The Armour Archive

Josh W

I helped Siggy make one of these. E-mail him and ask about how it works in combat.

Josh W

Sir John Chandos > samurai

Josh W

Is there any body armour under there?

Josh W

"ignore requirements of specific groups for the sake of this quesiton"

...then I have to go with cuirass or pauldrons.

Josh W

I completely forgot why in the heck I posted what I did in this thread...

Josh W

Antibiotics are for pansies... Give me the Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century. No era, in any culture, can hold a candle to it in terms of sheer beauty of the armour produced there. German gothic plate is too gaudy and overdone, any plate from earlier periods is boring and ungainly looking...

Josh W

A book I own, entitled "Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World", gives the thickness of some bronze scales/lamellae from ancient Egypt as 2mm. I'm not sure where they got that figure from, though. It seems rather excessive, but I guess mobility isn't necessarily so much of a concern if all you're ...

Josh W

I drilled through my hand while making a culet. I saw my own bones. It was creepy.

My favorite armour-related injury story involves Master Glendour. I'm sure you've all heard it before...

[This message has been edited by Joaquin (edited 12-10-2003).]

Josh W

I want to know more on the specifics of the plate armour Dr. Hrisoulas found so easy to pierce. What was the gauge? Was the metal heat-treated? flat sheets, or properly shaped metal? Did you just back it up on a tree stump, or was there some attempt at simulating the degree of resistance it would ha...

Josh W

I also hate the style in which the combatant grips an axe in his "off-hand" just below the head and uses a sword in the other. I refuse to take shots from an axe-blade that has been merely punched into me. I might take a face-shot, but nothing else. That's just stupid. SCA sword and shield fights al...

Josh W

"Just curious, which parts of that cuirass are by Patrick?" Most of it still original Tom J work. Patrick just made it fit me more closely, made the upper back into one piece (as opposed to the V-neck with insert plate it used to have), and had to replace the culet lames. He also modified the placka...

Josh W

My Tom Justus/Patrick Thaden cuirass.

http://thadenarmory.com/armor/prog/joshrep01.jpg

http://thadenarmory.com/armor/prog/joshrep05.jpg

http://thadenarmory.com/armor/prog/joshrep06.jpg

I also prize the fitted cased greaves Patrick made me quite a bit, but I forgot the url to those photos.

Josh W

Yesungge Altan, formerly of Calontir, lately of the northern reaches of the East Kingdom.

Josh W

SCA: Bastard Sword, working in as much Lichtenauer or Dei Liberi as I can possibly get away with.

Non-SCA: dolchfechten.

Josh W

Melees: Calontir, naturally

Individual Combat: Atlantia.

Josh W

Likewise...

Josh W

I dunno...

An awful lot of LARPs are a whole lot better dressed than most of the SCA. Look at Bicolline, for example. Heck, many European LARPs make us look positively frivolous...

Josh W

"Mr. Atta Muhammand"

Why does that sound familiar...?

Josh W

I've never seen one. I'm glad I never will.

Josh W

Yeah, I think I'd trust a good stout breastplate, especially one of the sort that has a fairly extensive lower breastplate covering most of the upper breast, long before I'd trust a jack. Maybe a jack would be effective against arrows (but still hasn't the glancing surface of the breastplate), but i...

Josh W

http://sejren.natmus.dk/ST/genstande_UK.asp?ID=42

Whoa! Is that for real? Does this mail shirt really date from the 3rd century?

Josh W

Tom Justus has something similar (custom made by his wife) for his personal harness. It looks like it works very well...

Josh W

Lanyard.

I'm sure I could find some way to twist my fingers painfully with a trigger.

Josh W

I figured.

Your old harness was pretty cool. I recall that I still want to commission a pair of those badass gauntlets from you. I'll be in TX sometime in the next two months. Might you be available?

Josh W

Nice work, amigo.

I especially like the couters and the pierce-work on the breastplate. I can't wait to see your harness when it's finished.

Josh W

I think you can get certain Paul Chen pieces, which have a good reputation, for around a hundred...

Josh W

Yep. Trevar goes by "Brother John" now and makes a living making custom swords and assorted props and naughty toys. Fun place, his house...

Josh W

"My concerns are:

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- Ascetics (obviously)
...."

Me, too. Darn those ascetics. Monk, hermits, anchorites...I can't stand the lot of 'em. Fie on giving up all your worldy possessions for a life of religious devotion. Buddhist ascetics I find particularly nauseating.

Josh W

"Blokes...buggers..." Just how much time have you been spending in England of late, Jeff? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif Seriously, that is a damn nice harness, Mr. Hedgecock. We have the same taste in tassets! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif IIRC, most of the cuirasses on the ...

Josh W

I know a "John the Butcher" of Steeleholm. He's got an English Wheel serving as the supporting column in his garage in Kansas City...

Josh W

I was visiting Patrick's shop a few months back having some adjustments made to my cuirass. While Patrick did that, he put me to work on the eaasier "shop-monkey" bits of several other projects. I got to make many of the hinges on this pair of legs...

Josh W

That sounds a little on the light end for a complete 15th century harness. Just because you're getting a spring steel harness doesn't mean you should go with as light a gauge of steel as you can get away with. I think you should check out the thicknesses (yes, I know it varied throughout individual ...

Josh W

Talk to a man named Dale Shinn in Northern California.

Josh W

wht about grabbing an opponent's shield? I can't count the number of times I've wanted to do that.

Josh W

Look on the effigy of a knight at Pershore abbey from the latter half of the thirteenth century. It depicts a rigid or semi-rigid defence (i.e. a cuirass or coat of plates) that very obviously fastens down at least one side.