The Armour Archive

Josh W

Why are anagrams so important to you?

Josh W

At that weight, one layer should be more than plenty. Remember to make sure you don't tear the weave of the fabric as you put the rivets through.

I've made brigandines years ago out of one layer of 8oz canvas that are still in use today.

Josh W

My gauntlets are built just so. 15th century Italian gauntlets seem to have been done that way very often.

Josh W

I thought Lancelot's harness looked pretty darn good, really.

Josh W

94 pounds???!!???!!!!! Good God, man, what is that made of? Here's my harness, because I never tire of showing it off: m m m m It weighs between 65 and 70 pounds, because a few components (headpiece, cuisses) are still a bit on the heavy side. I know 16ga seems to be the norm in the SCA, but I think...

Josh W

Why is it so hard for some people to accept that one doesn't necessarily need to wear a gambeson under mail?

Josh W

These are neat pictures.

I notice a lot of guys in really weird-looking black leather(?) armour with hair crests on their helms. Are those Tuchucks?

-Josh, who has never before in his life beheld a real, live Tuchuck...

Josh W

Don't sweat it, Thomas. If you wanna be "Panda", then you right ahead and be Panda. Tell Insane Irish to shove it. Besides, what's a guy who calls himself Aidan O'Seaghaidhea (and pronounces it "O'Shea") doing lecturing anyone on their choce of name? Y'Hear that, Aidan? Come git some, you Irish ape,...

Josh W

Once again, I think that a very thick woolen tunic, worn over a nice linen tunic is *more* than sufficient to both alleviate any discomfort incurred from wearing the mail as well as absorb a fair amount of shock. You don't need a gambeson. A wool tunic is enough.

Josh W

Wow! Well done! Some of you have armour that's almost as spiffy as mine

This is SCA? Do you guys look this good all the time, or only for public demos?

Josh W

I just received a reply to an inquiry I had made to Ian Bottomley regarding these. I had mentioned the very photo that Effingham has posted earlier on this thread, and Mr. Bottomley says the small, all-iron ones in the picture are about 30" long, and he guesses they might weigh about "12-15 pounds".

Josh W

How about a mail haubergeon over a thick gambeson? It's most likely what your persona would have been wearing...

Josh W

Oh My! Old Armourer is none other than Peter Fuller! Welcome, sir.

Josh W

You lucky so-and-so.

I hope you take lots of photos and post them here when you get back.

Josh W

Nope. Didn't work. This kid says he's been following this thread, and had this to say after I posted the information about that kanabo, Ron: "1) i specified tetsubo, not konsibo, ishibo, or kanabo. that rules out the stone and wooden varients. 2)i've been following the thread you posted on the armou...

Josh W

I wear my mail coat over a very thick woolen tunic sometimes. It seems more than sufficient to absorb some shock. I'd guess the vikings felt the same, and didn't wear gambesons.

Josh W

Please don't, Bob.

Josh W

Why did you make them out of such a heavy gauge of steel?

They look great, btw.

Josh W

I hate to see you go with plastic, Lucien.

If you're using it only because you can't find/afford steel (prices are pretty high...), then I'll be more than happy to send you some pre-cut 18ga steel strips for your CoP.

If you're using it in order to save weight, then it's none of my business...

Josh W

Sorry, Uilleag. I guess I did miss that line. This is quite the long thread...

Josh W

Could you at least wear the kidney belt under the mail? I also have an Irish harness I like to fight in when I don't feel like putting on my full plate. It's a late 15th century Irish Gallowglass. I'll try and geet some pics up soon. I fight in a mid-thigh length mail shirt over a practically ankle-...

Josh W

When playing single-stick, I greatly enjoy assuming a right-side-leading high guard. When the almost inevitable thigh shot comes in at the right leg, I refuse that leg, and usually snipe their arm, shoulder, or head as their sword whizzes past. If they pass forward on their stroke, I pass backward a...

Josh W

How many threads has this generated already?

What is Neiman Marcus, anyway?

Josh W

Thanks, Effingham. Thanks to the rest of you, too.

For the record, it's not that I believe these things weighed so much. Some kid on another forum is saying so, and I wanted something to back up my claims that they did not.

Josh W

First, one of the first literary references to coats of plates deals with German knights at the battle of Benevento in c.1260. Second, I see scale, not lamellar on this figure. I know that one or two early 14th century German funeral monuments depicts what appears to be scale over mail. Though this ...

Josh W

You wouldn't guess that any of the ones that appear to be of solid iron weighed anywhere in the neighborhood of 25-40 pounds, would you?

Josh W

<Bump>

Anything yet, Mr. Bryant?

Josh W

Rats! I wanted to see King Jean-Paul.

Josh W

Just the same, Ernst, I'd love to see them, if only to have something interesting to read...

Josh W

My impression of An Tir folks is that they are a lot of pansies who don't like being hit in the arms. I understand they hate late-period personae, too.

Josh W

Baldar represents everything that is wrong with the SCA. This is the man who once entered a "crested helm" tourney with a plastic soap bottle duct taped to his helm and was pissed when he was turned away from the lists. This is the man who loudly claims to (and I quote) "enjoy making things for the ...

Josh W

Mr. Bryant, do you have any figures available for weights of tetsubo? Heck, even your educated guess would suffice...

Josh W

Whoa! Aaron, calm down, man. You Don't Look That Bad. I'd put your harness easily in the top one percent of SCA fighting kits out there. Murdock, I stopped by to see Jaron just a few minutes ago. Yes, he got the stuff. Thanks a lot. ...and yes, Aaron, you do score extra points for the sabbies.

Josh W

Why is this such a big freakin' issue with you? Are you some kind of Labor Union Thug, or just the run-of-the-mill white-guilt-ridden bleeding heart?

Josh W

Glen, I gotta correct you on the Vergina cuirass. It is indeed of iron, not bronze. It's supposed to be the first known solid iron-plate cuirass in the archaeological record.

Attn: Effingham...