The Armour Archive

Lloyd

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Okay, back in the world of the living. I have taken the great helm, finger gauntlets, and soupcan knees/elbows off the listing as I need something to do my educational presentations with. Will be placing more armour, leather, and everything else listed up soon. Will be contacting everyone that PMd o...

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Sorry everyone - I am down hard sick at the moment and will return all emails and PMs as soon as I can.

Lloyd

Hi Matt, I would prefer to sell my full kit as a set, but (as the prices indicate) I am willing to "break it up" and sell it per piece. As for garb - I have 2 wool, completely handstiched and embroidered coptic tunics; 2 pairs of 16th century breeches (blue satin and velvet) for a very large person;...

Lloyd

This is going be damn close to a liquidation sale of pretty much everything that we don't positively need and will be updated often - so please keep checking back. SWORDS: Albion Steward - SOLD Arms and Armour Knightly Riding Sword - bronze fittings - this sword has been used for cutting and there i...

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Their claim just now is that, even if an arrow fails to penetrate armour, it would inflict enough blunt trauma to kill or incapacitate the wearer. I'm not sure I believe this one. This is distressing. I am planning on having my harness hardened somehow. I might even sell it and commission a better ...

Lloyd

Dev, Personally, I don't think that I would go lighter than 16ga spring for a breastplate - I put a tremendous dent in Cassandra's 14ga SS (and more than a few put into mine, when I wore SS) with an IJA style lance and a scored balsa tip (we scored them, but they sure didn't break). Shane caved my p...

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Here is also a thread from My Armoury on the topic:

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=8233

Thanks, James, I couldn't remember the name of the show.

Hope this helps Josh.

Lloyd

jeffsandersjkd wrote:Hey Mike... it looks like you where really onto something with the 4 day thing.

Rod and I are in, who else wants to come play?!?!

I am definitely IN!!

Lloyd

We have hit a mild steel, 16ga breastplate with a bodkin-tipped arrow from a 65lb draw bow dead on without penetration. I think that a spring steel breastplate of the same thickness would most probably be able to take a shot from the Mary Rose bow without piercing. Mike Loades did a progam on this s...

Lloyd

Well, back in the day at the Bristol Faire ('99) we used 2" diameter x 2' oak dowels that we shaped for our horseback bastons. We bought a 12' section of oak handrail at the lumber yard and faceted them. Hits like a freight train, but except for a couple of guys getting knocked out, no one was injur...

Lloyd

Very Sweet, Jeremy.

So, are apparently you are going to make my ecranche look like poor country knight's when we get to Australia

Lloyd

Hey Chris,

You saw Rod's suit, why not give Jiri a yell?

Lloyd

Dev,

I have the same set of pauldrons with reinforcers made for me by Beathan and Armour and Castings. Mine aren't SS, but you might shoot him an email. Mine are awesome (he even made me a bigger set than the ones I jousted in in 2005, which were just a tad small for me).

Lloyd

Hey Jeff, they look awesome!! Much better than the ones I had made that kept breaking (3 parters - the final piece was too thin).

Remember that my birthday was last Sunday....

Lloyd

Hey Bob,

If anyone can find a picture or, more likely, has a picture it will be Jeff and Gwen at Historic Enterprises. Might shoot them a PM and ask.

Talk to you soon,

Lloyd

Murdock,

If you have any questions about Beathan, just give me a yell, I will personally vouch for his honesty and let you know what has happened with his credit card system.

Lloyd

I am also looking to put together a new team for both the IJA and the EJL here in the Midwest. Soooo, if you all are interested give me a yell (maybe we can give Jeremy and Jeff a run for their money ). I need to know soon as to determine whether to send in my IJA dues as either an individual or as ...

Lloyd

And Jeff got a talking to at the last SCA thing we did (Queen's Equestrian Tourney couple of years ago) about how his armour was scaring the horses. Hellloooo.. This happened at the last event I took my horse to (about three years ago). I got a stern lecture about scaring another horse. See, I frik...

Lloyd

Well, if you don't mind making the trip over to Wisconsin, I plan on beginning to teach classes in both jousting and mounted combat (Fiore & Talhoffer) after our fundraising fayre in 2 weeks. We will be setting up a permanent joust/equestrian combat training facility with boarding. If you want to kn...

Lloyd

Hey Scott, Let me know when Brian is delivering it to you, I would love a short course in doing rolls. And when are you going to get your butt over here for WMA? (remembering that we won't be starting again until after our Fayre in 2 weeks - except for Joe who has been getting some private classes b...

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Hey Simon,

You would be offering this when I have no money

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I'll shop it around with some of my WMA folks (and if you still have it by the time Rod's tourney rolls around, and he gets around to inviting me, perhaps I can bring home a shiny "present" from Australia

Lloyd

Yep, I was right, they sold already...

Lloyd

Damn, Clay, those spaulders are beautiful. I may have to have you make me some custom ones in the future (non $$ at the moment). I'll pass the link on to my LH group, but I doubt they will be around when they get a chance to look at them.

Lloyd

If you can, think about coming to Lanzefest the Sunday/Monday of Labor Day weekend. It is run by Amy and Howy of Albion and our crew will be jousting there. They usually have Aaron and the other ARMA guys down from Appleton and they have the prototype Albion Maestro line Fiore swords (I really want ...

Lloyd

Actually, I am going to be gone this weekend (I figure that Jason will run the class) as we are doing a joust up in Florence and I am MCing.

Week after, though, we should all get together.

Lloyd

Murdock wrote:"And that's exactly the small but hardcore market that Klaus and I look for. "

thats me

Small and hardcore

Soooo, you are going to jump in the car with Joe and bring these by to class when????

Lloyd

I got an email from Beathan (by PMing here on the AA) about 3 weeks ago. He told me that he and his other guys in his armoury was going to be on vacation until mid-August (I am trying to get a buttload of Dark Ages gear made for my LH group). I know after a couple of months advice to be patient just...

Lloyd

Contact Joe at Lonewolf Chainmaille (he is on AA as LWCM). Great work, excellent product!

Lloyd

Always looking for Living History grade camping essentials, so there would be great interest from my group.

Lloyd

Del Tin Sword of St. Maurice on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SWORD-OF-ST-MAURICE ... dZViewItem

Albion Swords has a European Division, might check them out.

Good luck!

Lloyd

Thorfinn, I have ordered numerous pieces of armour from Beathan the last few years and have never had a tracking number (its kind of like shipping USPS out of the country, you can track it until it leaves their custody). I have learned that his email is intermittent at best. I would just PM him ever...

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It is interesting that they went from round/conical to flat topped, then back to round-conical again, (round/conical offereing a better glancing surface) Maybe someone figured it helped to have more space between your head and the inside of the helm. -Justus I have often wondered if the change was ...

Lloyd

ACK!! Okay, I want it back, PM sent.

Lloyd

It says sell or trade, what are you looking for in trade? We (Murdock, LWCM, and I) need longswords for WMA practice (just like the AEMMA does) and before too long single hand swords for I.33. Let me know what you have left Friday and I'll take the list to my WMA class on Saturday morning. Also, wil...

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