The Armour Archive

Brodir

I used to have a Westlig Stjerne helm that would push against my nose when inspected, I never had it fail though, the marshall seemed to feel that it was an acceptable amount of contact. I received some solid greatsword thrusts to the face, and never suffered an injury.

Brodir

Yeah, I'm putting my money towards assembling a 14th century kit, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out of ordering that second sheet of aluminum. I would recommend Mandrake Armoury or By My Hand designs, they offer aluminum shields at about what I would have charged (with more reasonable ship...

Brodir

Looks good. It's interesting that, out of the pics I've seen of corselets made from those lamellar plates we bought, none of them look the same. Here's mine:

http://www.geocities.com/house_willowmere/anniversary1.jpg

do the '?' thing to view.

Brodir

Anyone have a picture of a Rough from the Hammer breast & back, either globose or the regular one? Thanks.

~Wil

Brodir

When they figure out how to send thralls via wire transfer, we'll discuss alternative payment methods

Brodir

Received payment from Crystol and Galileo so far, and their shields have been mailed today. Thank you!

Brodir

Payment received this morning, and the helm has been mailed. Thanks!

Brodir

Payment received, and the gauntlets have been sent. Thanks.

Brodir

I mailed these off today, thanks. Keep your eyes open!

Brodir

Hi all. If you haven't sent payment yet, please send me a US Postal Money Order. Because of a huge influx of counterfeit Western Union money orders, I cannot cash them anywhere in my hometown. My bank manager let me slip one past after I begged and pleaded for about an hour, but she said she would h...

Brodir

The late Roman troops adopted lamellar armour after clashing with eastern armies, and it was passed onto their German allies & enemies. Maille would have been more common, but both had their place. Email me for pics of my lamellar corselet, it weighs 9 pounds & looks pretty sweet.

Brodir

Jesus, that's great. Absolutley great.

Brodir

Send me what you've goy, I'll let you know if it bounces. Thanks!

Brodir

I always thought armour 25 was in fact a lamellar harness, is the general consensus that it was an actual brig made of recycled lamellar plates?

Brodir

Hi, I'm wanting to accurately reproduce the shape of a single handed & long handled axe from 1350-1399. I'm looking for either artistic images or photos of surviving pieces. Anything I've been able to view is either early 1300's (axes designed to defeat primarily maille), or mid 1400's (axes specifi...

Brodir

Thanks to everyone here for their replies, I was planning on either a cuir bollei or steel greave, so it sounds like it should fly.

Brodir

When I first started SCA fighting, a knight told me never to use polyens without articulations, because it was hard on your knees dropping all your weight on the bone, the articulations passed the force away from the knee into the leg. I'd really like to use simple polyens for authenticity reasons, ...

Brodir

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has been thinking about this non-stop all weekend

Brodir

Thanks to all for the info, I initially thought that the coats with more plates were more modern, whereas the one with only two large torso plates would be rather primitive. I'm reconsidering that approach though, I suppose two large plates would be quite a bit more difficult to make than a bunch of...

Brodir

CLANG, I could use those cops, but only if Stefan isn't interested in them. I too have about 3-4 people who are all wanting to play.

Brodir

http://www.hammeredsteel.com/gaa/armour/periodpics/1200s/13thcknee.html

Brodir

There are a number of different pattern coats that were excavated from the mass graves of Wisby. The bodies were buried in 1361, and the Coat of Plates armours buried with them seem to vary from C. 1300 relics that were passed out to last-ditch defenders to cutting-edge 1361 technology. So, which pa...

Brodir

Pietro- I've owned two pairs of full gauntlets from different armourers, and while both of them were great for spear/polearm fighting, or swinging a mace, I personally thought they were too clunky for swordwork. How do you think James' gaunts hold up in this sense?

Brodir

Thanks so far. I'm pretty sure that they weren't practicing the same religion as pagan Scandinavians were, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland was all Slavic, not Germanic, at that time. Also, historically northern Sweden is always celebrated as being the last bastien of Germanic Paganism, holding...

Brodir

What's up with it? Is there any record of what sort of beleif system they were practicing there? Was their 'Paganism' just a corruption of traditional catholic systems, or an actual relic from the Dark Ages? The Teutonic knights apparently organized an annual Crusade to Lithuania for about 50 years,...

Brodir

Congrats, it really makes me smile when one of our's shines in the Society.

"So, I was talking the other day with the King of Ealdormere and the King of Drachenwald about helmet padding, and..."

Brodir

As I've read, almost half of the army that sacked Delphi was made up of disenfranchised Northern Greeks (Macedonians, Thracians, Thessalonians, Illyrians etc) who joined the Celtic raiding bands as they came south. C'mon, you don't really believe those meat-slapping savages could have pulled off a s...

Brodir

emailed you, thanks.

Brodir

John is in a really bad boat right now, I'd recommend calling.

Brodir

http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/rene/mace.gif </img> Is this what you are talking about? I was thinking about a year ago of making one out of shaved rattan, but never got around to it. If you finished the rattan is some sort of a tough shellac(sp) to prevent splintering/shredding, I can't see a reaso...

Brodir

Sorry Thyre, the plates are spoken for. Thanks for your interest though. Xtracted- sorry for not replying sooner, I have so much stuff on the go right now I forget who I contacted & didn't contact. All last week I was receiving about 15 emails a day about the sale items I posted! Thing shave slowed ...

Brodir

Are these the same as those being sold on Master G's site? Plastic baskets are very common around here, I own one but I don't use it very often, and will totally shelve it once I get a good paif of gaunts.

Brodir

You'll find a lot of earlier books swearing that Carolingian Franks wore scale armour exclusively, ignore it. It's a relic from the 1960's, based on stylized representations of maille armour. As for the helmet, our own Egfroth took a shot at building one, take a look: http://www.geocities.com/egfrot...

Brodir

Hi, I looked on the website, and it states there that the armour only weighs 6 lbs, what gauge steel is it? Do you have a digital camera, would I be able to get a pic of the inside? Thanks.

Brodir

Who made the hat?

Ron Simmons pic?

Attention- Anyone who bought something off of me in the last

14th century axes

SCA fighting in simple knee-cops?

Which Wisby coat?

Paganism in 14th century Lithuania