The Armour Archive

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Sweet cutlery!!
Ship to England ? (without haft of course)....Hmm...no haft....price reduction?

Mike Garrett (Orc)

What's the price tag on the barbute Mikhael?

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Sweet site mate!
No pricing for individual scales? (as oppposed to lamellae)

Mike Garrett (Orc)

money in the pocket
What care I for twat-faced ignorant producers/directors and their lack of authenticity.
I don't need to watch it, just get paid/

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Just thought it might be worth your while. The re-enactment season starts shortly here and your prices are good and your quality is great. I have one of your helms and am extremely happy with it!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Why not ship to the UK as well?
Having US only means it doesn't come up on searches from ebay.co.uk

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Au contraire! All due respect to Audax but regarding cloaks I believe that you will find that a cloak sans hood would be prevalent. For most of the historic period where cloaks were worn no hood was more common than hooded with regard to cloaks. A seperate hood with a yoke was more common and more ...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

There was indeed a special tool used for extracting sling bullets, though I don't think it was a speculum of this level of intricacy. Might have been a simpler lever-type speculum, or simply a specially-shaped probe/scoopy thing. I'm not sure if the experts are agreed. I've also heard that this spi...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Io Saturn!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

and an internal wife.... I'm just trying to picture that..... (Sorry, couldn't resist). I would love to try musculata at some point. I like the look, but don't like (hate) everything that you see on ebay etc, masquerading as Musc. Besides, should be made to fit the individual, as someone said earli...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Whereabouts in Kent are ya?

Mike Garrett (Orc)

DARN!
Mine apologies...I had not meant to needle thee...

I can merely hope that we can patch up our differences.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Fabric for habits would generally be wool.

Hmmm....threadromancy....would that make you a stitch, a hemlock or maybe a Sewceror?

Mike Garrett (Orc)

A R M' R I N G

Nice...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Wow. Looks like something Tony Blair would do! Just kidding! I saw your rant on him a few days ago. Just had to mess with ya. Lamellar looks good. Are you SCA fighting with that rig? Robert Lol. Thanks Robert & Audax. Robert - no, it's not enough protection for SCA - that and I haven't managed to g...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Okay - finished this a couple of weeks ago, just got around to photos. Took about 10-12 hours work, all hand-cut and punched, laced etc. No hardeneing and deliberately not historically correct materials (beacause I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy making it enough to finish, so I went with what I had, leath...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

So anyone else think it's ironic that these fleured gauntlets are displayed on an english flag? Of course not. Anyone worthy of wearing these would know that the King of England is the true sovereign of France... And we all know the true King of England and France is not a Windsor... (aka the House...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Still sewing!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

I believe I'd be correct in saying that the closest thing to a Viking kite shield would be the Norman Kite shield, as historically documented. The Normans, being Viking descendants, is stretching, but there you go.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Nothing I have ever come across, ever, would suggest that Vikings used anything like a heater shield...sorry...

Welcome to the Archive anyway!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Would depend on where you are going to be

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Because horses generally won't charge at people - they charge at the gaps.
(Even if it's only inches!

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Mike Garrett (Orc)

Having been defeated in a search by WoW and other rpg sites, can anybody point me in the direction of lamellar or scale helm pics, patterns etc.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

I make them in brass.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Temecula-George wrote:
if a pattern isn't available I'll try and create one or make a Sallet using this pattern I found at this site

http://www.livesteelarmor.com/how/sal.html

Bu...bu...bu...but....that's the "B-word" armoury

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Yeah - I think I've got it - cheers!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Yes please - at your convenience of course!

Thanks for the link.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

olaf haraldson wrote:Contact Windrose Armoury... the bookshop that was set up in that booth at Pennsic had some roman dig reports/catalogs/analysis that almost made me do bad things to my bank account.

Hah! Naughty Olaf...trying to lead me into the temptation he resisted!

Cheers - I'll take a look!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Scale - another favourite armour type that I eventually want to make!
Thanks Mr Finkas!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Aha...we progress...

Thanks...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Perhaps I need to rephrase the question to encompass a wider answer.

So - what cultures, in contact with the Romans - up to 500 AD (approx) - would have used leather lamellar?
And where might one find illustrations.

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Very sweet! And inspiring, as I'm shortly going to embark on a similar project!

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Useful - cheers M

- what size are those?

Mike Garrett (Orc)

Hmmm...I fancy having a go at making some lamellar - from leather. Currently I am suffering from a Roman bug, so feel it may be interesting to make the armour and other bits and pieces for a Roman Auxiliarii (sp?) impression. However - not sure which - if any- of the various nations would fit, or wh...

Mike Garrett (Orc)

People called Romanes they go the house!

First Lamellar

Lamellar or Scale helms?

Armour Roman Period leather lamellar ? Cultures?