The Armour Archive

William Frisbee

For the love of god, convert the BMP's to JPEGs, you are even giving my T3 a heart attack

William Frisbee

Mykaru wrote:Guillaume you already have an acceptable helmet.

The more the merrier!

*grin*

I told you I was going to keep buying armour from you.

William Frisbee

I'd be interested...

William Frisbee

Mykaru,

Got any dress jingasa's laying around?

William Frisbee

I've done my armour business with: Mykaru White Mountain Armoury Forth Armoury Oaks Armoury James River Armoury CLANG Armoury I've always gotten great email responses, phone calls when needed, great delivery times, respect and not to mention they are all good people. I'm always willing to send any o...

William Frisbee

Corrius wrote:
Guillaume, it looks like those excellent kote require hidden elbows, but provide solid enough fore-arm proteection. Is it so?

Yes they do require hidden elbows, but I have a set of tiny ones that are covered perfectly...

William Frisbee

Anyone have any pictures of these things in use? Or pictures of how they are used? Or pictures of the period examples they are taken from? Noble's site is back up... The only images they seem to have are these: http://www.plasticlamellar.com/images/ef-black-sm.jpg http://www.plasticlamellar.com/ima...

William Frisbee

Mykaru, I've looked, but haven't been able to find your suneate - could you give me a bit of a hint, when it was posted or some other key-words? I found E-M's comments about eagerly awaiting them, and some estimates of time of completion from you, but not the actual article themselves. Thanks for a...

William Frisbee

Actually this is more about discussions on the other dou posting. For those who bewail thier lack of armouring ability, there is a fairly simple solution. Nanban gusoku. Nanban are the armours refitted from european armours(or copied). It wouldn't be difficult to modify one of Illusion armoury's gl...

William Frisbee

Uh, Buddy? I dont think realistic kits are too heavy. I hate seeing jeans, sneakers, hockey gloves (not allowed here anyway) gym pants and bagchairs. I would never change my kit to be more competitive. Nor do I think plastic is a good thing, but I do think that sometimes, for somethings, it is an O...

William Frisbee

I've not seen any reference to any in anything I've read or seen.

William Frisbee

Ron Broberg wrote:So collecting armour is your hobby now?

As a matter of fact... yes.

William Frisbee

Well, as I noted before, it`s not quite finished. I have to do kohaze (buy from Toraba) for the sode and do the kikko for the collar and shoulders. I AM upset in that I realized I made a mistake in the holes for the suspensory lace for the sode. The cords are all shoelace and yes the watagami are s...

William Frisbee

Eff, And not everyone can drop $700 on friggin armor for a HOBBY, even if it is a museum quality piece of armor. I am happy you are such an expert, and I am eternally gratfull that there are people that can do the ultra high quality pieces, but the disdain towards those who aint rich and have to do...

William Frisbee

Yoshinobu,

On May 10th of this year Mykaru-san said:

"I expect the price on this will be APPROXIMATELY $700."

It may be a bit more now due to steel prices, but best check with him

William Frisbee

Effingham wrote:
Rememer my kit is more tha of a ranked Ashigaru, not a samurai.

Yeah, but yours looks better than the kit of most samurai.

Effingham

And I have Mykaru to thank for that. *grin*

William Frisbee

Last piece? I'd think it'd be done in a different order, but whatever works for you. I started with my dÃƒÂ´ and may end with starting over on it. It was one of the first pieces I'd done on my own, and it looks it. Passable, but I'm sure I could do better. We'll see when it's the last on the hit li...

William Frisbee

I'm having fits here. Damn Mykaru, these dou's are DEAD sexy...

I can't wait!

It's going to look SOOOOO good with kon ito!

Mykaru, are you lining the interior with linen and black paint?

William Frisbee

I can't wait to get my Dou. It's the last piece of armour for my Japanese kit...

Muhahaha...

I'll have to pay a couple of visits to the local fighter practices once I get the kit done...

William Frisbee

I believe Mykaru powder coats everything.

William Frisbee

Well today I came home from work and found a larger box sitting near my post box... it was from Japan. My kote and suneate have arrived! I'm going to post a couple of pictures of the kote right now, as my batteries for the camera need a recharge... Here is a picture of the upper part of the kote. Th...

William Frisbee

Forth Armour haubegeon is sold and paid for and will be on it's way to it's new owner tomorrow! Thanks Pietro da Montalcino! Thanks all. Jehan, yeah I expected it to sell, but not this quickly. I was afraid I was going ot have to break it up, but a good owner came forth and is taking everything off ...

William Frisbee

Just a heads up, the kit is SOLD pending payment.

The haubergeon is still available!

William Frisbee

Will,

Yes, $550 plus shipping. I'd also toss in the spare pieces I cut off to make it better fitting and the rivet setting tool from Forth Armoury.

William Frisbee

Forgot about this image (thanks Sasuke). Please note, the haubergeon is NOT included in this deal, and I have the lames of the corrazina upside down! When worn correctly the rivets line up nice and neat on me. For some reason inline images are not working well... http://home.armourarchive.org/member...

William Frisbee

All new private messages and emails have been responded to.

I doubt anyone will find a kit of this quality any time soon that can be delivered in a couple of days!

Pick it up before Pennsic to break it in and get used to it!

William Frisbee

Nothing has been sold yet, so I'm still willing to sell the whole kit!

William Frisbee

I think I have replied to everyones email...

Mykaru,

Any images of authentic armour are great! Anything you can do so I can add it to my collection.

Sounds like one heck of a nice piece of armour.

William Frisbee

Mykaru, Believe me I hate doing it to. I spent a LONG time getting this kit together and I've only worn it once... It's sad and I really hope I can sell it to someone who is really going to use it. As for the Japanese armour... Great to hear! Can you toss me out some images of the dou you are pickin...

William Frisbee

Keeping the armour on a stand is no good.

I want someone who wants a damn good looking and accurate kit who will fight in it to buy it. That way it's getting used.

William Frisbee

Grendel,

Pop me out an email. Without the two helms I figure we can work a deal.

William Frisbee

I'm going to go under the assumption you mean kuzazuri. There are a bunch of different ways to attach them do the dou. The first of course is punched holes about 1/4" from the bottom of the dou. This suspension ito is from 4 to 6 inches long on average. There are a bunch of different methods for the...

William Frisbee

Mostly because I simply cannot make the time to make it to practices or to the events. I spent a tonne of cash on my armour over the past two or so years and have made it to no events in the past 9 months due to work. The stuff is just sitting there and it's WAY too much of a disrepect to both WMA a...

William Frisbee

Well more or less because of some upcoming changes in my career I need to leave the SCA. I will NOT be getting rid of my Japanese stuff mostly because it fits my home decor! In fact Mykaru can keep making me Japanese armour till my home is full of the stuff! That being said, I do have a complete 14t...

William Frisbee

Funny, I've been programming for just as long, except for I stuck with FORTRAN 77, Assembly, C++ and thats about it. I too spent 6 years in college with a degree in Engineering. as for your so called facts: 1.) You best review your facts, linux DOES NOT have networking built into the kernel any more...

My new Japanese armour by Mykaru

Leaving the SCA sale!