The Armour Archive

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so what do people use for blackening plate? Does "mill scale" look good? Anyone use a specific compound for blackening (like gun-blu)? I've seen some forge work that had beeswax applied while it was red, make a lovely even black coating.
-Mag

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Okay folks. So what's the difference in handling and finished product? Personal experiences most welcome.

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the clockwork disarm, the sexy genius of the medieval masters at work

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Mr. Tobler is very good with his stuff. I recommend him highly.

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Noe, Mr. Hand did a powerful class on I.33 last fall during WMAW 2002 in Chicago. I was unable to attend due to other things ocurring simultaneously, but I have a good friend who did take the class. I will see what I can get from him.

Oscar Erkenswick, Scholar, CSG

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would this qualify as square shield with center grip?
http://www.thearma.org/arttalk/at79.htm
the middle one in particular, and the one to the left of it.

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the horror, the horror....

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fantastic work! Keep at it!

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Mr. Gillaspie, I would also like to chime in with the welcome crew- I hope you will stay around for a long time and help us to learn more of armour through your experience. I would like to echo Iorenzo too with a petition to read the work you wrote. Oscar Erkenswick Scholar, Chicago Swordplay Guild

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yes, that would be wrong. But it would be more wrong if you need to date a "Beverly" or a "Whitney" so that when you wake up talking in the night you can't get yelled at

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::drool::

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jester, that is so cool! I'm glad you're finding SCA legal applications. Even if they must be safe, they make people think more about how to approach their form of combat and widen their perspective. Would a thrust to the armpit be illegal? Works on a lot of folks, especially when the arm is raised ...

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Broadway, Stephen Hand is the man to talk to. His school is at www.stoccata.org and his email is sjhand@optusnet.com.au Mr. Wilson I am told is also excellent for this particular area, and I have his book Arte of Defense. I believe what he teaches in that book greatly expands you ability to grasp Sa...

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GeneP, I'm glad to know there are people in the armour-making field with such an excellent education as you, and that it is not a myth that we talk idly of here. As an aside, I have missed Tom's correspondence for a few months. I hope I can talk to him again soon, and that he is doing well. Oscar Er...

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Ingrid, the arms & armor section is run by an out of town person, I am told. On several ocassions over the years I have tried to contact them and make some friendly communication. I was rebuffed, told that unless I was a notable professor of art history that they had heard of, they were not interest...

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well, the Romans according to many acquired maille from a celtic tribe and we do have maille in celtic burial mounds going back a ways. Maille was the most common armour of Rome (Lorica Hamata, I believe). Maille had a legacy of some 1500 years or so as a dominant form of battle equipment in Europe ...

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amarite@angelfire.com
yeah, it might be crappy workmanship, but it's what you pay for.

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who's got big balls?
Sorry, could resist. Funny song.

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I find the helm on the left to be "interesting" and more anacronistic than historical

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I am reminded of behourd helmets. I think that if one were fighting with whalebone clubs or batons in a foot-joust, this piercing would be perfectly safe for the wearer.

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jealous. http://www.skeesick.com/images/Leeds/Leeds039.jpg

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I don't see any taper for the waist. So this doublet doesn't sit on the hips at all? Is the person going to use this to point armour to? Would $200 be "the starting point" for silk like this? What else could you offer? Imported brocade?

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stopthrust.

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great work! You should keep this as a project construction page for others to see your progress. Or at least keep the pics near the Archive.

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just looking for quotes right now; have you done polearm heads? Like a halberd here on the left, and slightly more tapered topspike, ridged all the way down; http://www.humanities-interactive.org/medieval/chivalry/ex018_17a.html or a polehammer here (2nd from right) http://img.kb.dk/ha/manus/th290/k...

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sweet! I know the glaring difference! It's not BLUE! Shame on you, Bob. I do like the tattoo on your neck though =p Seriously, you and sinric will be getting cheers all the way to valhalla for this. Brigandine pauldrons with this? Cool! On the side, there is a place where it does not run smooth, run...

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truly Master Cad, you capture the lines of elegance in the bascinet design. I like the faceplate I see there beneath it too...perhaps we can see more of it?

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what does it need? RUNES!!!!!!!

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Hastings rig. Or a patch of an illustrated battle from Froissart, or the Bayeux =)

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sorry for hijacking the thread. Rev, check these; (all from the AEMMA.org site, http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/talhoffer1459/contents_body.htm) http://base.kb.dk/pls/hsk_web/hsk_vis.side?p_h s_loebenr=2&p_sidenr=178&p_illnr=0&p_frem=20&p_tilbage=20&p_navtype=rel&p_lang=eng http://img.kb.dk/ha/...

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cool thread! Wonder if someone will ever explain the turbans/leather dreadlocks cap in Talhoffer...

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also looking for voiders, and some time in the lofty prosperous future would like a hauberk. Damn sexy, man. Good work!

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Hal, very nice work! SOrry I can't be more critical/helpful, I like it as is, but Anders is probably right about making the top just a bit pointier

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Hi everyone. So, do you wear padding beneath greaves? I thought it would be a yes, but someone I normally respect for his research told me that in period this is not so, the hose is all. This is in addition to the "blankets" some knights wrapped around their knees, sure, but nothing else? Does the g...

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Blackening

1040 vs 1050 steel

Cased Greaves- padding?