The Armour Archive

William Frisbee

My kabuto (from Mykaru) is powder coated. It's been beat on a few times and still is as good as new.

It's powder coated in a semi-gloss black and looks great.

William Frisbee

Email already sent.

I figure I can wear one of these during the hotter months of the year.

William Frisbee

I'd love to see some pictures to add to my collection!

I'm looking for a modern reproduction of a manchira, with kikko, not maile.

William Frisbee

As the current owner of Sasuke's I like it too. =)

William Frisbee

How very true!

William Frisbee

Hanzo, Hey at least you are trying. I have a full vest/shirt of Japanese style butted mail if you are interested. I could let it go for $75 plus shipping. If you want I can take images. You could cut this apart and replace the lacing with the mail. Mykaru is working on my kote and suneate now. I hav...

William Frisbee

Hanzo,

is the armour an attempt at a tatami-do?

William Frisbee

Mykaru,

THanks for the update.

William Frisbee

Dalewyn,

When lacing, I HIGHLY recommend getting ahold of a copy of "The Samuai Undressed".

Good stuff.

William Frisbee

I've used either LacesForLess in bulk (3/8"), I think for 144 feet, with shipping I paid 23 bucks (email them to get it in bulk). I only use this when making my SCA armour. I've never used paracord as it's simply not wide enough, plus the brading in the cord does not look good in my opinion. For a f...

William Frisbee

I got to see these helms at Birka yesterday.

They looked great. It was amazing to see how many WMA helms where in the bear pit.

William Frisbee

True, japanese mail is butted, but of all the examples I own of pre-Edo period stuff the wire is double wrapped.

William Frisbee

Helmut, I guess I did not make my message clear enough in my excitement. I sent my haubergeon back to Steve for cleaning. He did the bang up job. He got it on a Friday, I got it back on Thursday... I'm going to have the local electroplating place to a tin electroplate on a piece of the haubergeon. i...

William Frisbee

Today I got my haubergeon back from Steve. It saw it's share of hell over the past year, and was in need of a serious cleanup. I had given it a rust treatment, but that just made the rust a lot finer... blech! [img]http://home.comcast.net/~evil_merlin/before_close.jpg[/img] Here it is after the clea...

William Frisbee

Great work as usual Jeff!

William Frisbee

One has to wonder why the hell they are going to steal armour from a local event.

Eventually, if they are dumb enough to wear the armour & garb, someone is going to see them...

William Frisbee

Genkuro Well you got Zunari & bachi for starters. I highly recommend you read up here: http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/0.Katchu.html and read the section on kabuto. In my honest opinion there is really only one maker of quality and more importantly ACCURATE kabuto that can function in an SCA env...

William Frisbee

Thanks a bunch Adam, I have sent off an email to him.

I really appreciate all the help.

William Frisbee

Adam, Thanks man, I could not ask for more. That is exactly what kikko are. I'll look around for a Roper/Whiney today and see what I can dig up. I'll just go with the Whitney to save myself from having to replace it further down the line. I need one anyways for my armour repair kit. By design too ki...

William Frisbee

Would you have an image of one of your kikko you would be willing to share?

William Frisbee

Eff,

Yeah I know, but I don't have access to a drill press, nor the ability to cut the hexagons... The bad luck of living in a very small apartment...

William Frisbee

Some mid morning bumpage!

William Frisbee

I'll be picking up a nice long, light, not too flexible piece of rattan.

My hand-me-down glaive needs replacement badly.

William Frisbee

Does anyone out there have access to someone who makes kikko?

I need about 200 pieces...

William Frisbee

No, they are not SCA leagal. Look at the way the fingers are. SCA finger gauntlets cannot pass impacts directly to the fingers. These will.

Mind you I'm not saying the gauntlets are not incredible, they are just not SCA legal from what I Can see.

William Frisbee

I'll be there.

William Frisbee

OOOOHHHHHH....

I think I may need to dig up the cash for one of those hounskulls!

William Frisbee

Sorry guys, been in and out for a while. Edric (and others) the arms are spoken for already. Ringlancer, Thaddeus has dibs on the CoP before you do. If it does not fit him or he does not like it you are up. Figure on about $20 to ship US Post Office Prority (I've been getting 2 days to California fr...

William Frisbee

I'm still keeping the kettle helm. It's a very Burgundy style for my persona it fits to a tee. As for what it will look like... it remains to be seen. I'm not rushing to finish it at all. Sasuke has plenty of work, and I'm not pushing him at all. He does excellent work and rest assured it will be a ...

William Frisbee

Well my Oaks Armoury kit is nearly done, so I'm going to sell my existing kit off. I'm 5'10" and 175 lbs, average build. If you are very small or very tall, don't bother as more than likely the stuff won't fit you, but if you are in the middle this stuff will fit. Currently I have the following avai...

William Frisbee

Still not sure of what to make of it as of yet...

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/kingarthur.html

William Frisbee

Wow... here we go again...

The guy is a tool. A useless tool. Lets drop this one quick before he comes back and wastes even more of our time.

William Frisbee

I emailed them last month. The kozane were due in by the 2nd week of January. Costs are unknown as of this time

William Frisbee

Looks like a modified version of this:

[img]http://www.swordstore.com/02/armor-h/S1sm.jpg[/img]

If you want a larger image click here: http://www.swordstore.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/00764.5.1020997176418388697#

[This message has been edited by Evil_Merlin (edited 12-18-2003).]

William Frisbee

bump, because I refuse to let this one go!

Forth Armoury Review

Looking for kikko

Some stuff for sale.

New King Arthur teaser trailer...