The Armour Archive

Cian of Storvik

I still have 600 stainless steel links available. (the person that had dibbs is holding off on buying for now). Includes a long length of steel wire for peening. Order by the 50 pack. Perfect to toss in your armoring tool box. All you need is diagonal cutters, a pair of linesmen pliers (and possibly...

Cian of Storvik

Bump. I have a dibs on 500 links.

Only 100 stainless steel links are potentially left up for grabs.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

b-u-t full
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

A bump.
I have 12 packs of 50 left (600 rings).

Get 'em before they're gone!
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Okay, I found a great replacement for the rivets in these stainless steel rings. It took a bit of scrounging around in hardware stores, but 16 ga galvenized picture hanging wire fits perfectly! It's a bit annoying that you have to nip off about 3-4 mm of wire for each ring, but the bonus is that it'...

Cian of Storvik

Great pictures. I think you need to understand the tactics of the period to appreciate what it is you want to portray. Up until the 16th century, most ships equipped for maritime battles had two groups: ships crew (sailors) and soldiers (marines). The sailors sailed the ships to perform the very dif...

Cian of Storvik

It's the same material; cobalt blue 100% silk velvet. And it has a nice shimming color to it in day light. But I was working with it inside in incandescent light and didn't really notice that the color shift was so severe until after the glue had set. (I've never worked with velvet before). With the...

Cian of Storvik

Yesterday and today I worked on re-doing my greaves. Since I'm re-doing the cuisses, it seemed only fair to re-do the greaves. Take a look at the picture of my legs above (where you can see the poleyn and the sabaton), and you can see the old half greave or shin guard (It doesn't encase the whole ca...

Cian of Storvik

I notice that their helms are all 16 or 14 ga mild. Most people around here consider 14 to be pretty easily dentable. Most insist on a 12 ga minimum in mild. I'd probably use one as a combat archer. But all of the ones I like would need modification with a grill and back plate modification to use. -...

Cian of Storvik

I'd suggest you just go buy some 1"x1" inside 10 ga. square steel tubing. 10 ga is .1406 so if you get the 1x1 (make sure they are giving the inside size), you'll wind-up with a bar that is 1.2812" outside dimension, which should pass marshal inspection for not having a grill penetrat...

Cian of Storvik

I also added a linen liner to my helmet earlier this month. You can see the thread here: m It's definately more comfortable than foam. The immediate thing I notice is that the cotton and linen doesn't make your head sweat like the blue foam. Obviously, when you have your head wrapped in foam, you're...

Cian of Storvik

That's only 2" diameter.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I think you might be side-stepping an integral point of the message in that they may make certain charges usable by anyone (specifically the pelican and the closed chain of links). The point being that charges on arms were not historically restricted to membership, office or rank. So if my family's ...

Cian of Storvik

Thanks, Adam. I've been heavy authorized for a bit under a year (I was authorized as a combat archer about 3 years ago, but you get a much better appreciation for the protectivness of armor when someone is giving you a beat down). I forgot about giving you an illustration. Sorry but this is quick an...

Cian of Storvik

I really think you are underestimating people's appreciation for simple aesthetic beauty and craftsmanship. I know as the artist, you will be the worst critic, and you think if it's not utilitarian in some modern fashion it will have little value to people. The simple fact is that what you've crafte...

Cian of Storvik

A pair of poleynes/knees made of 16 ga. stainlesss steel. They are 7" wide, by 7" tall with a medial ridge, flared top and bottom and about 4.25" in depth. I would call these an extra-large. I'm 220 and 6'3" but these are about 1.5" too wide for me. I tried several methods t...

Cian of Storvik

I took Corby's advice and added a canvas backing to my shield. It greatly improves the look of the shield. No picture but it's there. It's begging to have a motte painted on the back now. Okay, back to the cuisses. I found enough washers to do all of the rivets to finish riveting the hardened leathe...

Cian of Storvik

Beautiful, Cat. Truely beautiful. I've made boxes before (and store a lot of miscellaneous archery bits in some) but never tooled ones. The thing is, you never see a plain box as extant or in illustrations. They're always very ornately decorated as you've done. I just don't have that kind of patienc...

Cian of Storvik

Talbot's going to beat up somebody if we don't mention:

http://www.revivalclothing.com/index.as ... ategory=43

Cian of Storvik

Fettered Cock Pewters

http://www.fetteredcockpewters.com/page_badges.htm

(There's more then a single page. At the bottom there is a "More" link. I think there's about 5 pages of badges).

-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Actually, in Atlantia, the rule for combat archers is this; "3.6.1.3.1 A blow that strikes a legal target area with telling force will be acknowledged." The reason for this is because archers are considered fully armoured combatants. So the half gauntlet rule applies to archers as well. T...

Cian of Storvik

Are they split grain leather? And any particular colors? From your small description they sound like Radnor insulated work gloves (they come in different color combinations). Split grain fingers and palm, canvas back. Thinsulate insulated. Below is a picture of the green and yellow. -Cian [img]http:...

Cian of Storvik

Kingdom rules supercede SCA rules. Case in point is that in the SCA rulebook, they comment about 9' and 12' spears, but in some kingdoms there are only 9' spears. Also some ammunition on missile weapons is not allowed all kingdoms. In Atlantia, we do not allow heavy bows at this time. But there is t...

Cian of Storvik

In atlantia, if you are doing combat archery (we have a touch kill rule here) the marshals will usually pass a gauntlet like this, so long as you have a glove on your hand (example from Stonekeep): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/3233547549_8439cb6476.jpg But if you're fighting heavy, the marsha...

Cian of Storvik

You can also google the Vimose, Nydam and Holmegaard bows.
They all are pre-historic but give a good idea of the variation in norse bows, as well as the ingenuity of the native people.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

It doesn't exactly work that way because by reducing the draw distance you drop the weight. So if the weight is 150 at 8", by reducing the draw to 6" you might measure only 100 lbs, which means you would have a crossbow that is equal to 600 inch lbs. at 6" (Does that make sense?) You ...

Cian of Storvik

Do you have pictures of the helm from any other angles, Randy?

Any idea of the gauges used?
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I was just going to tell you how to change the shape of it to make it look more like a certain style of late 15th century livery. Thank you, Piers! I wanted to mention that I saw the name BRENT the other day when I was looking through the Posner library online version of the Holkham Picture Bible o...

Cian of Storvik

Two words for you..

Cian of Storvik

It's a prospect tabard for the household. (I know, I know...it's supposed to be a fitted surcoat for my period, but I didn't make it). It also has a phallic looking spear head on front and back. I just bought some fabric this weekend so that I could make a couple of fitted surcoats. One will be for ...

Cian of Storvik

Body: I would get yourself a kidney belt of heavy leather or of plates to wear under your jack. Breastplates shed blows well, but there's no rule it has to be a solid single piece of metal protecting your chest. When you take a spear thrust to your sternum though, you may want to wear the breastplat...

Cian of Storvik

Thank you, Sir Corby. I will take you up on that gracious offer. Cuisses: I still haven't finished the cuisses, as I need to do some riviting. The way the cuisses were before, the rivets were simply decorative but they also kept the rigid leather from shifting inside of the fabric. I was using speed...

Cian of Storvik

Are you thinking of Northstar archery? (No wolf, but they do have a particularly rotund polar bear).
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Deus vult (latin; quoted from Pope Urban II).
Deus lo vult (vulgar medieval latin).

Cian of Storvik

Cian: Do you mind if I post your information on our Scholum website? You can use it, but It's not all that relevant to combat archery. That information is specific to english "D" style longbows. In our kingdom, since combat is limited to light hand bows (30 lbs) you're better off with a f...

FS: A couple of books and a pair of SS knees/poleyne