The Armour Archive

Paul the Small

wow, I never realized I could sell my inkle loom projects for trim. Ragnar Hand woven trim is a little harder to sew on than store bought trim, but in my openion looks much better. My wife has had several people tell her she should be selling it on EBay, but we thought it wouldn't be worth it by th...

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Looks like Marduk wins it. PM sent.

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That may be the coolest thing I have ever seen on the archive. Must cross post.

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Wow Randy! I don't think I got finished posting before you bid. I guess you have to be fast on The Archive.

Paul the Small

For auction: Olive, khaki, and cream colored trim made from wool and linen thread. Measures roughly 4 yards by 1 inch. There are some slight imperfections in the pattern caused by the incredable difficulty of weaving wool thread (it tends to stick to the other wool threads.) A very nice piece overal...

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She's working on a piece of linen/wool trim in light green and cream right now and I'll post it up when it's done. paul How much!!!!!!! And what would you want for it!!!!!! We're not really sure what trim is worth, that's why we're doing it for auction. It's about the same as the other,~4 yards x ~...

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O.k. so it looks like my wife REALLY likes to weave. She's made two pieces this week and has decided to start making trim and selling it here. She isn't interested in custom work, but I will post stuff up when she gets it done. She's working on a piece of linen/wool trim in light green and cream rig...

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It's not much, but here's me and Baron Grimbaldus at Gulf Wars during the Gleann Abhann march to the field. I'll feel much better when the plastic lamalar and the spun top helm are replaced. I'm currently working on a set of finger gauntlets that I'm planning on making all "stealth." So ma...

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Up for auction roughly 4 yards of 1 inch(ish) inkle woven trim made from 100% cotton thread. See picture here Actual product is not as glossy as in picture (damn flash.)

Starting bid is $10 US and will run through Sunday night (April 6.)

Thanks and good bidding.
paul

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Olaf told me once that he can take a shirt and custom fit it by taking material from the sleeves and length and adding it in. Might be worth a look.

http://www.olafschainmail.com/index.html

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I don't know about a bargrill, buy you could make some super sexy basket hilts out of that.

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http://www.revival.us/index.asp?PageAct ... tegory=202

A couple guys in our group have the 14th century gambison. They're a quality product at a reasonable price. Especially if you've ever seen the pattern this is made from.

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Hats are easy to make. Take 8-10 yards of 12-15 inch wide fabric. Wrap around head many many times. Viola!

Seriously though, nice hat.

paul
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I consider myself lucky that I was fighting over a crenellation so my frontage was limited enough that I saw the archer pop up to shoot me and was therefore able to reflexively shut my eyes, otherwise the arrow would have made contact with my eyeball and I feel certain would have caused more seriou...

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I only have one. And I hate it with a fervent passion. I would love to replace it but the wife says it can only be replaced with "THE ONE HELMET." You know what I'm talking about right...the one helmet you will love and tresure all your life because it's perfect and exactly what you want, ...

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These were made for WMA that are fairly safe to use with light padding, fencing mask, gorget, and padded gloves.

http://www.ardenwoodforge.com/html/hilts.html

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What size? The larger the better.

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I think #5 would look really spiff on a business card, so that one gets my vote.

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The photo essay has it mostly right. You will want to drill a hole through the rattan where you want the split to stop. This allows some room for the rattan to expand without splitting further. After you have the hole drilled, wrap the rattan below the hole tightly with several layers of strapping t...

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I think I just had an armourgasm.

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I think you may be having some trouble selling it because of the white belt. Just a thought...

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You might want to check out Arm Street, they have some pretty nice looking stuff. Also Armour and Castings isn't too bad. They did my bauzabands in stainless for cheaper than most places have waxed leather.

paul

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Use light posterboard to pattern the chanfron. If it is a full chanfron then pay close attention to the following. 3) The nose. The chanfron should flare outwards just before the horses nostrals so there is no weight on them. Also keep in mind that horse's noses are VERY sensitive and that ease of ...

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After talking things over with my wife (the sculptor) and a couple guys who are helping me out on this I've decided to scrap this project and start over from the beginning. My wife is sculpting me a new horse head and sculpting it on a 1 1/4 inch dowel rod. We figured this would eliminate a lot of w...

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Morejello that may be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I can only aspire to be as good someday, I think I want to be like you when I grow up

. How did you set the jems in it?

paul

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They didn't really thrust with them in period, so why do it now? How do you know? OK HA HA, funny, funny. My point (no pun intended) is that we have no evidence that axes had "points for thrusting" on them. Like so many we see in the SCA. Nor do we have any evidence of the swept tip of a ...

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Shvanstucker? Doesn't that mean....never mind, I don't want to know.

Seriously, I feel like a rank amature now.

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Hope this works, I'm not real good with technology. Sorry for not putting pics up sooner, it's been a helluva week.

paul

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Brandr wrote:I'll bite!

$200

I guess the rumors are true then...Brandr does bite.

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Their customer service is pretty hit or miss. With me it was pretty much all miss. I placed the order and they told me it would be in hand in 4-6 weeks. Four months and a dozen emails later I finally got a response after threatening to bad mouth them all over the net. When I got the product in hand ...

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If your kingdom rules allow, you can make a helluva glave by doing 2" or larger rattan shaved on both sides and split. I had one I made for Gulf Wars a couple years ago and I liked it so much and fought with it so much the cutting edge turned to pulp during a tourney a few weekends ago. I guess...

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I didn't think venting the mold would be needed; it's a fairly simple design. It sounds like the plaster was way not ready for casting. I've cleaned up the casting with a sanding disk and filled in some of the voids with silver solder and it's cleaning up fairly well. I'll try to get some pics up of...

Auction: Linen/Wool hand woven trim.

Auction: Red and Black Hand Woven Trim: SOLD