The Armour Archive

Cian of Storvik

Thank you, Sir Corby. To be completely honest, it didn't even occur to me to even think of putting canvas on the back side. I had thought of just painting it, momentarily. But that sounded messy. I I saw that you had the handle more paralell with the edge of the shield, but decided to do what was mo...

Cian of Storvik

That would be the alibaster effigy of the 1st Baron Reginald De Cobham. 1. There are other effigies that have this black armor; Sir Oliver d'Ingham has similar black arms and shins (But like Sir Reginald, not the gauntlets, poleynes or couters). It's been theorized that the black may be representing...

Cian of Storvik

The next thing to work on are my cuisses. I used these for about a year, but they simply aren't protective enough for someone that leaves his forward leg open all the time. After a few practices last year, my leg looked like hamburger. (Cuisses are your thighs, FYI.) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2...

Cian of Storvik

Are you okay with a composite (laminated wood bow) or does it have to be a solid wood? is there a price you're looking to get it for? You will occasionally see oak and hickory advertised as an english longbow, but the modulus of elasticity and the brittleness of the wood requires that they cannot be...

Cian of Storvik

Are you looking for an english style longbow with the "D" cross section and horn nocks (also called a livery bow)?
Or are you looking for a modern wooden longbow?
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I'll answer that privately.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

In my opinion, 14th century mafia is the easiest to do historically correct and still be SCA legal. There's also an abundance of companies that manufacture the pieces, so you have a smorgasborg of armor from the 14th cen to chose from. Note that klapvisors are later period then sugarloafs. The SCA i...

Cian of Storvik

We have a bit of the opposite problem, in that we have a very heavy quantity of colleges/universities and army bases all that fall within our Barony, but we have a very small venue for practices which we share with rapier and musicians (which is actually quite wonderful to have so much activity goin...

Cian of Storvik

I don't know him or have his permission to use it, but Lord Jabril al'Dakhil (I think from East Kingdom) is very photogenic. These are a couple of pics of him from Darter's Pennsic 33 picture pages. http://k43.pbase.com/u41/darter02/upload/33267932.IMG_3659_penn33_720ni.jpg http://i.pbase.com/u42/da...

Cian of Storvik

I have Oak armory gauntlets by Sasuke. I paid like $800 for these second hand. He was doing them new for about $950, when I enquired about a year ago. You'd have to ask him for current pricing and if he's taking commissions. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/3206594535_4a325a0a83_m.jpg Oak's armor...

Cian of Storvik

To be honest, I had more trouble trying to weave the rings then peening. I was driving myself nuts trying to slip the rings, so that it layed the same way as adjacent rings. I stormed out fo the room a couple of times because I'd spend 15 minutes putting 1 ring in place, and peen the rivet and then ...

Cian of Storvik

It looks like it would count as a demi to me. The rule is that if you aren't fighting with a basket/cup hilt you can have either a hockey glove (counts as thick leather with 1/2" padding but it is discouraged), or rigid material (18 ga steel minimum) with a 6mm minimum padding OR bridges the fi...

Cian of Storvik

I failed my google-foo feat check. (I think I rolled a natural 1). Here's a tricorporal lion for reference for a "tricorporal beast". [img]http://heraldry.lordkyl.net/glossary/images/lion_tricorporate.gif[/img] I'm thinking an eagle would be difficult as it is usually shown with wings disp...

Cian of Storvik

I finished packaging up the rings and rivets into packs this morning, and found I have about 700 links left (I had about 1600 in total), but not enough rivets for all of the rings I have. I'm going to look around and see if I can find a steel wire that will work (the rivets are bigger then a 16 ga w...

Cian of Storvik

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-Cian

Cian of Storvik

That was quick.

Thank you to those that wanted to take these off of my hands.

-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I recently split a purchase of replacement links with some fellow archivers because I was just filling in some damaged/missing links and filling the voids in the aventail on my bascinet to make it hang properly to give the correct sillouette on the helm. Anyhow, I have a surplus of these flat ring, ...

Cian of Storvik

Locally, elmers glue isn't allowed to be used as an adhesive on swords. It doesn't stretch enough and is considered to violate the rule about "use of glues, epoxies, or adhesives, which substantially reduce the flexibility of the rattan, is prohibited." I've used carpet tape as an adhesive...

Cian of Storvik

Okay, it's really not that large of a difference in appearance, but the helmet on the left (old version) has the butted mail aventail; the new on the right has the riveted stainless aventail, with a new leather mantle. When you buy an aventail, it's sort of a big "cone" of links, and you h...

Cian of Storvik

Control was an issue due to the lack of grip. I will be taking the wire off and redoing it. I'm curious to know if there's actually precedent for a wire wrapped hilt on an Oakshott type XIII. All the examples I've seen were leather wrapped (over wood and possibly cord), but most of the XIII date to...

Cian of Storvik

I remember seeing 13th cen illuminations in reference to the death of Thomas A becket that had men in pill-box helmets like that, but worn over chain camails or hoooded chain hauberks. No nasals on them though, and I don't have the images saved. Look for illuminations from the late 12th and 13th cen...

Cian of Storvik

That is really neat. Just as an aside, from that video you posted. There's an associated video of a 3-barrel handgonne (pole type) being shot. Where a person from the springfield armory is demonstrating how this weapon from the 1500's would have used musket primer caps on each of the nipples, and th...

Cian of Storvik

QUILLS: Cat, you can get quills from 17th century living history suppliers like JAS Towsen and Son. (They sell writing quills for about $3 ea). Most of the better quills come from geese, but you can probably use turkey as well. The problem is that you only get about 2-3 feathers per wing that are us...

Cian of Storvik

I would suggest foremost to get in touch with Master Magnus and see if you can find out where he got the inspiration, as it may take you to a direct reference. I was going to suggest Holkham bible, as well for the visor (f.40) . But, in the Holkham (circa 1327) the helms appear to be more top pointe...

Cian of Storvik

Pray, where might Sir Corby's directions for hanging a shield be found? A: m I'm assuming the helm is mild? ...Would you mind posting some detail/a review of your chinstrap? A: Yes and I'll try to put together an illustration. It's pretty simple, yet very comfortable, depending on the material you ...

Cian of Storvik

When I bought from them about a year ago:
Gauntlet kits are flat. They did not allow dishing as an option.
The topfhelm kits they would form for an extra 30 or $40. This didn't include forming the cross on the grill, but they dished the top and the face properly.

-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I would guess a pen knife and a rule of some sort. Scribes often used the back of the pen knife to etch a very light guide line onto vellum to rule the paper and box in the locations of where illuminations would go. And of course the pen knife allows you to re-cut the nib when it has worn or become ...

Cian of Storvik

This isn't part of my fighting kit, but another item I didn't do from last year was to weld a pole sleeve on to this to turn it into a signa militaris for hanging a banner or gonfannon on: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/3183309992_1daf6b8391.jpg The hoop is 12" in diameter. You can see whe...

Cian of Storvik

Atlantia has kept raising the bar on looking period in the lists. I've seen 2 people last year get bounced for having modern stuff showing (shoulder pads and elbows), and I've even been chastised once for using a hockey glove (but I wasn't told to "fix" anything). It's not a bad thing. The...

Cian of Storvik

This monday I finished re-strapping and covering my shield. I was having a problem with the shield's balance...tipping forward at the top due to the top heavyness of the handle. I also couldn't fit my gauntleted hand into the metal bracket type handle, and so I did the following: http://farm4.static...

Cian of Storvik

-Ditch blue foam and add a helmet liner to bascinet (finished that this morning) -Make new and better padded, cuisses. -Assemble my Cet fabricated coat of plates. -Finish swapping the mild steel splints for SS splints on the greaves. -Buy SS riveted link Hauberk (to match aventail) for pas -Make ano...

Cian of Storvik

I like Insane's comment about leveling up. As you get better (or they perceive your comfort level increasing) your opponents may be holding back less. If it's only against the lefties, then it sounds like no one has told you how to fight a lefty properly. If you're not used to it, then you can't app...

Cian of Storvik

Thank you for the hospitality, Sir Dilan. If I make it to Pennsic this year, I will definately stop by and say hello.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Gee, I try to avoid dieing AT ALL during the battle.... Guess I've been doing it the hard way! Cian, will you camp with Blackspear this year? . I was being a little tongue-in-cheek with the dieing comment. I don't really mind getting a beat down (I'm pretty new and I sort of expect it), but the lon...

Cian of Storvik

I could have sworn I saw one combat archer during the second woods battle between Atlantia/Aethelmark. But I was so tired from the trudging back and forth to the res point, It could have been an organ grinder and his monkey for all I know. I must have made that walk 15 times that day. That is a long...

FS:Surplus riveted stainless steel chain links

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