The Armour Archive

Chris Gilman

Ugo, It is nice, but I must be honest, the faceplate / face looks to small for the helmet and the visor pivot overlapping the side vent looks unplanned. I like to face and the style though. Also, the hinges (or something) on your gorget lames are not keeping your lames aligned, so they sag where the...

Chris Gilman

Great photos, thanks for sharing. At Le Armee It looks like they have changed many of the displays. It looks much better and you can see the early armour better. I can't wait to go back and see.

Chris Gilman

2 more days, jut a reminder.

Chris Gilman

Iain Ruadh wrote:
Ingvarr wrote: The man ya'll wish ye were!!! All who dare face him on the field check their manhood first

I am sorry that play fighting causes you to loose your manhood and you have to see if it is still there.

Chris Gilman

You should see the fighting at the Viking market in Wolin Poland. They require less armour than the SCA and fight with steel. Much faster and harder. They are crazy. My spring steel spagen helm got creased by a Dane axe.

Chris Gilman

Here are a couple more duplicate books for sale. They are in really nice condition and have great photos.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Arms-and-Armour-Tho ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Out-of-Print-G ... dZViewItem

Chris Gilman

Link to my current and one old SCA/ Fighting armours. (Earliest to latest period)
http://globaleffects.com/Temp/fightingarmours.jpg

Chris Gilman

I like everything but the cotter pins that lock the visor. Jolly well done helm... Cudos. Thanks for the pics. Hal Ps: Yuum... spring steel.. In my best Homer Simpsons voice... Those are the vervelles that hold on the avantail. My fault I'm afraid. I told Ugo, once the leather and cord was on, you ...

Chris Gilman

I forgot,.... is it, made of.................

wait for it...............

wait for it.....................

SPRING STEEL!

Chris Gilman

I heard rumors of a new Viking helmet being found when I was in Denmark, anyone know anything about this?

Chris Gilman

Very nice. Welcome.

Chris Gilman

Gazoontite dude!
Now wash your hands.

I must say, those are the ugliest gauntlets I have ever seen.

Chris Gilman

I'm going to buy all but a few of them, then mark them up substantially in a year when everybody is dying to get their hands on these and I'll make huge profits. Actually I'll just preorder one. Maybe a second as a present for my squire if I can afford it. Kind of broke right now. Richard It will b...

Chris Gilman

Eyvandr wrote:Gaston dod you have any pics of the full rawhide faced shield? How did u afix it to the shield?

Here is the thread that has the shield info.
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... ght=viking

Chris Gilman

What time period? I just finished making a number of these and then saw a number of the real ones in person. I was amazed how much smaller they where than I thought. Most books don't list sizes and the ones that do, I didn't look at to closely because I have very large hands and I thought I'd make t...

Chris Gilman

Interesting. I have never seen that. Now, I am by no means an expert on this. The Mac Maximilian gauntlets I have, have no palm strap and they work quite well. So I donâ€™t know.

Chris Gilman

If you want to avoid the strap on the palm, many period gauntlets have tabs of leather riveted into the sides of the gauntlet and the glove is sewn to these. Same at the cuff and finger tips. I don't think I have ever seen a period gauntlet with a riveted in glove, or a palm strap. All of them have ...

Chris Gilman

I have over the years designed and had built many tents like this. A solution that has worked well for me is cut pieces of wood dowel 1â€

Chris Gilman

Very nice, well done.

Chris Gilman

Aaron wrote:What we started with this (yes, everyone get's the Darth Vader joke going about now... ):

Well here is a Man at Arms for her...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/no_onions/180463592/

He works for me, But I'm sure I could work you a good deal!

Chris Gilman

Oh, and it says IC COM TO THAEM THAET HIE HAEBBEN LIF AND HAEBBEN GENOG It's from the Bible - "I COME TO THEM THAT THEY HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT IN ABUNDANCE" I am getting old, I swore this said; "I COME TO THEM THAT THEY HAVE LIFE AND HAVE AN AMBULANCE" I thought that was the part in the bible that s...

Chris Gilman

Balin, I thought at first you may be very young (itâ€™s hard to tell sometimes) But if I am correct that is you in the photos? You seem old enough to get some honest feedback. By posting photos here you are asking the opinion of some of the best metal smiths and armourers in the world. (There are al...

Chris Gilman

It looks very 1970's.

Chris Gilman

I have this picture, but I don't know if it is a Stechhelm liner though? m There is also a picture of a liner in the Kunsthistoresches Museum (that's the one in Vienna right? ) catalog (Waffensammlung I) on page 72. They called it a Harnischhaube in the description. Thanks, but no it is not a photo...

Chris Gilman

No Jeff, not any one here, I was giving Ugo a hard time about 2 people from his past who are not on his top ten list of most knowledgeable people on armour. (They just donâ€™t know it.) Somewhere I have an illustration of head padding for a frogmouth on a head with a frogmouth outline around it. I c...

Chris Gilman

Ugo wrote:Hi Jeff,

Ok great I got a bug now.

What are the dimentions on a GB and frogmouth? None of the reference I have seem to have anything I could use for scale.

I'm sure Dragon or Tony could tell you

Chris Gilman

I did NOT say that I felt Pat was a better armourer than Mac. What I had inferred was that making a suit starting with an iron bloom was going a step farther than starting with a sheet of steel. I too must say I misunderstood your post. There is much more to the workings of a suit than how it looks...

Chris Gilman

Ugo wrote:HEY!!! I worked on that!!!!

you love me not.

So did Dragon!

Your point?

Chris Gilman

Symon Fitz Gilbert wrote:You don't go anywhere, Your done. For you there will never be a "bigger and better" suit.

Well not really, I just ordered a Blankenshield suit.

Chris Gilman

From what I have read he paid L 30K for that harness with the crest and the saddle. If he is selling just the armour he is making a profit and will have a good chuck of money to put into a commission for a new suit of armour. Frankly with guys like Thaden making armour from a chunk of iron there is...

Chris Gilman

Alcyoneus wrote:
Sir Gaston wrote:
Drachus wrote:
Symon Fitz Gilbert wrote:I don't get it,.

I mean I can understand selling off a harness to get a better one made by a better armorer, but where on earth could you possible go AFTER owning a Mac harness?

What's the next level?

Mac Maximillian harness?

So where do I go?

Ugo.

Been there done that. Next

Chris Gilman

Drachus wrote:
Symon Fitz Gilbert wrote:I don't get it,.

I mean I can understand selling off a harness to get a better one made by a better armorer, but where on earth could you possible go AFTER owning a Mac harness?

What's the next level?

Mac Maximillian harness?

So where do I go?

Chris Gilman

Now you see the reason I referred to "The MAC!" AAAHAAA!! in "The Ugo" story.

Chris Gilman

Very nice

Chris Gilman

I haven't seen Brian's reprint, so I don't know what language he used But my original is in English. I also suspect, as in most reprints that the photos are going to be much clearer in the original. I also believe the drawings in the original are much larger than in the reprint. (They are all "fold ...

Armour Books, 2 more nice ones for sale