The Armour Archive

Jehan de Pelham

Your grace, I use .0625" thick 6-4 and CP4 titanium, and it is overly thick. It was difficult for me to work, though my tools and techniques are somewhat, shall we say, rustic and reliant on physical puissance, but the armor is consquently very strong. I do believe that you could use .050" thickness...

Jehan de Pelham

I bring a pair of wooden chairs and a Contico Black Box with my armor in it. I throw a blanket over the black box and sheepskins on the wooden chairs, with the black box in between serving as a table/place to throw any mundane stuff. For Summer's End in the Barony of the Flame, Midrealm, I brought a...

Jehan de Pelham

Very good. Thank you your grace for this instruction. Please do point me to more of the like--I am interested in developing a repertoire of drills for warm-up and instruction of new fighters, and this is right on target. My suggestion is that high speed internet is obtainable enough that the larger ...

Jehan de Pelham

Speak up, you Outlanders! : )

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

It isn't a question of IF you're going to get hurt fighting, it's a question of "when" and "how bad."

We all pay, nobody gets out, unless they quit.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

I absolutely care about what my opponent thinks about me. I desire foremost that they see me as an honorable, properly fitted, and willing man at arms, engaged in a friendly struggle to accomplish some small deed of arms which might serve to increase our renown. Jehan de Pelham P.S.: I know the ques...

Jehan de Pelham

If it is decided by some group somewhere that the word "asshole" is to become a term of positive endearment, and I move to that locality, I don't expect that any amount of attempting to convince me that it's a positive would convince me that being called an asshole is a good thing. The same with thu...

Jehan de Pelham

Cote of Plates or Brigandine is probably the optimum application for streetsign aluminum. The plates will not crack--streetsign aluminum is plenty tough enough for this use. Just put the painted side to the leather and leave the shiny side to the inside, so it doesn't look like ass. Completely obvio...

Jehan de Pelham

I needed a red belt. I sent a detailed project submission a while ago to a girdler, who hasn't gotten back to me. I emailed Frank on Sunday with a request for a red ring belt, required before an event this Saturday--turnaround time less than a week. I received a red squire belt, which looks just lik...

Jehan de Pelham

Indeed, war can be an overload to the senses of a newer fighter. My first war came somewhat later in my fighting career than most people, as in the western part of the country traveling distances are somewhat greater, but it was so for me also. The primary thing I found required to be overcome was a...

Jehan de Pelham

From my point of view, it is harder to make swords with rat-tail tangs, which is basically welding a peice of threaded rod stock onto the end of the blade, than constructing the sword with a full tang. But somehow, doing it that way is a common "industry standard" for decorative swords. You might be...

Jehan de Pelham

Jamie, I thank you for the clarification.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

I fight with a haubergeon, spaulders, and a tight fitting body bracelet, which covers my floating ribs and kidneys, under the haubergeon. No gambeson, just the mail, over an arming cote made of double thick material. I have gone without the spaulders from time to time. It is well for me. The mail is...

Jehan de Pelham

Your Grace, Thank you for your direct reply. Between the video and your analysis, I feel competently informed. Noob Named John, I do not know how you can come into a conclusion other than what I came to, while viewing the same video, which is that Duke Logan acted in a competetive, and aggressive, b...

Jehan de Pelham

Vladimir, I feel poorly if my response seemed a bit strong. I understand where you're coming from more now. The good news is that you can have a decent (I'm not saying great) sword for a moderate price, if you're willing to settle for very limited choice in the matter. I'm pretty sure you don't have...

Jehan de Pelham

I saved this video to my hard drive. However, I did not keep the given title, instead choosing to title it "A Knight Beating the Shite out of a Pair of Foes." I have with all truth watched it forty times, for certes it is like a wreck of ale carts, hoggsheddes of precious brew cracked and flowing on...

Jehan de Pelham

Marshal's right, for the most part. Except for this freak sword I am going to let you in on. While I ordinarily would sneer with disdain at such a request, based on the fact that I despise the concept that a sword should not be worth a fine price, and besides that, the idea that a cheap hunk of meta...

Jehan de Pelham

Thanks kindly. I'll be in touch as soon as I get orders and know where I'll be in the next little while.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

It must be me. Email bounced again, address is right. I'll check with my ISP.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

The thing I have to ask is "where the hell does all that armor go after a movie?" Enough mail and plate has been made for enough movies that you'd think it was obtainable in sufficient supply so that embarrassing situations like those described would be avoidable. It's almost as if each production g...

Jehan de Pelham

Master Cad,

What is the design on the plaques? They appear to be five-pointed stars, or crosses, perhaps, with something outside of the cross.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

I will send payment via paypal and an email to sales@vikingleathercrafts.com, for one MAB110 Man at Arms belt, 1 1/2" wide, in red, to be sent to an address to be disclosed in the email.

Thank you for your timely reply, I need this for an event this next Saturday.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Got an email bounced back from you in reference to a pair of half gauntlets you have in your in stock page. Are the XS SS Half Gauntlets still in stock, for $90 + $8 s/h?

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

I am having some difficulty with your site, specifically, adding items to my shopping cart.

I see you do payment via PayPal. Do you take payment at sales@vikingleathercrafts.com? I seek to purchase the MAB 110 man at arms belt - 1 1/2" wide, in red, which you offer at $19.95

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

Inaccurately sized heatah. 19" x 30". Arced the normal amount, with a shield basket mounted in the corner. Edged with 1/4" fuel hose and black 550 cord. I have a sheet of .0625" 6-4 Ti in the corner to prevent corner deformation. Sir Vitus and I still managed to bend it in a particularly strong punc...

Jehan de Pelham

Klappvisor bascinet made by Sir Luther (of Anshelm Arms), with titanium aventail made and installed by myself.

Following that, my titanium haubergeon.

Jehan de Pelham

P.S.: It does not surprise me at all that it is our helmets which have our deepest and most broadly felt respect.

Jehan de Pelham

Eyes...half left!

Forward...march!

LOL.

Jehan

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Jehan de Pelham

I call upon the old gods to swallow up my opponent in a flaming fissure.

Oh, wait. Sorry.

Those are my real world opponents.

Uh, I just take a deep breath and consciously slow my heart rate.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

I have said it before and I will say it again: Armor has a mystical quality about it, to my somewhat simple mind. It is not a T-shirt or a pair of slacks. There is karma involved. Having made armor, I know that an armorer puts part of himself into the work. Maybe it is less so for those who have don...

Jehan de Pelham

I don't give a hoot what the Meridies Marshal's Handbook says, I'm going to have ridgid protection over my kidney beans! LOL. Though, I suppose 14 gauge king's mail over padding would be pretty protective. I don't see myself trying it though--I'm pretty sold on the body bracelet I wear under my haub...

Jehan de Pelham

I have long suspected this to be the case, Morgan. Agreed, it is a training matter. Acclimating one's self to the neccessites of armored combat is a worthy endeavor.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

I must add that I find the klappvisor problematic for extended fighting, due to the CO2 buildup. I also have an interchangable grill.

But the look of the klappvisor is infinitely superior.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

The scales will have different finishes. 6-4 polishes to a mirror, but I have only been able to achieve a satin finish on CP4 and CP1.

I believe at the size of scales, the material will be fine. I have not done this before, so I cannot say for sure.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Klappvisor, man.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

10 lbs is what I wear, including camail. It works well. I do not recommend a helmet lighter than 8-9 lbs, due to interkingdom calibration issues, and war enthusiasm.

Jehan

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