How to make greave fronts - 2 hours in 8 minutes
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2018
- In this video I show how I make a greave front from flat sheet to roughed out and creased in eight minutes. It takes about a casual two hours from start to finish in real time, but after some editing and speeding up it's down to 8 minutes.
Sometime in the future I will do a tutorial on the subject but time is against me at the moment so this was the best I could manage.
In this instance they are made from 16g mild steel. If they were a high carbon steel you'd see a lot less work done at lower temperatures - but that would be about the only difference.
To make them you don't really need the stakes I use, just a bit of tube or the horn of an anvil.
Trust the process and give it a go, it will feel like a disaster for most of the early parts but then it will start to look and feel more as it should.
Best of luck and if I can help ask below.
Very nice. Real greaves have curves!
Amen to that :)
Graham. This was a great video. I especially loved the two shots you used at around 4:50 and around 5:15 of the t-stake. I have found that on my channel I get a much better audience retention if I edit the title card to be slightly into the video is stead of right at the very beginning. Would love to see you try that as it might help your channel grow a bit more if you can improve your audience retention. There was a natural break at 0:18 where you took the nearly flat steel away for a heat. That is where I would have done your title card. Just food for thought. Keep up the great work.
thanks for the feedback, will give it some thought. I'm a bit of a duffer when it come to that sort of stuff.
OMG! i'm getting a brew and some biscuits and going to the man cave! a new lesson from the man! i feel like i'm doing an apprenticeship, except i dont have to sweep up and make countless brew's! cheers buddy, absolutely brilliant tuition!
kind words, thankyou :)
Incredible work and invaluably helpful as always. Cheers!
Kind of you to say so and thanks for watching.
Beautiful work there. I can't wait to see the tutorial.
Thanks for the support, maybe a little while, I'm up to my neck in work at the moment, hence no videos for a little while.
Tolle Arbeit klasse👍👍👍
Great video! What's the bare minimum of stakes you would recommend for this project?
You can make a greave off of a straight stake or pipe, but that's coming from a guy that can't remember how many he's made. Stakes do make it easier, especially as you're learning.
Working with steel is insanely labor intensive and please how us how you make a poleyn
Is there an advantage to using carbon steel? Presumably it would harden if you were to heat treat it, but is a high hardness beneficial for armour? I assume there must be some reasonable balance to be struck.
Hi; I'm a big fan of your work and your videos!
I'm a bit confused though - why the dishing of the upper bit at the beginning? Most shins I've seen don't bulge and by the end it looks like you beat it back down to straight.
Is it so the shape of the sides come in correctly?
I find it does help with the final shape, but also if you took a ruler down most medieval greaves you find that they aren't flat but have a slight dish to them for the tibialis anterior muscle. The dishing looks aggressive at the start, but that's because as you bring it round it flattens out a good bit just leaving a slight raise.
Not only a dexterous armorer, but also very aware of the human anatomy. Astounding! Love your videos!
its amazing that you can do all that shaping and planishing in 2 hours. how many more hours would you have to put in before you would consider this piece done? everything takes forever for me. ive been working on some asymmetrical pauldrons and im on day 4 or 5 (5-8 hour days), with probably another 4 to 5 days to go before im finished with one side.
HI, it's only a rough planish, there's still a good hour to get it ready for cleaning, butu I feel your pain. When I first had a go at a closed vambrace it took Dave (of White Rose armouries, check out his work it's fantastic) 20 minutes to rough out and close the cannon. It took me the best part of a day and a half to get to the same point.
Stick with it, it gets simpler and quicker I promise :)
Wont it be easier and faster to role it then shape the rest i can be incorrect im not a blacksmith but anny comment on my question please
Graham, after you got the crease in at 6:30, you start to hammer from the inside at 6:35.Why hammer from the inside? What were you trying to achieve? I can´t make it out without touching the piece I guess. Much obliged! Björn
I see what you mean. When the creasing goes in, it puts in a ridge, more like a gothic style flute than a light catching crease. Hammering from the inside dresses it back from a flute to a crease.
@@GreenleafWorkshop Sir, your videos are invaluable for me. Truly, thank you for all that... [i'll just say 'work']. There is a thing that, for the life of me, I can not make out. It's about knee articulations. I would like to talk it over with you via email. When you got a moment, that is :o)
Best, Björn
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Say, if you don't mind me asking... In what county are you based? I'd be quite interested in seeing if perhaps meeting would be a possibility, as I am currently looking around for a specialisation I'd like to get into once I've graduated as actual blacksmith in some years, and thus far armouring seems the most appealing to me...
I'm in the UK near the south coast. Most armourers will happily chat for coffee ;) and a few of us run days in the workshop. In addition I teach at West Dean College near Chichester from time to time.
Always happy to meet and chat (with notice).
I see, thank you for your swift response. I myself will be attending Herefordshire and Ludlow college starting next September, I'd gladly pop by during a vacation someday.
You'd be welcome, but as you can see from one of my recent videos my workshop isn't much to look at :)
I would argue there's plenty to look at, despite it's size. Every workshop has tools another does not, some improvise (perhaps more) ingenius ways to get to a certain result if they lack certain tools or space for example. Every artisan or craftsman is different, and so are their workshops.
I've been spoilt with my workplace here in the Netherlands for the last year and a half, but when I visit collegues across the country, I keep seeing more ingenius tools amd techniques, no matter how 'well supplied' their workshops are.
Besides, chatting about techniques and the trade on itself will prove both very interrsting and important to someone relatively new to it like myself. So yes, I'd gladly come by if you have the time for that someday.
Pardon me !! What kind of that metal !?
16swg mild steel in this instance.
Thank you very much