The Armour Archive

mordreth

Worth the couple of hours work to see how it will come out If it works the way I am visualising it the "clip" wouldn't be supporting a great deal of the weight, The ventail itself shouldn't be more than a pound or so of the total weight The one delay I am trying to deal with is that it is sodding in...

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Halv, thanks for the provenance on those pics - I've had the first three for years - they're in an Osprey book - but of course the bastards don't bother to add where they're from. The unprovenanced helmet you showed is from Moravia. The helmet in the Met is of a style usually known as "Great Polish...

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"Practical Blacksmithing" has a lot on bellows. Can't overstress how crucial the final valve which prevents air being pulled back into the bellows from the forge is

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There are a number of extant eastern european scale helmets (the Metropolitan in NYC has at least one) - from what I have seen of them they are typicly scale on heavy leather. There are also a number of illustrations (again eastern european/german border) of bascinets with scale aventails Not my ide...

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just as a thought find an industrial arts handbook from the 50's, and check into theri pictures fo a machinists bench. You'' notice that it is set so the bench is just above knuckle high when you're standing, and the vise holds work about one handspan above your beltline. You might as well make the ...

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Well - it really should be done with caretaker willies burr - as I recall the scene the full phraise was BOOONJOOOUR - ya cheese eatin surrender munkeys. Displaying your ignorance of french is similar to displaying an appaling lack of technical information on sodomy - it just shows you don't know mu...

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Effingham wrote:I know a Hospitaller fellow (who has scenes from the Maciejowski Bible tattooed on both calves!) who has printed inside his shield something to the effect of:

"I'm a servant of GOD, you F*CK!"

Effingham

you beat me to it Eff - make sure you check his back this year - he's had more work done

mordreth

A couple of thousand pieces coming into the market over a couple of months - Market values should become somewhat depressed.
Possible buying opportunity

I've spent too much time working Wall St.

mordreth

Wolf wrote:take a look at www.larp.com/legioxx its all you'll ever need to know heheh

That was cold Wolf

mordreth

"and ask the marshall what the basic reaction will be to a helm chewing the living shit out of any piece of rattan that hit if." Hey, I'm no marshall, but if I was, my view would be this- When all the spangens, with their millions of rattan chewing/pulping rivets on their skulls/brows go away, THEN...

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I will strongly recommend that if you have never fought in the SCA that you visit your local practice, and ask the marshall what the basic reaction will be to a helm chewing the living shit out of any piece of rattan that hit if. I can pretty much guarantee that you will not be Mr. Popularity with t...

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If I'm answering the question you're asking - I have a small leather panel stitched onto my gamboised cuisse with a pair of linen points stitched to the leather. My knee cops have a small leather tab rivited to the top punched for the points to attach to. It's very seure, and from what I can tell pr...

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I am lucky to have a a copy of Arms and Armor Annual: Volume 1 edited by Robet Held, copyright 1973 by Digest Books, Inc, Northfield Illinois (ISBN 0-695-80407-3 paperback / 0-695-80435-9 clothbound). My favorite article within is Colaccio Becadelli: an Emilian Knight of about 1340 by Lionello Gior...

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I did some dremel cutting for awhile, but it's very slow and you'll have to deal with a lot of dust. The dust, BTW, presents a respiratory hazard. For butted mail I'd use two tools: an 8" pair of "Task Force" mini bolt cutters from Lowes, and a a 9" pair of diagonal cutters, also from Lowes. I used...

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Exercise 1 - put on your helm sit down on an armless kitchen chair. Bend forward from the hips untill your elbows are on your knees. Dip your head down as far as you can, look left/center/right/center then rear up as far as you can keeping your elbows on your knees look left/center/right/center Do t...

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if you know anyone who shoots black powder ask them to keep a few fouled cleaning patches for you. Remoisten them and rub the brass down with it

mordreth

I saw a shirt years ago that read
"Hard, bitter old men like me
get that way by outliving punks
like you"
I really wish I had bought one back when it was funny rather than true

mordreth

Mom still gets hives when she sees me bruised up or with taped fingers, I'd never get a permission slip from her

mordreth

There is a good front and back view of my helmet at m It might give you some additional ideas on a design. I think I came to a pretty good compromise between safety, and appearance using a low backplate. Please note I have been accused of having something of a bull neck, so the helm that fits me per...

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I've been fighting in the SCA for almost thirty years, I'll have been a knight for 17 years this Aug, and I'm too young to fight in this one? YEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YIP YIP YIP YIP YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I haven't been too young for anything other than AARP for several yea...

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...Armour made entirely of butt-jointed mail can be found in Europe as early as the 16th century, but only very very rarely, and then principally as elements of rich ceremonial 'parade' armour. ... Sorry, I had the impression it was functional field armour that was being discussed, not ceremonial o...

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That poorly constructed, badly tailored rivited indian mail is superior in some way to decent looking butted That mirror finish stainless steel is somehow more authentic than kydex (spelling?) I'm trying to follow that logic... Butted mail was not used historically, so butted mail is just plain wro...

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That poorly constructed, badly tailored rivited indian mail is superior in some way to decent looking butted
That mirror finish stainless steel is somehow more authentic than kydex (spelling?)

mordreth

The SCA chivalry list was going to be my next stop. Unofrtunately there are usually several different discussions going and slogging through all of them takes more time than I generally like to spend on a board.
Thank you very much for the suggestions though
Mordreth

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Sort of on topic with the "full harness" comments made by chef, I hate how everyone thinks that maille over padding was a useless armour form. They always say "Yeah it'll stop a cut but its useless against impact". Nevermind that a sword cut or spear jab often generates a helluvalotta PSI. The ques...

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Worth knowing about, thanks

mordreth

I like centaur forge for metal working rivets. They also usually carry copper rivets. http://www.centaurforge.com/rivets.html
If you're in a real bind you can try the fastener bins at Sears, very pricey but available.

mordreth

graffitti remover from the janitorial supply area at home depot
wear serious gloves while using it

mordreth

One of my squires has relocated to Tuscon, and is going through something of a rough time. I'd like to push him towards a practice if there is a good one running in or around Tuscon.
If you could contact me with either a message on the board, or an e-mail to KSCA89@AOL.Com I would be gratefull.

mordreth

I am refurbishing my shop, does anyone have a supplier who carries punches, and parts (set screws) for a whitney XX?

mordreth

[quote="Magmaforge"]Mac, thank you for bringing this to our attention! ......Although some have objected before that wearing a gambeson under maille would not allow the kind of muscle definition shown in the mailled men, that figure in white has a similar kind of definition in the arms. I ...

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Track of the Wolf has some indian resources - this might help you reverse engeneer from late stone age to early

http://www.trackofthewolf.com/categorie ... x?catID=16

Sounds like one hell of a project you've taken on

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My harness is basicly gambeson and hauberk, but I wear a wide stomacher under the ganbeson, and have a four inch wide sole leather strip laced onto the back of the gamberson funning along the spinal cord. Additionally I wear a coif, padded hood, and gorget, one flukey thrust from Duke Morguhn convin...

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For fighting mail I use 3/8" rings (butted) of 14 ga galvy coated steel wire. For the shoulders I use the same but in a six in one pattern. For the crazy project I started years ago I am using 5/32" rings of 18 ga wire. Someday I'll finish it. It is too light for S.C.A, fighting tho. For Japanese m...

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