**Mom throws away your cardboard helmet and sends you to a boarding school.** **boarding school has metal workshop** **makes metal armor and becomes medieval equipment historian** Happy now mom?
"My arms, when I was 17, must have been a fair bit thinner, because these are really, really tight on me, and I'm not wearing anything underneath this." LINDYBUFF
I have to say that impressed me as well; I had to back up and start again from that point- started having horrible thoughts of trying to fit into the stuff I wore at 17....The horror!
I once used a lid to a cardboard box with a belt wrapped around it as a shield for lightsaber fighting with a friend of mine lol. Cardboard with a belt wrapped around it does not make a good shield.
I think hearing a Brit say "Just because you see someone reasonably well protected, doesn't give you an excuse to wallop him" while wearing armor seems hilariously English.
"No, we're British; gorget." It wouldn't be a Lindy vid without a subtle crack at the French. Only about 6 minutes in and I'm already satisfied. Well done.
Yea, it just reminds me that we still live in a world big enough for idiosyncrasies and eccentricity. The guy is cool in his quirkiness.#tips confederate battle cap# I Salute you Sir!
There is actually a hell of a lot of Indo-Persain mail that looks a lot like this. Ranging from 15th century Iran to 19th century India. The Ottomans used this phenotype (for lack of a better word). We've even seen some examples of mail similar to this in the Philippines. Yours really is very similar to a lot of those. Side-by-side (as apposed to over lapping) many small plates, with holes along the edges, incorporated into a shirt of mail. There wasn't a whole lot of standardization there either. Or rather we see a vast amount of variation across different places and times. A lot of it does look like amateur modified mail where someone just put small plates wherever they thought they needed more protection. Even to the extent of a lot of it having on the fly cheat repairs. The near-east, and south-east had been doing basically what you'd done with this for 100's of years. Your shirt wouldn't have been out of place from the 15th century - the 18th century, east and south-east of the Mediterranean. Of course it probably would have been considered a poor mans make shift armour then as well. There is really only two major differences between yours and a lot of those found from those times and places 1) A lot of the plates were dished to some degree. 2) A lot of pieces have engraving on the plates (entire scripts, or one-off repetitive phrases). But yours still falls mostly in-line with a good chunk of the plainer low budget examples we see.
one other difference (important to anyone trying to replicate similar pieces): there need to be at least 3 rings between each plate (one connecting to each plate and one connecting the two) to provide a small bit of buffer space, the lack of which is the reason he had to use such large rings and why they continued to bend and fall off.
Kris Brants he had access to a full metalworking shop through his boarding school. the rest of us that had to settle in subpar state schools never got that fortune. My physics lab at school when I was 17 only had a bunch of boxes of what might have looked like Meccano.
Of course when they were making Excalibur they thought, "what would be a good font for our credits of our movie based on medieval legend?" "Oh just go with some groovy Austin Powers font that looks good"
I agree I own it on dvd, nice to see that the armour seems to actually function properly (Except for at the end when 2 characters skewer each other in full plate which doesnt really prove the point)
Well Arthur does have excalibur, but as far as I know, Mordred just has a spear. Even if it was, it wouldn't stop me from being sick of "wow this weapon can cut through anything because magicks!" Then again, this movie was made in 1981, and it's still better than most
I don't suppose you could review cardboard armour and I talk about the advantages and disadvantages? No? In reality I imagine it might be quite efficacious!
Wouldn't padded cardboard armour be effective against blunt object and small knives ? Might be effective as a cheap armour to protect oneself against antifas in a protest.
"its a bit of a cheat, its not authentic", Lindybeige, If their armor was falling apart and they had some wire to try and repair It with, I bet they would ;D
I made a full chainmail vest when I was about 14-15, and to make the rings I used an electric drill to wind fencing wire around a long threaded rod supported on either end by a wooden frame and then threaded supported on either end by a wooden frame the resulting "spring" off the rod by reversing the drill. I then clipped each ring from the spring. I made many thousands of rings in this way.
Maybe they didn't extend the nose-guard because then they'd have to take off their helmet to eat. You know, in case you're fighting during lunch or whatever. Edit: oh, you just mentioned eating in that thing, too.
This was great. You shouldn't have made excuses for your armor; it was your 1st armor and you did a great job on it, and really thought it through. btw, I'd love to see some videos, if you'd care to cover the subject, on medieval architecture. Not just the great Gothic buildings, but thatch huts and "ordinary" buildings. You describe things so creatively and with such enthusiasm.
When I close my eyes, I can imagine Basil Fawlty. You have the same style of speech I think. John Cleese's speech is so similar to yours. Always a joy to see a new video from you, thank you!
Also, companies exist today that will make a lot of stuff for you. If money is no object, they can build it for you, or you can get the steel wire and a hand-crank (or electric drill) spindle to turn out your own rings, or you can even buy the rings pre-turned and cut so all you have to do is assemble it. You can get different metals, anodized in an amazing assortment of colours, even scale is just as available. We are very spoiled today compared to ye olde pre-internet days.
2bingtim is correct, pre-Edison times also referred to as "dark ages". I know he meant it as a joke, but it is correct, and considerably less smelly than setting alight fatty animals... th-cam.com/video/v0ES9TKAf_4/w-d-xo.html
I'm very impressed. Chain mail seems to be one of the most complicated, and time-consuming things to manufacture - each ring having it's ends hammered flat, drilled and rivetted. Whilst being linked together with others to create a cohesive whole. You said that you just closed the rings - but kudos for that, there must be thousands of them! Nice one, sir.
You remind me so much of the friends I grew up with. Humble, slightly nerdy, intelligent, and very genuine. Please don't stop bud! You totally tap into my inner geek. Cheers and beers from North Carolina!
Re the nose plate not fully extending to the chin guard, it seems that there would be advantages to having greater exposure of the mouth. It would help with being heard, and it would be easier to get a swig of water, without disarming.
"I was 17, and the internet... well, nobody had even thought of it. And I was at a school in the middle of the country. I didn't have access to the information. I had what was in my head, what I'd seen in movies and experimentation to go with. (Points to his body)" Is that bit about armor or early erotic experiences at boarding school?
This has inspired me to make my own armour and so that’s what I’ve been working on lately I’ve cleaned out an old barn and I’m using it as a work shop and I’ve got the stuff for making chain Malle links and now I’m working on making a chain mail Huarbuak or however it’s spelt but it’ll be another year before it’s done 😂
mad kobra, because they tend to be structurally dependent on welfare and thus overwhelmingly vote socialist. If they didn't, there would be walls everywhere.
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Not made myself a suit of armor for a while... I switched to aluminium welding wire pretty soon after trying to make my own steel rings. Much more fun to work with and shiny... but very inauthentic. I have a small patch of silver maille out of rather small rings that i might expand into a sort of Mithril like shirt if i ever get too rich and/or silver gets even cheaper. I really love the instant sort of confidence boost you get when you put on a chainmail shirt you made yourself, because it reminds you of the work you put into it and that you could make this yourself etc.
What you did growing up is what I wanted to do growing up. Making armor and doing reenactment? Sounds like a blast! Ah, but did you almost cut your friend's finger off with a sword you made?
I've made some butted mail shirts, and a friend made me a mid-thigh length scale armor by cutting the scaled from black plastic storage bins and tying it all together under the scales. That suit lasted me for over a decade, even though I was always replacing cordage after the first few years.
At least they didnt give the dawnguard characters the normal chainmail with a tunic on it-style like all city guards have. Also, I neither have not played the game in a while because I managed to lose my PS3 :-/ Been waiting for years to get it on PC to start playing it like crazy again...
You are very lucky to have grown up in the area in which you did I was raised in South Louisiana in America. It was a very rural area and to be someone who enjoyed European history Was frowned upon. As a young man I was placed under doctors care for many weeks And had nothing to do. So I decided to make a suit of medieval armor. Mine ended up being mostly chainmail made out of the very fencing wire in which you speak. I had a few books and as there was no Internet to go by I did the best I Could. You should have seen the looks On the Farmers faces as I walked about town wearing it. Thank you so much for your Effort. I love your channel thank you.
All three of the Great Courses Middle ages courses are excellent. I think your food observations are the reason for the nose guard stopping where it does.
I understand the comfy helmet feels, I have a steel helmet from the 60s and I wear it while tending bar at parties and while playing table top games, nice and comfy.
About the headspoons. Speak to gridiron players about how the use of armour in that sport leads to harder hits. I used to play and there is no remorse about hitting someone as hard as you can when you can in all that padding.
Never played gridiron but I do play rugby and trust me there is absolutely no remorse about hitting each other as hard as possible with no armour or protection on, gridiron players are a lot better off with their helmets
This is a problem in boxing as well. Once padded gloves became the norm head blows became common, and thus brain damage has become common later in life. Similar issue in American football, the large padding and helmets they wear mean they're not afraid to use themselves as battering rams. To their own mental detriment later in life.
Big props for cautioning against zinc fumes! Lots of those new to metal work grab whats handy for practice. Can strip it off, of course, with a good soak in acid, but if you are just looking for scrap metal to tinker with and not a chemistry lesson its best to avoid it I expect. Zinc, great for corrosion resistance, not so good for lung breathing. PS: to anyone new to acids, ALWAYS have a great deal of baking soda at the ready and running water in arms reach!! Treat that stuff with respect, often thats the deference between just having a bad day or raising life's difficulty one notch.
PPS: One more thing, while on safety, also respect power tools. Especially table saws, and be mindful of kickback. My uncle in wasn't so mindful in his younger years. He got to have the experience of fishing his, surprisingly aerodynamic, finger tip out of the neighbor's lawn. He is now an airline pilot, but one of his fingers looks a bit off. Don't make the same mistake! Interestingly enough, I happen to have that exact saw, and use it on a nearly daily basis. Thing is easily 50+ years old and still runs great. I suck at giving advice.
I am very inspired by this and as I have watched your other videos on armour have decided to make my own suite as well! I am not far of off 17 and have started on a mail shirt.
I'm 16 and I'm currently working on an armour...well it's made of ply-wood...cuz I don't have good tools as I live in my home with my parents...but I'm working on the cain mail then I will place the ply-wood plates that looks like a samurai armour...btw I made that ply-wood plates back when I was 10-11 years old...but due to study pressure I stopped my project but now I got my way and started this project again. Hope I will finish my project by the end of July 2021... Great video as always! Btw I made a sphere that looks like a Kusarigama but with a longer stick...I'm making all these for post-apocalyptic situations...lol...and I'm a military nerd...
TheFilthyCasual well, that would be #2 I think. That was the only one I know of where you could run out of lives. All the others I've played just count up your number of deaths.
"I'd rather have a broken nose than my head chopped in two, thank you very much" haha this is the most English thing I've heard in a while. (Im American btw)
You would have loved my first grade teacher. She arranged all kinds of medieval fun stuff like a big overnighter feast complete with a knight in armor, and on two separate occasions a dragon hunt and leprechaun hunt. She was really into leprechauns, and did tons of leprechaun lore stuff with the kids. She had a vivid green VW beetle and died her hair green on St. Patrick's Day and said it was her leprechaun playing a trick on her. By far the best teacher ever, hands down.
I enjoyed using galvanized for my chainmail, but I used an electric drill when I got tired of manual winding. I did do some work in silver, including a "bird's nest" necklace for my mother, and a belt for myself ... only I'm a lot larger now than then.
Ty Larson For some reason English historians have started to pronounce English words in a French way. They must have figured out the superiority of continental Europe.
I think it is weird that by providing the correct dictionary pronounciation over at schola gladiatora yesterday for gorget netting me a bunch of insults. Sometimes I forget about youtube and the comment section.
When I lived in England, I was in the Sealed Knot , English Civil War re enactments, great fun , cavalry charges ,real horses, plastic swords from the movie Cromwell. I love this guy ,a real English eccentric
I sent Skall my studded leather armour from my LARP days for that purpose. What Lloyd said about being a teen in pre-internet days with D&D manuals and movies has a main source of inspiration/reference rings so true to me.
Given that similar armor was worn across most of Western, Central, and South Asian with the Japanese also having their own version I would say that it was effective
Looks almost like my scale armor I did make with 13. I soldered the rings shut to prevent mine from falling apart. Even my LARP scale armor I made with 16 is based on my old design. It is made from 40x40mm steel scales with a hole in every corner. The scales are basically joined with a ring and then soldered shut. The edges of the scale armor itself are sewn onto 2mm leather. Looks great and I can wear it for days! Very comfortable!
I always assumed "platemail" denoted any hybrid armor using combinations of plate and chainmail to some extent. It's kind of in the name - what else would it mean?
I think Gygax just used the word "mail" to mean armour Chainmail - made of links Platemail - made of large plates (knight's armour, aka full plate in D&D)
Thanks for the video. I'd say it's essentially 'mail and plate' which I'm sure you're aware was a real thing, most often associated with south asia. That gorget has a crazy discontinuity on the front right (your right) that I couldn't take my eyes off of. The byrnie you made later is obviously much more sophisticated, but this was really incredible considering when you made it. Thanks for sharing it!
**Mom throws away your cardboard helmet and sends you to a boarding school.**
**boarding school has metal workshop**
**makes metal armor and becomes medieval equipment historian**
Happy now mom?
Mom: "It's dull for you to like blue. Every boy likes blue"
Lloyd: "Beige!"
"Take that, mum!"
LOL
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I think boarding school is actually considered a good thing in alot of places. (By the student, I mean haha)
"My arms, when I was 17, must have been a fair bit thinner, because these are really, really tight on me, and I'm not wearing anything underneath this."
LINDYBUFF
@@idiosyncraticname *clears throat* L I N D Y T H I C C
No, he just wasn't done growing at 17.
@@TheDennys21 why u ruin it mate
What's truly impressive is that he can still fit into armor that he made at age 17...
Master Neloth I was thinking the same. Perhaps it's because I'm an American but I can't fit into oversized sweatshirts I wore then, let alone armor.
I feel like I have seen your comment in a Total War Empire video recently. Is that correct?
I have to say that impressed me as well; I had to back up and start again from that point- started having horrible thoughts of trying to fit into the stuff I wore at 17....The horror!
Master Neloth I'm thinner now than I was at 12...
No, I bet there's a lot of people with Master Neloth accounts. Best character in the Elder Scrolls, no contest.
The cardboard age is one of the lesser known epochs of British history. Was it accurate to the period?
Having looked at the film, I can say that it is quite accurate. It is surprising to see such accuracy today
@@eazy8579 The only inaccuracy I can see is the lack of trash can lid shields...
Absolutely!
@@BuddhaBen93 trash can lid? Bin lid is a bit more accurate
I once used a lid to a cardboard box with a belt wrapped around it as a shield for lightsaber fighting with a friend of mine lol. Cardboard with a belt wrapped around it does not make a good shield.
the seductive wiggle of a ww1 tank crewman
Dean Fisher it struck fear into all the Germans unfortunate enough to witness it.
But attracted all Brits to his position.
I don't get it
School: Y'all can wear whatever on sunday.
Lindy: *Armour*
Except that not everyone lives in America and talks like that.
Well the "y'all" isn't _often_ used (people seem to prefer 'yous'), but the u _is_ included.
I live in America and don't say that nor know anyone who says that,@@iiiiii8522
@@Wedneswere Go south, we use Y'all a lot because its easier than saying 'you all'.
Also the only school on sunday is god hut school
On Sunday? Why wouldn't you be wearing what you want on Sunday?
I think hearing a Brit say "Just because you see someone reasonably well protected, doesn't give you an excuse to wallop him" while wearing armor seems hilariously English.
What minute?
@@gustavoscottifraga4541
Watch the whole video and you'll see it.
@@gustavoscottifraga4541 22:55
Like a Monty Python skit
"No, we're British; gorget."
It wouldn't be a Lindy vid without a subtle crack at the French. Only about 6 minutes in and I'm already satisfied. Well done.
"So I looked down on the ground and thought 'Good lord, a ring !'". Which is how Lindybeige became the Lord of the Rings.
"My precious"
He's like Sonic the Hedgehog. Just losing rings every time he gets hit lol.
This needs more likes, hahaha
I can listen the ramblings of this man for hours.
True story my friend!
Yea, it just reminds me that we still live in a world big enough for idiosyncrasies and eccentricity. The guy is cool in his quirkiness.#tips confederate battle cap# I Salute you Sir!
There is actually a hell of a lot of Indo-Persain mail that looks a lot like this. Ranging from 15th century Iran to 19th century India. The Ottomans used this phenotype (for lack of a better word). We've even seen some examples of mail similar to this in the Philippines.
Yours really is very similar to a lot of those. Side-by-side (as apposed to over lapping) many small plates, with holes along the edges, incorporated into a shirt of mail. There wasn't a whole lot of standardization there either. Or rather we see a vast amount of variation across different places and times. A lot of it does look like amateur modified mail where someone just put small plates wherever they thought they needed more protection. Even to the extent of a lot of it having on the fly cheat repairs.
The near-east, and south-east had been doing basically what you'd done with this for 100's of years. Your shirt wouldn't have been out of place from the 15th century - the 18th century, east and south-east of the Mediterranean. Of course it probably would have been considered a poor mans make shift armour then as well.
There is really only two major differences between yours and a lot of those found from those times and places 1) A lot of the plates were dished to some degree. 2) A lot of pieces have engraving on the plates (entire scripts, or one-off repetitive phrases). But yours still falls mostly in-line with a good chunk of the plainer low budget examples we see.
one other difference (important to anyone trying to replicate similar pieces): there need to be at least 3 rings between each plate (one connecting to each plate and one connecting the two) to provide a small bit of buffer space, the lack of which is the reason he had to use such large rings and why they continued to bend and fall off.
Far east, too. It's very similar to Japanese "karuta" armor.
He even made a video about Mughal armor
Not “plate mail,” _plated_ mail.
@@samiamrg7 Who are you talking to?
Lindy made an entire suit of armour in his teens... I've failed at life
Kris Brants why couldnt you do it right now? Stop failing and start learning!
I am 15 and a blacksmith. So yeah. But that's fine
Kris Brants he had access to a full metalworking shop through his boarding school. the rest of us that had to settle in subpar state schools never got that fortune. My physics lab at school when I was 17 only had a bunch of boxes of what might have looked like Meccano.
in Belgium, we don't have physics labs or anything that isn't specific to the profession they make you pick at 12 in our curriculae...
Kris Brants lucky you. in Italy, we basically don't get any options, education-wise, until we basicay go to university.
Gary Gygax would call that "lindy-mail"!
Thats sooo true! AC 6 with a -1 modifier to encumbrance...
Still more authentic than 90% of stuff seen in movies and games. I'll send a thumbs up back in time to the young Lloyd.
"I lost loads of rings when fighting"
This guy is like sonic man
Of course when they were making Excalibur they thought, "what would be a good font for our credits of our movie based on medieval legend?" "Oh just go with some groovy Austin Powers font that looks good"
Yes, that has dated strangely. The film has dated in other ways too, but it's still a masterpiece.
I agree I own it on dvd, nice to see that the armour seems to actually function properly (Except for at the end when 2 characters skewer each other in full plate which doesnt really prove the point)
Well Arthur does have excalibur, but as far as I know, Mordred just has a spear. Even if it was, it wouldn't stop me from being sick of "wow this weapon can cut through anything because magicks!" Then again, this movie was made in 1981, and it's still better than most
"...but it's still a masterpiece..."
So's Helen Mirren...
Yeah, Arthur pulls himself up the magic spear Mordred impales him with, and sticks Excalibur in him.
"Don't use galvanised wire" he says, as I continue weaving maille with a box full of galvanised wire rings
Kero Kero Hi, sorry, metal _what??_ X-X
I can't stop staring at the space that's missing a ring in the middle of Lindy's chest.
Oxnate Thank fuck someone else noticed that. Also the plates have 5 rings on the sides
You're fucking with my ocd ... my precious
Well, now *I* can't... Thanks for that!😅
Lindybeige: aims at 5th or 6th century armor, makes 19th century tank crewmen armor
19th century tanks! Damm they must be quite advanced to have tanks before they where invented in 1916
@@akriegguardsman That Leonardo guy was really on to something.
I don't suppose you could review cardboard armour and I talk about the advantages and disadvantages? No? In reality I imagine it might be quite efficacious!
Samuel Cliff What of spiked cardboard armour?
Well, the Chinese did have paper armour ....
believe it or not layered paper Armour is quite effective. its stiff and heavy but it will save you from an arrow... maybe.
TheBritishGeek Well it probably saved the Chinese from British guns during the Opium Wars... Or wait was it the other way around?
Wouldn't padded cardboard armour be effective against blunt object and small knives ? Might be effective as a cheap armour to protect oneself against antifas in a protest.
"its a bit of a cheat, its not authentic", Lindybeige, If their armor was falling apart and they had some wire to try and repair It with, I bet they would ;D
You even got a peasant shirt too, Lindyman, do full cosplays!
Stas Twinkleton
I think he is more interested in reenactment or roleplay
Stas Twinkleton You have to cosplay a specific character..
He's reenacting and Larpg ing
He did. Nowadays, he usually consplays a silly style dancer with the same shirt and who loves lard.
magic Pig is pig.
I think that linen is too high quality to be something a medieval peasant would have worn.
"Gorgeeeee? No... We're English, Gorgit!" XD
After you mentioned that rings kept falling off I couldn't keep myself from obsessively trying to find where they'd fallen from.
I made a full chainmail vest when I was about 14-15, and to make the rings I used an electric drill to wind fencing wire around a long threaded rod supported on either end by a wooden frame and then threaded supported on either end by a wooden frame the resulting "spring" off the rod by reversing the drill. I then clipped each ring from the spring. I made many thousands of rings in this way.
Lloyd you are my hero although the fact you dont drink tea concerns me deeply :)
I love sweet tea... Does that count?
Maybe they didn't extend the nose-guard because then they'd have to take off their helmet to eat. You know, in case you're fighting during lunch or whatever.
Edit: oh, you just mentioned eating in that thing, too.
Lindy you're quite skilled at uploading interesting videos at 11:00pm Australian time.
Practice.
tss very irritating as an Australian that i get a notification and have to wake up purely to watch lindybeige
This was great. You shouldn't have made excuses for your armor; it was your 1st armor and you did a great job on it, and really thought it through.
btw, I'd love to see some videos, if you'd care to cover the subject, on medieval architecture. Not just the great Gothic buildings, but thatch huts and "ordinary" buildings. You describe things so creatively and with such enthusiasm.
Armor looks good
D&D official term.
: Lindymail
I can certainly believe you weighted the armor so accurately you can provide the weight down to the milligram.
Metric never gives convenient figures.
In the "Four ways to shoot" Video, you said "Yards", which confused me greatly.
Admit it Lloyd, as an englishman, what realy bothers you about the metric system isn't the "inconvenient figures", but the fact, that it's french. :D
Lindybeige and yet it is the superior measuring system
Bird_Dog Maybe a more valid criticism!
He was young and he needed the armor.
and sadly at that time was dark ages - computers was high priced and no google or internet . Dark Ages..
But the real question is: is it teaproof?
TheEvanator03 Loyd surely wouldn't want any tea inundating his clothing!
Hopefully it can protect him from Frenchmen.
Yes, I'm sure every time Sir Robin, the not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, soiled his armour he had simply spilled his tea. :P
Nonenowhere Wtf?
jamais aucne armure n arrêtera un francais XD
Just looked up gormless. Thank you for adding a new word to my vocabulary.
belly dancing at 10:21
Dat bellydance!
True... a warriors belly dance!!
Gif material right there!
Needs a GIF!
DANCE FOR ME LLOYD
Beige's like a smart manchild. I love it.
All maille is butted once you sit on it...
🤦♂️
@@Bear-Knight do u r dum
Happy to hear the history of your live enactments and armour pursuing history Lloyd. Takes me back happily to Questland days ;)
I thought your new armour was finished when I read the title
Me too :(
I am disappoint.
When I close my eyes, I can imagine Basil Fawlty. You have the same style of speech I think. John Cleese's speech is so similar to yours. Always a joy to see a new video from you, thank you!
Maderyne I was trying to place were I've heard his voice before? by jove you got it lol
My favorite part of your videos is where you trail off explaining things like the part about the dark ages.
LandoCowDelicion Aka the whole video is your favorite part :)
10:24 *grabs the stack of singles and makes it rain on Lloyd* Oh yeah, shake it.
Servants = good. No man should be without one. :D
I love it when you ramble on so. Thank you for sharing the stories Lindy.
Well, that's interesting... I'm currently making a visby coat of plates at almost the same age
But today you have internet access to more information than existed in any form when I was at school.
Merliginary Get rekt son xD
Also, companies exist today that will make a lot of stuff for you. If money is no object, they can build it for you, or you can get the steel wire and a hand-crank (or electric drill) spindle to turn out your own rings, or you can even buy the rings pre-turned and cut so all you have to do is assemble it. You can get different metals, anodized in an amazing assortment of colours, even scale is just as available.
We are very spoiled today compared to ye olde pre-internet days.
No, it was because the electric meter hadn't been invented so the lights didn't work.
2bingtim is correct, pre-Edison times also referred to as "dark ages". I know he meant it as a joke, but it is correct, and considerably less smelly than setting alight fatty animals...
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I'm very impressed. Chain mail seems to be one of the most complicated, and time-consuming things to manufacture - each ring having it's ends hammered flat, drilled and rivetted. Whilst being linked together with others to create a cohesive whole. You said that you just closed the rings - but kudos for that, there must be thousands of them! Nice one, sir.
imaging 15 yr old lindy with that hairline and beard
No.
ahaha
Mistah Susan
Lol nice profile pic xD
and wearing a helmet in school.
jort93z sure why not.
also he would plug the courses plus in idle conversation with his
peers.
You remind me so much of the friends I grew up with. Humble, slightly nerdy, intelligent, and very genuine. Please don't stop bud! You totally tap into my inner geek. Cheers and beers from North Carolina!
Re the nose plate not fully extending to the chin guard, it seems that there would be advantages to having greater exposure of the mouth. It would help with being heard, and it would be easier to get a swig of water, without disarming.
Well, you could still attach it slightly sideways with 2 symmetrical extensions.
I like hearing about the problem solving you went through in making armour. Most things in life are not as simple to make as you would think at first.
10:42 "flapage"
The Gyrms called they want their armour back
Haha totally. Their beige pants too.
"I was 17, and the internet... well, nobody had even thought of it. And I was at a school in the middle of the country. I didn't have access to the information. I had what was in my head, what I'd seen in movies and experimentation to go with. (Points to his body)"
Is that bit about armor or early erotic experiences at boarding school?
This has inspired me to make my own armour and so that’s what I’ve been working on lately I’ve cleaned out an old barn and I’m using it as a work shop and I’ve got the stuff for making chain Malle links and now I’m working on making a chain mail Huarbuak or however it’s spelt but it’ll be another year before it’s done 😂
That actually looks really badass
It's pretty... METAL :D
looks like something an Orc would wear.
I love your segways and tangents, they're exactly like a conversations. You start a conversation with passion and end up somewhere else completely.
I love the smell of Lindybeige in the m-
That sounds wrong...
I love the sight of Lindybeige™ Armour in the morning!
what
For stalin anything that isnt a murder is good
I like how you added the trademark ™, SplinterOscar.
mad kobra, because they tend to be structurally dependent on welfare and thus overwhelmingly vote socialist. If they didn't, there would be walls everywhere.
Not made myself a suit of armor for a while... I switched to aluminium welding wire pretty soon after trying to make my own steel rings. Much more fun to work with and shiny... but very inauthentic. I have a small patch of silver maille out of rather small rings that i might expand into a sort of Mithril like shirt if i ever get too rich and/or silver gets even cheaper.
I really love the instant sort of confidence boost you get when you put on a chainmail shirt you made yourself, because it reminds you of the work you put into it and that you could make this yourself etc.
What you did growing up is what I wanted to do growing up. Making armor and doing reenactment? Sounds like a blast! Ah, but did you almost cut your friend's finger off with a sword you made?
I've made some butted mail shirts, and a friend made me a mid-thigh length scale armor by cutting the scaled from black plastic storage bins and tying it all together under the scales. That suit lasted me for over a decade, even though I was always replacing cordage after the first few years.
Cor! Dawngaurd armour!!
I believe it's steel plates on leather above a gambeson. I haven't seen a set for like four months though, I burnt out on Skyrim a while ago.
Ok.ok. it LOOKS a bit like dawngaurd armour.
Yeah, but we all know that Bethesda never looks into this sort of thing.
It needs some enchantments tho....
At least they didnt give the dawnguard characters the normal chainmail with a tunic on it-style like all city guards have. Also, I neither have not played the game in a while because I managed to lose my PS3 :-/ Been waiting for years to get it on PC to start playing it like crazy again...
Excalibur! I was a kid when that was in theaters and wow! Did it blow my mind. Still love it.
You wore that helmet around school...... I bet you were popular
that’s the beauty of it, you can intimidate people into being your friend
I just saw your video on shooting a rifle in Switzerland, looked at the rest of your channel's offerings and immediately subscribed.
8.391459 kg, eh? Is that exact?
Jacob Harrison it was until he lost another ring
He measured in imperial units and then he probably just converted it into metric
18.5 pounds converted to kg gives you exactly that number, at least in Google.
You are very lucky to have grown up in the area in which you did I was raised in South Louisiana in America. It was a very rural area and to be someone who enjoyed European history Was frowned upon. As a young man I was placed under doctors care for many weeks And had nothing to do. So I decided to make a suit of medieval armor. Mine ended up being mostly chainmail made out of the very fencing wire in which you speak. I had a few books and as there was no Internet to go by I did the best I Could. You should have seen the looks On the Farmers faces as I walked about town wearing it. Thank you so much for your Effort. I love your channel thank you.
Yey for Lloyd
"THE DARK AGES"... I love the excitement on your eye every time you say this.
Quite decent protection, only problem is the armour keeps falling apart.
It will last through a battle, and that's what matters. With riveted links it would be fine.
All three of the Great Courses Middle ages courses are excellent. I think your food observations are the reason for the nose guard stopping where it does.
I understand the comfy helmet feels, I have a steel helmet from the 60s and I wear it while tending bar at parties and while playing table top games, nice and comfy.
10:22 Wow Lindybeige! Great moves, keep it up. Proud of you.
About the headspoons. Speak to gridiron players about how the use of armour in that sport leads to harder hits. I used to play and there is no remorse about hitting someone as hard as you can when you can in all that padding.
Never played gridiron but I do play rugby and trust me there is absolutely no remorse about hitting each other as hard as possible with no armour or protection on, gridiron players are a lot better off with their helmets
This is a problem in boxing as well.
Once padded gloves became the norm head blows became common, and thus brain damage has become common later in life.
Similar issue in American football, the large padding and helmets they wear mean they're not afraid to use themselves as battering rams. To their own mental detriment later in life.
Big props for cautioning against zinc fumes! Lots of those new to metal work grab whats handy for practice. Can strip it off, of course, with a good soak in acid, but if you are just looking for scrap metal to tinker with and not a chemistry lesson its best to avoid it I expect. Zinc, great for corrosion resistance, not so good for lung breathing.
PS: to anyone new to acids, ALWAYS have a great deal of baking soda at the ready and running water in arms reach!! Treat that stuff with respect, often thats the deference between just having a bad day or raising life's difficulty one notch.
PPS: One more thing, while on safety, also respect power tools. Especially table saws, and be mindful of kickback. My uncle in wasn't so mindful in his younger years. He got to have the experience of fishing his, surprisingly aerodynamic, finger tip out of the neighbor's lawn. He is now an airline pilot, but one of his fingers looks a bit off. Don't make the same mistake!
Interestingly enough, I happen to have that exact saw, and use it on a nearly daily basis. Thing is easily 50+ years old and still runs great. I suck at giving advice.
That's some clever armor
I am very inspired by this and as I have watched your other videos on armour have decided to make my own suite as well! I am not far of off 17 and have started on a mail shirt.
You still fit into something you made when you're 17? ... I envy you...
I'm 16 and I'm currently working on an armour...well it's made of ply-wood...cuz I don't have good tools as I live in my home with my parents...but I'm working on the cain mail then I will place the ply-wood plates that looks like a samurai armour...btw I made that ply-wood plates back when I was 10-11 years old...but due to study pressure I stopped my project but now I got my way and started this project again. Hope I will finish my project by the end of July 2021...
Great video as always! Btw I made a sphere that looks like a Kusarigama but with a longer stick...I'm making all these for post-apocalyptic situations...lol...and I'm a military nerd...
"I ran out of links" - a part of me imagined you ran out of lives in some Legend of Zelda game...
TheFilthyCasual well, that would be #2 I think.
That was the only one I know of where you could run out of lives.
All the others I've played just count up your number of deaths.
You are a great man sir! Godspeed Sir Linybeige!
"I'd rather have a broken nose than my head chopped in two, thank you very much" haha this is the most English thing I've heard in a while. (Im American btw)
You would have loved my first grade teacher. She arranged all kinds of medieval fun stuff like a big overnighter feast complete with a knight in armor, and on two separate occasions a dragon hunt and leprechaun hunt. She was really into leprechauns, and did tons of leprechaun lore stuff with the kids. She had a vivid green VW beetle and died her hair green on St. Patrick's Day and said it was her leprechaun playing a trick on her. By far the best teacher ever, hands down.
That's just awesome! :)
lindybeige belly dancing?
I enjoyed using galvanized for my chainmail, but I used an electric drill when I got tired of manual winding. I did do some work in silver, including a "bird's nest" necklace for my mother, and a belt for myself ... only I'm a lot larger now than then.
Thank you for gorget! Matt Easton said gorjay on his last video and it made me cringe.
Ty Larson For some reason English historians have started to pronounce English words in a French way. They must have figured out the superiority of continental Europe.
I think it is weird that by providing the correct dictionary pronounciation over at schola gladiatora yesterday for gorget netting me a bunch of insults. Sometimes I forget about youtube and the comment section.
twisting the ends of mail rings IS authentic, examples where even found on the Mary Rose.
Can you get through airport security wearing that? Is it Zombie proof? No flap to protect your junk?
Right?! He needs that cod piece!
whoa, that sponsor drop came right out of nowhere! I didnt even know that I was gonna get more of them later
10:21 for a sexy dance.
Ahh, that sight will last me many a lonely night.
When I lived in England, I was in the Sealed Knot , English Civil War re enactments, great fun , cavalry charges ,real horses, plastic swords from the movie Cromwell.
I love this guy ,a real English eccentric
Maybe someone tell Skallagrim about this so we could get a functional version made just to see if it's effective?
Just a suggestion.
I sent Skall my studded leather armour from my LARP days for that purpose. What Lloyd said about being a teen in pre-internet days with D&D manuals and movies has a main source of inspiration/reference rings so true to me.
Given that similar armor was worn across most of Western, Central, and South Asian with the Japanese also having their own version I would say that it was effective
Christian Lapointe I hate to derail the convo but how in the sam hell do you have 5mil+ subs?
Uh... He doesn't.
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Someone should do a supercut of Lindybeige just saying, "The DARK AGES!"
Perhaps you could review the scale-type armor: " 'Dragon' Armor?"
Looks almost like my scale armor I did make with 13. I soldered the rings shut to prevent mine from falling apart. Even my LARP scale armor I made with 16 is based on my old design.
It is made from 40x40mm steel scales with a hole in every corner. The scales are basically joined with a ring and then soldered shut. The edges of the scale armor itself are sewn onto 2mm leather. Looks great and I can wear it for days! Very comfortable!
"I do remember getting very lucky once, one weekend" ~Lindybeige
This was probably the best armor you ever had, I like it, it was very interesting and inspiring!
I always assumed "platemail" denoted any hybrid armor using combinations of plate and chainmail to some extent. It's kind of in the name - what else would it mean?
I think Gygax just used the word "mail" to mean armour
Chainmail - made of links
Platemail - made of large plates (knight's armour, aka full plate in D&D)
Thanks for the video. I'd say it's essentially 'mail and plate' which I'm sure you're aware was a real thing, most often associated with south asia. That gorget has a crazy discontinuity on the front right (your right) that I couldn't take my eyes off of. The byrnie you made later is obviously much more sophisticated, but this was really incredible considering when you made it. Thanks for sharing it!
Asia doesn't exist to Lindy