The Armour Archive

YMHoward

What about the Ukrainian guys at Armstreet? They seem to be pretty successful, although armour doesn't seem to be their main focus. I would guess that the exchange rate helps them quite a bit. I have bought some clothing from them, but I have seen some people who bought armour off them saying that i...

YMHoward

I have done a few google searches and clicked on links, etc., but I thought I'd also ask here (I am strong with the laziness). To narrow it down a little - I am particularly interested in anglo-saxon, norse, and rus thoughts/culture/issues with or on epilepsy. However, even if it's from other places...

YMHoward

Icefalcon, your stuff looks beautiful, and I've ordered from you before for maille, but those helmets are just out of my price range, especially once I add in the australian to US conversion.

YMHoward

Thanks guys!

Bishop, those helms of Aesir's look good, thanks for that link. Now to begin the budgeting...

YMHoward

Hi! So, I am beginning to believe my current helmet is just a touch too small, and too light, so I am looking at getting a new helmet. Here is an album with a few pictures of my current helmet. http://imgur.com/a/5yZIU I would like a helmet roughly the same shape in the top half, and with the nasal ...

YMHoward

I was sort of like that when I started. Then I started spear fighting - with no shield to turtle under, I now have to be MOVING! so either I attack or run, but either way, I am not simply turtling and being passive. It has helped my sword and shield game too - I find that I am more aggressive genera...

YMHoward

Sorry I haven't posted pics yet, my camera ran out of charge and I haven't had time to recharge it.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

YMHoward

Thanks guys! I'll post pics of the anvil and vise, plus my small work are in a couple of hours, when I get back from work.

YMHoward

The anvil only has one hole, a square one. I have a great vise. I massively overbought when I got the vise, and got the most robust one I could see. However, I have no way of grinding things right now, I need to replace the brushes on the small grinder I have. Going with the advice from here and fac...

YMHoward

Hi, I was recently given an anvil by some family, and I would love to be able to make my own shield bosses for a start. I talked to Ironmonger Armory, and he was really helpful, but the cost of shipping to australia raised his tools out of my price range for now. Would anyone know where I can find a...

YMHoward

I chose it because I figured it would cover the widest variations of the different styles of nobility, and ending at that time because from there out I have an alright layman's understanding for the next 200 years or so.

YMHoward

Yeah, I realize, and that's partly what I'm looking for information on - where the differences arose, how they arose, and what consequences that had, along with a general timeline of the basic evolution of the nobility. Multiple books are fine, books focused on single countries are fine, it's just g...

YMHoward

Hi, Would anyone be able to recommend some books covering the evolution of the nobility of europe from about 400 b.c.e to 1450 c.e? Especially with regard to the different types of nobility, i.e. patrician city based nobility or warrior nobility or rural land holding and later feudal nobility? I rea...

YMHoward

Alan, thanks for taking the time, but my problem when I first started looking at this was that the text isn't very specific, even if you read it in hebrew. I was looking for specifics that are just not found anywhere in the bible, especially if read in one of the many translations.

Cheers,
YMH

YMHoward

Thanks for the advice Said, especially the lie down to get into proper position - that I was having a little trouble with.

YMHoward

Nissan Maxima wrote:Grow stronger.

Planning on it. For that, I will now be wearing my maille at every fight prac, pick ups and tournament that I go to.

YMHoward

In order - I had a little trouble with the shoulders at the start but it wasn't really bunching as such, but I fixed that by pulling a little more above the belt so when I lifted it had some extra available. I had a bit of trouble with the ends of the sleeves, which I shortened to just above elbow l...

YMHoward

And wow, did it kick my arse. When I first got it on I thought, this is okay, shouldn't be too hard, the belt around the middle is distributing the weight nicely.... Yeah.... Start fighting, a short while in, I can feel the extra effort needed just to move around, every little change of posture is i...

YMHoward

Ranif wrote:
Kilian_the_warlike wrote:Don't wear thigh armor, and get used to it. Thats what I did.
Works if you've Sumo wrestler legs. Not so well for scrawny shanks,.
Ranif

Zoombang under your clothing. It's all I wear. and i've had to recalibrate to adjust for it, because sometimes I didn't even realize I'd been hit.

YMHoward

Jadebrain, here's a quote: ----------------------------------------------- An Anglo-Danish text, the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written around A.D. 1041 or 1042, described the Danish war fleet of 1016: “What adversary could gaze upon the lions, terrible in the glitter of their gold...all these on the s...

YMHoward

Jade, as far as prestige goes, the fact that the warrior would be wearing maille would state that warrior social position loud and clear: that stuff was not cheap in those times.

YMHoward

Plus, I think the OP is not just falling into the trap, but leaping headfirst with a band playing, of seeing religion the way it has become nowadays - sort of an adjunct to life and not something that infused into every moment of waking life.

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Thanks guys!
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YMHoward

I'm not exactly an expert, but I don't separate the two: I feel they should both be part of one movement.

YMHoward

All the posture stuff is no problem, I've got that to the point I'm happy with - when it started working right I was able to breathe slightly better. That's why I said I think I'm forgetting to breathe until it becomes such an issue that I can't ignore it anymore. After 3 rounds of a king of the hil...

YMHoward

Sorry, specifically, advice on breathing: I'm finding I end up gasping for breath after a very active fight - I think I am forgetting to breathe. How do I get rid of this habit?

*I must remember that just thinking it at the keyboard does not cross the finger barrier.....

YMHoward

Hi, just something I noticed at the last fighter practice - since I have made a conscious effort to improve my posture and had it set in, I think my fighting has improved. I also think my wind got slightly better, but I think I now need to work remembering to breathe properly during fighting. Though...

YMHoward

Oh, and the lips are not oversized, I tried to do a moustache and just started working on lips.

YMHoward

Hi, I was bored a while ago and got to beating on a piece of metal left over from some armour, and I started to beat half a face from it. But I am having trouble getting some sharpish creases or sudden bends in it, especially around the lower nose and lips. I am also having trouble getting the nose ...

YMHoward

I'm far more interested in the bow-sheath and bow! Details, please?!?

YMHoward

Nissan Maxima wrote:Money is always appropriate. I have my Jew arrange the details when neccesary.

Can I apply for the position as your court Jew? I work on percentage, and have far flung contacts in many kingdoms.

YMHoward

Sorry I didn't finish what I was writing jade, I'll try to answer some of the questions you asked me above First, the wrist of the weapon hand looks like it wouldn't be able to move - you may want to look at the length of the bracer, and the design of the gauntlet-thing - as it is it's got clean lin...

YMHoward

See the attachment for a sketch of the sectioned shoulder. Regarding the mail-to-cloth, I think maybe it would be tied on at the edges so it could come apart, but you'd have to get some of the others opinions on that, I don't know enough about it. Regarding the embossing or shaping for breasts, even...

YMHoward

Gah. I tried but altering somebody else's work is just something that makes me go crazy, so I'll just list some things. First, the wrist of the weapon hand looks like it wouldn't be able to move - you may want to look at the length of the bracer, and the design of the gauntlet-thing - as it is it's ...

YMHoward

Hi jadebrain, Regarding your image search on google, try searching for "maille standard" - the different spelling will give you the results you want. Also, would you mind if I took your drawing and changed it a bit, to show you some things that just look out-of-place/slightly-strange/somehow-wrong t...

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