The Armour Archive

Gregoire de Lyon

Does Hammerbreaker custom fit them for $300?!?

Gregoire de Lyon

On my Barional elist, a rapier marshal stated that the Domesdays are now due 11/1, and all other quarterlies a month earlier. This was the first I had heard of this, can someone confirm or deny? Thanks! I will abstain from making fun of you for asking the Armor Archive for advice about a Midrealm p...

Gregoire de Lyon

These have no hinges or straps installed, correct? Do you have the hinges or do they still need to be made?

Gregoire de Lyon

Sounds about right... Thanks!

Gregoire de Lyon

Hi All- I've got a sword I bought many years ago with a Jaeger Knives label on the blade. A quick Google search turned up a website for Jaeger Knives, but it really doesn't look like the same type of work. Can anyone tell me anything more about the manufacturer and what I might expect out of the bla...

Gregoire de Lyon

Cap'n Atli wrote:Do we have a date on that?

German - 1584.

It's at the bottom of the page below the image.

Gregoire de Lyon

If my cat pees on my bed again, I will do an A&S project and let you all know how it goes...

Gregoire de Lyon

I think that we need to remember that Pennsic has line engagement and that if you are within your weapon's range of your line, you are engaged with everyone your line is engaged with - regardless of whether they are facing you or not. In other words, most of these funky looking shots are most likely...

Gregoire de Lyon

You know Seabrig here on the Archive has been trying to recruit a team for about a year, right? http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=129827 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=127256 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1...

Gregoire de Lyon

Some of us have longer memories than others...

Gregoire de Lyon

You can contact Zygmunt here on the Archive. He received his Laurel for Polish studies/recreation.

Gregoire de Lyon

Sasha_Khan wrote:Here's a pic of Hibernicus and I during a winter hike we did at 7,000 feet or so...

Aren't you a little short for a legionaire?

Awesome picture!

Gregoire de Lyon

BdeB wrote:http://www.bogpages.com/SCA-photographs/Pennsic-Wars/Pennsic-XL-Tuesday/18951551_s56Qc9#1471033689_sSpf3jw

Hm....

What are we "Hm..." -ing? Did I miss something in this shot?

Gregoire de Lyon

I believe this is what you are looking for?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=96532&hilit=typology

Gregoire de Lyon

Same price for mild and stainless? Any plans to add articulation?

Gregoire de Lyon

Thank you, Gregoire! Of course, just to be contrary, I also need to point out that it could still be just a separate hood under the cape -- one that buttons up. Absolutely. That possibility had never occurred to me when I started designing mine (and when I say "I" started designing, I rea...

Gregoire de Lyon

The image of the Wool Merchant from Karen's site also shows the front throat buttons...

Gregoire de Lyon

If the same effect could be achieved by a hood worn under the cape, why not do it that way? Absolutely agreed. In addition to how awkward it is to get closed, there are "flaps" (for lack of a better term) that need to be tucked and folded away to make the integrated hood work. Ultimately,...

Gregoire de Lyon

Hi Karen- Here are some of the pictures that I referenced when designing my cloak: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/benzophenone/Archive/Side%20Button%20Cloak/SidebuttonCloakandcoolhat-YatesThomspon21-BritLib.jpg?t=1314811213 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/benzophenone/Archive/Side%20B...

Gregoire de Lyon

Jess wrote:Are you able to offer any theories about why it didn't work?

I am, but it would probably be easier to show you. Are you going to be at Coronation or TOC?

Gregoire de Lyon

What shape was your cloak? Were you trying to sew an attached hood? Or just wear with a hood? Was the cloak lined? I believe it is a full circle cloak for fullness and luxury. I was trying to attach the hood to the cloak, as this appears to be the style for the mid-late 14th century side buttoned c...

Gregoire de Lyon

When I tried making a side button cloak everything went swimmingly until I tried adding a hood.

The hood - to - should transition just doesn't seem practical, as you end up with flaps every which way to prevent gapping.

I think that Bertus's hood under cloak approach is a very elegant solution!

Gregoire de Lyon

Hi Adric-

Can you post a link to where you got the soles and also a side view picture of the shoes with soles so we can see the profile of the rubber sole on the "turn shoe"?

Thanks!

Gregoire de Lyon

Do we have any evidence the the garment on display was ever actually used by the Black Prince? It could just as easily be a funerary display that was made to look "pimp" and therefore didn't need to fit over or under armor...

Gregoire de Lyon

Thanks Sir Mons for the good feedback. I will sign up for the Yahoo group tomorrow. Since I have you here though...

Are you familiar with Altarwinds and their product at all?

Gregoire de Lyon

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:I just finished Knights of the Crown if you want it.

I'd be interested in borrowing it, yes!

Gregoire de Lyon

I'm considering buying one for my wife.

What do I need to know before I buy and any suggestions on good place to purchase a beginner instrument?

Thanks!

Gregoire de Lyon

Thanks for looking Thomas!

Thanks BA and Derian - I found those references yesterday. There was some good info in both of them.

Thanks everyone!

Gregoire de Lyon

Karl Helweg wrote:... air conditioner...

Details please...

Gregoire de Lyon

I have a book on various european orders prior to the end of the Napoleonic wars. I'll see if I can find it. It's fairly short usually giving how an order was founded, who could be in it, when it was dissolved, etc. Great, thanks! If it has any references that I could follow up with I'd really appr...

Gregoire de Lyon

Hi All- I'm trying to find additional information beyond what is in A Distant Mirror on the Order of the Crown. Tuchman lists two or three documents in her citations, all of which are pushing two hundreds years old - I was hoping for something either primary, or much more recent if possible. I've st...

Gregoire de Lyon

[quote]Gregoire and Galfrid are saying two different things... does anyone care to elaborate on their opposing points? :)[/quote] Whoops! Almost a year later I find this... I think that your posting one up from this sums up my observations - The French were wearing short sleeved, sometimes shapeless...

Gregoire de Lyon

...to be badly outnumbered means it is no longer fun... I expected to feel this way this past year, particularly in the woods. Fact of the matter is that the woods at Pennsic XL is the most fun I have ever had in a Pennsic War Point. When there is no longer any realistic hope of winning, you really...

Gregoire de Lyon

In the lay itself there are several weapons called out specifically including an "iron mallet" weighing 25 pounds and a falchion that reportedly lobbed off limbs and heads with each blow. I'd give you the link to Google Books scan I downloaded, but for some reason it is no longer freely av...

Gregoire de Lyon

What were the weapons used originally an in what numbers? Is that something that was or can be researched? Is it something the SCA does in its tournament? The combatants had swords from Bordeaux, short and stiff, pikes and daggers, and some had axes, wherewith they gave each other marvellously grea...

Re: Advice Sought: Looking for good cased greaves (reasonabl

Re: Marshal report date change?

Re: FS: very nice case fit greaves from Best Armour

Re: Jaeger Knives Sword?

Jaeger Knives Sword?

Re: Cat with a jetpack

Re: Cat with a jetpack

Re: Post your Pennsic pics!

Re: Fighters Needed For Team USA Battle of the Nations! (BOT

Re: Is Ken in the "SCA"?

Re: Need help finding sources for a Polish kit circa 1400-14

Re: Romans and Celts, caligae and ghillies, snow and socks?

Re: Post your Pennsic pics!

Re: bascinets

Re: Shamrock now has Stock Elbows & Knees

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: 14th Cent. man’s shoulder opening cloak

Re: shoe soles

Re: I want to be a French knight in 1380

Re: Hurdy Gurdys

Re: 1379 The Order of the Crown

Hurdy Gurdys

Re: 1379 The Order of the Crown

Re: Traveling to outKingdom events

Re: 1379 The Order of the Crown

1379 The Order of the Crown

Re:

Re: Pennsic and House Bloodgaurd

Re: SCA Combat of the Thirty Question

Re: SCA Combat of the Thirty Question