The Armour Archive

Brodir

Glen, what kind of helm did you wear with the maille? I'm looking to pick up a few used helms, see here:

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001776.html

Brodir

last time bringing this thread to the top, I promise. I have some armour and an aluminum shield blank for trade as well as cash. Thanks folks.

Brodir

Plastic shields are fairly popular locally, they are no lighter than wood, probably heavier. People use them for durability, not lightness. Everyone covers them in canvas and paints the canvas with their arms or baronial populace badge. I have no real problem with a plastic shield, even though I don...

Brodir

I've been singled out before for having nice gear, but never in a hostile way... Once the local barony was having a tourney in which the prize was kept secret til the last minute. SOmeone asked what the prize was, the organizing Knight took one look at me and said, "Brodir's Helm!" Another such exam...

Brodir

There is a knight from Calgary who imports %90 of the rattan used by the SCA in Western Canada, and he usually gets it in 4 times a year. It's not the greatest stuff, but not bad. I would probably rate the quality as Average. Email me and I'll reply with his contact info.

~Wil

Brodir

I'd encourage you to do this, part of the teaching process is encouraging a student to crack a book and light a fire in his belly about an accurate portrayal. Knowing who you are trying to emulate, beyond 'Celt' or 'Viking' helps give focus to your efforts, and part of that learning process is havin...

Brodir

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=883838386 This guy states that this sword was bought in the early days of MRL, when they were importing their blades from Del Tin in Italy. Sweet oak-and-leather custom scabbard too. At the time I'm posting this, the opening bid is $100, but I can'...

Brodir

Russ, that sounds great, I have to run out now but I'll email you after supper.

Eowyn, thanks greatly for the offer, but I don't think I'm really looking for a Yumi.

Brodir

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~schuldy/scatanic.html

Speaking of 'Fiercely Independant Peoples', any of you ever read the SCAtanic Verses? Proof that trashing the SCA is funny as hell as long as you apply a little style

Brodir

Greetings I'm looking at picking up one of those English Longbows at www.woodbows.com but before I order I was wondering if anyone here had one they might be interested in trading for some armour. I'm also interested in one of the fiberglass 'Scythian' bows from www.horsebows.com These aren't for SC...

Brodir

Adam, let me know if you are placing an order, that would work out better-than-perfect for me. Steve, there are a lot of hidden costs... duty, provincial sales taxes, federal sales taxes. Also, if you sent it UPS, UPS charges a $50 brokerage fee for checking your item thru customs (as though you are...

Brodir

It's nice living in a principality with only about 200 active fighters, you have less of this weird sort of stuff going on, everyone kinda knows everyone. There is a household here that liked to style themselves as being looked down upon by the entire principality (even though they weren't), and sor...

Brodir

Murdock, did you find that the tacks would be easily beaten out of the shield?

Brodir

That's extremely thick stuff! Someone said swords, I would second that. Perhaps see if a local theatre company will pay you for a few, I seem to think that this is what they make a lot of stage swords from.

Brodir

I'll email you right now Warren. Did you get the message I sent you on the 3rd? I was having email troubles last week, numerous messages I sent out to various folks never got through.

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwen: Sorry about that Brodir. (SNIP) Gwen<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No problem, company policy is company policy. We'll just put together a group order of some sort.

Brodir

Greetings

I want to order one of those simple horn spoons for sale on the Historic Enterprises website, but the company has a minimum order value of $50 to Canada. If anyone was thinking of placing an order, could I add the spoon to your order and send you a few bucks to ship it to me? Thanks,

~Wil

Brodir

Good to hear. Carry around the confetti of your membership card, you may still be eligable for a 20% discount at Kingdom-level events

Brodir

Incredible, thanks. I'm surprised to see that longseax dated 10th century, I thought seaxes of near-sword dimensions were more of a 700-800 type thing. This item doesn't have a caption, am I dreaming when I guess it's a shield boss? http://www.danetre-vikings.org.uk/Images/Finds/BM-Bit-29.jpg This i...

Brodir

There are dozens of different shapes and hole patterns for lamellar plates based on excavations, artworks, etc. In Birka, Sweden there was a plate unearthed, probably of Rus or Khazar origin, which has been dated to the 10th century. A bunch of Archive folks thought it would be a good plate to repli...

Brodir

Nobody sells them, but a long time ago we arranged the die & ran a bunch of plates off at-cost. If I recall correctly, there were about 3500 aluminum plates punched, and I ended up with about 350 of them.

Garreth, email me if you'd like to discuss this further.

Brodir

My first victory was a bittersweet war fighting scenario. I was on my knees defending a castle gate, after fencing with 9 foot spears for about ten minutes, the force outside decided to send about ten guys on a kamikaze charge just to break up our unflinching shield wall backed with pikes. As the Ka...

Brodir

http://members.tripod.com/~kurak/chain.html

I've bought from Jozef before, he's a good guy. Email him for a pic of the tops.

Brodir

I think I remember seeing two in the Wallace Collection when I went in 1997. Any recent visitors able to confirm this?

Brodir

If you are in the marked for a really authentic shield boss, I'd recommend my good friend Schmett (Jim). I own a couple shield bosses he made, and they are tough as hell, and look great. He doesn't just cut a circle out of a sheet of 14 gauge mild and start pounding away, he actually works them red-...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Murdock: Sir Ian is already to your standrds, so is Viscount Sir Camric (but i think he's Norman) Sir Max might be Roman i'm not sure, Duke John the Mad Celt might help ya.<...

Brodir

Hi Grendal, I just replied to the message you sent me, if those pics don't come through either I'll host them on my household's Geocities site. Let me know.

Brodir

I'm guessing those last two pictures are Teutonic Knights fighting Alexander Nevsky's Russian army.

Brodir

grendel, I'm emailing you right away. Thanks for your interest.

Brodir

Good luck, you are starting out on a truly fascinating learning path. Webpages are convenient and helpful, but don't neglect to pick up some books as well. The Viking Answer Lady , a great collection of essays from an American SCA member. Sven Skildbiter , a great collection of essays from an Austra...

Brodir

One more thing before I seek my bed, you stated that you would allow people to use shield baskets as a modern convenience. I can 't really think of any shield shapes in use in Ireland in the year 1000 that wouldn't have incorporated a shield boss. The kite shield is a possibility, but looking at the...

Brodir

Great idea. Do you have any ideas what the Irish were using in terms of arms, armour, shields etc. at this time? Anyone I know doing this time period just uses Anglo-Norse style war gear with lots of plaid and saffron underneath. *edit* I just read through the entire page, I really like the idea. If...

Brodir

Beautiful, that stuff is in excellent condition.

Brodir

The rings in the closeup picture look flat to me. Not washer-flat, but not wire-round like the International Steelcrafts stuff either. There is a picture in Tim Newark's 'Celtic Warriors' of a patch of maille with round rivets and round cross-section wire. It is labelled as 14th century, but he does...

Brodir

http://www.mandrakearmory.com For a long time there has been a 'coming soon' notice on Roderick's website for Viking and Gaul sword fittings for rattan weapons. They're in stock now, I saw the pics the other night. The 'Celtic' anthropomorphic looks a little weird, but the Viking sword fittings (Pe...

El-cheapo Del Tin on Ebay

Wanting to trade armour for a bow

Anyone placing an order with Historic Enterprises?

New sword fittings at Mandrake