I love the German Gothic style. It's so elegant

@DaSpineLessFish

7 жыл бұрын

Donsmacker1 German Gothic is generally very beautiful. I especially love long Sallets

@HebaruSan

7 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of fantasy armor, like the armorers were showing off.

@KryllKiller

7 жыл бұрын

What I love is the fluting is both gorgeous and functional.

@gg2fan

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a Milanese man myself. I think most people would prefer the Gothic look upon first impression but the more I learn about armor and the more I get used to looking at it, the more I appreciate the Italian stuff for it's pragmatism and simplicity. It's not much to look at compared to Gothic but it's really grown on me. Maybe I just prefer rounded shapes as opposed to the sharp and stabby look of the German stuff.

@breaden4381

7 жыл бұрын

An elegant armor, for a more civilized aged.

It's just so amazing that 500 years ago people were basically building ironman suits, just such great craftsmanship, I don't think it gets the admiration it deserves, thank you for the video, have a great day!

@bcl3341

2 жыл бұрын

You should take a look into the jousting shield launchers most likely fashioned by the clockmakers of the time!

Man, that laptop hanging off the edge drives me nuts.

@Godzilla-se8in

6 жыл бұрын

It's not hanging though.

@DIEGhostfish

5 жыл бұрын

I lost my harddrive that way.

@fadechicobuarque1989

4 жыл бұрын

Why did you have to mention it? I went back to check and now I am bothered by it.

@Colonel_Overkill

4 жыл бұрын

Yea, that is just asking for a broken hard disk or screen. Glad Im not the only one it triggered lol

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929

4 жыл бұрын

Ignorance is better than insight.

Ah, so that's where Nazghuls get their gauntlets.

@illoney5663

5 жыл бұрын

I can't recall the description in the books, but the Nazgûl gauntlets are definitely inspired by gothic gauntlets.

@mediocreman6323

3 жыл бұрын

@@illoney5663 - Well, Germany. What else would evil people wear? [Austrian make anti-German jokes.]

@Zarafin

3 жыл бұрын

@@mediocreman6323 Austria gets reconised less anyway! Ich bin kein Deutscher.

@robray111

2 жыл бұрын

@@mediocreman6323 Hitler was Austrian - who is evil now?

@mediocreman6323

2 жыл бұрын

@@robray111 - If Hitler _was_ Austrian, then … what is he _now?_

The articulation of the plates are almost hypnotic...

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929

4 жыл бұрын

Almost?

@superfluous9726

3 жыл бұрын

Armour asmr video. @Knyght Errant we need this, please.

@riproar11

3 жыл бұрын

I own a similar Gothic replica pair with individually articulated fingers, Maximilian fluting and punched-out heart accents. It is so fun to wear them and admire how they "fit like a glove" and are "one with you". People are blown away when they try them on and I explain to them that an entire Medieval suit of armor was custom-tailored to the knight to feel like the way the gloves feel.

@TheCompleteMental

Жыл бұрын

Gauntlet ASMR when?

Only gothic german gauntlets can possibly make the mitten style look good. Late medieval armor was just so gorgeous.

@chaseblackstone8749

6 жыл бұрын

B. Braun i dont like it too much, but it works

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929

4 жыл бұрын

Not only is it beautiful, it's practical.

@christopherdavis7069

3 жыл бұрын

Almost all medieval armor is gorgeous.

@Waldemarvonanhalt

8 ай бұрын

I think it's mostly due to the fact that it still maintains the appearance of there being separate fingers when they're actually fused. It's just more coherent for the brain when you look at it.

The more I see videos of how plate armour works, the more I marvel at the complexity, craftsmanship and general beauty of the thing. I mean I've always loved knights and plate armour, but you never apreciate how much thought and work went into them until you watch a video like this. Great job

The articulation is just mesmerizing to look at. Such a fine craftmanship.

Gothic Plate Armour is my favorite armor period. Everything about it: The shape, the fluting, the sallet/bevor, the decoration, the protection. It's just so good looking!

@TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4

6 жыл бұрын

Pointed feet

@TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4

6 жыл бұрын

Roman Cabay it's ok to be different but damn, that's just weird and not in a good way...

@thebenevolentsun6575

6 жыл бұрын

Armoured Productions Entire periods can armoured? Crazy!

@hillsmash

6 жыл бұрын

Armoured Productions w

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929

4 жыл бұрын

@@TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4 I get what you mean, the sabatons do look really dumb. They look like something you'd see on an insect.

Watching those gauntlets move is kinda hypnotic lol

that ulnar/radial deviation is a super underrated feature. Even slight motion there has a huge impact on sword work

It almost looks like hes trying to tame the gauntlet when hes testing it and holding onto it at the same time. like it's a wild creature with it's fluid movement.

One thing that actually let me down with gothic gauntlets -- it has this opening gap between thumb guard and main plate. I broke a base bone of my thumb when halberd went in there. Nasty experience. Still, my favourite style and I use them to this day for all the historical fighting I do.

Hello Ian, as a german subscriber of you, as I watched this video, I remembered that I recently bought a pair of milanese styled gauntlets/mittens, which are quite comparable to the cothic gauntlets, so I made a response video to expand this topic by showing the differences between those two styles, using the information you have given in yours to give everyone who is interested access to a comparison. This is not meant as an advertisement, but rather as an offer for you and, of course, everyone else who is interested, to take a look at it and discuss the topic. Because of that, I am not going to post a link in here, but if you want to, it is available on the channel. Thank you for the time and effort you give to provide this good content.

I can't tell you how much by watching you explain why they are designed that way as well as you showing the movement has improved my drawing comprehension in the first 9 minutes! Thank you!

I really love the Gothic and Maximilian Armor, the fluting effect on the hands really makes it stand out, all the while increasing the thickness without extra weight and adding deflection to it also, the mittens ones especially, as opposed to the movable fingers system, there are several ones at Peleș Castle here in Romania that are of said design.

Great video, please keep producing your amazing content.

Finals are coming up, better stay up late watching Ian.

@hamarbiljungskile8953

6 жыл бұрын

How did the finals go?

@flynn659

5 жыл бұрын

Yes me must know

@Noname-om3pp

4 жыл бұрын

So did you pass?

Every time you present such intricate armour I'm amazed by the beauty and functionality of the pieces. Simply stunning.

I love your channel, one of my three favorites on KZread. It's so educational and interesting for a subject that I think has a ton a misinformation out there. You are doing a great work educating me and I'm sure many other people. Keep up the great work.

@KnyghtErrant

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You've been gone for a while. Glad to see a new video!

You know your content is amazing when my heart fucking skipped a beat when I saw you had a new video! Great video as always! Will try to patiently await your next.

The movement in the wrist is mesmerizing! Awesome pair of gauntlets and great video.

liked before the video even started. So excited for a new video. *update: Was not disappointed.

As always I enjoy your channel. Thanks, and keep it up.

I could see the slight limitation on bending the wrist forward as a benefit - bending the wrist too far forward is done in wrist locks, so the slight restriction in range of motion might be a form of protection against that.

@KnyghtErrant

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, there are a lot of cases were joint restrictions in armor could potentially save that actual joint from being destroyed by forced hyperextension and other nasty manipulations.

@lucascastro2802

3 жыл бұрын

I know this is an old comment, but in my experience being wristlocked, stopping the motion short wont save you. In fact, it's possible to tap someone out with a wristlock before the wrist even bends at all because of the pressure applied to the articulation.

In my experience fencing with sticks, I have found that getting whacked in the fingers is the most common way to get hit. I would much rather have a mitten style gauntlet than a glove style.

@nono9370

5 жыл бұрын

GenericFakeName sticks dont have a guard

@baronprocrastination1722

4 жыл бұрын

@@nono9370 exactly. Not all weapons knights use have a guard of any sort, pollax sometimes included. For the most part, polearms are rather unprotected when it comes to the fingers.

@auscaliber1

4 жыл бұрын

being a lacrosse long-pole defenseman I disagree, if you are skilled at using whatever youre holding (and you are, if you're in plate armour), having the freedom of movement you would get from an articulating gauntlet with individual fingers is just so nice. It's hard to quantify if you've never had to do something like it. I'm not saying a mitten (especially one like he has in this video) would be no good, but the difference in your ability to use the weapon to your fullest capability is so great, when you're unfettered by the gloves. It's definitely what I would prefer, personally. In lacrosse i've used horrible clumsy solid-feeling gloves and ive used gloves so well made i can do pretty much everything i could do without them on, and it's one less thing to have to think about or be restricted by. if you're getting smacked in the fingers enough for it to make the difference, you were gonna lose anyway. You could make a similar argument about having a really hefty breastplate, three times thicker than usual. Sure, it would protect you from blunt attacks even better! But there's a reason they're not like that.

Gosh, these look so good... even mitten gauntlets look amazing in this style!

Amazing video, thanks for showing it in such detail. Drawing articulations in armor is extremely hard, and these really help you grasp how they work. Not as good as seeing the real thing, but if you have no access to armor, then this is the best you could ask for. Great content.

Great video as always!

9:95 >wears gloves to protect it from the oils in his skin >places it on his bare forearm without anything between

These look so badass! Not only does the hinges hinge, but they also flinges.

A video in and I'm already in love.

Another quality content video. I knew I didn't make a mistake when I liked it from the start.

That razer laptop is dangerously close to the edge of that table and I am concerned

Keep up the good work, Ian! Really nice and educational videos. I rate you ten out of ten in my book.

they are beautiful. thankyou for sharing them :)

Great video , damn some of them are really cool.

Ah~ the detailed explanation as to why they have this bump in the wrist area is why I love to see your contents. Didn't even know that they are there. Let alone the reason for them. Thanks for the great videos as always!

@unlee6993

7 жыл бұрын

And for someone who was wearing these military gears, I know those detailed designs can help so much on how comfortably you can wear them. It makes so much sense. Cause, damn that skin on boney areas hurt so much!

Another awesome video. thanks!

wow, that range of motion is beautiful

These are some of my absolute favourite gauntlets, actually have a pair on order from an armourer (for when I can afford them, that is) some absolutely stunning armour. Love late 15th century Gothic plate.

11:18 "not only does the hinge hinge…" - Can't argue with that. :-) Seriously, though, very interesting video!

As always, good video ;) I really hope you'll find someone with italian gaunts to do a video on!

Thanks, that's great & interesting having just bought a pair of plate gauntlets myself.

I can't be the only one who watched the entire intro worrying that he would knock that laptop out of the table.

I would love to see a compare/contrast video for Gothic and Italian armour styles

So thank you for the vid on mitten gauntlets. I'm gonna try making this as a skill drill.

That was fantastic. Is there any way you can show the other parts of a Gothic armour in this style of video?

another great video.

Those gauntlets are a work of art.

Man, those gauntlets look *really* good

Great video, informative.

It is so satisfying to watch this gauntlet move...

0:12 I was a lot younger back then, but yes I recall.

Absolutely beautiful

Nobody: Me wanting to put my grimy hands all over the gauntlets at the museum

Absolutely beautiful armor

Those are so beatiful

the fact your razer laptop was having half way off the table the entire video, i was slowly getting PSTD.

My first time here so please allow me to make a few points: 1) Nice intro. Badass without taking 45 seconds. 2) Good content. Nice description, clear speech, lots of pics to help show what you're talking about. 3) Nice helmet on the shelf behind you. Have a Sub!

@KnyghtErrant

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Welcome, and I hope you enjoy the other videos!

@Comicsluvr

3 жыл бұрын

@@KnyghtErrant It's easy to praise good work.

Beautiful

"Spock configuration" i love it!!!

beautiful gauntlet

Thank You! Now I know how to put together the Gauntlets of Eredin's Armor from The Witcher 3!

Great video! Thank you :)

Thanks, great video. I've been fascinated by Knights and Armor since I was old enough to know about it. (probably 7 yrs. old) Always wanted my own suit of armor. I like the finger gauntlets better too.

Seeing “the real thing” is thrilling. To imagine that, centuries (plural!) later … imagine!, the history that has passed since then, and that this piece of equipment had likely been used in an actual battle! The mere thought gives me the goose bumps.

That was a cool video, I wish we could have seen a bigger diversity of original gauntlets but its ok. Also I would like to know how thick the plates are and how resistant they are

Very interesting and thorough presentation in typical Knight Errant style. Is it possible to use the "handshake" style grip with these mittens?

you betray your inner nerd with "spock configuration" lol i was thinking more like cloven hoof configuration.

@mccallcarlson3580

6 жыл бұрын

I loved it when he said Spock configuration.

Yup, learned a bunch, thanks.

Very interesting thank you.

Gothic armor looks breathtaking badass

A practical beauty

So cool

@knyght errant Hey, I had a question regarding gauntlets, specifically fingers: In reproductions of late gothic gauntlets, there seems to be a lot of armourers who use finger scales, or lames, instead of finger plates. But in most surviving historical models I've seen, the fingers seem to be plated. Is there any real difference in the level of protection or quality between lames and plates on gauntlets with separated fingers? Thanks!

I have always wondered what took so long for mitten gauntlets to come about. After a couple of broken fingers I decided mittens where the only way to go. And my life has never been in jeopardy from my hobby

Great video again. What was the overal design philosophy of late 15th century Gothic armor? It stands out from Italian or say English armor quite a bit. The fine lines, absence of significant pauldrons, short faulds look quite delicate. For what kind of purpose was it designed this way?

@andrewsuryali8540

7 жыл бұрын

DushinSC Fluting was done to increase structural integrity without doubling mass. The Germans just went full dandy and made their technical innovation fabulous. Pauldrons in Gothic armor didn't really shrink. They just got more closely fitted. The fitting was only possible due to innovations in articulation. The evolution from hourglass to Gothic gauntlet is actually similar. Just like how the flare in the hourglass gauntlet disappeared when articulation was added to the wrist, the flare in older pauldrons disappeared when articulation was added to the shoulders. Faulds didn't really grow shorter. A lot of the more famous examples do have shorter faulds but this may have been a stylistic preference of nobles. A survey of lower-rank gothic armor shows that most had faulds of roughly the same length as previous styles.

@undertakernumberone1

7 жыл бұрын

the fluting btw makes the armour more rigid and it can lead to arrows/bolts that hit the armour to not hit it at "good angles" (close to 90°) (+ it can look really nice).... the Maximilian armour or Riefelharnisch took the fluting to a whole other level with nearly the whole armour being fluted

@oawefajweee

7 жыл бұрын

The german gothic armor was highly fluted to increase rigidity and protection against projectiles without increasing weight. A projectile hitting an angled surface would increase the effective thickness of the armor without increasing the actual thickness. Italian style armor with smooth shapes and large pauldrons were intended to better protect against wielded weapons like polearms and lances by encouraging glancing blows via the smooth rounded surfaces. The large asymmetric pauldron on the left shoulder is essentially their shield.

@ohioman4646

6 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Germany: overengineering everything since 1324

Thank you!

The past is magnifical: I was militar in Spain. In a Regiment called "Milan". In city of Oviedo. Founded in Milan, Italy, in 1535 like Tercio Viejo de Milan. An Spanish Elite corps, not Italian. To defend Italy from Franchis. In museum we had somme olds like this... XVI-XVII-XVIII etc... Century

I love german gothic armour, it is so flowing and elegant, looks like fabric that has been neatly folded and tailored. And because I am german, so pretty much every museum I go to has some examples to see.

9:34 need that motion, for sure. ya know to like um, swing your sword...

Masterpiece.

Hi, great video as always! While you were showing the range of motion, I had an idea: perhaps you could measure it in degrees, just as you did before and compare it to hourglass gauntlets, Italian mittens and so on as your reviews progress? By the way, I wouldn't like to be hit by those gauntlets...

God they're *beautiful*. This is why gothic armour will always be my favourite.

Hi that's a beatiful gauntlet and a very good introduction to it. Would you mind showing the details from the inside in some future video? I mean the mobility of the plates as seen from the other side. I've made two sets of gauntlets but I really want to achieve that level of mobility like you have there.

@KnyghtErrant

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to be able to help but I was borrowing that gauntlet from a friend for that particular video so I no longer have access to it.

@GarageKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnyghtErrant no problem! I first saw this video about two years ago and it's still the best introduction video about Gothic gauntlets. Thanks for quick answer!

That razer laptop hanging on the edge is making me nervous

@Knyght Errant did they ever combine these type of gauntlets with the vambrace? (By combine I mean have they ever made it one big piece)

Damn, those things are beautiful

Would brass plating the surfaces reduce friction and make it more comfortable?

Wait... articulated fingers predate the clamshell gauntlet? It's like everything I knew about gauntlets was wrong...

@robertrostron1550

6 жыл бұрын

Ambient Relaxation well there were mitten gauntlets made of mail before

My favorite style of armor, so sylish and regal.

Who else was worried his laptop was gonna fall off the table?

Are there any examples of a finger gauntlet with an extra layer making a mitt on top?

I always thought the wrist bump/spike was there to make it more painful for an opponent to intercept a dagger/pommel strike.

I'd love to see a video on the toe points you sometimes see (like at 1:30). Were those used on actually battlefield armour or were they purely decorative/ceremonial? Wouldn't they get super in the way?

@secutorprimus

7 жыл бұрын

Zach S. Banks Just as far as I know, they were removable for battle. Take this with a grain of salt.

German gothic gauntlets GGG

@TheCompleteMental

7 жыл бұрын

yes

@rademilosevic4944

5 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there 😉

Can you recommend quality retailers? Thank you the post

Would it possible to mix this and gothic leg\boots with Italian armor or nah?