The Armour Archive

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Really? Where might Kydex be avalable, can you work it hot, and will it accept gluing?

I've been wanting to make synthetic, break-resistant sheathes for a while now, and I was hoping for a less expensive alternative to Lexan. Think this will work?

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I just exploded every single solitary container I could get my formerly grubby hands on, and in the process, remembered why I started collecting weapons Wheeeee! [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/flail2.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/Holy_Water_Sprinkle...

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Never understood why they didn't fence with those things instead of the modified kendo stuff they used. They ought to be light, the balance must be *inside* the grip, and you know they should be able to do tip-cuts with those things... tsk, tsk, tsk. One good sport fencer oughtta be able to take out...

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I would think that a "rondel" dagger with a spherical pommel would cease being a rondel dagger... the blade on mine is almost exactly three time the length of the handle. Didn't plan it that way. It was originaly an inch and a half longer, but I ran into trouble getting all 12" of narrow blade up to...

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You're right -but I couldn't think where his site was off the top of my head.

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There's more to it than you'd think. If you're not an engineering student, don't have a parent who is an engineer/mechanic/woodworker/metalworker, or don't have an unusualy well set up and supplied shop, this probably isn't the project for you. Do not expect to build this with the everyman's tool ki...

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1470-1490 England, now trying to puzzle out France and Southern Germany.

13th Century

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Oswald???

So is this one of those medieval mysteries? Or are there a host of reasons and nobody's sure where to start...???

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"What is Thisbe, a wandering knight?" Shakespeare - A midsummer Night's Dream I suppose it's a 12th century thing, that romantic figure of the solitary, landless knight errant, wandering the countryside in search of adventure. For some reason or another, just when it became tres romantique , the pr...

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Edwin -I would dispute that. There's a counter to *EVERY* technique, most of them you can be powered through, and nearly ALL of them can become deadly if executed with proper "intent" -ie: force, power, muscle. Immagine the surprise when your judoka -or my aikidoka- meet streetfighters! Damn straigh...

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Bumped so the afternoon crowd will notice.

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Bohemian Earspoon??? I haven't figured out it that's supposed to pike-guard on the left shoulder or the bear spear. How, "obviously" foot combat gear? Is it because of the maille skirt? those particular pauldrons? Or because he's (obviously!) not going to be riding around using weapons like those? G...

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http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/Art/brian1.jpg With the admitted possible exception of the hilt furnature and fullering on the Danish two-hander, is this design historicaly plausable? First and formost, I wanted to draw armour I liked , but after that I was aiming at Continental, Lowl...

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Well, I might as well go ahead and completely derail my own thread, now, since I'm too interested in this discussion of the nobility to let it lay. France placed the emphasis of aristocracy(nobility) on birth and England on wealth. You pique my interest. By implication, then, the (usualy) landless t...

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Okay, I've been meaning to learn more about the way France worked anyway, and since you've been so kind as to bring the subject up for me... The numbers indicate anywhere between three and four score of peers at any given time in England. How was the situation differernt in France? More peers, or a ...

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If you're talking about the 15th century pauldrons that practicaly cover the entire pectoral region, I'd love to see a pattern, too!

One of these days...

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I'd be a well-equipped common soldier from a wealty merchant family. English Baronies are not in a location so they won't be on a map... I'm a afraid I'm rather confused. The noun "barony" refers to (among other things) the land belonging to a baron. How is it, then, that baronies aren't geographic ...

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Someone just asked me a question, and I hadn't the foggiest idea how to answer, so I thought I'd direct her question to you all. In a country like England, how many landed nobles would there be at one time? How many Barons were there? How many earls? How many Dukes??? Did they make new feifdoms to a...

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Remember guys, right now, the rules are biased against late period personas and people who wear full plate. If you want to win, you go play as a Viking and wear as little as humanly possible, because plate isn't good for anything (except personal safety) Armor as Worn would just throw the pendulum b...

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The only differences between what was made then and what was made even at the begining of this century is in purity and homogenity. We don't use wrought iron any more. That's. About. It. Especialy when it comes to steels, we can produce (and thus, buy ) reasonable equivalents of nearly anything the ...

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Okay, how do I get my hands on a copy?

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Oh come now, isn't that stretching it a bit? After a certain point, steel is steel is steel. The stone doesn't care. If you actualy requare that degree of authenticity before feeling comfortable, might I suggest purchasing an orriginal? They generaly aren't all that expensive, you know, and they're ...

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Oh, I don't know about never. I'm inclined to think Mongol and Arab tactics depended rather heavily on the proper use of archers and horse-archers. The romans also faught them (elephants) when Pyrrus(sp?) invaded Italy. I believe this was when they discovered that Elephants were terrified of pigs, l...

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The beach was quite a distance away, in the Illiad. Was it five or ten miles? (I seem to remember five). AND there was a giant wall in front of the greek ships, AND they had no vision-enhancing devices with which to spy on each other, AND even though the land was cleared for miles around in every di...

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I just thought I'd point out that, having made and used, broken, fixed, used more, broken again, and just recently re-fixed a pilum, I can say with a good deal of confidence that a weighted pilum could and would defeat maille. I would say a great deal, but I have never had the opportunity to handle ...

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What is this, the land of bad welders? If you HAVE the tools to fill the hole, FILL THE HOLE. If you're not good enough to do the job reliably, you ought to practice until you are. It's no good having a tool if you can't use it, right? Personaly, I'd ask if I could use my neighbor's MIG; but if you ...

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I've grabbed blades and tried the murderstroke before. I wound up fine, but DAMN it made me nervous!

I felt much much much much much safer with gloves!

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Are you guys archivers???? Come ON, be smart about this... That thing as got to be East Asian. Looks a heck of a lot like a two handed jain to me. Even though I know very little about Chinese swords, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Northern Chinese or Korean, just because the guard looks like ...

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I must say, I don't care for the tone of most of that Anvilfire FAQ. Seems needlessly harsh. I don't frequent Anvilfire (don't have a buggering forge that works) so I dunno, maybe it was necessary.

Other than that, I'm with you! It's a lot harder to screw up an axe.

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Okay, I see the bauzabands now. That's pretty cool!

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To everyone who's ever made -or attempted to make- a steel sword: WHY did we start on something so hard??? We're always dissapointed, half the time we give up anyway. Why didn't we get smart and start on something simple -like a mace! After a few years I'm only just now getting smart and working on ...

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I know, I know. He goofed, not knowing better. We have to say that for liability. But in all honesty, though, he should be okay; depending on what he wants to make. Look, Rick, this thing isn't going to make a good two-hander anymore. Nor will it make a good rapier. HOWEVER, there are still sword de...

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I was guessing they're for juggling, but whatever.

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I'm getting all red X's of death...

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Gosh, I really could have used this three years ago. Back then, I had figured that a hobbiest was probably never going to attain the mastery I wanted over making weapons and armor, and I was deciding which one to focus on. I picked weapons -they seemed more straightforward at the time, and I was sca...

FUN!

What killed errantry?

[Art] Design -am I there yet?

Ohmygosh... How many nobles???

WHY do we start with swords???