The Armour Archive

William Frisbee

Then why do so many people insist that plastic is the only viable material? This is what has been said by a lot of people on a lot of threads. If it is not the durability, what is? Firstly, I was very lucky when I did up my armour, I was able to find some...

William Frisbee

Thaddeus, the link you supplied no workie!

William Frisbee

Oh great, now Adam is getting in line to hit me. =)

Believe me all, I will be working with Adam to ensure this helm design I have works well. So far in the very limited fighting I have not run into any issues, and I am making sure I ask those I fight with about how the helm affects them.

William Frisbee

WOOT! It's been a damn fine couple of weeks for my armour. Most of it has been arriving over the past week, and this will continue right up to April if all goes well. For now, I give you this review. A Forth Armoury rivetted mail haubergeon. It came via UPS today, in a little package, I kid you not,...

William Frisbee

As far as I have gathered, one of the major knocks on constructing Japanese armour out of authentic materials is that it does not endure the stress of SCA combat. This is wrong. Most Japanese armour, especially from 1450 on was quite good, especially beca...

William Frisbee

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>There are some plastic japanese kits out there that do conform to the "spirit" of the law. Most however...do not.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Versus the sheer amount of hockey pads, and blue plastic ba...

William Frisbee

it is not period for me, vut it makes me think about building a suit simply to go with it

That is exactly what I did. I should have to full kit 100% completed within a few short weeks!

William Frisbee

Heh... I wonder whose 14th century faulds you are working on...

From what I have seen it looks like it's just articulated with leather...

But don't take my word on it, I'm sure there are many others who are MUCH more up on it than I.

William Frisbee

Hey that breastplate is not bad!

William Frisbee

Hells, not just running, but doing shoulder rolls, and vaulting into the saddle... That was some very sweet armour, but seemed to me to be more footsman armour than jousing armour as I don't remember seeing a lot of reenforcement on the left side of the armour...

William Frisbee

Thanks Mykaru, I didn't know if I got it all right, and did not want to speak for you, so I just answered with what I knew... =)

William Frisbee

So even if it hits your brim, call it appropriately as the direction of the sword warrants. Actually during fighter practice this past weekend I got hit three times in the head. One was a great crown shot, the other was a brim shot that skittered off the ...

William Frisbee

I'm not sure yet. I still need to fight in it more. Mostly the brim shots are just that, the brim. Sometimes the brim shots I've taken do hit my shoulder and I do take those without question. I started with the whole, if the helm rings its a good shot, but as time goes on I may change. It all depend...

William Frisbee

What I should have shown is someone wearing hockey pads... My whole point is that some people have the whole view against the Japanese persona yet are willing to accept people wearing hockey pads with a tabard over the top... That is where I have a problem. How "traditional" would it be for an 9th c...

William Frisbee

Ok, here is the question... What would you rather see on the feild? This: [img]http://home.attbi.com/~stormer/front.jpg[/img] or this: [img]http://www.ashcraftbaker.com/kspangen1.jpg[/img] From my limited experience with other Japanese personas, most of us go much further in completing a more tradit...

William Frisbee

Pollaxes weren't designed for bonking horses on the head. If you stand in front of hundreds of pounds of horse, man, and armour with only a six foot hafted weapon and try to strike between the animal's ears, it'll be the last thing you ever do. That is no...

William Frisbee

Having a Wife who is a sport trainer and a personal trainer helps me out here a lot. Before anything I hit the bike or run for at least 10 minutes and do 10 minutes of streching. I lift three times a week. Monday, Wendsday and Fridays. I have an alternating schedule. The first workout of the week I ...

William Frisbee

Will they be covered by the rest of your kit, or is there going to be a chance of someone or something getting caught on them? Are the smaller hooks going to bend or break after taking the first face thrust? There is no way for anything to get caught on t...

William Frisbee

First off, AWESOME Kabuto. Great job Mykaru!! I like everything about this Zunari. They are my favorite hachi style. The fuku are sweet, are they extension off the first shikoro lame? Yeah, me too, I've always liked the zunari style kabuto, they just look...

William Frisbee

I notice this thread started by asking about corrazina and moved into brigs. Are corrazina's brigs? Or are brigs developments from corrazina's which themselves seem to be developments from CoP's....?

William Frisbee

I've always started with the shoulders and worked my way down... I more or less start with a H shape with two cross bars (head hole) and fill in the area to better fit my neck and head. Then I fill in the areas of the torso as needed (using both expansion and contraction areas to fit well). After th...

William Frisbee

BUY that kettle helm someone. I finally was able to fight in mine this weekend. It's simply incredible. The visibility was amazing. I had my FULL range of perephial vision. Not to mention almost nothing landed on my shoulders... Get it you WONT be disappointed. [This message has been edited by Evil_...

William Frisbee

Thanks for the update Janos!

Looking forward to getting the kit!

William Frisbee

What book is it?

William Frisbee

Mykaru,

No problem at all. You did a great job. I hope that you get to Japan and horne your skills even more. Looking forward to what you dish up next!

William Frisbee

Richard, Actually I got most of the kit done, I still need to make a manchira that will have a layer of 6-in-1 japanese style chain over it to cover my armpits and areas not covered by the dou, especially my shoulders and upper sternum. I also just need to get some simple elbows to wear under the tr...

William Frisbee

I've spent the past few days lacing my new Zunari Kabuto made by Mykaru. It's very important to note that this kabuto is list legal (or should be once approved). I'm shooting for a mid 16th century ashigaru kashira (think a mid level officer in charge of cannon fodder) for my persona First, lets sta...

William Frisbee

Sorry Mykaru! I've just been so busy working on it!

Now I will show it off for you.

William Frisbee

Damn, Mykaru, that may be a little tight on my head, but if you don't have any immediate buyers I will take it off your hands in a couple of weeks...

William Frisbee

Most excellent 14th century kit. I only hope mine looks as good when it is completed!

William Frisbee

Egads! Nice helm, but way too small.

William Frisbee

Steve how did you go about gathering most of your information about historic maille?

William Frisbee

$219.95

Not bad at all if you ask me.

William Frisbee

Very nice mounted sols!

Are the toes removeable for fighting on foot?

William Frisbee

Point them to your pourpoint or gambeson.

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