The Armour Archive

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What Eammon said...

Take three layers of a similiar weight to linen cotton fabric, Sew them together...Same results just cotton instead of linen..

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My lady did my gambeson with three layer of linen...it's plenty nuff...

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The aventail came from Atlanta armoury...

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FrankManic wrote:
Behind every great man is a close friend wondering how he's going to explain all this to the police.

I am sooo stealing this for my sig line...

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Tigernan-Pont wrote:Just curious as to what gauge steel the larger helmet is?

From the website. 12 gauge top 14 sides. opening are 5/8 on the diagonal...

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Animal Weretiger wrote:Because I'm totally jealous of your spear with the dinosaur head

No need to be any longer...Literally my dog ate it....He was all weirded out by it and attacked.. 130 pound Rottie/Shepherd mix against a poor defenseless dino-spear..

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Animal Weretiger wrote:Pogues.

Now why you be hating and calling me a sissy???

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[quote="Thorstenn"]This makes no sense to me at all!!! Thor. /quote] For Us it's not big deal Thorstenn, While confed as a whole is generally a merc/Free company style of arrangement we have no oaths to one another or the house in general. Should one of our number take a more formal role (...

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Hmmmmm, so he's a merc, not a kingdom guy, but he decided to act like a big tough guy anyway? That makes no sense to me. Actually Animal Havoc is both.. While my brother in arms within Confed, he is also squired to an Aethelmearc Knight which makes for some interesting times when the household is o...

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Mail just got here...Large very light weight box...Inside was a breastplate.... edited to advise of delivery.... Not me... Last Communication I got was... -- It's done I'm still not liking the faulds i may rebuild them again and send em to you--- This was March 29th.. As I said before, I'm suspectin...

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What kingdom are you talking about? My guess would be that it is not currently a rule or convention of a kingdom at all. Maybe some, but certainly not most. I've heard the same thing said here in Aethelmearc regarding "Any blow which is excessive shall be deemed illegal and may be disregarded&...

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I agree with Wade. The side rivets SHOULD be dummies to fill the construction holes with the strap rivets hidden under the next lame farther out... but I don't see how these straps attach to the main plates... My best guesses are a mistaken victorian reproduction or the straps only go to the lowerm...

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Murdock did a covered globose for the CotT two years ago. Not sure exactly who he based it off though.

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I'm gonna guess we're too far out as well... If not, Talk to me. Our meal plan now is at 14 individuals.. One more don't mean squat

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Anybody know if this stuff actually shipped before Murdock did? I got a message from Murdock last Monday saying my breastplate was done and going out... I'm gonna assume he used USPS parcel post which means up to nine days after mailing for delivery... I'll start looking about Thursday for it get h...

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mattmaus wrote:I am an old feeble minded fool, and as armoring goes, just a tinker or a hack, so my advice may not be worth much...

As they say "horseshit", Matt... I've lusted after more than one piece you've put out there for us to drool over..

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Seved, Look up Bashford Dean. I think I know which photo your talking about and the one posted on the link above jogged my memory. This was a year or better ago was it not? Voice in my head says it was one of Dean's that was being discussed. The general consensus was several of his pieces were incor...

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Are you thinking of the suit Chris Gilman did for "Haunted Mansion"?? Green velvet covered corrazina??

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Thanks guys! I'm glad the aventail and elbows are what you were looking for Angus; you were a pleaure to deal with as well. Ivan I hope the knees do the job for you. Let me know if they don't Thanks both from myself and the young lady who will be wearing the elbows. She's a niece of sorts and hopin...

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Who offers stainless riveted? Or does anyone? I don't like the look of welded maille Icefalcon.... I just went back to his sight and see that he indeed does. So I ask, who makes shiney stainless riveted maille? Check Ice again... I know he has blackened, pretty sure he may have regular as well

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Halbrust wrote:Who offers stainless riveted? Or does anyone? I don't like the look of welded maille

Icefalcon....

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Couple weeks ago, Cet was having his "garage sale" on some stock that was lying around. I jumped on a blackened Flat Riveted aventail for $75 and had some questions regarding the elbows he had lying about. Turns out the elbows were too big for my intended victim. Not to be daunted Cet let ...

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I'm gonna second Jess' recommendation..

With a mild you can hose it down with WD-40 then light it.. Will blacken the mail and help with rusting. Use a pump bottle, like a windex style, coat liberally and then fire it up..repeated application will darken it further.

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Eammon, Next time you get into this neck of the Woods. I have patterns you can copy and take home with you. Gunther and PB know their stuff for lines etc. Once you've started working on several of these, you will be able to interpret the lines and shape of what should be..Yer an artist (musician) an...

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Boot cover tutorial by MattyD.

http://mattyds.com/essays6.php

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Ronan220 wrote:I will take measurements and get back to you. I have fairly long arms and they cover mine great.

Which means they are too long for me...

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Sizes on the vambraces??

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Have to withdraw.... Guy decided he's getting something different...

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if it's still available dibs

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I fought in a houndskull helm and hated the vision issue. So I had Jackie make me a klapvisor with slightly wider,shallower oculars and a series of holes under those...

I love it...

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Hmmm my curiosity is now piqued. I've been fighting in a barbute for a little over a year now. I've been wearing midden armor under a voluminous linen tunic. The only thing really exposed are my gamboised cuisses with soupcan knees. Is this totally wrong? I've never really had any comments other th...

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Ugo had a thread here last year sometime on the progress of commission piece he was doing...

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I have em...Got em from Therion as well. For Melees I love em..For one on one they are just a tad light. Main difference being in Melee legs are so much the target of choice.. I have to do some alterations to them to fit me properly as I'm a short guy with "in between" So I need to change ...

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Torvaldr,

Not sure as these are not for me but one of my employees who also plays SCA. I'll be showing him this thread in the morning and the various Pm's on the matter and let him make the decisions.

I'm just playing the middleman in all this.

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If they weren't punched already...He might be interested. But with it punched for lammelar I have my doubts but will let him know

Rough from the Hammer a pleased review..