The Armour Archive

Brodir

I'm such a doughhead, I meant Apprenticeworks, not Armourworks

Brodir

A guy I fight with regularly bought a breastplate, pair of pauldrons and a gorget from Armourworks, delivery time was just over a month, and he's very happy with the end result. I looked the stuff over, the breastplate is pretty good, the gorget is great, but the pauldrons are kinda weird. Not poorl...

Brodir

I have a pair of shoes Warren made, he does quite excellent work.

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Now that wouldn't have been a bad rig, if he hadn't painted such a stupid design on his shield. Why? Why look silly when a celtic dragon or design would have set it off...

Brodir

I had a blast as well, I do have several complaints though. The fighting was great, and I saw a lot of improvements in the gear folks were using. There are many folks I only see once a year (at Quad War), and a lot of the armour has improved since last summer. More rawhide shield edging where last y...

Brodir

The worst injuries I've ever suffered was at Quad War this afternoon. I lost my sword, I'm unable to find it anywhere. Friday I packed my 27" axe and my 50" axe into the car, thinking "this will be a good opportunity for me to do a little more axe fighting". I only have one right handed gauntlet, I ...

Brodir

Taltosh, I just need it as a loaner for that Scottish thing in July, if you want it after that it's all yours

Chris, I'm leaving town til Monday. so you won't hear from me till then

Brodir

I'll take the helm. Email me

Brodir

These won't break, there are some up here four and five years old.

Brodir

Hi, I bought one of these on an impulse last October, I trimmed it down a bit, used it two times, and got sick of it. It's weightless and strong, but I don't want it anymore (i've been using a barstock one for a while now, and will switch to a crosshilt when I find a set of comfy gaunts). The local ...

Brodir

I would be very interested, but all my fun money is tied up until July 20. I'll contact you then.

Brodir

Hi BJ From talking with the people who own these plates (including me), I figure there are three routes you can go. The first, which seems the most popular, is to lace together both pairs of side plates horizontally, overlapping the neighbour plate. Then lace the pair of holes on the bottom through ...

Brodir

Looks decent, a barbute would look cool. I assume you're using this for Bicolline, since you guys do fantasy you could add dragon wings or something to the barbute, keep the fantasy theme and still have the armour styles flow together. I noticed on the Bicolline webpage that even the guys with incre...

Brodir

Wow, lets see. We started our SCA group from scratch, and had very little outside input for the first two years. My first fighting kit was an unhardened 12 oz. leather tabard tied together rather than stitched, no gambeson, a rattan sword with cup, no demi, galvanized steel cuisses, no knees, no arm...

Brodir

Thanks for the article guys. As is often the case, in search of answers you simply find more questions

~Wil

Brodir

I'm in the process of replacing an aluminum body armour too, so I'm not trying to take the moral high ground here, but I don't at all see aluminum as a reasonable attempt at authenticity. I'm much heavier than you, and my aluminum lamellar only weighs 9 pounds, so I would hazard a guess that your co...

Brodir

Buchquannan, I didn't realize you were in Canada, so am I. I agree, we pay through the nose to brings stuff up here. Fortunately there are several Canadian armourers with a web presence now, there were none except Valentine when I started buying my armour. Suppliers like Mad Matt and Truehearth can ...

Brodir

Granted, blue foam lining could have been a factor. I will eventually switch to a natural lining.

*so many projects, so little time*

Brodir

You can get a pretty good steel starter kit from Ashcraft-Baker for well under $200.

Brodir

Excellent, thank you very much. When I am next in Sweden I owe you a beer

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Winterfell: Ok for all of the pro plastic folks: Let's say that 10 years down the line the SCA stops using metal armour entirely. So here we are at Pennsic XL, 4000 men and ...

Brodir

Flonzy, I'm not trying to be insulting, it just seems as though Murdoch was implying that steel armour isn't hot. I've watched people throw up with heatstroke in steel helms. The reality is that when you cover your body in quilted garments, then cover those garments in large plates of ANY material, ...

Brodir

We're doing a school demo this week, and I was planning on dressing up a kid in my riveted hauberk, nasal helm, shield, and spear, and talking for a bit about how the stuff was made. Can anyone explain the process of drawing wire for me, c. 800-1000? I had a silversmith explain how silver wire is dr...

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When writing about Denmark during the Viking age, modern authors often turn to a Frankish clergyman known as Adam of Bremen, who seemed to have kept a fairly detailed chronicle of major people, battles & political goings-on of the kingdom throughout the tenth century. What title are his primary writ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jareth: Use steel where steel would have been used. Use leather where leather would have been used. Use whatever you want for safety where there was no historical armour used t...

Brodir

Sinric Mailweaver (don't know his real name) works in spring steel, I don't know if he takes commisions, but you could contact him.

Brodir

I do, and it's comfy, but mine aren't made of steel.

Brodir

Thanks Ny Bjorn, when I got into this discussion before, I did use images on Gotlandic stones to support my theory that Vikings utilized quilted armours. THe biggest evidence against is images from varous English andContinental sources from 900-1000 depicting dead men being stripped of their hauberk...

Brodir

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Murdock: Not to be mean, (they look better than some) but those guys look like the generic vaguely unidetifyable "early period guy" Big poffy pants combat boots, kidney belt. I agree, I wasn't offering the pics as an example of authentic kit, just as an example of ...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: I read where some of the Normans had some of those knit "looks like maille" sweaters rather than actual metal maille on the Regia e-group. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> This...

Brodir

Thanks Bulscu, that's interesting. I also recall reading that at one of the major British re-enactments (perhaps Hastings, but I can't be sure, Egfroth would know for sure), they were allowing people to wear black plastic or PVC bracers under their tunics.

Brodir

This isn't a perfect picture, there are several glaring innacuracies in their kits, but... http://sigelhundas.cavelier.net/photos/demos/photo023.jpg These are two friends of mine, Dirk on the left, Gerhard on the right. Dirk is using plastic legs, Gerhard is using hardened leather. Really, what's th...

Brodir

The leather is about twice as expensive as the plastic, and gets cut, scratched, torn, and twisted oout of shape. Trust me, I use waxed & water hardened arms, they are nowhere as durable as my legs. I wear my arms visibly, so I take care of them, fill in the wax once in a while, etc. It's a maintena...

Brodir

I use plastic armour because my persona would not have worn steel, I could have used leather for a more authentic appearance, and then covered it in clothing My plastic legs are no hotter than my old steel legs, and my old cheezy plastic breastplate really didn't trap heat any different that they le...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Murdock: Plastic armor plastic swords plastic BAsekt HILTS now! PLASTIC SHIELDS!?!?!?!? ...and then murdoch's head exploded http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif </...

Anyone want a plastic basket hilt?

How did they draw wire?

Adam of Bremen?