The Armour Archive

William Freskyn Murray

try "shocking" this marshal and we're going to have some SERIOUS words

William Freskyn Murray

I can type with mine!!! I can type with mine on as well.... problem is my employees were walking past my office and stopping to stair. Not good to distract your peeps when you're trying to get them to meet a deadline Of course they've now seen two different helmets, arms, gauntlets, a crossbow and ...

William Freskyn Murray

they just showed up and all I can say is

DAMN THESE ARE SWEET!!!!!

I had to take them off... people were stairing at me while I was typing

thanks Clay.... these are gonna be fun!!!!

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Clay is always the professional. We've been communicating for months on the custom set of gauntlets he's doing for me and he's been great. I bought these and shot him and email late last night that I hope to have them this weekend for AEthelmearc coronation.... about lunch time he emailed me a track...

William Freskyn Murray

quick on the trigger???

I waited two days.... these usually go in two hours!!!!!!

if I decide not to be greedy and let these go once my new toys are done you got first dibs.... but only if you and your lovely wife come to Pennsic this year

Will

how are the boys?

William Freskyn Murray

alright you people waited to long and I just bought them these will be up for sale used once I get my custom ones but in the mean time I couldn't resist temptation any longer!!! Do what I did.....buy the wife a pair too and all is good! unfortunately the wife don't fight... which means she don't get...

William Freskyn Murray

For thoses looking m another pair of Clay's fantastic finger gauntlets have gone up on ebay (posts here at Celtic Warrior). These have had amazing reviews here on the archive and if I didn't have him working on a custom set for me I would jump on these... to be honest I was REAL close to buying thes...

William Freskyn Murray

The picture posted by Nick D also appears in a book called "Medieval Military Costume" by Gerry Embleton. I don't ever remember catching a caption on it but I will dig the book out and see. I don't think that they specifically list who the individuals or group are. If memory serves the description t...

William Freskyn Murray

payment sent
Will

William Freskyn Murray

I was right, the wife wants it. I sent you an email.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Killian, shoot me pics.. my wife is looking for a crossbow and this is right up the weight & price she's looking at. If she likes it I'm sure she'll buy it. shipping to 14215? come with any bolts?? We actually have two friends bringing theres to archery so she can play with them and make sure she li...

William Freskyn Murray

I fight in a gambeson with plastic lamellar under it and chainmail over it, works okay for me but I want to point out one thing that experience has taught me.... peoples definition of "padded armor" is definitely different! My aketon is cotton lining, two layers of cotton batting & cotton oustide, m...

William Freskyn Murray

nice job

three recommendations if I may

1) leave this post here for people to comment on the work, move the sale portion to the classifieds
2) list dimensions
3) list a desired price and preferred payment method

just my two cents, it is a pretty helmet
Will

William Freskyn Murray

patric anyone who takes on trying to raise a helmet is not an idiot if it works out and you get a viable end product think of how proud it will make you if it ends up in the scrap heap think about how proud it will make you that YOU RAISED A HELMET, even if you can't use it.... put is on a book case...

William Freskyn Murray

this doesn't even account my teen years as a driveway hack mechanic... other than the "gee, the exhaust stays hot a LONG time" lesson and the usual cuts and scrapes trying to get big paws in small holes my true amazing stupid tricks were replacing a leaky gas tank with the car on a bumper jack (no r...

William Freskyn Murray

fire bad metal does NOT have to glow to be hot (learned repetitively unfortunately) black leather die bleeds through news paper and does NOT come out of tan carpet honey and water boiled over onto a stove is a pain in the to clean off all valuable lessons I've learned THE MORAL IS when you grind off...

William Freskyn Murray

through the years I've played with metal, wood, plastics, etc and... as I'm sure everyone has... I've done some stupid things. This is my latest and it was so dumb I thought I would share 'cause it's damn funny too! So I got an SCA legal sallet from Alan Bauldree and didn't like the closure on the v...

William Freskyn Murray

Adam Berry White Mountain Armory I have the H32 which can be seen here: m it's inspired by the art work on the cover of Osprey's "The Normans" Adam is simply amazing, he had some health trouble a while back and cut down on his custom work, not sure if he is back to taking custom orders or not, how l...

William Freskyn Murray

hey Lloyd

we get measurements on the leather back plate yet??

still interested if it will fit

thanks
Will

William Freskyn Murray

Murdock, Just a thought, you probably want to put all this information on the tent in your ebay posting... right now you have no details and I think without at least a size and manufacturer listed you're either going to get a lot of questions or no interest. Just my two cents, if the wife and I didn...

William Freskyn Murray

carlyle, I wear a St Louis tunic under my body armor with a gambeson (split front, back & sides), chainmail and a surcoat (split front & back) and have never had an issue with fabric binding up on me. I made one out of muslin for a pattern and once I figured the pattern out I made the dry run my fig...

William Freskyn Murray

if possible make friends with a dairy farmer, they all have dump sites on the property where they drag off and dispose of animals. My brother lives in farm country and a guy in his firehall is a dairy farmer. When an article appeared in TI about making bone combs & dice I took a run to my brothers, ...

William Freskyn Murray

12 hours left and Iain is still the high bidder 'cause he's almost got enough finger gauntlets now so he's moving on to expanding his helmet collection. and Iain, you only shot me once that day during the bridge battle.... the second time I got hit in the cup that day was a sword shot from his Excel...

William Freskyn Murray

payment sent

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Since I've gotten a couple PM's I guess I should explain the penguin joke. Tim Allen wrote a book that I'm reading called Don't Stand to Close to a Naked Man. In it he talked about falling in love with a girl in college and basically stalking her for a year. Since they didn't have classes together h...

William Freskyn Murray

Gwydion

email sent, I'll be back in touch with you after Ice Dragon.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

alright, thought number two..... the kits Sir Gaston was doing, where they corrazina?? Do a quick archive search for Sir Gaston as the author. Yes, but they were in plastic...unless I missed a run of metal ones. Mine's plastic, anyway. he says metal you say plastic I still don't know where I put my...

William Freskyn Murray

he says Corrazina

you say coat of plates

I say where did I leave my penguin suit

alright, thought number two..... the kits Sir Gaston was doing, where they corrazina?? Do a quick archive search for Sir Gaston as the author.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

if you have a small amount of gap between you and the gorget you can pick up a hockey goal tender throat protector, they are 1/4" thick padding and you can get them at Dick's for around $10. I've used both felt and wool to line steel gorgets and liked both. In both cases glued to the inside with con...

William Freskyn Murray

Mandrake

www.mandrakearmory.com

who is away at Gulf Wars right now according to the web page.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

I think Mad Matt sells them, check out his web page here

http://www.geocities.com/madmattsarmory/

inexpensive and in stock if memory serves me correctly.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Hey AE what's your current turn around on stuff?? I got a guy local looking for a Corinthian and I like the looks of yours...... of course I know exactly ZERO about Corinthian's so it's up to Mike if HE likes the lines on yours, I'm just trying to do some research for him and give him options other ...

William Freskyn Murray

Gwydion, shoot me an email with what you're looking for.... I dabble a little If you're looking for functional and period looking I can help you out... but I will warn you I suck at finishing projects so I'll cut it all out and get is ready to assemble so all you need to do is stain, seal & put toge...

William Freskyn Murray

Sir Mord

if you and the misses are coming up to Ice Dragon Saturday call Linda Steffan. She always merchants at ID but I don't know how much leather she brings with her normally.

phone number is on steffanleather.com if you want to get in touch with her.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

some day I'll pay you back for shooting me in cup.....

until then whatever little things I can do to help

Will

another pair of Clay Moore finger gauntlets on ebay

stupid shop tricks