The Armour Archive

Josh W

Richard, The tassets are just about the only pieces left in the suit that were made by Tom Justus and remain relatively unaltered. The original cuirass I commissioned from Tom was to be a replica of a well-known suit in a museum in Bern; it appears on page 97 of AAotMK. I know you can't see the back...

Josh W

I have a nice legharness to go with it. It appears in other photos in earlier threads. I just didn't put it on for these pics. I'm very shortly to have an armet to go with the harness, too. The pauldron overlap causes no binding at all. What happens is that the arming points that tie them to the arm...

Josh W

Thanks for the comments, guys; keep 'em coming. Yes, Gwinnin, I am serious about having traded a girl's phone number for the mail standard. The arms move just fine. They're light and comfortable and fit me very well. The pauldrons only bind if they're not tied up high enough, and then only when I re...

Josh W

[img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/myharness3.jpg[/img] [img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mybackplate5.jpg[/img] Pardon the rust. I was actually in the middle of polishing it when I decided to take these photos. If it matters, the cuirass, fauld, and tassets are mostly the work of Patrick Thaden, but s...

Josh W

For those who wanted to see photos with the right gauntlet holding something:

[img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mygaunts10.jpg[/img]

[img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mygaunts8.jpg[/img]

Please excuse the rusty vambrace in the pics...

Josh W

Barber and Barker's "Tournaments" includes a few illustrations from "Der WeisskÃƒÂ¼nig" on pages 74-75. They supposedly represent combats from Emperor Maximilian's life. One of these depicts two men in full plate armour and sallets fighting with swords and pavise-type shields. While this certainly d...

Josh W

Hose are cool.

Don't think "tights", think "close-fitting sweatpants", and you'll be nearer the truth.

Josh W

I hate seeing Kidney Belts, especially when the wearer has obviously wasted a lot of effort in decorating the useless thing.

Josh W

That sounds incredibly cool. Whose fault is it that it's not going to happen?

Josh W

There is indeed some flare to the cuff as it goes under the metacarpal plate on the right gauntlet. The two pieces are attached by a single stout rivet on the inside of the wrist; this allows the metacarpal to pivot a bit and I can get some radial/ulnar deviation out of it. As nearly as I can discer...

Josh W

[img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mygaunts1.jpg[/img] [img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mygaunts6.jpg[/img] [img]http://josh.mediumaevum.com/mygaunts7.jpg[/img] These are the cuffs from a pair of gauntlets that Patrick Thaden made a few years ago which were too large for me. I shrunk the cuffs somewha...

Josh W

Everybody knows mine:

http://www.100megsfree3.com/kragaxe/arc ... aquin.html

Josh W

So are you from the state of Missouri, or is "Mossouri" someplace I've never heard of?

Josh W

There were no *real* cuirasses in the 14th century; only disorganized collections of plates riveted under decorative cloth covers to hide their ugliness, along with a few breastplates -- but those are only half a cuirass, anyway, so they don't count.

sorry. just feeling silly.

Josh W

I am involved in a friendly debate with someone concerning the average height of ancient Roman soldiers, specifically any who might have found themselves facing a Germanic "Barbarian" in battle. The fellow with whom I'm debating asserts that average height for Roman men, including those in the army,...

Josh W

As soon as these are available, I'll buy one of the canvas/fustian ones.

Josh W

My suggestion is that you take your money to Illusion, Lance. Sure, you'll wait four to six months, but I think you'll be happy with the results.

Josh W

The two guys in the second picture don't seem to be wearing anything that looks at all like an SCA kidney belt.

The top picture looks like a 19th century engraving or something, and besides...wouldn't that item around his waist be made of metal, not leather like most SCA kidney belts?

Josh W

Does anyone have or know of any side-view depictions of any Italian gauntlets from the latter half of the fifteenth century (you know, the kind with the long cuffs)?

Josh W

Mike Garrett (Orc) wrote:So, Josh, there were NO tribal societies in the Middle Ages?

I didn't say that. I mean only to imply that tribal stuff is overdone nowadays and is boring in comparison to more developed medieval cultures.

Josh W

Noooooooo...... Not Richie Cunningham! I get that at work all the friggin' time! When I was a security guard, my captain decided I looked just like him and called me "sergeant Opie". He even changed my nametag when I wasn't looking and I must have worn it for a week before I noticed. The evil old ba...

Josh W

No. I mean to single out men who have white belts, but still fight in a hideous conglomeration of mixed-period reproduction armour and modern sports equipment with a large, dirty, and usually polyester tunic thrown over it, carelessly topped off with a rusty bargrilled spangenhelm or bascinet; somet...

Josh W

It's not that I can't afford it; I could probably scrape together enough to make him happy.

I just don't want the cuirass. I've already got one I like better. I do love the arms and pauldrons, though. However, he's already said he won't divide up the suit.

Josh W

Y'know...

As laughably dorky as I think the stereotypical Tuchuk mentality is, at least they put some effort into creating a coherent visual impression. They look like what they're supposed to look like, which is more than one can say about an awful lot of the "knights" in the SCA...

Josh W

nevermind...

Josh W

Lots of mail is just about your only option.

Josh W

Does anybody over there wear any metal body armour?

Josh W

Nifty Cuirass, Patrick.

Now mine has a twin!

Josh W

That back looks a bit like the one on the 'falling knight" misericord from Lincoln Cathedral, depicted on page 82 of AAotMK...

Josh W

http://www.forth-armoury.com/temp/Gulf_ ... 010248.JPG

Is that Ianka(sp?), once from Calontir? It is!

She's seen me naked!

Josh W

To what are you changing your persona, Saeth?

Josh W

The problem is that the word "reasonable" can be interpreted so damn subjectively.

Josh W

I notice that whenever this topic comes up, some people mention the fact that in the early days of the SCA portrayals of "any sword-wielding culture" were welcome. This is occasionally used to justify wacky, "fantasy"-inspired armour. I think it should be kept in mind that, at some point, the SCA ma...

Josh W

My recollection of the weather at Lilies last year was boiling, 100 degree-plus heat. Now that I think about it, the weather in my own kingdom isn't really all that friendly to wearers of full plate. Life stinks -- but not as bad as my arming doublet...

Josh W

God, but you people are sensitive. Yes, I served as my shire's knight's marshal. It was a long time ago; I'm sure my marshal's authorization has long since expired (doesn't it expire just like my fighting authorization if I haven't done it in x number of years?). I implied, in what I (apparently mis...

My harness -- cool or not?

My 15th century Milanese Gauntlets

Ancient Roman Height

late 15th century Italian Gauntlets?