The Armour Archive

Maelgwyn

Looks good Uilleag! How much do they weigh? Have you considered using rabbit glue to harden a pair? This is one place where I think you want all the strength you can get.

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Sir Conor and I got a 3'x4' sheet cut into two 2'x3' pieces and shipped for about $70 as I recall, but that was a while ago. I still have a little left and I don't think Conor has cut his at all yet, if you were looking for a small piece to play with. Krag, if you look closely you'll see that the ho...

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My advice, guaranteed to be worth what you paid for it: 1. Cut back the running to every-other day. This gets you only a marginal reduction in cardio benefit and a greatly reduced chance of stress-injury. If you are completing your run in under 30 minutes you might want to add more distance for a fu...

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I think Alexis is using slightly thicker metal for large pieces with a gradual curve, like breastplates or cuises, but even at 20 or 18 gauge this stuff is comparatively light. With a little bit of padding to reduce the slap or buzz effect of the lightweight armour it is quite comfy. I use some 1/4"...

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I came across several examples online that had this interwoven pattern and two hound's heads. I found a separate example of a similar artistic style with the hart's head and then tweaked and re-sized it to fit. The hound is the major charge on my arms and the hart is from my lady's arms. I do not kn...

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verminaard wrote:yes, but now you two have had that conversation in front of me. I gotta go talk to my librarian now...

Since you live in Austin...

Go to http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/texshare.htm#lot

Click on "Remote Access"

Enter your card number

Enjoy!

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Russ, didn't we already have this conversation? 42 of the best commecial databases are FREE to you because the Texas State Library licenses them statewide. Several other states have similar programs. See your local librarian for details.

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One of the "secrets" that JP's holding out on is that because the armour is hardened & tempered high carbon steel, it's *very* thin, which makes forming a dream & why it's so light. If it's the .032 that we typically use, that's approximately *21 GAUGE*. You can almost form it with your hands when ...

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Useful, and a big improvement over normal search engines, but no substitute for commercial research tools. If Google searches all materials on the public Web and Google Scholar searched only selected authoritative materials on the public Web, then that's great, but most scholarly publication is stil...

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Mon 1 x60 HS, 2 x10 HP
Tues 30 min. Nordic Track
Wed 1 x60 HS, 2 x10 HP
Thurs 30 min. Nordic Track
Fri worked on armour projects
Sat Finished my new vambraces! See http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=38561
Sun worked on leather lamellar

Too wet for practice or pell work all week.

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Thanks! The pictures don't convey how tough and springy and light these are. The tooling was done with just a stylus, swivel knife and beveler, nothing fancy.

And thanks, but I know I'm much too slow at this sort of project to ever do it on a production level.

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Well, I finaly finished the vambraces I've been working on over the past several months. The leather was tooled, dyed, soaked, shaped, baked, and treated with rabbit glue. The splints of 22 gauge 4130 carbon steel were shaped, heated bright orange, oil quenched, cleaned, tempered to a golden brown t...

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Some options that people might like: 1 - Cut and punched but untreated lamellae in 10 and 14 oz wieghts 2 - water-hardened (baked) lamellae, natural or various dyes 3 - Rabbit glue hardened lamellae, natural or various dyes 4 - Kits (#1 with instructions, lacing cord and rabbit glue powder) 5 - Pre-...

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Looks good to me. If you bring them out on Tuesday you might want to get Max or Conor to take a look. Max (North Star Armory) has been doing some interesting things with slotted rivet articulation lately.

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I know that many Northern Ansteorrans have worked with interested Calontiri on rapier fighting at Ansteorran events. I am too far away to offer such help on any regular basis but I would be happy to provide any advice and/or encouragement I can. If you are interested in rapier within an SCA context ...

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With my beautiful new Del Tin 42" rapier.

I need a "rigid gorget" under Ansteorran "heavy rapier" rules.

Don Maelgwyn

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If you had a metal helm in the 5th century in what is now Scotland, you either: 1. Stole it from a Roman 2. Bought or stole or inherited it from someone who stole it from a Roman 3. Got a smith to make one for you based on examples that you had seen...which were all stolen from the Romans. (This see...

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That's better!

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As I'm supposed to be in fighting persona a Pict, I should go for a maile shirt, a ridge style helm and keep everthing else hidden. What I actualy do is lamellar, scale, spangenhelm with scale aventail and hidden legs, so I'm thinking of changing to a Magyar persona, from around the same time perio...

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I think a spangenhelm with 18 gauge bands and hardened leather panels would be pretty much ideal. I would use a grill from a street-hockey mask.

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I wouldn't go thinner than 18 gauge with mild steel just because I want it to hold up to being hauled around by a 12-year-old and tossed in the trunk of the car with other stuff piled on top. Something lighter and more rigid would be even better.

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I have not seen Price's book but I learned a lot from Steve of Forth Castle's online tutorial on linen helm liners. See http://www.forth-armoury.com/photo_gall ... _liner.htm

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I made some splints of 22 gauge 4130 steel, hardened and tempered. They are curved enough to add strength. You might be able to break one with a sledge hammer but I doubt you could dent one with a steel or rattan sword under combat conditions. M-shaped splints out of this stuff would be incredibly s...

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Hobby Lobby sells waxed linen cord suitable for leatherwork or heavy fabric projects.

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How do <b>you</b> motivate yourself to practice? Build an image in your mind of a person who looks like you but has all of the prowess, nobility, honor, and other chivalric virtues of a perfect knight. We will call this person...Sir Lyonnete. Now ask yourself, what would Sir Lyonnete do?

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JasonM@carlisle-city.gov.uk writes: Many thanks for your email. I have investigated P&P costs to send you the book via airmail - Ã‚Â£2.60 + Ã‚Â£6.49 for book = Ã‚Â£9.09. If you wish to contact us direct via telephone we could take payment via credit card immediately to ensure a faster dispatch of t...

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Discussion continued at http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... 269#445269

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Continued from m Maelgwyn, umm... if the scholars agree that lamellar overlaps upwards and scale overlaps downwards..... shouldn't we? Not if those scholars are doing art interpretation on the basis of limited archaeological data. It is more of a convention or assumption than a concensus based on ev...

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Mon. nothing Tues. 60 hindu squats, 20 hindu pushups Wed. 30 min. nordic track Thurs. Veterans day holiday. Worked on new vambraces and pell. Fri. Finished new pell. Modified basket hilt for better extension. 30 minutes pell work with focus on sword extension. Sat. finished tooling and dying vambrac...

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A news article at m reports "Mr Mitchelson pointed out that the illustrated booklet summarising the results of the excavation Carlisle Millennium Project Ã¢â‚¬â€œ excavations in Carlisle 1998-2001 is on sale at Tullie House for Ã‚Â£6.50." This is a preliminary work not to be confused with the full r...

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I make roman-style oval shields out of 2 layers of 1/4" birch plywood, laminated together in a curved press using wood glue. This is what I would suggest for SCA combat.

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If the scholars studying said iconographic evidence agree in advance that lapping upwards =lamellar and lapping downwards=scale, then it would be hard to find iconographic evidence for lamellar that laps downward. I don't think we have enough evidence for a really solid conclusion either way. Most a...

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Regarding those images of Drake and Raleigh - I wouldn't be surprised if those were merely badges of office, like the stylised crescent-shaped gorgets of army officers in the Napoleonic era, currently surviving as collar tabs or patches in some uniforms. If so, it would be appropriate for them to w...

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Shameless wrote:Very nice pictures! (and I'm not just saying that because I'm in several )

Which ones?

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Drake:
http://www.mayflowersteps.co.uk/images/ ... statue.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_f ... 019632.jpg

http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/45.jpg

http://elizabethangeek.com/costumereview/images/92.jpg

Raleigh:
http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstud ... rral01.jpg

http://www.lombardmaps.com/cat/histfig/ ... walter.jpg

New Vambraces (spring steel, hardened leather & tooling)

Re: How do you hoist off your keister?

Lamellar overlap direction

Carlisle Millennium Project Book - Roman armour in Britain

Found some!