The Armour Archive

Jehan de Pelham

New casting materials are on their way, ordered tonight shipping 3-day UPS. Expect the casts by Friday next week. I'll send up payment for the right half gauntlet and the deposit we discussed for the 14th century hourglass finger gauntlets, with the castings.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I was curious about whether an arming coat could be made with a built-in pourpoint, permitting upper limb and lower limb armour to be pointed to a single garment. I will have to consider this in more detail at some point in the future, Jeff. Castings for greaves enroute, by the way. Should arrive Th...

Jehan de Pelham

As I said elsewhere, outstanding.

I assume that is the left half gauntlet waiting the castings to start the fingers, Your Grace?

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

1/4" ID Fuel Line, black. It's not as good as leather, but it does. Usually lasts about four to five months.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Outstanding. I need to send him a set of casts for the 14th century hourglass finger gauntlets.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Gruber,

I have the hand casting materials. I need to make the casts for you, so you can get started on the finger gauntlets. Later this week, expect to mail them early next week or end of this week. PM me with an address, if you please.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

What incredible fun!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Indeed, Hrolfr, indeed, and I am right blithe to do what service I may.

Plans are to attend the Crown Tournament of the Middle Kingdom next weekend, yes.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Something that I have always understood, whether others think this way or not, is that everyone in the SCA is assumed to be some sort of nobility, and because of that, it's completely appropo to think of everyone as being part of an extended family, all cousins of some sort or another, or at the ver...

Jehan de Pelham

What the others said, but don't forget just plain old toughness. It's a fact that there is a mental part to it--you have to bear it. Energy conservation and heat management is critical; you have to always look for breeze, for shade, and keep your core temperature under control. It's something that b...

Jehan de Pelham

It looked like he was swimming in it, and it looked a bit later period--something about the tassets. Now, King Harry himself would not have been in brigandine, though many men at arms and archers would have been, I think that the decision to armor Branagh in that fashion had to do with recognizabili...

Jehan de Pelham

Indeed. My custom greaves and 14th century cuisses will hang from just such a pourpoint.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Oooh. That could be a lot of fun. I can't participate, but I'll help out with a little *bumpage*

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Hah! I need to order a copy of each! No freebies for me--though I am sure that I will find most of what I read eerily familiar!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

P.S.: Sir Johannes, I'll give my lord Sir Vitus my copy of The Hard Edge this Tuesday for his reading pleasure.

Jehan de Pelham

Just remember, your first kit need not be a waste.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I need to figure out how to be a guinea pig for Gwen. God knows I have the gift of gab enough to blab it up if her product rocks, as it inevitably will. : )

I'll be getting one of these, when they're available.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Mr. Woodenbullfrog, There is almost no way that such a question will not eventually turn into some sort of controversy, because what you ask draws into the discussion the sometimes at-odds lay members of the Church of Fight and the Church of Authenticity, and sometimes lay brothers from the Church o...

Jehan de Pelham

You bet I wouldn't mind!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Excellent! I look forward to them!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Very good, your Excellency!

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Looks like they're making good progress.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I posted this in Legio Draconis, but thought it might be appreciated here. ---------------------- My Lord Sir Vitus, what follows is an account of Coronation Day, as I saw it with my tweye eyen: My lady and myself arrived after the tenth hour of the day--the lateness of our departure from these our ...

Jehan de Pelham

That's not a bad plan at all.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Iain,

I like your boxes. I like your jacks. Sometime later this summer expect to hear from me on a couple or a few of each.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Good and gentle squire of the Viscount Galen, Knight, I was right glad to meet you. I am sorry that we were late to the finding of seats at the feast, and because of it we sat elsewhere other than where you took sup. Your Shire of Ravenslake is some way from my home in the Barony of the Flame, and i...

Jehan de Pelham

All of this is very worthy. Many the year I have myself not had armor like this, until this year. I like the shape of the couters--they should serve you well. I myself suffered grete injury at the blows of men at arms on my elbow, for having a too shallow elbow cop. Obtain for yourself some greaves,...

Jehan de Pelham

This is going to sound stupid, but it has worked for me, mostly because I have a full arm harness. Before I put my arm on, I lay a strip of 1" thick white foam, the kind you can buy at most cloth stores, in there, then I lay my arm into the vambrace, and strap it on. Definitely qualifies for the "qu...

Jehan de Pelham

God keep you, Owyn, and may you have grete plaisure in deeds of arms!

Funny that you received instruction on both the pleasurable doing of deeds of arms and the temporal phenomena we have come to know as SCA-Time.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

That was very excellent!

Because of his skill, I am contracting with him to have made a pair of hourglass finger gauntlets, and a demi-gauntlet.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

You can make a sword from nearly any thickness of rattan, but you have to take off varying amounts to make it the right weight. There are all manner of methods--a bandsaw hasn't been mentioned yet, but it could be used. I have seen a thickness planer (power tool) used also--but Sir Dagonet is very r...

Jehan de Pelham

I am editing together a selection of Froissart and other writers into a large Word document. I need email addresses, and I will send them in the next week, after His Highness Felix is made King of the Midrealm.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

: )

After this weekend. I'm off to Chicago.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Who is the best fighter that never was?

; )

My vote? Sir Kije.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

It's growing on me, Jeff. : ) As I am spending more and more time with my good friends de Charnye, Raymond Llull, Jean Froissart, King Rene, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the like, it's sort of taking over. Another reason is because I look around and what I see in my daily li...

Jehan de Pelham

Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles is what sprung to mind when watching the trailer. But not.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Gruber Hand Castings

Cross-Post: Midrealm Coronation (Long)