The Armour Archive

Mord

Nice work.

This has to be posted--it's just too obvious.

Ya know, some folks give their sweetie lingerie...

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

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hmm... I'll see tomarrow if it's on OCLC...and so at any libraries about...$165 is a lot.

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Very very nice!!!!!

btw, is that a "rooster rampant" ?

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As our local marshall always says "Dude, it's plastic." (And really, he does say "Dude") That said, I'm considering going for a plastic lamellar set-up myself. It's light for its price and seeing as it'll fit into the persona I'm working on, it makes relative sense. It'll be worn over a gambeson an...

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I have just finished and started using plastic lamellar from Noble Plastics (thier url is above). The Newcastle plates are $19.50 a bag. They went together easily and I feel very safe in the armor.

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I was fooling around with Google looking for an index of a particular periodical, when I found the website for "Buch und Kunstversandhandel (B &K)." When I clicked on the Medieval-Vikings section, 205 separate book--mostly archaeological, mostly in German popped up. I was a drooling doofus after abo...

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I agree with Owen. Why do you assume that the blow was excessive? Minimal armor protects only vital areas- which is to say areas that will cause serious injury or death if a blow hits there, excessive or not. Brused and broken ribs suck, but those ribs were only protects by padding, what did your fr...

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I can hook you up. Shoot me an email and we can get that taken care of. Unless you will be at Gulf Wars, and we can discuss it there. I will not be at Gulf Wars, sadly. Right now, with new appliances and a new body armor, my finances are a little strained. I was just amazed that such a thing existe...

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Sir Mord. I looked and thanks. That's the sort of annotation I was looking for, some text describing what you consider to be the best points and weaknesses of the work. As for Talbot's luck in finding stuff...If you know him and have been around him a while, you'd come to know that he has incredibl...

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I love one or two cups of strong coffee a day. But not before fighting--coffee is diaretic (it make ya pee). Dehydration is big no-no.

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Now, that's very interesting! I've been thinking about contacting about just such a problem. You see I don't have adequate thumb protection for left hand when I use my center-grip shield.

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I did a bib a bunch of years ago and put a partially revised one on the barhus website. Try barhus.org and click on Mord's Stuff. Mord. I have a quesiton. Did anybody out there mind to look at my bibliographies? They are based upon a project I started in Library School and continued in in the early...

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Richard,

I looked in garage/workshop/messy place this morning. Yes, I do have an extra shield. It's big. It's spun. It's rusty. It's yours if you want it. Just PM me shipping directions.

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No we can't "Both could exist simultanously" Neither want to. Some do, and can. My imagination is very fertile, and I don't fight with my glasses on...so I can look at uncovered Dark Victory Plastic and envision leather and a reasonably accurate kit (as long as the kit is in motion). When they dema...

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Interesting. Would love to see the post-fire report and how it stacks up with dig reports of actual long houses.

Gotta ask. Did you put any dummies dressed up in?

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viking age boots for fighting? Boots have to a good rubber sole.

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If a thrust manages to get to my face, I usually take it. It's my mistake.

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Richard,

I just might have one. Keep reminding me, and I'll check tonight.

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I was very suprised I figured it was gonna be more about later period shields and was pleasantly suprised to see that it was almost all about Viking Age Shields. If anyone thinks being apart of that sort of project would be cool, we will be doing all of what they did at TFBO! In addition to the nor...

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WARNING: MORD IS NOW AT HOME IN HIS LIBRARY! ...and you thought I was bad at work...at least I don't know how my scanner works!... Anyway, an article all might want to read: Richardson, Thom. "The Introduction of Plate Armour in Medieval Europe.' in "Royal Armouries Yearbook" Volume 2, 1997, pp. 40-...

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The plastic lamellar is a bargain! Good armor from Noble Plastics.

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William, Such a bunch of questions! Class distinctions in the 14th century are a tricky business. Charles is correct, of course. As time and the years progressed, class distinction became more and more defined. The plague, in some ways, did not change this class structure. Upper classes, in crisis, ...

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Helms have to be made of steel of at least 16 guage. For further information check sca.org.

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I do not like Osprey books. Sure, they photos of objects I happen to be interested in, but they don't list the sources of those photos. Many of these book don't have a bibliography, and the one that do have a bib often list books that are only in English and, all too often, I have already read. Not ...

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Learn to make crepes. They are elegant, tasty, and you can always eat the mistakes.

What do you like to do?

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I find it interesting here that many folks beat around the bush when it comes to calibration. They don't want to use the "cheater" or what ever. Many of you don't want to admit that you may have problems from time to time with your calibration. I do. I am aware of it. My calibration usually creeps u...

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Padrig wrote:Sir Mord, he said 15K not 150K.

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Ok, Padrig--a repro of the Vendel XIV helm with a Jorgensen's type SBB sheildboss, handle, and other shield furniture.

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The Coppergate helm does not have gold foil decoration--Check Dominic Tweddle's book, "The Anglian Helm from Coppergate." There is gold decoration on the helm, but it is not like the Sutton Hoo Helm. The gold foil "pressbleche" decorations on the Sutton Hoo helm are more akin to the helms found at V...

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I did a bib a bunch of years ago and put a partially revised one on the barhus website. Try barhus.org and click on Mord's Stuff.

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A full-up Gothic with a Sallet by Robert MacPherson--including the steel armor, linen horse hair stuffed armorn-coat--you know the whole 9 yards.

I'd wear it only once--I want a piece of art.

If I had any money left over, I'd have a Vendel XIV helm made.

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I don't want to know what a "Viking" woman wore. I want to know what a noble woman from Trondheim in wore in 1060. Part of the problem is dating locating the origins of early period clothing and art I know, I know (raises hand excitedly) I know what a "Trondheim Viking Woman" wore! A white linen go...

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Found "by a digger"? Idenity of the digger is not given. Seaxs are sometimes found in graves, but 900AD is completely wrong! Anglo-Saxon grave finds are usually much earlier, pre-Christian and pagan. Whoever found this item is breaking the law, and, please excuse my language, the fu**er should do so...

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Adrenial overdrive (typing with cut finger--sorry). It's happen to me twice. Weird, very weird. The whole world slows down and you see everything perfectly (I'm nearsighted); you feel nothing: you remember nothing. Not a good place to be for our game. Either that, or this guy's armor was too thick, ...

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Thanks for the info. Btw, I don't really worry about guarentees with fighitng stuff, unless it simply falls apart on the first few run.

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Well, won't he make parent teacher conferences fun!

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