The Armour Archive

JJ Shred

You shot a pie?

JJ Shred

That is the most patronising thing I have ever read in my life. Who in Gods creation are you to define anyone as "little people"? I am referring to those who do the work, wash the dishes, sit at troll, marshall the archery, wait the tables but never get d...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Aaron: [B]Howdy, What I find VERY annoying is the overbearing opinion that someone is VERY WRONG and a social malcontent to try an authentic rig. I like authenticity -- I don't...

JJ Shred

So Milanese isn't good enough, you had to go with Gothic. I guess we'll just have to keep more highly polished!

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Virtus vincit invidiam
"Virtue overcometh envy"

JJ Shred

I think the later period stuff was made of expensive fabrics. You can see the edges wrapped around the metal on some 15th & 16th C. paintings, although you'd have to nag Chef to look them up (Sorry, I'm far too lazy). I used prosthesis leather for mine and glued it on with barge cement. It works gre...

JJ Shred

The larger the tree, the bigger the axe....

Toothpicks, anyone?

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Virtus vincit invidiam
"Virtue overcometh envy"

JJ Shred

Hey, everybody! Word's out, Bedlam is getting tournament armour! He's going to be FRENCH!!!

JJ Shred

If someone (non squire) wants to run around in a red belt that is nothing more (to them) than a red belt, just so that they can cheese off the SCA then I think they are making a public statement that they don't get what the SCA is about - it's their loss....

JJ Shred

Try, "Yes, but prepared to spend as much as twenty thousand dollars" instead of slang. Actually, you can purchase fairly accurate armour for different prices depending on the time period you are interested in. 1) Riveted mail from India - about a thousand to twelve hundred dollars for mail plus barr...

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Pulling shots certainly requires more training than not doing so and means we spend far less time repairing armour.

Exactly.

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Sorry, my horse is only one year old and has a 'coon tail, good only to powder your nose.

JJ Shred

I love the helm, but that spike, is it stainless? I bought a few at the leather supplier that looked like that.

JJ Shred

What's wrong with a few creases and dents in your armour?

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JJ Shred

The helmet & liner both look great. It would pass as a 14 - 15 C. small bascinet for crossbowmen etc... easily enough. The liner - it looks like you have a wool edge in the one photo, and the rest is ?linen? It looks like you stitched the "pie" shaped pieces together. Could you detail that a little?...

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I bought a K & K archers salete. It was cheap and timely shipped. It was welded instead of being hammered, and the weld marks were pretty obvious. I had to sand it, buff it and replace the liner. It is very light - I'd call it costume armour, not combat armour. The helmet was only $90.00, but it cos...

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some of you folks sound like you need a qualified assasin to rid you of the dreaded "Period Police" Im bored can I do it ????????? I like the Sca and Im not in It (Addicted to Steel) Perhaps if you got yourself a proper pollaxe instead of that farm implem...

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Bascot- Suspension liners ARE legal in the SCA, so the combination of one with the cotton liner doesn't really demonstrate the effectivenes of the cotton arming cap. Sounds like the destruction of your helm saved your life, though. All that force had to go somew...

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I made the pair of gauntlets I am selling with the butted mail harness. I started out with buffalo leather mittens a size too large, sewed the mail to them, and stuck a piece of closed cell foam inside the knuckles when I fought live steel. I never fooled with trying to pass them for SCA combat, as ...

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What I used on my spangenhelm & Norman nasal was 4 or 5 pie-shaped pieces of fleece, (the leather with wool attached) and sewed them to a piece of elk. On the Norman, the elk was attached by rivets to the inside edge. On the spangenhelm, I drilled holes all around the edge of the helm then saddle-st...

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Templar Bob's ribs washed down with my red ale.
Merchants
The fact I can't be reached by mundania for 10 days
Any excuse to camp in our pavilions, with a bed, feather mattress, furs, hot water showers, etc...
Old friends seen nowhere else.

JJ Shred

If you notice the Authenticity post where we are talking about mail for sale, I said my barrel helm was not for sale, because it had been crushed. I was wearing a cotton padded coif, a mail coif and a period leather suspension liner in the helm. We were fighting with steel maces and shields. I stood...

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Actually, in my case its because the head of my Kingdom's Armourer's guild told me that thats the best to do it if you wanted to avoid permanent brain damage. And here all this time I thought it was the booze, drugs and loud rock-n-roll music that did tha...

JJ Shred

You have got to love the details. The brass hinges, straps, the spur attachments which I will incorporate into my harness, eventually (when skills allow). There is always someone to put us in our place, challenge us, and get us to move forward. (Thank God!)

JJ Shred

Because they are too lazy to buy a handful of wool and a yard of flax linen and make a proper liner. It's the Wal-Mart approach to armouring.

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Thanks.

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What Chef said.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Maybe it's me, but sometimes a good armor pic is almost as good as the Playboy centerfold. ALMOST.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Maybe a Playboy centerfold wearing the armour?

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Bascot, we are all well aware that you have problems with some aspects and certanly some people in the SCA. I imagine we all do - Lord knows I do. But you let it fester and boil and show it for all to see, over and over. While you do seem to have much to offer i...

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This is true: I can't help but feel that the popular idea about how a "Barbarian" warrior behaved is pretty off-base. We know almost nothing about these cultures, which is why people love to project their own emotional needs onto the word "barbarian". Hist...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>There would be no or very little Live steel organizations. There would be no international cottage industry in Maille, Leather, and Plate, Garb, jewlery, and gear.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> So you ar...

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That is what I do as well.

JJ Shred

I e-mailed you two pictures, let me know if they worked. I am wearing the same mail in both 12th & 13th C. The helms, shields etc. are not for sale. If you are seriously interested, I can wear just the mail and perhaps get better shots.

JJ Shred

I've also got a harness of 14 guage galv. 3/8 I.D. for sale for $700.00, with steel knees, greaves, elbows, and two sets of besagews (elbow & shoulder/armpit). The mail includes a knee-length haulberk with long sleeves, seperate chausses with feet, a coif with brass dags, and a pair of mittens w/ br...

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I took mine wet and used a broomstick to force them right-side-out. It took about 10 minutes a shoe, and you have to slowly "peel" it a little at a time.
Personally, I'd much rather have the thicker soles, especially on rocks.