The Armour Archive

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freiman the minstrel wrote:Darmour,

Where are you?

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He is from Pakistan but also out of England as well.

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Good news, Mike. Glad you're on the mend and back in the shop.

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Hi all,

I got one of these from Amos a few weeks ago and got to use it at an event this weekend. Hits with good authority and everyone loved the look of it. I painted mine with metallic gold Rub n Buff and it looks awesome.

Thanks again, Amos.

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It was quite common in the Middle East in the Medieval period. Byzantines used it, Turks as mentioned, Saracens, Crusaders were introduced to it and made use of it.

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Elvewyn, you're in line if Raynold doesn't work out.

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I think heavy leather sabatons will look very clunky and obviously ahistoric, even if Torvaldr makes them(he is a superb leather worker. I love my gaunts by him.) The problem is in the thickness of the material; it will just not look right. Just my opinion, but if you get some cleats or workboots a...

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Rings are pending sale....

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I think heavy leather sabatons will look very clunky and obviously ahistoric, even if Torvaldr makes them(he is a superb leather worker. I love my gaunts by him.) The problem is in the thickness of the material; it will just not look right. Just my opinion, but if you get some cleats or workboots an...

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Alrighty, since I'm never going to make maille ever again, I need to buy a coif. Where can i get one fairly cheap, butted ot riveted?

Make me an offer I can't refuse.

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It is official: I suck at making maille. I have been working on this accursed coif for 4 months and I just can't get it right. After this, I will never make maille again as long as I live. So.... Is there someone out there who would like to buy all these damned rings off of me? They are 12 ga alumin...

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Individual needs for protein vary, based on activity level, blood chemistry, metabolism, body type, etc, etc. What works for Jon and Ken, will not necessarily work well for me. In fact when i tried a vegetarian diet, I felt like crap. Tired, weak, hungry, bitchy all the time. When I went back to ea...

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I love my lamellar, offers enough protection, while being quite light and flexible. Got it from Noble plastics, used the pewter auks and people can't tell they're plastic unless I tell them. I think lamellar is an excellent armor for SCA purposes. I got cracked across the ribs by one of our hardest ...

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Get a Dremel tool with a good cutting blade and just zip em off. Nice, flush cuts.

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There are depictions of such helmets in Spanish art of this time frame. They appear to be conical helms of various sorts with some Moorish influence.

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Regarding the cabasset vs. middle eastern interpretations. Did either one of these have kings? I also read an observation about the horse looking very middle eastern, never came out and said arabian but the stance, the small head size, it makes sense. I'm a little confused by your question. Middle ...

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Wolf wrote:dude. thats nice. eric needs to update his webpage with some of these pictures etc.

What Wolf said.

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A friend just pointed me at this: http://www.fragmentsoftime.com/provocator_gladiator.htm

It seems the provocator was much like the Samnite but used a spear rather than sword and often fought against the myrmillio.

Have you specific questions you'd like answered?

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I am not, but there are people in my department who study gladiators. If you like I could consult with them.

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Individual needs for protein vary, based on activity level, blood chemistry, metabolism, body type, etc, etc. What works for Jon and Ken, will not necessarily work well for me. In fact when i tried a vegetarian diet, I felt like crap. Tired, weak, hungry, bitchy all the time. When I went back to eat...

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Good call on the cabasset, Ingvarr. Very plausible interpretation.

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Dear Armour experts, I need your help. I am a producer for a documentary that is just getting under way. I am looking for some answers on a couple of armour/ weapon questions that need to be addressed as we map out the scenes that will be re-enacted. Please take a careful look at the picture below....

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I am a producer working on a documentary and need some help. We will be re-creating a scene (see picture below) and need help identifying the weapons. Although the re-enactment is more about the piece of art than it is the subject of the art we want to be as true as possible to history. The picture...

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Wow....

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You guys keep speaking of copper, but out of the scores of Roman artifacts I have seen I have never seen anything made from copper. Are you sure you aren't meaning bronze? Nope, I mean copper. We have several at the Harry Ransom Center here at UT. There are thousands of artifacts that never show up...

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To Audax : Yes, I've already seen it, a very great piece but this is not what I'm looking for. This is what I'm looking for : http://i13.tinypic.com/33xymfb.jpg To Armourer Air Bear : Yes, but there isn't any inforamtions about scaled bascinets/iron caps, just typical bascinets. Ah, yes, I see. A v...

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Greetings! I was wondering the following subjects. 1) Halfswording techniques in SCA fighting? Allowed? 2) Grappling allowed? yes no how much? (that means can I just jump the duke and stab him while he is wondering what the heck?) 3) rules for two handed sword fighting? Thanks!!!!!!!! Rowan Halfswo...

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Greetings! I was wondering the following subjects. 1) Halfswording techniques in SCA fighting? Allowed? 2) Grappling allowed? yes no how much? (that means can I just jump the duke and stab him while he is wondering what the heck?) 3) rules for two handed sword fighting? Thanks!!!!!!!! Rowan Halfswo...

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What is it about the sword and sheild combo that gives it the advantage? Is it really an inherent advantage or is it that the techniques that many polearmsmen use to stay at distance that gives s+s the advantage? I have a very real rotator cuff problem that makes using a sheild pretty dicey for me, ...

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[quote="Rowan of Needwood"]Awesome response! So I can get myself a Rondel? (Yessss!) What are the rules for grappling in heavy fighting? I have started contact with Sir Vitus myself. Unfortunately, since he is far away I will not be able to try to bribe him with Mead, so I will need cash f...

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James River Armory (Armorer Eric on the AA). He makes good armor, has a good rep and his goes for $180. Windrose has made to order sugars for $380. Waldryk has stainless ones starting at $290, though he's had some schedule problems of late. Armor and Castings out of the Ukraine has them for $200. Be...

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Take a look at Sir Gaston's entry for October's Armor of the Month. A bascinet/cap with scale flaps taken striaght from an effigy of about that time frame.

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With the new rules you still need the padding now even with an aventail, looking to see how I'm going to go too right now under my aventail. Martel I'm going to get some more flax linen for padding, you can have some if you don't want to use the evil blue foam of death , I have found that linen stu...

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Trevor is right on. He even provided a link to an ecranche. Great minds think alike.

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Point very well taken. (it WAS a cool idea tough) Definitely. I just like to steer people in the direction of coherent kit. There are some guys in Caid doing Spartan Hoplite impressions. Check out m But there appear to be two schools of thought going on in this thread, one that suggests that practi...

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You all, uh, planning on offering more hats in the future?

I could use a nice 13th-early 14th hat, other than a coif that is. Too much like wearing a diaper on ones head.

WTB maille coif

maille coif and some rings to sell

Re: Documentary research, can you identify?

Re: documentary research, unknown weapon

Re: Newbie questions...

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Re: Awesome response !!

Re: light shields