The Armour Archive

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I don't see what's wrong with it. It looks very believeable as a mid 16th centruy piece. I'm sure that someone who knows that period better than I can find the flaws, but combine it with a plain peascod breastplate, a buff coat, tall boots and a mortuary hilt sword and everyone will know exactly wha...

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Practical Viking Review Here Is a rebated sword, targeted at stage combat, ARMA, AEMMA, Adrian Empire, etc. This is not the sword you want for slicing tatami mats! Functionaly, is considered very sturdy by most owners. Problems people have are in the aesthetics department, or where POB and COP ough...

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Quite so. Mention the SCA among academia at your own peril. I recently did some investigation to discover whether or not an amateur (ie: someone without their masters) could do work in experemental archaeology that would be acceptabe to the academic communtiy. Short answer: sure, but not really. Eve...

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That probably ain't gonna happen. Unless you're looking for two pieces of steel, cut to your profile with handles -and from your request that the ballance be INSIDE the cross, you're not- then I'd say you're looking to underpay by more than half! Such a project -making a functional, well made saber ...

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Ah, peeking out makes sense. Someone looking up seemed to make sense, too. How would a warhammer make that kind of hole??? all the way through the head to reach there??? Granted, I suppose an Estoc could have done it, but after punching all the way through a man's skull and having to pry it out, why...

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Is this some joke I've missed, being away so long??? This seems so obvious I'm afraid of stumbling into a gag... Are we making fun of somone or somthing, here??? If the helmet was destroyed deliberately, why was it discarded into the moat instead of being recycled? Target practice makes sense, but t...

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Ah, it's so nice to see such excelent answers.
Just three years ago it wasn't like this. We're making progress!

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I don't know about the size a proportion of these things vis a vis that painting, but I do know around that time axes were used with blades "four hands wide" -that's 16 inches!!! It may be more accurate than you might think at first glance. Then again, it could be that famously medieval artistic per...

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If you use lead, I'd weld a washer perpendicular to the end of the blade so it has more surface area to push against.

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Other than the ugly tripple post, he's right. However, Deepka has improved its quality remarkably over the past several years. You'll need too look for newer models, and even then they will be below the quality of the average Del Tin (which is kind of a baseline for us sword nuts.) However, their Ro...

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Alternately, you can weld your piece together out of several pieces or bar stock.
Looks like that's what I'm going to have to do to make my splitting cleaver. I just don't feel like moving that much metal.

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I've learned to hate that buzz. Lost two swords to it so far.

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He has a point -the fourm title doesn't say medieval research, and if you're new do you really read the fine print? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif Be nice to the newbie. Might as well answer his question the way he asked it, since the topic's not going anywhere. I'm curious too. What is w...

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Hey, I didn't know that was you who did that!

I thought that was pretty sweet when I saw it over on swordforum! Lucky relative...

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I think he's looking for the adjective. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif "Fantastical" Anyway, very nice. I like the lines a lot. This strikes me as something like what we would be wearing out today, if we still wore plate into battle. Armour shapes followed fassion when it was worn all the...

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The difference is very simple. Instead of making one pass with a slack belt for each side of the blade, the riged blades take two passes on the 10" wheel. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif In all seriousness, yup, they pretty much are crowbars on handles. It's not that their ballance is that...

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Ahah! that was not the website I was looking at.

Thanks!

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The publication, that is.

Company of St. George put that out, right? But it's not on their website, at least not on the one linked to by Chronique.

the link got lost when I reformated, and I need a few of those copys!

Help!

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All good Dio songs, but like "Heaven and Hell" and "Sign of the Southern Cross". Manowar. Darn near ANYTHING by Manowar! "I Believe" and "Power of Thy Sword" are so blood-roiling they ought to be controled substances! And while "The Gods Made Heavy Metal" isn't exactly made for working you into a be...

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Late 15th Century. As Oakshotte wrote, the second half of the 15th century was one of the two times in pre-renaissance history where every weapon and piece of armour -if it was well-made- was beautiful. And if I couldn't have that, I'd want to be in one of those German Moble Infantry units Caesar hi...

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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings here, but there are things you ought to know before looking seriously at this one PROBLEMS: The blade is about 20% heavier than it ought to be. All reports have it being rather ponderous. Ballance, however, is still pretty good. The stamped guard with the singl...

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"Mace?-EEYEOW!-ski"

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Okay, now that I've made you smile...

There was a website somewhere that had exceptionaly detailed pictures of that suit of armour, including a picture of that famous armoured backside. IIRC, they were all credit< Royal Armories.
I lost the links when I re-formatted -Anybody still have them?

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When we used to run into stupid and un-safe fighters (this wasn't SCA, btw), the rules got tossed out the window, they got tackled and pounded into mush. It was buggering made very buggering clear that PAIN would be the result of any further stupidity/cheating/un-safe activity. Your moron sounds lik...

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I rather prefer Excalibur's take. At least there were parts in that movie that were arguably done in the way the medievals envisioned King Arthur. In this one, not only did nothing like this ever exist, no one ever thought of Arthur like this, either. [img]http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/rolleyes.g...

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Well, I wouldn't go that far. Some of what he does is quite impressive. take a look at his grotesques, for insntance. I know very few armourers that can turn our pieces of that kind of complexity. That second dragon helmet was especialy impressive, even with the odd little maille drape. On the other...

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*snif*

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Agincourt: <B> First, strength of silk. ...It still cuts pretty much like any other fabric... ...harder for a musketball to punch through, maybe, harder for an arrow...no frigg...

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Sweet mother of God in heaven!

WOWEEE! They told us that gas tanks are like missiles back in welding class, but shiiiit!

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From all reports I've come across, the Practical Knightly is the best, most widely avalable, accurate sword for steel-on-steel combat in its price range. I've heard good reviews on Therion, on the OLD Del Tins (if you can get your hands on one), and on Lutels -you can order them with rebated blades....

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My prayers and sympathies.

Hang in there, Ozzies. Maybe one day you'll get your guns back, too.

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Wow... I have GOT to work out a visit to my friends over there. That's fabulous.

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E-mail? Heck, I didn't even GET an e-mail. Damn all Microsoft programs.

Take 2, Zveihammer? If there was a take 1 in the first place, that is.

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I'm absolutly stunned no one's mentioned Symphony X ! These are the most talented boys I've heard since I don't know when. You've never heard anything like them, trust me. The Accolade , The Relic , and The Odyssey are my three favorites. Check them out. Get your blood up. Kick Ass. Ride off into th...

Where to find "The Dragon"

Henry VIII's Armoured Butt