The Armour Archive

Alcyoneus

I've done it to some chainmail and it worked out pretty nice. I really liked the color that resulted. You still need to keep it oiled, but surface rust that can result, if taken care of soon, isn't as deep as the finish. I put the mail in the top part of a double boiler for a long time to increase t...

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It says they are made in the USA, but by who?

[This message has been edited by Alcyoneus (edited 12-10-2001).]

Alcyoneus

Tom Bombadil gets left out. The orc armor (construction equipment leftovers) suck. Just read the Hobbit and LOTR to refresh myself, and I think JRR was pretty sketchy on armor. They go to kill Smaug, and are basically unarmed and unarmored? They deserved to get eaten. In LOTR, it seems that the spea...

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It's a nice suit, but not a great suit (and far better than anything I have made.). The flutes look far deeper than they probably should be (according to a laurel I know). He said that German fluting was lower than Italian (generally), but the Maximillian he made wasn't as deep as that, and it was d...

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I checked with one of our heralds, and here is what she said: "I could find nothing on the armory that you sent in the data base which is current to June of this year. I checked the Laurel letters on line which have July and August decisions posted and found nothing there. I will add the caveate tha...

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Because he thereby reduces his liability for what some complete idiot might do with it.

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Phrygian caps are rather neat, and so are the helmets.

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Bruising, a little use&abuse injury, minor smashed fingers, freak accident in which a much smaller guy ran into me and dislocated my shoulder (and the accromium process broke [OWWWW!} when the shoulder was reset. All good clean fun.

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Hundreds of hours to make? Perhaps thousands!

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William Marshal had to have his helmet removed during a tournament by a blacksmith one time. And since he never lost a tournament, he musta won that one too.

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Including one helm with a number of small punctures and one HUGE 3/4" square hole in it. If I could figure out how to post pictures...

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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1493114457 EFTIS: 16thC Armor Hammer UK! N/Reserve! You are bidding on a rare and attractive iron Armor Hammer used for shaping medieval iron Armor. Found near the river Thames in London. Overall Length: 11 1/4 inches. Forming? I don't think so...

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Actually, we have 501c3 organizational status, but he is pretty much right on the rest. We don't have to educate the public (we do at demos), we do educate ourselves.

I wear 41 pounds of armor currently, come and get it.

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Ditto for me RB. Without the fighting (unchoreographed) the SCA would not exist. There are groups that participate in individual aspects of what we do (sewing, cooking, woodwork, etc), but none that combine it all. When I go out on the field, I usually plan on winning. So does my oponent. It involve...

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I made a coif that goes about to the point of the shoulders, and down the front and back a little bit. Ribbed/knit material for t shirts works okay. Kept the hair out of the gorget.

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Gives something for the sword to stick to. Now if you make it flush..., but that would involve riveting it to a plate that gets riveted to the rest of the helm...

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When cutting really tight corners, I like to punch a hole with a Whitney, and cut up to it.

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The straight lines (or very close to it) would tend to indicate some sort of edge hitting it. Whether a sword, or dropping it on a table...?

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Murdock: You would likely have the same gear as the English, just a few years behind fashion. We were not fur covered, dirty,long haired barbarians!! <HR></BLOCKQ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Charron: 1.All in all, I believe the peerages are far too politicized and hard to get. 2.We should just bestow a knighthood on everyone who obtains all their authorizat...

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These is a rare Deed of Conveyance for the office of Hereditary Knight Banneret and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Krak des Hittites, both originating from an historic crusader barony of the Holy Land. Although now ceremonial, the Knight Banneret is the the most illustrious knighthood capable of b...

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It's a good game when no one loses an eye.

Alcyoneus

Sir John Hawkwood had his outfit (The White Company) equipped with spears that for tactical purposes could be adjusted for length. Bolts through pipe? Threaded? I don't know, the reference didn't say. Evolution of spear to lance? Think of it as the difference between a bolt action rifle and a sniper...

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About what guage is it?

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For the pattern, I think I would make a fabric piece to cover, and make the pattern that fit.

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The helmet probably does not extend past the bottom of the chin, leaving the neck wide open. You could wear the Romanish armor in the wheelchair to make people leave you alone.

Alcyoneus

I have a small brad nailer that uses brads that are rather similar to period style cut nails. I'm thinking that the way cut nails may have been made would have been by using shears on a narrow strip of metal. Angle the cut, and while the head may be the same thickness, it is wider and would hold. Bu...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Kristoff: [BI still use a plastic (white) breastplate, I have since upgraded my arms and legs but not the bp. does it look ugly, kinda, would I love to have a gothic breastplat...

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Nice.

Alcyoneus

Unless they are making something like Mithril Drake's new helm http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif they are making a derivative of someone else's work. The maker may be dead 500 years or more, but... If you had 2 layers of 18g (0.050) you would have the ~equivalent of 10g (2x.05+0.100), but it...

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Isn't golf supposed to be derived from Scots knocking around (human) heads with sticks?

Alcyoneus

He finally has a web site! It is still very much under construction, but there are some nice pictures of an embossed B&W burgeonet on it. Bookmark it and check back as they add pictures, etc!
www.TalonArmory.com

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No commissions yet, but I'll tell him you asked.

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They put damn near anything they wanted on them. Including humorous statements.

16th C War Hammer?

Crusader Knighthood for sale on ebay

Embossed B&W burgeonet