There's a guy called Ash making some over here as well now. Very good and cheaper than White Rose looking at their website. He doesn't have any pictures on his site but I should be collecting one from him tomorrow or Saturday so can post some pics if anyone is interested. http://armour-services-hist...

I would advise against using railway track for peening in this project, use something flatter if you can london underground rail is completly flat on top and is 4" wide, it is the heaviest type I stock. I also keep UIC-54, BS50-0 and several others plus more I can get to order or a section of a for...

We also have this guy over here now http://armour-services-historical.co.uk/ his site seems to be having a few issues at the moment. I've had a couple of interesting brigandine coversations with him. He has a very nice looking example on his stall at shows and is going to stop linning his and tin th...

I'm not sure that can be asked as a single question like that. I think it's more like. Who would make/has made the most accurate copy? Who makes the best commercially available one? Who would make the best one if you paid them enough? Who makes/would make the best one in your price range? Who makes ...

The reproductions

http://www.eskimo.com/~cwn/tmp/brig_nails.jpg

Last time it was 100 pounds.

Would that restorer be Roger SB

I'd be very interested to see any photographs anyone might have of any of these.

Brian - You auctioned them on EBay in April 2005. If anybody has some they want to sell I'd be interested. I've never seen anybody post anything about the brigandine they are making/have made with these nails which leads me to think that a lot of people still have them lying around waiting for when ...

I'd suggest searching this site plus the FireStryker forums and The Companie of St George (www.companie-of-st-george.ch) for all refernces to Brigandines. This will provide a good deal of information and may answer a lot of questions for you.

You could try Steve Stocker at http://www.bowstock.co.uk/
He's a re-enactor and does some of the markets so he'll have a good idea what your talking about.

Just to say I bought the shirt and coif from Jiri and would like to recommend him as someone to do business with.

If those are the nails that Craig Nadler and Bob Read had made some years ago I'd be interested if Ken doesn't want them.

Try these, two both in the UK and both highly regarded by UK re-enactors. Plenty of their products will be in evidence come Hastings.
http://www.armourclass.co.uk/Data/Pages ... _Main2.htm
http://www.paul-binns-swords.co.uk/Swords.htm

Hi, this is a picture of the nail heads if it helps at all. Could you tell me where you got the fustian from and do they have a website. Thanks.

If you search google for brass rivets or Fastner Companies I would imagine you'd find one somewhere in Norway and wouldn't need to get them sent from too far away.

It all depends what sort of combat you're going to do. A lot of us over here have a minimum standard of helmet, gloves and jack but we pull our blows and stick to defined target areas (well in theory at least), but if you want full contact then you will need more armour. I guess what I'm trying to s...

The offer of the pictures was more for the guys in Australia but i'd be happy to send them to anyone who wants them. Most are of the one laid open that shows the plates and there are a couple of the one next to it on the dummy that show the nail heads (but not brilliantly).

I'd suggest searching this site plus the FireStryker forums and The Companie of St George (www.companie-of-st-george.ch) for all refernces to Brigandines. This will provide a good deal of information and may answer a lot of questions for you. I also have some decent pictures that I took of the one o...