The Armour Archive

freiman the minstrel

With leather, you are looking at three big sellers on the archive.

Thorvaldr does leather gorgets, as does Sir Gavin (Kilkenny) and Magnus of Dark Wyvern.

You should do a quick search of all three before you decide.

All three of them are excellent armorers.

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freiman the minstrel

Hey Rowan,

Could you please rate this transaction on the following five criteria. Please use 1 for bad, and 5 for excellent.

Price,
quality of gear (regardless of price)
customer service (communications)
and
On time shipping.

Thanks.
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Thanks guys,

Bokalo now has more review cards in my box than any other armorer. I think that I have enough reviews to confidently give him a rating, if anybody asks for it.

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I really, really need instructions on making a softball mace.

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If you need help posting pics (Mr "technologically impaired"), you can PM me.

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Please don't sell this for 24 hours from now, to allow my friend Gottfried to bid.

He doesn't surf the archive often.

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freiman the minstrel

beathan1975,

Please review this transaction on four criteria for me.

Price
quality (regardless of price)
Customer service (communications)
and
On time shipping.

Please give each category a ranking from one (unacceptable) to five (perfect).

thanks.

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I can't make any recommendations, but that helm is in the Germanische National Historiche Museum in Nurnberg, if I recall correctly. I might have some better pics someplace. I will try to hunt them down.

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My brother Madach has a set of his aluminum cat's ass gauntlets. The quality is outstanding, especially the thumbs. Certainly triggered a flare up of G.A.S. (Gauntlet Acquisition Syndrome). I hope to see him at Gulf Wars. Eirik, Am I correct in assigning these ratings to your review? Price - not ra...

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Have a set of his aluminum gauntlets. Price was great, got them quick, and they work great. SyrFinn Am I correct in assigning these scores to your ranking? Price Excellent (5) Quality of gear (regardless of price) excellent (5) customer service (communication) - Not rated and on time shipping - Exc...

freiman the minstrel

I placed an order consisting of; a set of knees w/ greeves, elbows and gauntlets in january of this year and I received it by the end of march, which was dead on the time he gave me. The quality of the armour was good, I had to adjust the greeves a little but otherwise everything is very comfortabl...

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These guys have butted mail for insanely low prices. I don't have a review of them yet, so I would appreciate it if you would try it, and let me know how it turns out.

http://www.realarmorofgod.com/store/htm ... index.html

Their butted coifs start at nineteen dollars.

I know nothing about the company at all.

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gentles, I have never used spalders, but all the newbies I run across want them. I think I don't know the proper way to attach them. I have tried attaching them to a shoulder yoke, and I have tried riveting them to the shoulder straps from body harness. The problem that I am running into is that dur...

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Gentles, If you have done business with Bokalo armory in the last year or so, please review that business transaction for me. Please tell me when you made the transaction, and rate the transaction on the following four criteria Price quality of gear (regardless of price) customer service (communicat...

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My first recommendation is to buy a blackened spangen from Hjalmr of this archive. This is a starter helm, but it is a starter helm of good quality. I need to tell you that I have received one private message in the recent past that says "Let the buyer beware" but with the number of revie...

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As for massive, Conan the Barbarian style hammers? I don't think that anybody made them for war. They might have made them to drive piles and building footings, but not people. f I think that was what I was saying... That documented 'war hammers' are small headed 'armor crackers" and that anyt...

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I truely doubt that anything like a 'Thor's hammer' ever really existed, most likely early 'war hammers' were simply heavy forge toold pressed into a combat role by nessisity, rather than plan, even later 'armor defeating' hammers relied less on large size/mass and more on narrow-surface-impact. I ...

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I have been teaching fighters for nineteen years this coming March. I haven't done badly. I have trained some excellent (and very successful) fighters, though, to some extent, one of the things they learned from me was to find a better teacher. Still, I am very proud of my associations with some of ...

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OK, I blew it. I just can't do it within nine hundred bucks. I went over by 96 dollars. In my defense, I think that I overestimated things that I had to guess on, like stateside costs of things, and shipping. Also, if you get with one of the sewing folks (usually, but not always a lady) in your loca...

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Jestyr,

I have been snooping around the web for a while, and I think I can deliver, but I am just too tired right now to keep moving on this until morning. It's three AM here in Bavaria.

There is a LOT of good information on this thread though.

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Jestyr, I have to leave right now for a gig, but I will get on this when I get back home. I believe that you can get on the field, with good looking armor and garb, for less than six hundred bucks. I will try to come up with an acceptable tent, soft kit, feast gear and armor combination for well und...

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Jestyr, You gave me a target date, and I ran with it. If you want to come to a proper period, say, 700 AD, then we can get you into gear for a much more affordable price, with better looking gear. But you did give me a target date. To answer your question, Stonekeep's basic armor is consistently rev...

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being flexible on period is a good thing for you, but it makes giving you advice harder. Going with 1350 as a target date is a good idea, for several reasons. A lot of people wear that period, and there is good advice to be had here. Please understand that this is not my period, and all my advice is...

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that would be it, thanks.

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Guys, I have broken four basket hilts in two weeks. I now have six (count 'em) six broken baskets in my shop, waiting for me to get off my butt and fix them. One of the ones I broke this evening was borrowed. So, the money is simply not right to buy anything this week, but who sells those plastic ba...

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I am glad to know where the name "goofy foot" comes from. It might also be parallel evolution.

When I was coming up, Iron Chicken was a form of defense when knee fighting. The sword and sheild are up and outside, like the wings of a chicken.

Your mileage may vary.

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mordreth wrote:For point work there is nothing finer than McClellans Drill for the Bayonet
http://www.usregulars.com/Bayonet_files/bayonet01.html

Mordreth, I wanna have your baby.

That is fabulous.

Thank you very, very much.

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JillandI, These people are telling you right. I really like a hanging tire pell. Some of the people here just don't. Some of them prefer post pells. Repeated impacts can really damage your joints. My right wrist is shot. Please believe me. You really are not important enough to me to lie to. For shi...

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Second, you are the biggest and the strongest. You have the physical strength to toss most of your students around like haybales. Use that. Physically shove people around. It is not your fault that you are the biggest and the strongest, you don't even exercise. f Just as a heads up... some of us li...

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Yeah, you want thumb protection and finger tip protection under a center grip. A normal half gauntlet doesn't really protect the exposed parts of the hand. There are a lot of ways to do it. The biggest danger is that somebody scooping your sheild will miss the sheild entirely and whack his sheild ed...

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dang. I just reread your post and my post, and I really didn't answer your question. You were asking about the inside game, and I was talking about running a practice, and being insecure. Sorry, I need to read better. My inside game is not so good, but try these two things. First, get really good at...

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I know how you feel. It speaks well of you that it happened. You have never been (to the best of my knowledge) somebody that works hard to discourage newbies, or to ever play "You can't beat me" psychological games with them. Those folks almost never have the problem that you are having, b...

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I try keep records of reviews. I ask people to rate the transaction on four points, and then, if they do it, put a card in my cardfile for each transaction. It takes a few seconds to ask them to re-write their review for the card file, and a few seconds to make a new card for the transaction. When a...

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Can he handle flat rounds?

Would this be the absolute highest quality plywood available for shields?

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Guys, I really need help on this. The money accounting needs to be 100% transparent, and absolutely straight up and by the numbers. Really, the best way to do that is to have a group that is already geared up to just accept all the money. In 2005, we had to wire transfer the money, and use a dedicat...

fitting/strapping question - spalder twist

Seeking review of Bokalo Armory

I had an epiphany

I admit it, I need some plastic armor