The Armour Archive

Rev. George

Someone at Harvard will have to stand in line, as the design is MUCH older than that. Its the arms of the comyn family of scotland from the era of 13th/14th century. Comyn, Earl of Buchan Azure three garbs or Look here: http://www.demon.co.uk/apl385/gilling/her-ae.htm Secondly, I dont believe a pers...

Rev. George

On my site, with more to come today or tommorow. for archivers, i'm gonna offer free USPS shipping to the states. Mention you are an archive member, and what your name is on here.

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Rev. George

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I assume from the title that they are crusader style kness, but Conrad will be posting more info soon

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Rev. George

I have yet to run into someone that tried to pick me apart. I doubt i would be kind, gentle or nice to them. "that tunic looks bad, the wool is a 3/2 twill, and it wasnt used.." "excuse me, did i ask for your opinion harpy?" and walk away. If I ask, or you approach me in a pleasant way "gee, you kno...

Rev. George

i could take pix of the inside of mine, if that would help...
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Rev. George

I know you can be disbarred, or lose your medical liscence, or pharmacy liscence for certain crimes...

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Rev. George

Cow costs: Here's an except from USDA-GA Dept of AG Market News Georgia Cattle Auctions Weekly Summary <i> <b>Heifers: Medium and Large 1-2 200-250 lbs 100.00-114.00 250-300 lbs 100.00-110.00 300-350 lbs 98.00-108.00 350-400 lbs 90.00-100.00 400-450 lbs 84.00-94.00 450-500 lbs 80.00-88.00 500-550 lb...

Rev. George

actually it was a 10 lb package... but yeah... usps was 1/4 the cost of the others, and has just as good insurance..

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Rev. George

RB: I will agree, however, i think you are missing something. Ever see comedy central's "TV funhouse"? There are a series of animals, played by poppets. one of them is a "comedy insult dog" who perfomrs in atlantic city. His joke de jour method is thus: "what can i say about the salad bar at the rit...

Rev. George

Was leather everused as an armour? Yes. Do we have many finds of it? No. Same way we dont have many clothing finds, of shoe finds, ESP of an earlier era. I THINK (though i could be wrong) that we have definate written accounts of leather armour, and possibly leather lammelar in the east. (i know the...

Rev. George

I would prefer pelicans not wear chapeaus. They are for baronages. but that's just me.

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Rev. George

russ: never forget COD... But i know how you feel, though, i have skirted a lot of pain. I ALMOST bought from nightwing, but decided to wait. then i was gonna get an iron river helm, but something came up and i spent the money. AG still owes me a gorget from a trade...so i'm a lil miffed. And I'm st...

Rev. George

I loked thru corpora, (even used the search feature) and could find no mentioning of regailia for any peerage.

As to the any chain, that fricken sux. What are we to wear round our necks? rope, like a peasant? collar of estate? (sorry not here, fricken sumptry laws)...

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Rev. George

Lodhur sapke with a mighty voice and sayeth: Rev. George Since when are any of the rules supposed to be optional? Thus does George respond: Blows repeatedly blocked by a weapon in contact with a fighterâ€™s helm, body or shield at the moment of impact may at the Crownâ€™s or Marshallateâ€™s discreti...

Rev. George

Andy had advertised for a while he would teach someone how he does it, if you visited him. It's my assumption that that's where GG came in. Galon, OTOH is taking over gauntlets.com, and thus, intheory, assuming andy's orders..

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PS: just my take.

Rev. George

No that's not the reason...

You cant fight in that because is isnt blue.

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Rev. George

In short, yes. here's what i've found from Talhoffer (i included everypanel i could found that involved pommel side attacks.)...[img]http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/thalhoffer/images/tafel_38.gif[/img] [img]http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/thalhoffer/images/tafel_48.gif[/img] [img]http://ww...

Rev. George

Or rather, buy a bundle of cut hair from asupplier like tandy, that way you at least arent certain that the old grey mare gave her life for your helm...

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Rev. George

This is from the costumers manifesto:

http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/14thcent1.htm

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Rev. George

Kickin harness...

BTW, I think that swords' a bit big for ya. that's a travel sized dopplesoldner... LOL

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Rev. George

Its a rule that's in the society guidelines as an option. Most kingdoms dont use it...

Though i think it may have evolved in response to an "iorn chicken" style of fighting

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Rev. George

how about cool feathers?? (i happen to have some of those)

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Rev. George

By "real" I'm assuming you mean authentic period (ie from back in the day). Your best bet would be to contact the larger auction houses, and see if they have any armour coming up on the block. at this point, the armour is going to be either held by a museum, or a private collector. Both realize its ...

Rev. George

Mordreth: Its not a question of wether a blow from a weapon could damage the armour. if that were the case, give me what we call a "busting maul" you might call it a splitting maul, its a heavy axe like implement used to split firewood. a peasants weapon. I dont think that there is a helm, SCA or ot...

Rev. George

caliper or micrometer or gague wheel.

the first two used to be terribly pricy, but that's probly not the case anymore... The third one is probly cheaper, but less versitile

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Rev. George

Were the combed ones even formed in one peice? or were they hammer welded? (i honestly dont know)

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Rev. George

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Rev. George

Ever consider getting a set of less protrusive post ends? flattened spheres perhaps?

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BTW...i was serious about helping you out on the other thread...

Rev. George

I'm assuming you mean fredrich barbarosa, king of germany throught the third crusade? (the one who fell form his horse and drowned due to the weight of his armour?) I dont know off hand, BUT I will qualify that the old, out of shape, grossly overweight aspects of the king probably had more to do wit...

Rev. George

Derek, if you want to mail me the pix, i will toss them up on the web for you..

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Rev. George

here's a lightened mirror:

http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/pics/Sewing/skinout/Skinout.html

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Rev. George

here's a lightened mirror:

http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/pics/Sewing/skinout/Skinout.html

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Rev. George

Here are some thoughts on equivilency: they want the helm to have a certain weight, and a certain resistance to denting. So what are equivilents? Lead plated titanium? A 10GA stainless skull with 18ga hardened spring skirt? 17 GA helm with really big honkin bars? It would be nice if they had a more ...

Rev. George

it should work... although, as aidan said, i would be wary of a low temp melting wax... all you're doing is using saturation hardening, no chance of denaturization. Buy canning parrafin (add stearate if you want) and soak your leather in it for a good while, until it stops foaming... that's the way ...

Rev. George

I think 1/2 inch is the max i'd do...but if sone with really thick wire, it'll hold up...

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(who happens to own a 1/2" id hauberk made of 11.5 GA hitension wire)

Stuff in stock...

Pix posted for Conrad the mad