The Armour Archive

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>And for Master Glendors site: http://talonarmory.com/products/bodyarmor/[/QUOTE] Correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like plastic crap to me. I purchased one from Anshelm made of aluminum for $...

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"Supper Time!"

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I thought leather jacks were 19th C.?

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http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nikolas.lloyd/armour/mail/mailpatt.html

Check out this site for a how-to on construction.

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This is the Research & Authenticity forum....

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This "tube" shape is also used by the Indians, and only fits properly on "tube" shaped people. To get the same look as in period illuminations, you have to tailor it. Your arms do not stick straight out, but rather work towards the front of you. So the first thing (after you've taken care of the arm...

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I couldn't get over the French having longbowmen, the French didn't use longbows, they despised the longbow. They either killed or deprived longbowmen of their right index and bird fingers if they caught them. Are you sure about this statement? By the 15t...

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I like the nipples. I'd buy one in hi-carbon steel.

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They are still being used by re-enactment groups there today!

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When is this? We may be in south-central Tennessee by the end of the year.

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I'd like to see some pics of that with your full harness. There's not much in the way of 16th C. armour out there. Specifically, the gorget plates on the helm, the fixed gorget, breast & back and pauldrons, as they fit together and articulate.

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I have heard one drunk fellow suggest that the square on the chest is coving a split which is laced up, and thus you wound putt that to one side, undo the lacing and slip it off your shoulders. Sort of like a wet suit. Sounds pretty improbable to me though.</fon...

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Gwyneth: perhaps you didn't read my post - While I would never be so brash as to inflict myself upon a lady in such a manner, You certainly shall never find yourself being "slurped" on by me. I don't even make physical contact. If I desire to "tease" (and ...

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Unfortunately, apart from a very dodgy saga reference (all mixed up with magical powers) of reindeer hide armour Are you saying magical powers don't exist? If I believe you can't hurt me, and you believe you can't hurt me simply because of the power of an...

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http://www.deltin.it/home.htm

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I've purchased most of what you pictured. The one hasp is built the same way as I was making mine, but the Indian smith was better. The hasp is strong enough to take a sledgehammer blow, and is what I normally use on my chests. The hinge & hasp that match are about 16 guage and painted black. They w...

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I question your numbers. I bought a Binns Norman brazil nut pommel rebated sword from the Jelling Dragon for 185 lbs., roughly $270.00. Exchange was free by credit card, and shipping was about $20.00. I think the total was a few bucks shy of $300.00, not $500.00.

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I've got a riveted uncoated one of 3/8" 16 guage. How much are those greaves worth to you? Who made them, are they fitted, etc....

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Here in Aethelmearc, such a gauche person would have earned himself a stern talking-to if not an actual beating. Not that I would advocate violence in response to bad manners...waitaminnit, yes I would. While I would never be so brash as to inflict myself...

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http://www.paul-binns-swords.co.uk/index.htm

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If we are going to have an out-period custom , I vote for these to survive.

With modern hygene standards, I can think of better places than the hands....if we are going to go "out-period" in our customs...

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Tuchux formal wear.

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Wolf pelts are available from Moscow Hide & Fur, anywhere from $150.00 to $600.00 depending on size, time of year taken, condition, etc... I have a black bear I paid $200.00 for I can wear as a cloak as well as use as a blanket. I've got a bear skull on my Viking tent too, although I'm simply "Bjorn...

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Everlast hockey glove?!? Must not comment, must not....

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Moscow Hide & Fur.

Where are you located anyway? You only need a few scraps to line a helmet with.

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I generally use three pieces. I dish the front & back, then braze them together with about a 1/4" or so (depending on the thickness of the scabbard) strip of brass for the edge. I make a tight fit, add barge cement and push on the chape. Then I squeeze the brass (or hammer, depending on thickness an...

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based on the Maciejowski Bible

That's what mine was based on, and there are several good pictures of high-throated gambesons, not just one.

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I'm glad we now have your opinion about it, Sarnac. I think you've pretty much summed up what sort of person you are by your means of expression of it. Have a nice day!

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I've fooled with it. It is a nice helmet. Looks to me like he is giving it away as well.

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Eat less...exercise more...

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My new breastplate's straps cut into my collarbone so I sewed a folded-up piece of wool on the inside of the cotton-stuffed arming cote, then sewed linen stuffed with loose wool to the underside of the piece of leather attached to the spaulder. Worked great.

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I tried them both at Pennsic and liked them both. I bought the Revival more for colour than any improvement, although it fits me great. I'd call it an arming cote, though. I thought cotton was appropriate for the 14th C., and I have one of Wendy's gambesons/aketons made of wool-stuffed linen that I ...

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If it is still available, please send me pics for the stainless bascinet:

jfulton14@comcast.net

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Now I'm going to need to get one!

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I'll take 8 in mild steel, 4 left & 4 right. I just got called in to work, so I'll fill out the order this P.M.