Greenwich armour project - Facts and figures.

Now that the Greenwich armour project is nearly finished, I thought I'd post some of the weights and totals of decoration and rivets used to complete the project. 

Time line of the project:

Started by Robert MacPherson in 2000  (Estimated, it may have been as early as 1998)

Stopped (due to injury) in 2008 or 2009

Started by Jeff Wasson in 05/2014

Last piece completed by Jeff, 12/2021

First etching test 10/2017

Last piece etched 08/2021

There are roughly 40 steps required to etch each piece of the armour, and there are over 160 pieces (Not counting the 84 finger lames) that make up this armour. 

Some figure related to the decoration;

Gold plated rivets 1,188

598 of these are capped rivets. (A separate larger diameter brass dome is soldered to the top of the rivet)

64 ft. of figure eight etching

66 ft. of wavy boarder etching

316 ft. of vine etching

Approximately 352,000 hand applied dots.....

I did around 100 etching tests to develop the etching paste, and used approximately;

100 lbs of Copper sulfate

100 lbs of fine salt

13lbs Charcoal

Here are the individual component weights:

(I'm 190cm / 6'3" - 123kg /270lbs)

 Armet - 2.61kg / 5.8lbs

 Field visor - 1.30kg / 2.9lbs

 Visor reinforce - 0.35kg / 0.8lbs

 Tilting visor 1.37kg / 3.0lbs

 Burgonet 2.82kg / 6.2lbs

 3-Bar grill 0.36kg / 0.8lbs

 Falling Buff 1.23kg / 2.7lbs

 Gorget 1.23kg / 2.7lbs

 Breastplate 3.45kg / 7.6lbs

 Backplate 2.04kg / 4.5lbs

 Fauld / Tassets 2.43kg / 5.3lbs

 Pauldron (ea.) 1.78kg / 3.9lbs

 Arm (ea.) 1.77kg / 3.9lbs

 Gauntlets (ea.) 0.83kg / 1.8lbg

 Cuisse (ea.) 1.58kg / 3.5lbs

 Greave / sabaton (ea.) 1.86kg / 4.1lbs

 Spurs (ea.) 0.05kg / 0.1lbs

 Lance rest w/ screws 0.32kg / 0.7lbs

 Grandguard 3.75kg / 8.3lbs

 Pasguard 1.62kg / 3.6lbs

 Manifer 1.20kg / 2.6lbs

 Locking Gauntlet 1.05kg / 2.3lbs

 Plackart 3.56kg / 7.8lbs

 Mail Sleeve (ea.) 3.10kg / 6.8lbs

 Here are the total weights for different configurations:

    Field - 29.04kg / 64.0lbs

Lancer (w/Plackart) - 29.06kg /  64.1lbs

   Infantry Captain - 19.95kg /  44.0lbs

     Tourney - 30.07kg / 66.3lbs

   Joust - 35.68kg / 78.7lbs

   Barriers -  21.85kg / 48.2lbs

Configured like the Buckhurst armour (A62) in the Wallace Collection - 29.62kg / 65.3lbs

(Note: the original weighs 32.03kg / 70.6lbs without linings)

A couple of side by side (A62 and my replica)

The completed garniture