycle makers use similiar techniques to make gas tanks and, splash guards.
MrPotatoesLatkie 1 year ago
@Khalduknight
What kid of machines can pund it into a customizable shape? Probably more expensive than the armor.
Those laser, computers and, CAD templates are also very expensive and, not worth the cost for a small armorer.
MrPotatoesLatkie 1 year ago
OMG thats expensive
colizonthedragon 1 year ago
looks good
colizonthedragon 1 year ago
this is old
colizonthedragon 1 year ago
Damn, best job!
supatoker420 1 year ago
Lol in 3:34 it sound like she is saying pwnd
wotlkdude09 1 year ago
Thats fuckin awesome
JesusHChrist2000 1 year ago
9260 Spring Steel good for armor? Or 4100 steel is better?
255Knights 1 year ago
HEY GUYS! you can download this eposide as a torrent. Just search Google with this text "how its made discovery torrent"
The Armor episode is S05E08
The Sword episode is S09E08
Bellybeard 1 year ago
thats pretty stupid because you can have a metal stamp machine going down WAM and there you have an armor piece for $15 worth of 1.5mm sheet metal.
but again no one uses this in present time so there is no point of mass producing it.
psq007 1 year ago
@psq007
They do that kind of mass producing in Germany. The metal feels "dead" and boring and it looks like shit.
I just bought a handbeaten Open Face Sallet for: $670 and i love it. It feels "Alive" and "For real" in my hands.
Bellybeard 1 year ago
Yea I agree, I am getting a hand made German Sallet very soon! (not Open face)
255Knights 1 year ago
Oh, no, no no no no, I have armor made from metal stamp machine. They or Hmmm ok at best.
Hand made ones are a work of art and light and much stronger too! Just better made all around!
No one uses this in present time? Not true at all. Armors from the past has the same concepts on armored vehicles, military tanks and on many things such as in can goods and in space suits as well as robotics... People dealing with these things often come to Ancient armor exports...
255Knights 1 year ago
the same way thay figure out how to do everything.... there is a need and it gets filled
people dieing on the battle field so thay need a way to protect themselves
jjppmm29 2 years ago 10
i wonder how the hell they found out how to do this 2000 years ago!
huggybear99990 2 years ago
would be cool to mix modern body armor and ancient suits of armor to make a new armor for a modern knight
JUGO49 2 years ago
what i would find cool is..
2012. A nuke hits the earth some people survive and it turns into Lord of the rings :D
WeWillNotRockYou1 2 years ago
@JUGO49 your an idiot
chooechooe 2 years ago
I read some people are trying to do something like that...
People got to see how Armors from the past have the same concepts on armored vehicles, military tanks and on many things such as in can goods and in space suits as well as robotics... People dealing with these things often come to Ancient armor exports...
255Knights 1 year ago
Yeap that's Eric alright , or should i say Sergeant Victor :D
chashavko 2 years ago
How strong is 4130 alloy steel? Is that good for armor?
255Knights 2 years ago
man i would work there for free
matthewm0311 2 years ago 49
@matthewm0311 Why?? :?
Aleksandar998 1 year ago
best is eric dubes one
medievalarmour147 2 years ago
Hehe, thats a young Eric Dubé!, or either way a beardless one, it didnt know he also used a mechanical hammer, but i guess one has to, if you want to make a living out of it.
freakazoid1982 2 years ago
Needs a mans voice..........................
dithbmine1 2 years ago
@dithbmine1 aye. or atleast some one who's accent ain't annoyin'
drstrangeman 2 years ago
eric dube is better
medievalarmour147 2 years ago
But the logo in the end is Eric Dube's
vassilito 2 years ago
imagine getting your finger smashed on the automatic hammer.
Kazu1193 2 years ago 37
that would hert cause it would keep smashing it in the same place... XD
pureranga78 2 years ago
@Kazu1193
Would definitely not feel good. haha
prsguitars92 1 year ago
@Kazu1193 depending on how long you keep it under (they move fast!!!) kinda like placing your hand on a table studded with metal beads and slamming it with a metal baseball bat about 40 times.
Tynanboyle96 1 year ago
they didn't temper it?
he8me2 2 years ago
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No. Hardened steel would be a rather bad idea for armor simply because it would shatter, rather than flex.
Bertziethegreat 2 years ago
I'm sorry but no it would not. when you temper high carbon steel you don't just temper it you heat it to red hot quench it in water or oil depending on what your doing remove the black oxide then reheat it to different colors depending on what qualities you need E.G a spring which is very good at flexing and not going past it's yield point I think is heated until it has a blue color on it. Sorry if i seem like a know it all but i spend like every lunch at college in the work shop stuffing round
he8me2 2 years ago
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You clearly need to spend more time in the chemistry lab, because if you did, you would know that spring steel and carbon steel are two different things.
If you do nothing but temper high-carbon steel that shit will shatter like the fourth of july. It's why Katanas had a soft back, to give it flex to that hard edge.
Nice try though, just incomplete. :P
Bertziethegreat 2 years ago
no I don't think you know as much about tempering steels as you think you do high carbon steels (which this type of armor was/is made from) is not brittle unless you temper it to be so when tempering high carbon steel you can make it so brittle that you can snap it as if it were glass very hard but not good for much what you then do is reheat it (as i said before) until you have the properties you need for the job hard for an edge or very good at flexing and holding shape for armor
he8me2 2 years ago
also please be open minded to the fact that you are not all knowing any engineer will say the same as I have also about spring steel and high carbon steel being different yes and no spring steel is a type of high carbon there are many many types of high carbon steel depending on percentage of carbon and other elements in trace amounts
he8me2 2 years ago
This response is factually incorrect. Tempering, by itself, is almost exactly the opposite of what you just said. Tempering is the process of taking steel which has been made brittle by quenching and releasing some of the internal stresses to make it strong and ductile again.
dbrandow 2 years ago 3
At first I felt offended at seeing an automatic hammer. I make it by hand only. Even the polishing, and I derive satisfaction from that. But like Andy Warhol, industrialising the process makes it available to so many more people, and can only improve popularity and further business. In short, I want an automatic hammer now...But for my own collection? Nah...blood, sweat and tears, milord. It's feeling connected to the past that is the thing, and the whole of the thing.
TheDumbeKnight 2 years ago 5
this looks alot like Eric Dube. hes a fricken AMAZING armourer!
medievallover120 2 years ago
Haha, but Eric's pure manual work, he doesn't use automatic hammers! :D Which is what makes me love him even more.
This guy's pretty darn amazing as well, though, that suit of armor is simply mouth watering!!
insertoriginaluser 2 years ago
He is Eric Dube
vassilito 2 years ago
it IS Eric Dubé, check he videos thouroughly, and see if u cant recognize him...
freakazoid1982 2 years ago
To be clear, I don't rank knowing and being able to make armor exactly as it was "in the day" as a completely useless skill like learning Klingon, or High Elvish. It is good to keep knowledge and tradition alive so that people can understand the skill that went the creation of some things. It all depends on your reason for wanting it in the first place. If I'm filming the Crusades, I don't need 1000 authentically made suits of armor.
NelsonStJames 2 years ago
That's what technology is for! With that line of thinking the crossbow would never have replaced the longbow.
"Be a real man don't use that cranequin!"
Because nobody making a suit of armor today is doing it because someone is going to use it in real battle, it's for historical purposes,reenactment groups or the movies. Being a purist is okay, but not everybody is into it to that extent.
NelsonStJames 2 years ago
whats with all modern machinery, sorry but if im gonna make a suit of armour i'd want to do it the way it should be done, i mean, a machine just to do the sandpapering?
get some elbow grease going! hard work never hurt. medeival people didnt have these things. just wouldnt feel worth doing to me if im gonna cut corners and not do it exactly how they did.
i'll be fair, if its a business and they have to make several in a week, then yeah, speed up the process, otherwise do it right
xneverwalkalonex 2 years ago
I see what you're getting at, but they're not really doing it "wrong" in any way. Take the hammering of the breast plate, for example. They're using the same process, just with better technology that saves the smith from the long term injuries that old smiths developed.
If they had used a machine to press a flat piece of metal into a pre-formed shape in one pass, then yeah, that would be shoddy. At least this guy's actually working the metal.
Acherontius 2 years ago 2
thats not correct, only a sword cost more than 40 Cows....
Simonius900 2 years ago
im making this
medievalarmour147 2 years ago