The Armour Archive

Samuel

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Samuel

check with anshelm armor...

Samuel

IMO two layers of cloth is enough to prevent hits from breaking the skin as well as armor from taking chunks from you. additional padding is not only unnessessary but also hampering.. its very easy to overheat in harness, increasing your insulation via fiber padding for the sake of a SMALL chance of...

Samuel

i have glued sticks often and it works pretty well. basically i drive a framing nail into the split to open it and drizzle some glue into the split. then i use hose clamps to secure the repair. pretty much covering the repair from about an inch below the split all the way up. makes that perfect fee...

Samuel

*edit =yahoo hates direct links goto photos.yahoo.com/sjernigen in the armor folder .. close to last pic.*
like this?

Samuel

16guage brass works fine for elbows in sca combat..

theres quite a few around here in the outlands. ive made some myself.. and fought in them..

Samuel

the thicker walled spear shafts seem to take a beating much better. pensic 2001 I blocked a relatively light shot from a Dog during the open field battle and snapped the spear between my hands. it was one of those light blue ones that is rather thin... I got one of the red shafts sold by Icefalcon a...

Samuel

Samuel, the pics at your website for the helm based on the Val6 is absolutly gorgous. I liked what you did with the viking sword hilt and pommel. You have inspired me to experiment with my own swords, thank you. Bjorn hehehe cool, that helm is the latest example of the cobblers sons having no shoes...

Samuel

Adam,

I went ahead and sent you my "pre-order"

lemme know when u get it

Samuel

english wheels make it thinner as well, although im not sure how much. since your working it cold the metal basically doesnt get to change its compound and move its essentually stretched along the path of the wheel. the reason why english wheels are not used as much as dishing forms is due to wheels...

Samuel

im torn between gulf wars and estrella...

my squires are doing gulf and I missed it last year with them.. also with katrina im more inclined to go spend money in N'orleans...

Samuel

yea.. guess that will work.. Id had the idea to much with them and get them laced up over the holidays if I could get enough fast. but ive got other projects as well so 6 weeks isnt too bad

Samuel

im lookin for 400 of Adam Berry's lammelar plates.
anyone got some hanging around and want to sell them for a small profit?

Samuel

How easy is it to dent 12 ga. mild steel? I don't believe it could be so easy. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ive dented 12g mild and have worn it and recieved dents... granted theyre nothing like 16g mild helm dents but they are there.. Ive yet to dent a 12g stainless nor has any 12g stainless he...

Samuel

I got a bollock dagger and my viking sword on my yahoo pages. photos.yahoo.com/sjernigen Ill try and direct link but yahoo doesnt always let that work. [img]http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/41dffc9ez28b6cb42/127b/__sr_/7912.jpg?phAmOhDBGCv5psaI[/img] the hilt got sanded again and stained with dark wal...

Samuel

pictures my pal. pictures..

Samuel

I think it comes to a more simple term. how often are you going to use the armor, in what conditions, and how much time do you wish to devote afterward to cleaning. stainless is more suited to being in the field in many different areas all the time with little maintenance. BUT is glaringly OOP, this...

Samuel

Blankenshit had a " make the GREATEST SWORD EVER... from a worn out car spring long enough to make a roman short sword...." article out on the web for a while.. I recall it involving a grinder and not much else... sounded like tryin to make a VW into a porsche... go with new steel if you want to mak...

Samuel

you may get more if you cancel it and post each item separate.

Samuel

oh I see how u are Roger....

I dont come down to EL PASO...

and now you wanna toss a wrench in my mail buyin gears;)

Samuel

OH joy guys thanks for the bumpage but yall need to take off the taliban turbans and stop hijackin my thread:) SHIRT not aventail ( got two already, ones in use and the other is being saved fer the uber cool valsgard) I need a welded stainless shirt preferably free but Ill be happy with cheap:)

Samuel

Im lookking for anyone that has one of Master Knutts welded stainless shirts or TA.

and doesnt want it, need it, or has greater need of cash:)

e-mail me if you got one to sell

SjernigenATyahoo.com

Samuel

adding a wodden raized device to it would make it a lot more "period"esque. Ive got a bunch of 1/8 birch ply ( comes in 5' by5' sections) to try this winter to make a center boss heater with raized device in wood. my thought was 3/8 total ply using gorilla glue rolled on and pressed with the overlay...

Samuel

I drink a LOT of Mt dew..

its also a mainstay on construction sites..

even reveling some capt morgans in mt dew... yummy drunk and cant sleep a wink:)

Samuel

Ive found two things are needed to wear brais.. first you have to have a butt.... if you have no butt it looks like you filled the rear with a ball of toilet paper. second you have to be a "commando" kinda guy to truely appriciate them. the tighty whitey crowd arent used to the " free movement of ai...

Samuel

im confused.. Ive heard a few references to white belts being used in the ceremony of knighthood ( saladins knighting-the one cited here- lull- et al) anyone got anything on knights getting girded with a different color belt? if not... wouldnt that be " there are examples common enough to show white...

Samuel

Which Fighter is he in the photo? The more Outlands armored or the more Eastern Style armored?? Let me know.. Breanna TempastAZ@hotmail.com sadly hes great at making armor and shite with web pages... he had one up for a while and it died... alas here is Sir Nigel wearing one of bens bascinets m Ben...

Samuel

you have to have cool people who are willing to stick with it...

aka gotta make it THE only game in town thats worth playing..

Samuel

personally Id go with a thicker /smaller table..

save the 12guage for helms..

3/16 plate in a scrap yard isnt hard to come by.

Samuel

Id htink riding a horse with nailbags to be no different than running with them on... actually Id think the ride would be less jarring. Having ran in nail bags quite often even a 24oz framing hammer handle isnt that noticable.. ( theyre about 20-24 inches long) so a mace handle on a saddle wouldnt b...

Samuel

cool! Ive not seen that web page. thanks.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 23-6611940

wow the book is 20 bucks too.. I was half expecting to see 100 plus on it.

Samuel

most of Olaf has gone on to other stuff...Bob hurley(Gaston) no longer fights, Ive never been close enough to make it to anything ( when I was olaf was pretty much done with events and such) Bascot doesnt do sca anymore, T-bob pretty much quit ( last I heard) last I heard we're still kicking but hav...

Samuel

Raymond the Quiet has the gotland shield fittings already cast in brass if anyone is interested. he also has them in leather for weight.

quietpress.com

Samuel

The Anglo-Saxon Shield by IP Stephenson is an AWESOME book on early period shields. I learned a crapload of stuff from it. It examines construction, use, repair and decoration of anglo-saxon shieds. Fascinating read. is that in line with the vendal/valsgard timeframe? if so got an ISBN or some scans?

WMA lammela plates ??

Re: How easy to dent?

Want to Buy: second hand Knutt mail shirt

Re: Thanks Sir Samuel!