The Armour Archive

Josh W

While I don't have precisely what you're looking for online, see if you can use any of this:

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Picture%20019.jpg

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Picture%20021.jpg

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Picture%20039.jpg

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Picture%20008.jpg

Feel free to go through the directory and see if anything else there serves your purposes.

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/

Josh W

Greyson just created an Archive account, Murdock. He'll be in contact with you shortly. I regret that I don't have an e-mail address for him; I used the Private Message system at MyArmoury.com to get in touch with him.

Josh W

It was actually your book that made me look up more information on the battle in the first place, which is why I happened upon the blunt bamboo saw story. I liked the anecdote about the persimmons. I guess it was that that made me sorta like him--it sounds like he was an optimist.

Josh W

Thanks for the replies.

I'm glad the story isn't true. I kinda felt sorry for the guy.

Josh W

Josh W

No worries, Gwen. I figured out how to solve that. As long as I make sure the cuffs are fairly high on my forearms before I close the vambraces, there is enough slack in the sleeves to prevent ripping of the seams. Sorry, Gwen; I didn't mean to offend. The doublet works beautifully. It ripped on me...

Josh W

Incidentally, I'm having him re-do all the leather strapping on my armour to match. Originally, it all was that color, but the fire changed that. I suck at leatherwork.

Josh W

Mid 14th century is his very favorite period, Murdock. His turnaround time for this project was just a few weeks; I was startled by his speed. If you like, I'll put you in contact with him.

Josh W

Not my projects, but those of a friend named Greyson Brown. He is skilled.

Josh W

Towards the bottom of the page:

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic ... 4018#94018

Josh W

I used to fight more often--usually once or twice a week. The last year or so has seen my interest in the SCA in general wane. Part of that is local politics, but another part is just regular cyclic burn-out. I'd fight a lot more if I had a lighter suit of armour that was easier to put on. Now, don'...

Josh W

I can't find anyone to make me a c.1460 great bascinet, though...

Josh W

Taken last summer. A friend who had attended a practice wanted to take some photos for a school project and this was what resulted. I had forgotten until she showed them to me this evening. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/samurai-ashes/sca/06.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/alb...

Josh W

I often fight in a pair. I wrap the knees in strips of wool felt before I put on my legharness. Sometimes I wrap my ankles, too. I have had no issues at all with fighting in them; they're like tight-fitting sweatpants, really.

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Picture%20021.jpg

Josh W

Josh, I was thinking of Steelhome back about 20 years ago when James and Trevar of KC had a great armoury in their basement and the English wheel was hooked into the main support beam for a massive turn of the century house. Thomas We are thinking of the same folks, then. Trevarr now goes by Brothe...

Josh W

I can "roll" in my full plate.

Josh W

I've seen quite a lot of armour made with an english wheel at Steel Home; but their home build one can best be described as Arnold Schwarzeneger to Woody Allen. Thomas When you say "Steel Home," do you mean Brother John of Kansas City? The last time I saw that English wheel of his, it for...

Josh W

If leather armour were actually common, we'd find more of it. After all, we find plenty of shoes and other leather goods. So where's all the armour?

Josh W

It's in "El Cid and the Reconquista." It's not a very big drawing, but it did make me aware of the existence of the cuirass and I wanted a better view of it. I eagerly snap up any information I can find about cuirasses of that style.

Josh W

I saw a line drawing of it in an Osprey book, of all places. It's a pity that they keep it locked up...

Josh W

I have heard that Ishida Mitsunari was executed by the painful-sounding method of having his head sawn off with a blunt bamboo saw. However, I am now hearing that this story may be apocryphal. Is this true? Did it happen?

Josh W

I've always wanted to see the cuirass of Duarte de Almeida in Toledo Cathedral. Does anyone know if it's on display or is it locked up somewhere?

Josh W

That's really neat; I'd never seen or heard of that before. I wish I had some idea as to what the back of such an armour would look like...

Josh W

Kinda neat.

It reminds me of some 16th century European cuirasses with double breastplates.

I wonder how much it weighs...

Josh W

When I got my thumb shattered earlier this year, I was unable to remove my armour, which led to some funny looks in the ER. They looked at me all the funnier since I work there. I had the use of only one hand, and my armour is complicated; nobody there could figure out how to get it off of me, so th...

Josh W

There is a soldier in Diebold Schilling's chronicle who is wearing something that looks remarkably similar. Unfortunately, I can't find the picture online.

Josh W

So what were the Scots wearing at Flodden? The two or three independent accounts I can track down seem to indicate that it wasn't just the Important Men clad in apparently arrow-resistant steel plate, but that "few of them (all the Scots) were slain by arrows." There is mention of a lightly-armoured...

Josh W

I'm confused; are you saying that the arrow strikes with more joules than the jouster?

EDIT: Never mind. I re-read it. Thanks.

Josh W

I think his name's "Galeron."

Josh W

Yes, a black-and-white photo of this can be seen in "The Armourer and His Craft" in Plate IV. It's kinda neat. I can't decide if such a garment would be comfortable or not...

Josh W

What gauge of steel is that made of?

Josh W

Is it the picture that appears as an illustration in Ffoulkes' "The Armourer and His Craft" in Plate IV between pages 12 and 13?

Josh W

Karl knows we're talking about him. m I think this is what Jehan is referring to. For all his bluster, the fellow isn't really that talented at capturing the shape of real armour. While he seems good at certain surface treatments, some of his work shows a distinct lack of depth and shaping compared...

Josh W

I thought the splinted stuff was found in grave 8, not grave 6. Was splinted armour found in more than one of those graves, or am I totally wrong about which one it is?

Josh W

Do you have a copy of either:

Maurice Keen's English Society in the Later Middle Ages

or

Christopher Dyer's Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520?

My new sword scabbard and belt

A few SCA practice photos

Japanese History Buffs: Ishida Mitsunari's execution?