The Armour Archive

William Freskyn Murray

just so everyone knows the one I got from Bauldree that was to big for me was going to one of his resellers whose putting it on the market for $800. The only difference between mine & this one was the brass work. It is a quality helm and with a little love and care this will be amazing for a long ti...

William Freskyn Murray

how much you want for the boiled leather backplate and what are the dimensions (XL is kind of vague when dealing with people who wear armor ). I'll give you an extra $5 for the story entitled "How the breastplate "accidentally" got destroyed!" Bet we could make it a move and convince Matt Damon & Be...

William Freskyn Murray

Lodinn, I talked to my fencing crew and I definitely want the green doublet. Shoot me a pm or post here how much shipping to 14215 will be and an address you want paypal sent to, I will add the 4% when I shoot you payment. Got a scribal meeting tomorrow night after work but I will send you payment a...

William Freskyn Murray

Seawolf2k bought this helmet from Killian here on the archive. m having owned the other one of these helmets that Alan made, even though mine was made WAY to big for, I can say that this helm is beautiful. Hey Seawolf, can you take a side to side and front to back measurement. I'm going to be watchi...

William Freskyn Murray

funny thing is that i was born february second 1991 I had been out of high school for two years and was drinking, partying & screwing up my life in college in 1991. piece of advice when you finish high school, don't do college part time two classes at a time while working a full time and two part t...

William Freskyn Murray

Sir Finn, Never Dull available at Walmart, etc will clean off anything short of pitting. I've found it takes more elbow grease but it leaves a nice even finish without being overly shiny (which I personally hate). If it's just surface I would say buy a can of never dull, it's a cotton like substance...

William Freskyn Murray

I would be the one from classifieds who adjusted my spring legs. I got a set of spring legs from Alan Bauldree and because I have large wide thighs they didn't fit me upon arrival. The wrap plate was digging into my thigh and I could get a pair of fingers between my leg and the crease of the cuisse....

William Freskyn Murray

I stood in line in the rain for a hour before Record Theatre opened to buy Hysteria.... in fact I also have a picture disc of it. High & Dry was a cool album, Hysteria was worth the wait only for the novelty of it and the story, as a piece of musical history.... whatever. since hysteria I picked up ...

William Freskyn Murray

hey patric, you tag line has been bugging me for a while.... being a product of the 80's heavy metal generation (and I had THE mullet to prove it) you're mixing bands and screwing with my head..... it's better to burn out, then fade away" is a line from Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young I now return y...

William Freskyn Murray

Email sent to you aol address

Will

William Freskyn Murray

all

the laptop doesn't fit my needs so it is still available.

Lodinn

best of luck with your sale.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Hi Clay we talked before Thanksgiving and you & Lewis were looking at a designing a new pattern where the fingers contacted the rattan - any progress on the new design?? If you pull it off I think you could up the price $100 mass produce and make enough to retire on in fifteen or twenty years still ...

William Freskyn Murray

I fought in my Ice Churburg for almost two years then sold it on ebay to a guy in Texas for $275 plus shipping, I stunned you're having such a hard time moving this stuff.

I have a friend looking for legs since his armor got swiped out of his car so I'll forward this post to him.

good luck
Will

William Freskyn Murray

not medieval, but a canvas wall tent is an easy one person tent to set up and they are inexpensive. A google search comes up with about 15 manufacturers, if you get one with wooden poles and no metal frame they look 1000 times better then a nylon pimp. For someone of your smaller stature you should ...

William Freskyn Murray

I adjusted my spring legs with a 2 lb rubber mallet, just hit along the crease in the cuisse (say that three times fast ) until they were wide enough. I completely agree that make them the smallest you are going to want them then harden them. That way when you sell them they can be widened by placin...

William Freskyn Murray

I am interested in both the laptop & green fencing doublet.

I have sent you an email at the address in your profile, consider them sold unless something is wrong.

Edited to mention you might want to list sizes, especially of the garb and what payment you prefer or will accept.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

in case anyone hasn't seen Matt's greaves they are frontal only not cased greaves. Matt, hardened spring steel is going to be harder for your customer to adjust when received. My spring steel legs needed to be tweaked a bit and they took some pretty good force to widen out. Definitely NOT impossible...

William Freskyn Murray

though I have not seen this garment in person I will be happy to vooch for the quality of Nan's work. I have had the pleasure of seeing the garments she has made for His Excellency Henri and the garments she has sold at SCA events.... her work is superb. Hey Henri.... you had a chance to play in Cla...

William Freskyn Murray

Eric,

I think you damn people in California get to much sun in February

the helm looks nice though

Will

William Freskyn Murray

I just wanted to let everyone who had followed this thread to know that I received my replacement helmet from Alan on Friday and this ordeal has come to a final closure. The helmet that was to large for me is in a box and will be going to the post office tomorrow night right after work. Sorry for ki...

William Freskyn Murray

Tarquin, if you win and want to have it shipped to us we're going to be in Rising Waters for the Inter-Baronial archery shoot, we could bring it across the border for you and save the hassles, PST, GST, etc. or you could pop across to a Wednesday night practice and hit us with a stick and pick up th...

William Freskyn Murray

Dom, you know my story with paying for armor and not getting it. When I went the legal route the response I got was I would have to file a law suit locally (to me). Because it was low value it would have gone to small claims court. They would notify the defendant of the pending law suit and day they...

William Freskyn Murray

Oswyn, I found the thread you were talking about and the links let me here: m m their web page refers to it as a chopper, 12-13th c Fuassar, Godenac, Fuas, Fuassal or a "pre-Falcion" so I guess the difference is a hundred years??? Then the same type of weapon became a falchion. Outremer does give so...

William Freskyn Murray

I started a "pass the helm for $20" tradition a few years back. Sold my old solid as hell spun top to a young lady who wanted to fight, deal was I sold it to her for $20 under the condition that when she was done with it because she decided not to fight or got a better one she sell it to the next ne...

William Freskyn Murray

Cet made Earl Syr Yngvar's. You can see a post of it here: m I've seen this helm in person and it is simply fantastic. Contact Cet here on the archive and pay him what he asks, everything I've seen of his is wonderful. Editted to point out that yes, he does fight in the face plate in singles & melee...

William Freskyn Murray

can anyone tell me the name of the two-handed sword seen in this image from the Mac Bible?

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/ ... otm3va.gif

the footsoldier in the center of the image with the two handed sword raised over his head??

thanks
Will

William Freskyn Murray

Russ, good point about the layers... the artistic interpretation throughout the rest of the plates really makes a point of showing the multiple layers on the longer tunics... even though if you read some of the other threads here their's a debate about linings versus layers going on their as well . ...

William Freskyn Murray

the "theme" throughout seems to be: cavalry - full chainmail, sleeveless surcoat, heater shield & "MacBible" great helm foot soldiers - either aketon with integral mittens, dagged at the bottom - most of which seem to be red or green and have a white collar white short sleeve aketon, dagged at the b...

William Freskyn Murray

Armourer Eric, a/k/a James River Armory has a pembridge great helm on ebay with a buy it now of $155. go to www.jamesriverarmoury.com and he has a link to his ebay offerings. Helm looks nice and he has a great rep here on the archive for quality work. Not sure if this helps because if memory serves ...

William Freskyn Murray

www.steffanleather.com

if Linda doesn't have what you need in stock she can order anything. Great lady who has been fantastic to deal with the ten years I've been playing the game.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Carlyle, this is exactly my problem. Looking at the image of the two footsoldiers on the left in the white aketon's attacking I would think that this is one garment and the sleeves are sewn to the inside. The soldier in front of them attacking the center pole of the pavilion with an ax appears to be...

William Freskyn Murray

David, I'm thinking of making an aketon just like that but modifying it for SCA combat by putting ties on the inside that allow me to attach plates and modifying the mittens so I can wear gauntlets under them. I haven't figured this modification out yet because I'm going to need to modify both my ga...

William Freskyn Murray

Alright, I've been going through a bunch of plates from the Mac Bible on line and I'm completely confused about the aketon images. It appears that the sleeves and body are separate pieces?? Is it two separate garments that are worn one over the other so the sleeves have more flex but the body has mo...

William Freskyn Murray

I have to disagree as far as the body part goes, 18 gauge mild should be okay because of the overlap and distribution of force from layer to layer.... however the shoulders are going to be get beat up. If you're planning on fighting sword and shield you could definitely do worse, especially if you h...

William Freskyn Murray

www.gr8gear.com

I've picked a lot of odd ball things up from them cheap from time to time.

Will

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