The Armour Archive

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Is this beautiful piece of art still available?

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Very odd, because I have sent 3 emails to there website about a helmet I bought from them a couple years ago and the only thing I've heard from them is silence.... O.o Wow, that's is odd. All the emails I've had back and forth (for crusader knees, helm and Ti haubergon along with various misc. part...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Murdock wrote:<snip>
Iain's stuff shuld be there this week it needs to get back to me as soon as ya squeeze and pinch it so i can get it heat treated.
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I'll try to get it back out to you the next day after it arrives.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

arghhh .. torn ... may try to day trip down from Detroit down for some fun, but have tickets for Rise Against at one of the very very good local venues so would need to roll back out Sunday mornin' ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

I'll step up .. any chance you'll be at Baronial Border War this weekend? If so I'll be there with $ in hand for the helm and measurements for the Dou ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

wait wait .. isn't there something in the history books of how we used to cut the rolled edges off ... yeah .... 'sans rolled edges' might work too ..

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

hmm .. very good work on both the stakes and the hinges ..

any chance of making some plain jane good strap hinges for a 2' x 3' box for camp use?

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Given the pics posted .. I was assuming (yeah.. yeah I know) .. that the parts would be pre-drilled and polished but not laces/assembled. Adding laces and assembling would bump up the prices. From orig post and pics below it .. that's calling out my purse strings. More bling (i.e. brass hinges, laci...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Hee hee .. yup yup .. I love this event .. .had a moment to stand next to ya Sir Finn and was about to do intro's when I got pulled off to take care of yet another brush fire ... I was the big guy next to ya in the Churb 7 pieces, short hair, beard, blue embossed cuisses, soupcan elbows and 1 knee (...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Oh dear ... well rough call for this current harness only ... Helm $200 Face $550 Elbows/Knees $150 Cuisses $120 Padded cuisses $75 7 piece Churb $120 Maille $2200 Splinted vambs $70 greaves $120 arming coat $400 sabs $450 finger gaunts $250 replacement of body/limbs with heat treated spring in peri...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Will try to get some from this upcoming weekends event (Baronial Border War (Midrealm, Livonia, MI) will need to start getting used to the 12 # add'l weight of harness. If possible will try to put up a shade, table, benches and drink/shade for others in transitional/full harness that would like to s...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Aye, same here .. will grab a handful @ Pennsic to put on various gear. I suspect I run to low profile when I'm not running about with my shield and arms out on display ... the curse of longsword ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Throwing out a reply as a purchaser/troop supplier/outfitter etc. ... I'd say $100 is a good bottom end price. Pre-cut/pre-drilled and pre-formed lorica to outfit a batch of guys would be a very good price and would quickly pull in a batch of buyers if the quality was good. Going up from that up to ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

another habit I picked up in the military was to take older 'working' towels, soak them and lay them over wet ice cooler while it was in the shade. The evaporation seemed to help keep the cover (usually the least insulated part of the cooler) cooler and reduce the loss. We also try to keep two (if n...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

total amateur chiming in here (but have similar heavy sweating issues). I was taught to use either brass or copper on metal/leather contact points and only use steel/brass on metal/metal points in heavy sweating areas. Over time I found that yes, copper outlasted steel for leather/steel contact in h...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

O.k. .. have the maille, pending breastplate and building the Ghent 'iron bar' along with gathering docs to support for mid-late 14th C. harness.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Just a quick side question .. woudl it be possible to have them all run in one field similar to when Asbjorn Johansen ran them along with a sunshade and table/benches for those in between bouts? If the same field can be reserved, I can provide a common shade and table and we can build from there.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Well it arrived. Fits nicely over my larger gambeson and every better over my Klaus 'Charles du Blois' arming coat. Shipping weight was 12#. Will most likely put a leather edge along the collar but the welded copper dagging on the sleeves and hem are a nice touch. This along with Murdock's harness b...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Now this would be some seriously good stuff to see. Just reread the last post and was wondering if those legs were the ones she wore in the late 80's? If so those are the first pieces of SCA armour I touched when I helped her armour up back in Demo Hall @ Michigan State. Funny how things can come ab...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Holeeeee .. put a simple request for some gear and start of a firestorm ... sheesh. Suppose I should weigh in a tad on this. Don't get me wrong I love the good Master's work. I have a pair of his SS aventails (both mounted on my helms, back point bascinet and italio-normal punched visor). I've also ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

If Drogo doesn't call 1st dibs on it, I'd be interested at the cash price and I'm local so easy to hand off/delivery.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

might also be able to ping her and see if she'll be at NOWM and you can do a direct exchange there.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

ackk ... have meetings tonight .. but will try to get an email out with info/pics by this weekend ... acckkk

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

email sent checking to see if a few items might still be on hand ...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

and they answer the shop phone quick during working hours! Called earlier this week and was picked up w/i 3 rings ... now if only I can get some other companies to do that (oh say the phone company ... ets.)!

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Murdock wrote:Ummm

I have some shield blanks here i think they're for Mc Tavish

is that right?

The one scutum is mine ... I can see if I can arrange a SCAdian express delivery for it and some of the other stuff to be brought back to Detroit if you'll be at Border Skirmish.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Leopold, Thanks! Iain, Thanks for the photos. The hilt looks good in that sheath. How is it working for you fighintg with the finger over the hilt in finger gantlets? Stefhan Doing quite nicely if I do say so. Good feel of control and no 'crunchies' on my finger. Still haven't mounted the 'demi-bas...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Yes. Ti welded, flat rings.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Just realized on this thread that I most likely ran into some of ya and didn't realize it. Wasn't wearing my archive 'flap' (belt favor with space for ID cards and eye drops). Did meet Domnall though ... at time didn't realize it .. we'd just shown up and I was armouring up behind the Cleftlands and...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

My left was torn apart and I tried to fight on it (unknowing) for 2 years. U of Michigan sport surgeon did work (described as 2 mop head facing each other). Went with self tendon harvest (avoided any organ reject possibility and I was over 35 so no undue stretching as a hazard). Follow the therapy (...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

hmm .. one wonders if a betting blanket (with a % going to the donation kitty) would be do-able? got some good odds makers around I'd suspect.

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

hee hee .. hopefully just the smaller .. standing by with the finger on the 'button' for the larger one. If they'd only share the name of the prospective buyer .. my winged monkeys would take care of 'em and their lil' dog too!

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

Just so some can see 'em in action. Here's a pic of my side sword with a custom job Sir Stefhan made for me with finger hooks ... yeah .. I'm lil' boy blue ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/qof/3542883681/sizes/l/in/set-72157618426913988/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/qof/3543694206/sizes/l/in/set-721...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

If you are looking for "toddler friendly", try Dragonwing Pavilions. I'm not sure how big of tents Johan is still doing , but he was building them with modern feature such as zipper doors, on request, and they still had a very period look. He's the guy who wrote the "Pavilion Book&qu...

Iain (Bunny) Ruadh

No direct money dealings, but squire brother gifted me with one of his marshal gages ... very good quality, great detail and polishing. One of my prized 'combat' tools! Can't say much about a custom work (never having done so), but if you see his end product on hook .. it's well worth it.