The Armour Archive

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There's a YouTube video of a guy adding thicker tangs to wall hangers to make them backyard cutters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwL6ERMlrBQ

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Dresden has a good armor museum. Schloss Ambrass outside of Innsbruck has an excellent armour museum and art museum. Good gelato too.

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Wow! It's looking really awesome.

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Sold pending payment, to the original owner, no less.

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Stainless Steel Corinthian steel helm by Alan Baldtree. Used, I'm the third owner. 8 1/2" side to side, 10" front to back. I have a 23 1/4 brow circumference and the helmet fit me with 1/2" padding. Very pretty helm, but I am taking my personna in another direction, so I want it to go to a good home...

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I think the most quintessentially English is Silver, since he razzes on "foreign teachers" like Saviolo and DiGrassi. Unfortunately, not many English manuals have survived. There are some earlier sources such as the Harleian and Cottonian Titus that are from the 15th century and deal with longsword....

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Schleich and Papo used to make some very good knights and men-at-arms figurines. Papo still does, in select lines. I

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These sites: http://www.husaria.us/ and http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/PolishHorseArtillery.htm have a ton of information about armour, clothing and weapons used by the soldiers of the Commonwealth. I love hussar armour. I have a Pinterest page for Polish Commonwealth era stuff: https://www.pintere...

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Share your experience with unique or unusual shield shapes. I never do anything the standard way and I am looking for ideas for a fun style to try. One idea I was considering was a diamond or oval ish shape that, instead of holding perpendicular to the ground like a standard center grip, have it pa...

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That looks pretty cool, much better than the homemade ones I've seen on YouTube. For 20 bucks, I'm tempted to get one.

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The NYT has an article about a Roman villa recently found in England. By STEVEN ERLANGERAPRIL 17, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save LONDON — The geraniums grew in an oblong stone vessel, and no one ever thought much about it. But when Luke Irwin, a rug ...

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I wonder if it's more that he claimed the arrows were better than the Archery Tag arrows and that he was buying up "archery tag" advertising? Does seem like very patent trollish behavior on the Archery Tag folks side though.

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Burg Eltz! Another never destroyed castle, only above the Moselle. Has some real armour (not much of that in castles, these days). A real fairy-tale castle! I'll never forget my visit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltz_Castle#/media/File:Wierschem,_Burg_Eltz,_2012-08_CN-01.jpg Eltz is one of my fa...

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You can carve rawhide. When we lived in New Mexico we visited the Museum of the Horse in Ruidoso. Some of the western style tack on display was decorated with carved rawhide.

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Excellent! I enjoyed reading your webpage and watching some the YouTube videos of classes you taught. I look forward to delving into this.

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Dang, what a super idea.

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Can you do a fabrication highlights set of pics while you're making them? Falcatas and kopis are one of my favorite blade shapes.

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jester wrote:Calcio. Calcio is a sport. Calico is a fabric pattern.

And it's pronounced calcho.

Forgive my speed posting before a morning meeting and neglecting to spell check.

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Calico storico is a Florentine ball game that has been played for centuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/sport ... =top-news#

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I think spear and shield in SCA single combat suffers from limitations of our ruleset. We can't use the haft to strike our opponents, which wouldn't severely injure someone, but would check their blow or displace their weapon/shield for the killing strike with the weapon head. We also can't strike b...

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The standby is paracord. Used with leather lamellae it is nigh invulnerable. I have some laced leather scale that has 15 year old paracord lacing.

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I've ordered several things from them. On one of my orders, I realized I messed when I received the email confirmation. A quick phone call and everything was straightened out. They are a quality outfit.

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I use an old softball team bag. It's a giant blue cordura duffle bag that holds all my armour, plus has room for spare gear. If I am going someplace where I have to schlep my armour a long distance, I'll transfer it to one of my old Air Force duffles because I can wear it like a backpack. But I am l...

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Nkante,
Thanks for posting that. I've been a fan of Zulu stick fighting ever since I caught a Dog Brothers video (or maybe a vidoe by one of the Dog Brothers) about it.

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I guess you could say that. I wanted to make a live steel version of what I fight with in the SCA. Looking at pictures of extant examples, I'd say the spear point, hand guard and pommel were forge welded to the haft. I don't know if the hafts are solid or tubular, there's very little written up on t...

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I have a blog for rambling about SCA fighting and weapons and such. I posted about making a parrying spear. I thought I'd share.

http://frominsidethehelmet.blogspot.com ... spear.html

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At Norseman in Ireland around the time of the Battle of Clontarf probably didn't have any throat protection. A coif if he was wealthy enough to be more heavily armoured than a mail hauberk and helmet.

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Swete wrote:Here ya go, something better than horse wraps and just a bit more expensive: https://www.etsy.com/listing/168179432/ ... -leg-wraps

I bought a pair from this artisan and am quite pleased with them.

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I have a long neck. My current gorget is one of the first pieces of armour I made. It's a design that Sir Tore in the Outlands showed me. Never had an issue, but I always have had my armour set up so that a combination of my helm, drape and gorget completely covered my neck. I did fight with a basi...

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I have a long neck. My current gorget is one of the first pieces of armour I made. It's a design that Sir Tore in the Outlands showed me. Never had an issue, but I always have had my armour set up so that a combination of my helm, drape and gorget completely covered my neck. I did fight with a basin...

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Vivat!

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The guy carrying the three spears, shield and helm- is he altogether naked except for that? Yep, according to the Osprey book, he's a Gesetae (sp), a type of Celtic warrior who fought naked. Some books claim the Gesetae were wandering warriors, travelling throughout Gaul, looking for fights. Kind o...

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There is a knight that I've fought a couple times that has a sugarloaf style helm with a spring locking pin to hold the faceplate. Each time we've fought, I've nailed the pin and the faceplate has popped open at least once in the set. The pin is just in the spot where my offside head shot hits. Frea...

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I spent a very pleasant day in Roskilde and the Viking Ship Museum a few years back. It was slightly off season, so they weren't very busy and were more than willing to indulge a layman's questions. Attached to the museum is a wooden boat building center where they are keeping the Scandinavian boat ...

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Great website!

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Re: 1330's Knight Gaston's sugarloaf & harness progress pict

Re: Corinthian Style Helm for Sale.

Corinthian Style Helm for Sale.

Re: English fighting manuals suggestions

Re: Museum Gift stores- What's missing?

Re: Polish Winged Hussar build (advice and suggestions welco

Re: Unique kinds of shields

Re: a tool question angle grinder holder

Largest Roman Villa Find in UK to date

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Re: German Museums

Re: tooling rawhide

Re: Heavy Longsword manual in the style of Meyer.

Re: Russian "hoof" style gauntlets for sale - Price Drop

Re: Interest in Falcatas?

Re: NY Times Article on calico storico,

NY Times Article on calico storico,

Re: Spear and Shield Combat Interest

Re: Looking for suggestions on Lamellar cord

Re: Kult of Athena – a Review

Re: What bags do people use to transport armour?

Re: Son's of Shaka!

Re: Blog post about me making a parrying spear.

Blog post about me making a parrying spear.

Re: A different Gorget question

Re: Leg Wraps

Re: Of Gorgets and Aventails, a question if you will.

Re: Of Gorgets and Aventails, a question if you will.

Re: Dietrich von Stroheim to be knighted at Pennsic

Re: La Tene Celtic belts

Re: Safety in armored combat - a note on helmets

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