The Armour Archive

Syrfinn

I believe its not allowed, and I am not sure if by doing so, that if the stick broke, that it would not maintain the reason why we use rattan, and that it would actually end up having jagged points, once broken. Havent tried it to see if thats the case, just making a guess, thats what would happen i...

Syrfinn

Most of my fights with folks, if I win, usually end up with the person on their knees, before I kill them. I'm 5'8" and well I want easier access to someones head, so I take their legs out from them. Now with most of my opponents knowing this, I have several different feints, that I will use to get ...

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I love the look of those, but well a muscled cuiress on me would look more like a keg. But one of the gifts to myself, that I already got past my wife, is with my weight loss, that I am working on, is if I lose a bunch of weight, I can change my personna again and go with a myrmidon personna, and ge...

Syrfinn

I would be one of those interested in roman style, if it ever happens.

Currently have some of the plastic lamellar stuff, which I really like, but wouldnt mind an aluminum set.

Syrfinn

Nissan, I guess I am one of the only folks here that watches Reno 911.

I loved that episode, had me rolling.

Syrfinn

Unfort Dom, I think when you were getting those gauntlets, you would of got a good reference from several folks who had dealt with him. This seems to just be a recent thing starting around time you ordered. Specially with wanting full down to speed things up. Sounds like something hit the fan around...

Syrfinn

Just heard, and it is a sad day indeed. My thoughts go to his family and friends. He will be missed.

Syrfinn

My gorget order still stands also, Torvaldr. Let me know if you have been having problems with my email again. Just pm me here and will respond. 2 weeks ago, my email went a little crazy, checked my spam area, and it was throwing a lot of good emails in there. I think I have it fixed, but just in ca...

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Unfort, have heard a few folks say the exact same problem with this place. To bad, he did some nice stuff. Hopefully it is just a mixup somehow. But have heard to many folks lately getting the same excuses from here. Good luck in getting your stuff. Hopefully like I said, is just a mixup somewhere, ...

Syrfinn

Who the heck did he ask? Broken bones, common, not that I have seen in the last 18 years.

Does it happen, sure, but I would lay money out of most of the contact sports out there, such as rugby, football, lacross and such, we have a much lower case of broken bones than they do.

Syrfinn

Thanks Maria, that helps out a lot.

Syrfinn

Very glad everything went well, and the boy had a very good day.

Syrfinn

Damn Rod, that third movie looked bloody well impressive.

Syrfinn

Thats all fine and dandy. But when your in the middle of a woods battle, where water bearers are not usually allowed to enter, that camelback will seem like a godsend.

Syrfinn

The Rebels have found the plans for the new and improved Death Star. Lord Vader seek them out and destroy.

Syrfinn

Alejandro, kit looks good, specially with taking the first steps towards it. As far as HYW, it stands for Hundred Years War. Plus, you like messing with different looks. What will be fun to watch, is each kit getting upgrades here and there, till you have like 5 pimpin kits, from various periods.

Syrfinn

Plus, how could we pick out the hero in the movies, if his face is all covered up by those things. Its still one of the moments in Kingdom of Heaven, when our hero is in the middle of a battle and throws his helm and pulls down his coif, while in mid fight. Now granted, I could also see him doing it...

Syrfinn

Actually Tim, speaking as someone who has done those all of those jobs at one point or another, I did it usually cause the equipment was freaking uncomfortable to wear. Not saying its to smart, cause its not, and I did most of those jobs in my early to mid 20's. But to me, it just wasnt comfortable ...

Syrfinn

Do a search under Classifieds for Hammered Wombat, and you will pretty much get the impression you are looking for. Have never personally dealt with him, and yes, his helms are amazing looking. But from what I have gathered, there are a lot of folks out there, who have neither their helms or their m...

Syrfinn

I do love his weathered steel look he does with his helms. Looks very sweet.

Syrfinn

Hmm, I might need to try this. I really want to get out of my harley boots, and I really dont want to fight in the turnshoes. So maybe getting a pair of cleats and a pair of good tennis shoes for indoors, might be a good trick, and cover them both to look like an early period shoe. Any ideas on patt...

Syrfinn

Yep, what Angus said.

I really only break mine out for the Woods battle at Pennsic, otherwise I usually have plenty of water around for the rest of the battles.

Syrfinn

Yep, I actually am getting a set of Darkhearts. They look great, and I like the grounding on the rattan.

Cant wait to get them, will just be one more thing to look my part.

Syrfinn

The link is o his website. He basically just has pics of his past works. I believe there is an email link on it also, for any questions. As far as how much it cost, well it was a bit. $600 for the basic helm, then the customized bronze work was an additional $600. So yes, I paid $1200 for this, but ...

Syrfinn

Yes, I know technically it is considered a martial art. But like I said, to me its just weird when I hear it referred to being one. For when I think of a martial art, I think of combative activities between two or more combatants, not shooting something. Never said I was correct, just said what I th...

Syrfinn

Well dont have the helm in my hands yet, it should be arriving on Friday according to UPS. But since I had already tried on a protoype, before Dirk did all the bronze work, just so we made sure that everything was good, before he got to work on the bronze. That should all be good. Ordered the helm o...

Syrfinn

Can someone please explain to me, how archery is a martial art?

At least by my idea of a martial art, archery doesnt even come close to being one.

Syrfinn

Wish I had a picture to show you, but one of the guys in our area, has basically done this.

I think he does kind of what Brother Amos does, but instead of cloth, he did the chain.

They actually really look good. He does a crusader personna, and it really does look good.

Syrfinn

Hmm, the look on his face is kind of saying,

"Yes, you will all be my slaves in the end, yes you will!"

Syrfinn

Yeah with the cant, its more of a comfort thing.

Mine is 12 to 6, but I like my shield canted while in the rest position for the cocky look of it.

But when I get in range or start to move, I get it back to where it should be.

Syrfinn

Mine is more elliptical than oval, but mine is 22x34, I think. Would have to measure it again, but pretty sure thats what I went with. It might of actually ended up 22x32. But one thing I did, was look at some period art work and statues for romans, and got a good guestimate of what it should be, by...

Syrfinn

Glad to see it sold, was just about to send a link to my guys, to see if any of them who do the later period stuff wanted them.

Will be good to see you around, have missed ya.

Syrfinn

Lol, havent heard that in several years. Thanks for the laugh.

Kind of looked out there, but didnt delve into it. Will do so, thanks.

Syrfinn

Thanks JorvikWoman, that actually helps a lot. I have a similar webpage with some of that, but this one gives me more examples of where things can go.

Thanks for the help.

Syrfinn

Hmm, well I will be the first sacrificial lamb here. My own thoughts, is personal authenticity takes a little more precedence. main reason, is its hard to teach others and inspire others, if your own kit is not up to snuff. If your teaching someone how important it is, or that they should try and do...

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