The Armour Archive

William Freskyn Murray

We had to put the family golden's down roughly 14 & 16 years ago, and I still miss them. Still have photos around 'cause they will be with me forever.

Very sorry to hear of your loss
Will

William Freskyn Murray

Gregory, my understanding is that the term claymore is just a word for sword. I own two claymores, a five foot two-handed, unwieldy bastard and the second is a basket hilt claymore. One of my Osprey books on the Scottish has a great drawing of a guy with a basket hilt claymore in his right hand, a t...

William Freskyn Murray

the first helm has 2 bids on it and it's alreay up to $1.04 I'd give him $3.50 for it just for the shear joy I would take in smashing the hell out of it. I've been thinking about buying one of the crappy 18g indian helms to convert to a fencing helmet and our Baronial colors are green & black what d...

William Freskyn Murray

Karl, Since no one has mentioned this before, this is quit a commendable thing that you are doing selling off your possessions to aid a friend in you. You obviously cared enough about the game to acquire quality goods and the fact that you are putting these items up without thought to help someone e...

William Freskyn Murray

I will take the 24" aluminum round if no one else has claimed it.

Let me know.
Will

William Freskyn Murray

here's a link to Adam Berry's from White Mountain Armoury, it's pretty cool.

http://www.honorblade.com/marla/

about 2/3 of the way down the page.

this is my next project.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

I have to agree with Jacob, go with an armoured surcoat of the St Maurice style and dump the coat of plates. If you go with the COP I would use a surcoat. Chainmail is tough to pack up for a road trip, if you do go with aluminium rivet type. For legs I use gamboised cuisses that have washing machine...

William Freskyn Murray

http://www.grimmsinc.com/tent.htm

Per the notice on Grimms web page they are no longer going to be renting out tents as of January 1, 2006. They are selling their used stock off.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

they were $2 each

and I picked up a half a dozen art books

thanks for the input

Racinet in particular seemed very cartoon-ish to me.

thanks
Will

William Freskyn Murray

I picked up three books at a local library sale and was wondering who accurate a source they are.

1) Costume Through the Ages - Mary Evans
2) Racinet's Full-Color Pictorial History of Western Costume - Auguste Racinet
3) Historical Costume in Pictures - Braun & Schneider

thanks
Will

William Freskyn Murray

John, check out White Mountain Armoury (whitemountainarmoury.com), Alan makes... in my opinion.... the coolest SCA legal kettle in existance. On his helmet page he has photos of his designs (all seven variations) and he has one in stock now that he is building the cage for. Hope that helps, if you s...

William Freskyn Murray

changed the padding again and now the height is much lower but the helm is still to wide. If you look in my yahoo folder listed in the post above you will see that even though the helmet is now down almost to my shoulders when I pivot my head it still gaps quit a bit, enough I could easily get a swo...

William Freskyn Murray

Alan, I will email you copies of the photos. The two big factors are how I had to pad it to make it comfortable and the width. With the helm designed to sit "back" I had to add a lot more padding to the top of the helm then I normally would to get it to sit on my head and distribute the weight, with...

William Freskyn Murray

Thanks Sir Vitus. The only part of this transaction that feels cursed is that I got what I wanted, two BEAUTIFUL pieces of artwork from Alan, that without serious modification I just cannot come up with a way to make work. I'm going to take them to practice with me Wednesday and get a couple of the ...

William Freskyn Murray

Just the lighting, they are spring steel with a satin finish and a coat of blue magic wax on them. They need to have a good buffing to the the wax coating off. No, I don't want to modify the legs. At this point I think my best course of action for me is to sell these and use the money to buy a helme...

William Freskyn Murray

and on a side note, the legs are illegal for me as well because they aren't deep enough. As you can see in the inside shot now that've spent two hours strapping them without any padding under them the inside of the knee cop is JUST covering the third point. Even with just the minimum 1/4" padding it...

William Freskyn Murray

pictures are up in my Yahoo folder

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/williamfr ... /my_photos

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Bump-ity bump bump

these look awesome and I want to keep an eye on when they come in!

Will

William Freskyn Murray

A quick bump before I go to bed for the night, I have to work 7 to 3 tomorrow. First, Alan chech your PM's. I spent Thursday night sewing and stuffing a padded hood to fill the gaps. I put 1/2 inch of blue foam in the helmet itself, and a 1/2 inch of cotton batting into the hood and the helm just do...

William Freskyn Murray

Hey Adam,

Here in Buffalo I always go to M Steffan & Sons, Linda the owner is in the SCA. She's on-line at www.steffanleather.com she doesn't list leather on her web page but has a lot in stock. Let her know that you're in the SCA and she'll cut you a deal.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Jon, How's life in the sunshine treating you??? Hopefully not cooking your brain to much All.... sorry for the delay in getting to this, my job has been kicking my ass and I've been working six days a week about 60 - 70 hours a week. The issue with the leg armor was easily resolved with a rubber mal...

William Freskyn Murray

So how do we go about ordering these kits??

Paypal you $52 with a shipping address?

thanks
Will

William Freskyn Murray

if you want inexpensive modern buckles that take a beating you can check out www.steffanleather.com - Linda Steffan is in the SCA (Lady Mary Elizabeth Clawson) and sells every year at Pennsic. Mention you're in the SCA and she usually cuts you a deal. I of course have the advantage that she's in my ...

William Freskyn Murray

Thanks everyone. This weekend I will be hitting the helm & legs with never dull and blue magic then strapping. Then I can get the padding straightened away. I will get pictures up once done.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

I know Ice Falcon does a brush finish.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Windrose had an armet at Pennsic that was freakin' amazing, Clang also had one a few years ago at Blackstone Raid that was really cool. You might want to check them out to see what the backlog and price is.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

question for those more knowledgable in metal properties then me, what's the best way to keep my new spring helmet & legs clean, polished and rust free?

sand them regularly?
oil?
wax?
never dull?

any ideas would be fantastic
Will

William Freskyn Murray

All, Alan & I have conversed both via PM and on the phone. Rearranging the padding in the helmet a bit per his guidance seems to make it fit better though the gap between the interior of my helmet and my gorget is substantial enough that I need to get the padding done and then see. I won't have time...

William Freskyn Murray

actually the helmet is sized wrong and the articulation on the right leg is crooked. Alan took the measurements himself at Harvest Raid last April when we sat down face to face. I'm going to think on this, I may be able to come up with a way to add padding and an internal aventail or something that ...

William Freskyn Murray

Alan,

please check your private messages

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Cat, I don't have a great need for the arms, they actually don't go with any of my current armor, I just figured I would pick them up and put them in storage in case I ever needed steel arms to go with a kit I was working on. If you are financial okay now without selling them please do not feel any ...

William Freskyn Murray

I am officially the proud owner of this helmet and these legs, they were delivered this morning.

I will post a further write up when I get home from work & the halloween party tonight.

Will

William Freskyn Murray

Hi Cat, great news that your baby is coming home and the disease has been diagnosed and it's treatable! I will go either way, I've seen what you've done with the first arm and the progress on the second and I'm sure I'll be happy with them when you are done. I can make payment whenever. I'm going aw...

William Freskyn Murray

Alan hasn't provided a tracking number. I did ask him in my post and a PM when I asked which address he shipped it to, but didn't get a response to that part of the question. I know he shipped it to my work address, so when it gets here our freight guys will sign for it. I also know because I work i...

William Freskyn Murray

Cat, size on the arms is close enough I think, if I can't use them I'm sure someone local will be able to. If you can give me a price with shipping I will paypal you tonight (can't get on to the paypal site from work!). glad to hear the pooch is getting better, hope all works out for the best. Will

Grimm's selling off tents

book question for the garb folks

care and feeding of spring steel