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Come up to The Knights Hall in Nashua, NH and see armor in use@ I'd be happy to talk shop and we could probably even find some in your size to try on. (The Met's workshop is incredible. I was amazed when I visited in November 2019. I recognized that mitten gauntlet immediately. The articulation is perfect.)
Yeeaaah! Very much the same here! Watching the "Excalibur" movie got me hooked for the first time on Knights and armour..and even got me my first nickname 😀! Salutations to all of You, Soul Brothers!
I would watch this guy talk armour (canadian spelling) and conservation for hours, the MET would do well to have this guy host talks or museum tours from time to time.
@@tested Please Sir, can I have some more? The passion of the curators is awesome. Not just this guy, the ones at the Smithsonian Air & Space had it too.
I love how the first question was "how did you get here"? Their are thousands of jobs (I seen a Federal Museum curator position that started at $104.5k) that people would do if we knew about them and where to find them and how to apply. That's the single most important question Adam has ever asked
Absolutely honored Edward Hunter wears our No.325 Workshop Apron in waxed canvas. As a fellow UNL grad (Anthropology / Sociology) and a person who uses hand tools for a living, I am delighted on many levels to see this! Thank you for choosing ARTIFACT and wow - what an immaculate workshop!
@@artifactgoods where can one find your products online? That apron looks like a very well-made and useful bit of kit! Also just out of curiosity, what's the significance of the number 325?
Dad grew up in NYC and always told me stories of the armor section of The Met. So when I finally had a chance to visit I understood why he loved it so much. The craftsmanship in that area is unreal and sublime to witness.
literally just went today and found these videos when i got home, weirdest coincidence. But I can the armor and weapon exhibits were stunning, the quality of the works, the quantity and the variety really blew me away
Oh, i think there are still makers, who understand😜 My dad is an engineer. And he was trained in a blacksmith shop when he was at technical college. When i was a kid, he tought me how to weld, fix our car, use tools. So yes, i understand very well that joy of visiting such shop. Not long ago i realised we still have my grandpa's old wood workshop buried under a ton of might-come-in-handy stuff. My goal for this year is to unbury and restore that. Add a small blacksmith shop and finally have a nice place to work on my own stuff and do it with that feeling of a few generation shop climate. :)
As a kid, almost every weekend we would go to the Met, and I would sit for hours examining every detail in the armor galleries. Thank you for taking me behind the scenes.
TOP on the list of general people I love. Art conservators, and people who want to hear from art conservators. Adam, please keep highlighting these beautiful people and their work. They are true treasures guarding the world's treasures.
I LOVE seeing Adam examine actual medieval armors! I love the SciFi/Fantasy stuff too but seeing him examine actual medieval equipment just hits harder for me personally
After recently having the chance to work with Ted , I can say that his knowledge is equally matched with his enthusiasm when it comes to armor. I can't wait for the chance to go through our collection when he might return.
There used to be an amazing collection of armor in Worcester Massachusetts at a place called Higgins Armory. Most of the collection got sold but some of it can still be seen at the local art museum.
One of my college metalwork projects was an interview with James Gilaspie, an armorer who worked with the Met on some things, and he talked a lot about how so much displayed armor is pieced together from other suits, and how important and difficult it is to replace the missing bits.
The Worcester Arts Institute has a wonderful collection of Arms and Armour. They acquired the Higgins Armoury Museum's collection when the Museum closed in 2014
Although I may not have the fascination that Adam has with Armor, I am a long time metal fabricator (primarily race cars) but also metal sculptures and it is this form of metalwork that I can absolutely appreciate what and how they do what they do back in the day as well as now! Fantastic
One of my favorite rooms at the Detroit Institute of Art is the hall of amor. It’s right up the stairs as you come in the front door and it is just fabulous to imagine all the men who wore these metal suits. Just looking at the intricate joints and curves in the metal so that it fits the human body is just an amazing art form to me. I totally understand your fascination with armor Adam and it is so cool that you had a suit fitted to you to walk around the one convention.
Adam Savage has the rare feature where his almost giddy amusement is palpable and infectious. Just an absolute joy to watch him have potentially mundane conversations!
WOW,incredible experience- chuffed for you dude!Thank you for bringing this to us all!🤯 Ted has the ultimate armour nerd's job & work environment,what a worthy cause!🏆
I remember visiting the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England, fascinated by the horde of armour and weaponry, and the little reenactments that took demonstrating the roll of a square. 👍
I became enamored of armor as an 8 or 10 year old boy, as many others have been. Visiting the Met armor collection the first time as an adult was an overwhelming experience. I couldn't believe some of it was real, that that level of craftsmanship was achieved back then. It's so good to see the techniques used centuries ago have been maintained.
I love the enthusiasm of both of you. And the passion for history and preservation. I know almost nothing about armour, but I really want to know more now. Thanks, Adam!
Yeeaaah! Very much the same here! Watching the "Excalibur" movie got me hooked for the first time on Knights and armour..and even got me my first nickname 😀! Salutations to all of You, Soul Brothers!
Since I was young. I appreciated armour. Only have some gorgets, bandolier, and epaulettes that are in the last common pieces of armour. Seems I'm happy at having that.
What a great guy. Super interesting! I would love to see more! The history and the process, both fabrication and restauration. Awesome, but to short episode. I need more...
Love the various armour being shown. .I do SCA heavy fighting and armour is very important to us.. finding a good armourer is always difficult. Safety as well as style.. For example I had my helm done at aesir metalworks.
"He was really into arms and armor, as you totally should be." Yes. Can relate. Would love to sit Ed down and just hear his stories. He would not be buying a beer all evening.
Adam. I'm not sure if you ever got a chance to visit the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester Mass. but you would have loved that place. Unfortunately it closed and the collection was sold. Luckily the Worcester Art Museum acquired some of the vast collection. Higgins' collection had examples of arms and armor from many continents and cultures.
Would be cool if you were to visit the Wallace Collection, Royal Armouries in Leeds or Windsor Castle as well (or any non-UK collections ofc.), to interview armourers from different collections.
I was just thinking of the Wallace Collection and the Royal Armouries! Adam would be in heaven chatting to Toby Capwell and could you imagine him with Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria?
Being able to display a full suit of armor as it would have been worn is a great thing. Reproducing any missing pieces is what should be done. As long as everything is properly labeled so it is known what is and isn't original. There shouldn't be any issues in doing that. Seeing the individual pieces by themselves is nice, but when something is designed to work as part of the whole, it really should be shown in that configuration when possible.
My favorite adhesive for something I may want to take apart later is RTV silicone. It forms a sturdy bond that can be ripped apart and cleaned up completely. The drawback is it takes a long time to set.
Dad used both XRF and traditional spectroscopy to evaluate materials of unknown composition. I remember his spectrograph was quite large, and kind of "vintage" even in the 1970s...
I feel like Adam needs to see and get involved with Tod Todeschini (Tod's Workshop) and the armor recreation, testing, and mythbusting he's doing with Joe Gibson, Matt Easton (Scholagladiatoria), Dr. Toby Capwell with the Wallace Collection, etc., etc. I think Adam would just be overjoyed with what they're doing over there
The Met is the only museum in Manhattan I didn't explore when I was in NYC. Only, uh, visited the hot dog stand in front. If I had known they have arms & armour...
That’s probably the only job in the world you can show up every day and know the less you do the better! lol as a career production toolmaker, this would be a DREAM!
Quite a nice visit. As a tool nerd, I am curious what make the calipers on the wall are. The outside look to be Starrett 36 (or 38), butmany other makes are similar (McGrath, being my favourite). The inside calipers appear to be set up with the tips in, for some reason, and if Starrett of B&S, hung with the adjuster to the wall?.
I highly recommend the Wallace collection in London if you are interested in arms and armour. It's free or a small donation. I could spend hours there looking at everything.
Adam, I know your lightsaber was completed months ago, but have you considered adding a small vibrational device for a haptic effect. . .in essence, to FEEL as if your lightsaber is humming with massive energy and power? Like something that would respond to movement, and change intensity accordingly, as with the sound effects. I know it is not at all necessary, but it's something that I've always wanted to see in a lightsaber build. It would only directly benefit whoever is holding it, but I've always thought that was a feature that should be a no-brainer for lightsaber design.
Excalibur! What a fantastic movie. I love plate mail armor in part due to seeing this as a child. I also have an irrational fear of people who look like Mordred and gold armor. 😂
Adam, you should visit some European sites to see more armor: * the Sforza Castle, a museum in Milan, * Berg Elz, a castle in Moselkern, Germany, * The museum in Pavia, Italy
When I was a kid there was a suit of armor that had a black helmet that really reminded me of Darth Vader. MET Arms & Armour exhibit was also a really big deal for me growing up.
My invasive thoughts kept thinking of your guest as alternate time line Seth Rogen. I’ve loved arms and armor since early childhood. I think I saw some fake armor at a fancy restaurant in Milwaukee as a kid? House on the Rock?
"The Lost King" features a real, fully functional, historically accurate armor designed by Tobias Capwell, curator of arms and armor of the Wallace Collection.
The MET's Arms and Armor Department: www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/arms-and-armor
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Come up to The Knights Hall in Nashua, NH and see armor in use@ I'd be happy to talk shop and we could probably even find some in your size to try on. (The Met's workshop is incredible. I was amazed when I visited in November 2019. I recognized that mitten gauntlet immediately. The articulation is perfect.)
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Yeeaaah! Very much the same here! Watching the "Excalibur" movie got me hooked for the first time on Knights and armour..and even got me my first nickname 😀!
Salutations to all of You, Soul Brothers!
He needs his own show. I'd watch him restore and tell the history as he goes.
Yes!
I would watch this guy talk armour (canadian spelling) and conservation for hours, the MET would do well to have this guy host talks or museum tours from time to time.
hear hear!
@@trevorfulcher4070 he's to valuables, be wasting skill just talking, when he could mending the stuff?
@@dh2032Would he if he was helping inspire and educate future fellow historians and conservators?
I do hope there are more episodes, the guy is amazing to listen to.
There are!
@@tested Please Sir, can I have some more? The passion of the curators is awesome. Not just this guy, the ones at the Smithsonian Air & Space had it too.
"This ended way too soon" was my 1st. thought when the tiles popped up... So more of this dude, please!
@@Rembrant65 Emily Graslie has a few videos with curators of natural history
I love how the first question was "how did you get here"?
Their are thousands of jobs (I seen a Federal Museum curator position that started at $104.5k) that people would do if we knew about them and where to find them and how to apply.
That's the single most important question Adam has ever asked
Absolutely honored Edward Hunter wears our No.325 Workshop Apron in waxed canvas. As a fellow UNL grad (Anthropology / Sociology) and a person who uses hand tools for a living, I am delighted on many levels to see this! Thank you for choosing ARTIFACT and wow - what an immaculate workshop!
why would u be honored? did u make it?
@@jeffcrow2506 Yes! I am the owner / designer of ARTIFACT and the apron he is wearing was made in our Omaha, NE studio.
@@artifactgoods where can one find your products online? That apron looks like a very well-made and useful bit of kit! Also just out of curiosity, what's the significance of the number 325?
@@dav1dsm1th UNL for undergrad.
I like the grommets for the straps, well thought out I think.
Dad grew up in NYC and always told me stories of the armor section of The Met. So when I finally had a chance to visit I understood why he loved it so much. The craftsmanship in that area is unreal and sublime to witness.
literally just went today and found these videos when i got home, weirdest coincidence. But I can the armor and weapon exhibits were stunning, the quality of the works, the quantity and the variety really blew me away
This needs to be an hour or more and include looking at examples. Really enjoyed it.
More episodes coming! :)
As a hobbyist armorer, you wouldn't not understand how much I wish WISH I could go behind the scenes and directly interact with the armor at the MET.
If you’re near enough to visit, it wouldn’t hurt to ask if you could meet with someone in that department. You never know. 🙂
Oh, i think there are still makers, who understand😜
My dad is an engineer. And he was trained in a blacksmith shop when he was at technical college.
When i was a kid, he tought me how to weld, fix our car, use tools. So yes, i understand very well that joy of visiting such shop.
Not long ago i realised we still have my grandpa's old wood workshop buried under a ton of might-come-in-handy stuff.
My goal for this year is to unbury and restore that. Add a small blacksmith shop and finally have a nice place to work on my own stuff and do it with that feeling of a few generation shop climate. :)
As a kid, almost every weekend we would go to the Met, and I would sit for hours examining every detail in the armor galleries. Thank you for taking me behind the scenes.
TOP on the list of general people I love. Art conservators, and people who want to hear from art conservators. Adam, please keep highlighting these beautiful people and their work. They are true treasures guarding the world's treasures.
Space suits are a natural extension of your passion for armor! Thanks for all these great videos!!
As well as all of his costumes, armor for actors to battle the stage and the audience's imagination.
Wonder if space suits will be placed in that collection at the MET?
I love the rising excitement as they are talking. You can really tell the passion for the history and the pieces.
I LOVE seeing Adam examine actual medieval armors! I love the SciFi/Fantasy stuff too but seeing him examine actual medieval equipment just hits harder for me personally
It's always great to see someone who is elated to do their job
i adore the fact that as well as you who are watching Adam learns as you do.
After recently having the chance to work with Ted , I can say that his knowledge is equally matched with his enthusiasm when it comes to armor. I can't wait for the chance to go through our collection when he might return.
I'd love to come back soon!
There used to be an amazing collection of armor in Worcester Massachusetts at a place called Higgins Armory. Most of the collection got sold but some of it can still be seen at the local art museum.
One of my college metalwork projects was an interview with James Gilaspie, an armorer who worked with the Met on some things, and he talked a lot about how so much displayed armor is pieced together from other suits, and how important and difficult it is to replace the missing bits.
Fascinating and I too hope we hear more and see some examples. Even a tour of that workshop would be great.
I saw the MET armor hall in 1985. It makes me happy to know that it is in caring hands. 🙂
Excellent job 👍 I'm fascinated by armor.👍
The Worcester Arts Institute has a wonderful collection of Arms and Armour. They acquired the Higgins Armoury Museum's collection when the Museum closed in 2014
Mental note! Thank you!
I've always loved the Arms and Armor collection since I was a little kid!
Although I may not have the fascination that Adam has with Armor, I am a long time metal fabricator (primarily race cars) but also metal sculptures and it is this form of metalwork that I can absolutely appreciate what and how they do what they do back in the day as well as now! Fantastic
Agree, we need more episodes!
When these two guys are talking you can clearly see the vibe that only happens when people share the same passion.
One of my favorite rooms at the Detroit Institute of Art is the hall of amor. It’s right up the stairs as you come in the front door and it is just fabulous to imagine all the men who wore these metal suits. Just looking at the intricate joints and curves in the metal so that it fits the human body is just an amazing art form to me. I totally understand your fascination with armor Adam and it is so cool that you had a suit fitted to you to walk around the one convention.
The discussion on conversation and preservation was amazing. Really looking forward to more videos with The Metropolitan Arms and Armor department.
i could listen to hours of this
Ted is a stud and needs his own channel. I love this guy and his knowledge!
Adam Savage has the rare feature where his almost giddy amusement is palpable and infectious. Just an absolute joy to watch him have potentially mundane conversations!
WOW,incredible experience- chuffed for you dude!Thank you for bringing this to us all!🤯 Ted has the ultimate armour nerd's job & work environment,what a worthy cause!🏆
I remember visiting the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England, fascinated by the horde of armour and weaponry, and the little reenactments that took demonstrating the roll of a square. 👍
I became enamored of armor as an 8 or 10 year old boy, as many others have been. Visiting the Met armor collection the first time as an adult was an overwhelming experience. I couldn't believe some of it was real, that that level of craftsmanship was achieved back then. It's so good to see the techniques used centuries ago have been maintained.
Adam sir you are awesome
If you live in the Chicago area the Art Institute has an armor exhibition and it is kind of mind blowing too. The size of some of the swords is crazy.
I love the enthusiasm of both of you. And the passion for history and preservation. I know almost nothing about armour, but I really want to know more now. Thanks, Adam!
I love the sign behind his right shoulder: "Love your enemy, but keep your gun oiled." Kinda reminiscent of "Walk softly and carry a big stick..."
If I had ended up in an armorer's shop at 14, I can easily imagine it changing my life.
Respect the skills that go into the craft!
Matts beautiful uniform shows how much he cares... AWSOME ✌️ 😊
Really interesting, thanks. A part 2 extended version , or a more thorough look around with explanations and examples would be awesome.
More videos from our visit are coming! Stay tuned.
@@tested Thank you.
This keeps popping up in my feed with thumbnails that don't exist in the video. Definitely expecting more episodes.
Amazing, thank you!
Yeeaaah! Very much the same here! Watching the "Excalibur" movie got me hooked for the first time on Knights and armour..and even got me my first nickname 😀!
Salutations to all of You, Soul Brothers!
Since I was young. I appreciated armour. Only have some gorgets, bandolier, and epaulettes that are in the last common pieces of armour. Seems I'm happy at having that.
The armory section in the Philly Museum of Art was my favorite section to visit.
I love this, and I look forward to more.
I love that Movie! Currently working on a foam version of King Arthur's Armor, Ross
Adam made this like a Magic School Bus type of virtual field trip that I'm definitely here for
What a great guy. Super interesting! I would love to see more! The history and the process, both fabrication and restauration. Awesome, but to short episode. I need more...
I like your work but this series is the best so far. Thank you.
We're witnessing the beginning of a wonderful bromance here!
That’s some really cool looking armor.
Love the various armour being shown. .I do SCA heavy fighting and armour is very important to us.. finding a good armourer is always difficult. Safety as well as style.. For example I had my helm done at aesir metalworks.
Similar experience during my first time visiting the MET armor exhibit.
"He was really into arms and armor, as you totally should be."
Yes. Can relate.
Would love to sit Ed down and just hear his stories. He would not be buying a beer all evening.
This is very intriguing to me as an avid collector of antique and vintage firearms and air guns.
That conservator is amazing! I want to be his friend!!
Much love mate
🙏
Adam. I'm not sure if you ever got a chance to visit the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester Mass. but you would have loved that place. Unfortunately it closed and the collection was sold. Luckily the Worcester Art Museum acquired some of the vast collection. Higgins' collection had examples of arms and armor from many continents and cultures.
E. H. is a fabulous "get" . May we have some more, please?!!!!
Those shears. Wow
This was brilliant - hopefully more is coming 🤩🤩
Would be cool if you were to visit the Wallace Collection, Royal Armouries in Leeds or Windsor Castle as well (or any non-UK collections ofc.), to interview armourers from different collections.
I was just thinking of the Wallace Collection and the Royal Armouries! Adam would be in heaven chatting to Toby Capwell and could you imagine him with Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria?
Being able to display a full suit of armor as it would have been worn is a great thing. Reproducing any missing pieces is what should be done. As long as everything is properly labeled so it is known what is and isn't original. There shouldn't be any issues in doing that. Seeing the individual pieces by themselves is nice, but when something is designed to work as part of the whole, it really should be shown in that configuration when possible.
Incredible
Like others have said, I do hope we see more from visit!
My favorite adhesive for something I may want to take apart later is RTV silicone. It forms a sturdy bond that can be ripped apart and cleaned up completely. The drawback is it takes a long time to set.
Please visit the Royal Armouries in Leeds next time you are in the UK, it’s overwhelming.
This guy is super engaging.
I love that movie Excaliber in the 80's !!!!!!!!!!
Dad used both XRF and traditional spectroscopy to evaluate materials of unknown composition. I remember his spectrograph was quite large, and kind of "vintage" even in the 1970s...
The horror stories were so familiar to me. I was in art school for ten years and I heard AND SAW some things that would stop the heart.
More of this please! How can learn more about the conservation field?
As a HEMA enthusiast, & Fantasy fan, I found this incredibly interesting! Thank you
I feel like Adam needs to see and get involved with Tod Todeschini (Tod's Workshop) and the armor recreation, testing, and mythbusting he's doing with Joe Gibson, Matt Easton (Scholagladiatoria), Dr. Toby Capwell with the Wallace Collection, etc., etc. I think Adam would just be overjoyed with what they're doing over there
Would love to see some examples of the work they are doing/have done. So interesting
I would love to a shop with all those tools. Also a workshop with zero power tools. Might as well add a forge to the list
The Met is the only museum in Manhattan I didn't explore when I was in NYC. Only, uh, visited the hot dog stand in front.
If I had known they have arms & armour...
I love the sign about keeping your gun oiled. I'd like to create one of those signs for use in my gunsmithing shop.
what's the cowboy cut shirt with the brass snaps you are wearing at the start of the vid?
That’s probably the only job in the world you can show up every day and know the less you do the better! lol as a career production toolmaker, this would be a DREAM!
Quite a nice visit. As a tool nerd, I am curious what make the calipers on the wall are. The outside look to be Starrett 36 (or 38), butmany other makes are similar (McGrath, being my favourite). The inside calipers appear to be set up with the tips in, for some reason, and if Starrett of B&S, hung with the adjuster to the wall?.
If you haven't been, The Cleveland Museum of Art has a great armory to visit.
More please.
What are those large tin snip-like items on the back wall?
I would listen to this guy talk for hours
I highly recommend the Wallace collection in London if you are interested in arms and armour.
It's free or a small donation.
I could spend hours there looking at everything.
Adam, I know your lightsaber was completed months ago, but have you considered adding a small vibrational device for a haptic effect. . .in essence, to FEEL as if your lightsaber is humming with massive energy and power? Like something that would respond to movement, and change intensity accordingly, as with the sound effects.
I know it is not at all necessary, but it's something that I've always wanted to see in a lightsaber build. It would only directly benefit whoever is holding it, but I've always thought that was a feature that should be a no-brainer for lightsaber design.
Excalibur is my second favorite movie.
Excalibur! What a fantastic movie. I love plate mail armor in part due to seeing this as a child. I also have an irrational fear of people who look like Mordred and gold armor. 😂
Adam, you should visit some European sites to see more armor:
* the Sforza Castle, a museum in Milan,
* Berg Elz, a castle in Moselkern, Germany,
* The museum in Pavia, Italy
You are a magnificent leather Smith.
Have you ever been to the Leeds Armouries Museum in the UK?
Oooh, neat!
The Met almost requires two days to see everything properly. It's absolutely enormous.
Very true!
To all who have not seen "Excalibur" its fantastic. The full and I mean full tale of King Arthur
When I was a kid there was a suit of armor that had a black helmet that really reminded me of Darth Vader. MET Arms & Armour exhibit was also a really big deal for me growing up.
My invasive thoughts kept thinking of your guest as alternate time line Seth Rogen. I’ve loved arms and armor since early childhood. I think I saw some fake armor at a fancy restaurant in Milwaukee as a kid? House on the Rock?
I guess there will be a part 2?
I wish I had known this was an actual job when I was in college. I'd have pursued this career
Great interview. Has any movie reimagined metal armor so it isn't an approximation of the historic armor?
"The Lost King" features a real, fully functional, historically accurate armor designed by Tobias Capwell, curator of arms and armor of the Wallace Collection.