The Armour Archive

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My respect for you just went up to eleventy. Truly well done. I've had the rage drop many times in my life. I think it will simply take a bit of time for it to wear off. PLaying with my animals or watching something funny on TV really seems to help though. Maybe a little play time with Monkey Girl w...

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Bernhart von Bruck wrote:Chello!

Audax, I'll want to get with you at some point to discuss greaves in person. Will you be at Jagermeister or Defender of the Fort or Three Queens?

Thanks,

Bernhart

Jaegermeister for sure and most likely Three Queens.

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Hi Audax, How much for an entire leg rig with cuisses and greaves with some stainless cops from stonekeep on them? Do you have a c-belt design ready to go as well? I'm in the market for an entire leg system. These would be hidden but I'd want them to still look good enough if I did not hide them th...

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Duke Icefalcon wrote:We put on plastic bags on our hands and cleaned the cakes out of the urinals by our camp.

Ice

This is what class looks like.

Well done to you and yours.

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bump for the homecoming Pennsic folks.

I can also make vambraces, bazubands, breastplates, cuisses and gauntlets.

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Foam rubber crutch grips, I then add a core of open cell foam and a disk of leather glued to the end, cost runs about $5-6/pair. These also make great grips for sword hilts as they have a palm swell and taper to the endss(stack them for great sword) nice and cushioned but a no slip grip. I also use...

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El bumpo...

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Fan-freakin'-tastic!

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Kai wrote:Ceddie, your wife fights too?! Egad, man, tell me she has a sister!

Pics, pics!

Chelle is a badass, too.

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Bloody bump...

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Oh, you guys!

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Here is one of my coat of plates: m I have made perhaps 6-7 of them. I am getting ready to make another. Previously I have always made the Wisby #1, Type I coat of plates that fastens in the back. My next one will fasten at the side, to make it easier to put on and take off by myself. Basically, th...

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I appreciate all the replies. This CoP is based upon the Kussnach example that opens at the sides and consists of horizontal steel bands, rather than being a Visby type, so it's a little different. I had been sent some pictures of the instructions but those appear to have vanished into the aether. I...

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KInd of depends on what the original word used was. Cuirass is often used generically by translators to mean "body armour". It could mean a cuirie, a pair of plates or could simply mean the hauberk. Another problem one runs into are terms that modern people simply don't have any reference ...

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What, no love?

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You've asked a really big question. Where is your persona from? When in the 14th is she from? Sideless surcotes, cotehardies, hoopelands, various types of gowns are all appropo depending on where, when, social class, marital status, etc. m is another place to shop for clothing but research will be y...

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As the title says.

I have a Mad Matt CoP kit and I want to make the shell from leather. How do I measure for it, get the plates in there straight, etc, etc.

Any advice from people who've made their own CoPs would be awesome.

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Probably a bit like fighting with a buckler only easier because it's so much bigger. Footwork, which just really means moving your feet in coordination with your brain and hands; create a cone of defense by extending the sheild arm; learning to fight around the sheild instead of behind it; put your ...

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Nice.

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Well that is pleasant. Thank you Aaron. I don't challenge your concept of fun. I was just curious as to the attraction. Ladies can have strange effects upon us can't they? Man: "I detest Pie" Lady: "Mmmmm Pie is good" Man: "You are right Mâ€™ lady pie is quite delicious, I ...

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I can make hard leather vambraces if you have an interest in that material. I do not make poleyn or couters out of leather at this time.

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In my experience, gauntlets need to be padded properly and cover the thumb and tips of the fingers to prevent pain and injury to the hands. The thumb should be connected to the gauntlet by a rivet or other hard connector, not a leather strap to prevent the thumb from being hyperextended. It is also ...

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I believe many swordmakers forge in the fuller rather than grind them in later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLaXnk5131o

http://www.bigbluhammer.com/products/punch_set.htm

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Cisco wrote:It's almost like they spent a lot of time thinking about it. And maybe a lot of time working on stuff...

Like their lives depended on it or something and they wanted the best.

Craziness...

Absolute madness, I tell ya....

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I guess I just view a polearm as a cutting and piercing weapon rather than a mass weapon like a mace. The edges are marked as opposed to things like maces which can kill no matter what part of the head you use. doesn't mean I'm not going to smash you with it. heh..know whatcha mean...I love polearm...

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I guess I just view a polearm as a cutting and piercing weapon rather than a mass weapon like a mace. The edges are marked as opposed to things like maces which can kill no matter what part of the head you use.

doesn't mean I'm not going to smash you with it.

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:You aren't trying to tell me there was a reason they made swords the way they did, are you?

That's just kooky talk.

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YOu should head over to www.myarmoury.com There are a number of detailed threads on scabbard making over there.

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I feel faint.

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Bumped and price dropped.

$65 plus shipping. Will fit a 12-13 inch long shin with a @17-18 inch calf.

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It depends. There was no one way to do things.

You could just use some simple burrs since most rivets look round in effigies and illos.

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I am an Ansteorran heretic. I HATE big sheilds. I hate using them and i hate fighting against them. However, it is what I have to face here. So, I have had to learn to use my feet to create openings and keep my defense tight until my shot appears. With lefties, I cant my sheild over to my right to c...

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I do this crazy thing and build my swords to balance about 3-5 inches in front of the hilt like a real sword. I used a tip heavy sword for quite some time after recieving advice to do so. The difference is dramatic. Gives tremendous control over the sword, hits plenty hard assuming you use proper me...

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