The Armour Archive

Steve S.

Since the rapier guy will be, and its an announced official practice. That actually does make sense. Though if they go out of sight and out of the normal practice area, they have some ground for "we left the official and went into the pub-lick" if it comes up. This. If the Rapier marshal shows up a...

Steve S.

Cause the way it reads, if a warranted SCA marshal shows up at our paintball-in-armor game, I thought that at first, too, but it is a bit more qualified: - For an activity that includes any combat-related activity, a Marshal warranted for that activity was present and participated in some way, eith...

Steve S.

- For an activity that includes any combat-related activity, a Marshal warranted for that activity was present and participated in some way, either as a combatant, marshal, or interested observer. - Presence of a warranted Seneschal who participates in any way. If any of those occurred, then the ac...

Steve S.

They can't. Every fighter practice I have ever attended has been at a public park. There is nothing stopping a group of SCA fighters from having their own non-SCA combat-related activity in some other part of the park while the SCA practice is going on. It doesn't matter if a King is at the SCA figh...

Steve S.

I think that BoTN will demonstrate that some of the SCA safety concerns are invalid while others are valid. But I think that BoTN is really a totally different animal than SCA combat. In SCA fighting, basically any injury beyond a bruise is considered unacceptable. I like this. In BoTN fighting, act...

Steve S.

I tried the split-but-butt-covering hose, pointing them at various points around the leg using a sleeveless vest to point them to. It worked, but it ripped out the eyelets on some of the points. It generates very high stresses. Is there any possibility of something like suspenders being worn with ho...

Steve S.

I have burned the piss out of myself more than once grinding off rivet heads.

Steve

Steve S.

I do not know if there is evidence to support this, but I also found that with single-point hose it was very effective if the top of the hose had a channel in it and a belt or cord passes through this, similar to braies. The cord enters and exits from a slit at the front of the leg, and ties to the ...

Steve S.

The more I use it the more I suspect that hooped tents were the period solution for one primary reason: The walls HAVE to be 7' high to be comfortable walking under the spokes. (maybe 6'6" for shorter people). The human brain isn't comfortable walking under branches repeatedly that are aonly a inch...

Steve S.

I think you may have difficulty finding tent manufacturers who produces a stock pavilion using hoops or spokes. The only one I was aware of was the Past Tents folks: http://www.pasttents.com/tents/medieval/pavilions I had Tentsmiths make mine (It is the one with the shield in front of it here: http:...

Steve S.

Make sure your rivets are annealed prior to peening, or you may get cracking.

Steve

Steve S.

But the view is great.

Steve

Steve S.

Very nice.

Steve

Steve S.

I have found the best way to upload pictures these days is to not rely on the BBS you are using for storage. Use Imgur http://www.imgur.com It's free and easy to upload pictures and copy/paste the URL and use it on any BBS. This lets you upload it once and post it in multiple places. It also offload...

Steve S.

There have been discussions for years that speculate that maille in general may have been a lined garment. Thordeman mentions it in his Wisby book. When I was at the Royal Armouries in Leeds they asked me what I thought about lined maille. I didn't have an opinion other than to mention Thordeman. Th...

Steve S.

I have seen bright red butt plugs at events already...becareful what you suggest...LOL!!!

Awesome!

Steve

Steve S.

I wish!

Steve

Steve S.

I use mine for pell work. Granted I'm a slacker and have not put it through that many hits but it hasn't broken yet.

Steve

Steve S.

Yup what James said.

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Steve S.

Awesome!

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Steve S.

When I was in business, with all the products we shipped out via USPS (probably in excess of 300 orders) I only had one international shipment get lost and it turned up before the insurance claim could be processed. Not that I am in any way disputing what Sir Vitus says about his packages, just givi...

Steve S.

The gauntlet or ram on the end of a sword or footman's spear would look goofy, IMO. I'm surprised no one has taken one of those monster dildos and made a spearhead out of that ! :) I don't know which would be more fun - fighting with it or watching it get inspected. "Hey - Hey! I don't think you ch...

Steve S.

Hi Payn, I got your messages. I will be in touch tonight after I get it boxed up. Icefalcon and I figured it was Indian, but damn awful nice for Indian manufacture. The Indians can make anything you can make a prototype for. I used my own klappvisor helm as a model for them. I do not know who made m...

Steve S.

OK Sold to Payn pending funds. Payn send me a private message with your shipping address and I'll let you know the total amount due with shipping. Tim: I will be listing my last one of these tonight. LDWalter12: I'll have to go dig up who I had make these. They were an Indian manufacturer. They wer...

Steve S.

This is another one of the helms I had taken as inventory that did not meet my standards for selling as retail. The eye slots were a bit high on the visor. To fix this, I widened the eye slots, removing material from the bottom edge. The slots are about 3/4" wide. The visor is under a bit of tension...

Steve S.

For sale: 14 gauge Stainless Steel Klappvisor Basinet. This is old stock from when I used to sell these. This helm has a couple of defects that made me not want to offer it for retail sale. I kept it back to use as a tourney prize or something. But I need the money to fund another project. The helm ...

Steve S.

How does it shoot?

I'm tempted. I just stripped and re-finished my Euroarms P1853. Stock turned out a little darker than I had hoped (I dyed it with Fiebing's brown leather dye). It's got a Whitacre competition barrel.

Steve

Steve S.

All you have to do is send them an example of what you want.

Mac made some panel-style aventails and we sent them a prototype and they produced them for us. I wish I had kept one!

Steve

Steve S.

I think this is a fantastic use of technology. They seem a little expensive right now but I bet the day will come when these are stick-on and virtually disposable.

Steve

Steve S.

Looks great!

Steve

Steve S.

Here's the sad fact:

Unless you have the resources to defend your intellectual property in a court of law, assuming it is even defensible, you've got nothing.

Steve

Steve S.

These are both awesome and humorous at the same time.

Steve

Steve S.

Has anyone tried just tumbling maille on its own? Yes. I've tumbled a lot of maille, and it is highly self-abrasive. You can get a very good cleaning just by tumbling the maille by itself. I find it hard to imagine pushing a barrel around on the ground as a polishing machine. It would be hard on th...

Steve S.

I use sliders on one tent and taught-line hitches on another. They both work well. While we are on the subject of tents, poles, and ropes, here's some advice from experience for you: Paint our stain/oil your poles. Lumber weathers astonishingly fast and you will have grey, dried, splintery poles. If...

Steve S.

My center pole is a 4x4 (3.5x3.5). Aint no rope ever made going to break it.

After Mistress Bronwenn had hers snap and impale the ground opposite from where she was sleeping, I went with overkill.

16' long, no splice 4x4 for my tent.

Steve

Re: Fighters Fighting at an Unofficial Practice (no Marshal)

Re: Fighters Fighting at an Unofficial Practice (no Marshal)

Re: Fighters Fighting at an Unofficial Practice (no Marshal)

Re: Fighters Fighting at an Unofficial Practice (no Marshal)

Re: Will the BoTN change the SCA:s HF game?

Re: Avoiding the 'Diaper' Look

Re: Removing rivets sucks sometimes

Re: Avoiding the 'Diaper' Look

Re: King Rene Tent

Re: King Rene Tent

Re: how do you make rivets look nice

Re: Atzinger update.

Re: For sale: Bascinet Klapvisor 2,5mm(about 12G)

Re: Problems UPLOADING pics?

Re: The Peel Affinity: Maille aventail liners

Re: Fist of Fury Spear Heads From Anvilhead!

Re: I want to learn more about Polypropylene swords!

Re: I want to learn more about Polypropylene swords!

Re: Has anyone here made a cart?

Re: One piece raised Kettle hat

Re: F*ck you USPS

Re: Fist of Fury Spear Heads From Anvilhead!

Re: 14 Ga Stainless Hounskull Basinet for sale - $175.

Re: 14 Ga Stainless Hounskull Basinet for sale - $175.

14 Ga Stainless Hounskull Basinet for sale - $175.

14 GA Stainless Klappvisor Basinet for sale

Re: WTT P58 Enfield Musketoon (carbine)

Re: Mac & Icefalcon project to get better tailored mail slee

Re: Head trauma data

Re: BOTN Great Helm in progress pics

Re: WTC gorgets are being copied by Medieval Fight Club

Re: Fist of Fury Spear Heads From Anvilhead!

Re: Was maille cleaned using sand and vinegar?

Re: Tent Ropes

Re: Tent Ropes