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Uilleag

Uilleag, Very nice work! I just love hand tooled leather and you do it so beautifully. If I ever get any money (that I don't need to spend on tools and supplies), I would like to talk to you about a leather organizer cover. Do you do those? I'm not in the SCA, so I don't need armour, but I have bee...

Uilleag

Magnus, Structurally, the helms are fairly similar, depending on the craftsman's skill in welding and riviting metal, as well as the skill in shaping the pieces to form the helm. I am not persoanlly familiar with either of the craftsman you linked, but by looking at both pages, you are right, you ar...

Uilleag

Greetings All! I have adjusted my prices to reflect my shops overhead needs, but before my current clients become overly concerned, I would like to say that all existing commissions that have been paid for or have sent in a deposit will recieve thier orders at the originally agreed upon price. For t...

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Uilleag

Unto my goodly friend and once boon companion Lachlann, I truly know the sun does race once more upon its track bringing war and tourney season all that much faster. Indeed, I well know the value of proper time to prepare for such a worthy cause as was placed before all who would contend for the cou...

Uilleag

You are my hero! If you did not have such a cute girlfriend... who could probably beat me up... I would kiss you! Given your review of effigies and pictorial evidence, do you think that most, if not all of the shapes you have seen could have been hammered/dished and still retain their decoration? C...

Uilleag

Ulleag, you are the GW staff? Same battles as last year. At the same times as well? I am on land staff again this year, so I am not directly involved with marshal planning. But from what I have read on the list they are using the same schedule as last year for the battles. I would assume that means...

Uilleag

As I understand it, discussing this issue on the staff list, the battles will have the same schedule as last year. What is yet to be decided is the tournies and other activities.

When the schedule is updated I will forward the information here.

Uilleag

The dish in the rerebrace above is about 1" deep. However I have dished elbows and such that are considerable deeper, say 3" - 4" deep and rather narrow, meaning that the entire piece was pressed into the dishing form, again with very little distortion of the tooling. To be fair, I line my steel dis...

Uilleag

Unto the right noble Lord Lachlann MacNiall, Squire in the service of Duke Kane Redfeather, tenan of the Couter of Chivalry, does Tiarna Uilleag o' Conmhaic, esquire of Shair Fiachna MacFiriach, does send most heartfelt greetings. Good friend Lachlann, It was with some regret that my suit to challen...

Uilleag

if no complex shapes have to be made... The problem is exacerbated when you have complex shapes. Basic shapes can be formed to some degree by hand but the final shape can not be completely predictable. You can "dish" leather but if you have any tooling exactly how are you going to preserve the tool...

Uilleag

What I like about shaping the leather with a hammer and a dish is that it seems to compress the fibers of the leather real nice and tight. I've never worked with lasts so I dunno , does it do that too as it dries? Actually, Animal, what I have found is that dishing the leather, compresses the fiber...

Uilleag

Unto the right noble Lord Lachlann MacNiall, Squire in the service of Duke Kane Redfeather, tenan of the Couter of Chivalry, does Tiarna Uilleag o' Conmhaic, esquire of Shair Fiachna MacFiriach, does send most heartfelt greetings. Good friend Lachlann, It was with some regret that my suit to challen...

Uilleag

Chris Dobson made a valiant effort at reproducing leather armour.... however a lot of it is speculation and trial and error. While the end result is good... I would expect that hardened leather was not done in the fashion suggested. Dan Houchins has done a significant amount of research into this s...

Uilleag

Last Monday's practice was frustrating. After an hour of looking I couldn't find my elbow pads for under the cops. I was supposed to drop off an order at practice, 1/2 way there realized I forgot it so turned back home. I got to practice an 30 minutes late, got fully suited up and realized my kidney...

Uilleag

Tom,

Nobody here is attacking anybody. It is a conversation between two seperate cultures trying to understand one another. Niether side has readily insulted the other, points of view were expressed, questions were asked, and then answered.

Uilleag

Animal, I count you as one of my friends, you have often refered to me as Dog, and I call you brother. You and the Tuchux I have known before you, (granted that is a small number) are different from SCA culture in many ways. I have never met a Tuchux that would willing bow or give homage to a King, ...

Uilleag

Baeux Tapestry (SP?) Has eveidence of what apperars to be leather trim sewn onto mail shirts.

Uilleag

Maelgwyn, You read my mind, that is in fact the plan for me this year, except I am picking quite a few effigies to work from. I may attempt working in conjuction with some metal armourers to provide the steel pieces that are required....We'll see, keep posted for progress pics later this spring / su...

Uilleag

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Uilleag

I rechecked everything from my computer, to include checking the code. If anyone else is having similar prolems, like Gregory has mentioned, please let me know. Since the site is navigating perfectly from my computer, I have no idea what the problem might be. If the computer gurus out there are expi...

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Gregory, I just re-checked the site using my url link from the archive. All of the thumbnails are up and all of the thumbnail links open up another browser page with the enlarged picture. Some of the larger pics even allow you to enlarge them in the new browser, as designed. I'm not sure what the pr...

Uilleag

It sounds like the problem you are having is with the leather, and not necessarily how you prepare it before making the shoe. Leather will have varying degress of density through the piece, based on whether that area of the hise was stretched while the animal was living, fat deposits in the hide, et...

Uilleag

Well, Ralph, there comes a time when the business will take a hit or a loss on a project. This comes from good customer service and attempting t ogo out of your way to make something just perfect for the client. At times like that I will take the hit, but the more expierienced you get at armouring t...

Uilleag

I have finally finished all of the updates that I wanted to make with the website.

Come check it out and look at the new layout. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome!

Uilleag

I am not impressed with that at all. It is all simple cuts and shapes with speed rivets. Uileag's stuff is MUCH more advanced and Torvaldr cuiri boilles his leather. Actually Irish, I cuir bouilli my armour as well, I just use water and even heat as opposed to wax. Torvaldr's technique works very w...

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Greetings all, House of the Wolf Leather has just finished reevaluating it's current product line and has updated the web site. All of prices include shipping to the continental U.S. Shipping overseas is available at an extra cost. We are now offering a full product line of European based armours. S...

Uilleag

SCA rules say that full leather gauntlets are legal as long as they are 16 oz untreated leather, or 8 - 10 oz treated leather. I don't have the handbook directly in foront of me, or I would quote it directly. The exact specifics can be found at sca.org under the marshallate links.

Uilleag

I have updated that portion of the website, so pics should be back up.

Uilleag

My Website is undergoing a major over haul. Unfortunately my images will be offline for another few hours. Everything should be online by 8 in the morning.

Sorry for the inconvienience.

Uilleag

That essay has to be one of the best reads I have taken the time for in quite a while! Frederich, himself suggested that I read it about a month back, and I was very busy, so I told myself, I'll get to it later. How so very foolish of me. This essay has answered so many questions that I have had as ...

Uilleag

Greetings all. I just finished a pair of gauntlets and a gorget for a customer. Having taken several customers comments into consideration along with the helpful hints here on the archive, I paid really close attention to the articulation of the gaunts and the new thumb design suggested here is real...

Uilleag

I have to agree with Armourer Eric on this one. My business is still relitively small, I spend on average 1 - 2 hours a day answering emails and advertising, either here on the archive or through my web site. I then dedicate an entire day, (usually Sunday) to updating my commission list, contacting ...

Uilleag

My lady Ulfdisa and I will be there.

Uilleag

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