The Armour Archive

Alcyoneus

That would certainly make us look more medieval, wouldn't it?

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I want to eat his brains.

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This book is pretty good:
ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE CRUSADING ERA, 1050-Â1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia (Hardcover)
by David Nicolle

Alcyoneus

Who made it, etc? I'd be interested.

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For the most part, brig limb defenses will be mid14th, I think. I'll look in my books to check and see if I can find much in the way of later examples.

The sallet looks like some examples you will find drawn by Durer.

Alcyoneus

You might think about how you are approaching 'personna' as well.

You could have the personna of a blacksmith, or, like Thomas Powers, you could be a blacksmith.

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Murdock wrote:Can anyone document the "X" straps???

Yes, and it is what I use on my shields. Great control, lower profile, since you don't have a big handle sticking out, and when you tighten your grip on the two straps, it gets locked in place.

Alcyoneus

And, Chaucer was speaking and writing in what he considered to be 'modern' English.

As do I.

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Winterfell wrote:I made a matched set of halfswords for a recent tournament. They worked well but most people ended up just using them as polearms.

They look like full swords to me.

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It wouldn't take much material to make an improvised stretcher, and you certainly wouldn't want to be carrying around that much wood with the body. The litters I've seen for corpses could be made with 2x2's or less.

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That is very sweet.

I ran across this the other day, and you might find it interesting. It is about 'traditional Egyptian martial arts', mostly modern, but some interesting pictures.

S&S, wrestling, two-stick (Florentine documentation!

)

http://www.tamzalla.de/tammazla.php

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The 'single loop' is probably the most documentable, and common.

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There were approximately 10,000 Buddhist converts in Greece, c250BC, after Prince Asoka sent missionaries to Greece, as well as Egypt. The Nag Hammadi Library is very reminicent of Buddhist thought, to my mind. So the Helga Buddha was probably brought back from Greece, although how long it took to g...

Alcyoneus

How about air rifles?

From Howard L. Peterson's Hunting Weapons item #145 (about p323):

Key-operated piston air-gun made to look like a wheellock. German, c1575. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Alcyoneus

In the other topic Tim Finkas said that he photoshopped that in.

But HW probably did start that about 890.

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I don't know if the horse that wears this will share.

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That would be pushing it for any body of Vikings. An individual Viking or two? Perhaps. Greek mercenaries went to China after Alexander.

If anyone wrote up a persona story like Marco Polo's, they'd consider it to be on the order of a Scotsman with a katana.

Alcyoneus

So, which side did Duke Garick represent?

When he won the Armorers vs Brewers Guild tournament at Lilies he proclaimed afterwards that "Gott liebe mich!".

Could he do the same thing if he was on the vice side?

Alcyoneus

The Almain rivet isn't a full coverage arm protector, so it doesn't wrap around the arm. Since it would flap around with strenuous movement, it needs attached at points to keep it in place.

Alcyoneus

Actually, there is a 'ring' belt buckle in the Museum of London books, c1450? A round ring, and a pin very similar to a cotter pin attached to it.

There is also a belt in Madrid, late 15thC (c1500) that looks much like a title belt.

Neenerneener!

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Here are a few pics of a chanfron made by Glendour. It is made from 18g stainless steel, and is not yet finished. It needs cheek pieces, et.

The photos are nearly a gig, so i didn't post the images directly.

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/DSC00081.JPG
http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/DSC00085.JPG
http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/DSC00086.JPG

Alcyoneus

In the Kienbusch collection (and book) there is a 16thC parade shield painted with a 'Roman' scene, and one of the generals carries two swords one in each hand. Like today, I think it was intended to say "This is one bad dude, look how good he is..." One of my Scythian books has a piece of...

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Another thing you can do is to lay down a strip of tape, even duct tape. It gives you a positive index when the edge of the metal touches the tape. I did this with some thin SS, and laid down a very straight line about 27" long, on the two long edges of a 3.5" wide strip.

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Wolf wrote:this has already been sold once. or tried too. do a search and you'll find it ehre on the AA

Are you sure it was the same helmet, not just an identical helmet found somewhere else?

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Ostrogothic? I'm betting Drachenwaldian.

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Some authors believe that leather armor was more common, esp. for tournaments than steel. It would certainly be cheaper, it grows on the hoof, and doesn't have to be mined, with quite a bit of capital intensive labor.

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To carry a body, they often just made a framed box, with boards on the bottom. The other 5 sides would be open. Bodies don't need a rope base, they don't complain about comfort levels.

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Jeff asked me to find this and post it here, as I'm the last one to have bought a copy. It's available through Amazon.fr Le livre des tournois du roi rene by FranÃ§ois Avril Service from Amazon France has been excellent for me. Gwen Gwen is good! Gwen is great! She gives us d'Anjou cake!

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It took cojone to make that joke...

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I just bought 20yds of white from fabrics-store. For those who have bought colored versions, how color fast is it? I need some purple stripes and I don't want it bleeding onto the white.

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I just picked up a book on Lucas Cranach, and he shows one in a drawing of his from 1525. It would be a 'war heater' to us.

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I'd call that one "Why is this man smiling?"

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I think we need some close ups.

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If you find it, let us in on the link.

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This is a modern reconstruction of armor similar to Hallstatt era breastplates.

Embossed horse armor by Glendour