The Armour Archive

Lucian Ro

Bravo, Sir Knight, bravo.

Lucian Ro

All parties that have initial dibs have been contacted, as have secondary parties and I tried to do third parties too but may have missed a few. Allow me to reiterate so I don't step on any toes; this is a time-sensitive sale, so I'm giving 48-hours for a response and after that if no contact, I'm m...

Lucian Ro

Glaukos, I'm disappointed that I have to even say this to you but ... pictures, my good man, pictures.

Lucian Ro

Curious how this is currently going for everyone? I joined Westlands Facebook page and he is spamming the below link to all his new Friends, "Hand made 100 % Leather Reenactment Shoes and Boots at Wholesale Prices direct from Manufacturer" so I was hoping to hear that everyone's received t...

Lucian Ro

As of right now, everything is either sold or pending sale. I've contacted the appropriate parties as to who has what and who has second dibs and such. Due to the nature of this sale, you've got 24-hours to respond. If I don't get a response within that 24-hours I'll need to move on to the next sell...

Lucian Ro

MattL. wrote:Are the knees stainless?

Oops. Yes they are.

Lucian Ro

And just to toot my own horn a little, here's Iain's aventail plaque with the Squirrels of Chaosâ„¢.

Lucian Ro

Knees and gauntlet cuffs:

Lucian Ro

Gorget and spaulders:

Lucian Ro

Allow me to expand upon the dagger; it is a dagger made for SCA heavy combat with Windrose Armoury's pommel and crosshilt. 18" overall with thrusting tip.

Here it is:

Lucian Ro

For sale: - 15th century stainless pointed couters by our very own Knitebee here on the Archive. They're a work of art but I'm still trying to work myself out of a financial rut, so I have to part with these. 5" from side to side. I paid $175 new, but I'm going to let them go for $125 plus ship...

Lucian Ro

MAKES: Heraldic Plaques of your personal arms, kingdom arms or even your countries arms. I also make ailettes of the same variety. Here are some examples: m Also, Nissan, Iain Ruadh and Kazimir Machalinski all here on the Archive may have others pics of plaques and/or ailettes that I've done for th...

Lucian Ro

Hi Aesgier, Sorry your having trouble. It seems to be working for most folks judging from the several hundred e-mails I found when i got home from vacation yesterday. Try using the e-mail button in my profile or you can try ldr_gto@verizon.net cheers cet Now Dave, we told you -- no more of this &qu...

Lucian Ro

Let me know if the shield boss sale falls through, I'll take it.

Lucian Ro

William, what did your squire do to get his pollaxe that gray color? And yes, you three look amazing. There I was mentally preparing for the Thirty with visions in my head of walking onto the field and gathering "Oh's!" and "Ah's!" from the assembled masses and you know what? Whe...

Lucian Ro

To revisit this; where the best place to attach the elbow to the vambrace?
Pics?

Lucian Ro

Klaus the Red wrote:The sculpture of the fellow in the red surcoat seems really Victorian to me. Something about the face, the helmet, and the gauntlets.

The fact that they broad-brushed gold over every piece of armour sans the surcoat, maybe. The face is painted extraordinarily well.

Lucian Ro

Lloyd wrote:

Lloyd, do you have a higher-res or larger version of this? It'd make a great screen saver.

Lucian Ro

I work in orthopedics, so I just had one of the cast techs take light fiberglass cast molds (they aren't as huge and unwieldy as plaster casts, plus they weren't made to actually support fractured bones so it was quite thin and captured the shape near-perfectly) of each calf and sent them off to Kni...

Lucian Ro

Ursus, how about the Combat of the Thirty; did you get a lot of pics this year?

Lucian Ro

Got the e-mail Suzerain, thanks SO much for the information. It'll probably take me a week to sift through it all but I'm pretty damn thrilled.
As I stated prior, expect questions.

Lucian Ro

Does anyone have a tutorial or step by step on how to cut and tie the leather to make of these for an existing scabbard? EDIT - I missed the "existing scabbard" part. We were discussing this very topic around the fire at Pennsic, Glaukos, because a brother and I wanted to make them. I kno...

Lucian Ro

Suzerain wrote:[img]http://3dfolio.com/jge/PHM_Arte_Athletica_horseback.jpg[/img]

Okay, now that's just awesome.

Lucian Ro

I'm not particular to either Talhoffer or Lichtenaur because, well, I'm pretty ignorant. Prior to this Pennsic the extent of my knowledge concerning such fechtbooks was paging through a friends Talhoffer manual. I saw it used for the first time in the Combat of the Thirty; with me being the recipien...

Lucian Ro

I wish you lived closer....we do a class once a month called poleaxes and hot dogs. If you can get your hands on one, there is a video from a group called Ochs about the german longsword. I highly recommend it. The video is a great benefit because you can actually see how the stuff is done, instead...

Lucian Ro

I made it for him as a squiring gift and welcome to the household. I'm pretty pleased with how it worked out considering I had no measurements I actually noted the surcotte on the field during combat, thought it was damn snazzy and, coincidentally met Bleddyn a day later but he was in his soft kit,...

Lucian Ro

I've seen quite a few different versions of Talhoffer and Lichtenauer fecht books out there and was wondering which ones you might be familiar with or which ones you'd recommend?

Leo, this is your fault.

And, of course, if anyone wants to part with any of said copies, ahem ...

Lucian Ro

UrsusofAnglesley wrote: Found it!

This is His Grace Tearloch of Trimaris.

Lucian Ro

MRIs are noisy. I'm suprised you could sleep! After the last concussion that I received I had an MRI of the head. And slept right through it. Of course, I was diagnosed with a 3A concussion that still causes me concentration issues and short term memory issues, so this may have played into it ...

Lucian Ro

Ingrid wrote:I might, depending-
Ingrid

Oh well now I'm definitely attending.

Lucian Ro

Varukh, you're a shining example of one motivated to learn and one motivated to progress, bravo.

Lucian Ro

I might be able to do this, as I need to get rid of excess vacation time.
It's now looking like October-ish, yes?
Also, what airport would we being flying into?

Lucian Ro

Anyone know this fellow in the yellow jupon and the fancy brocade pantaloons? m He ransomed me back in the first battle and I wanted to offer him thanks but in the hustle and bustle after the second battle I never got to talk to him, although I did get to offer his beautiful lady (who, I believe was...

Lucian Ro

My current kit. http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i74/timbol/swing.jpg Bleddyn, I wish I'd met you PRIOR to the Thirty as opposed to two days after. I didn't know that was you on the field! Gorgoeus surcote, who made it? I'm still waiting to see if any pics were grabbed of me in my kit. If nothing ...

Lucian Ro

Definitely interested.

FS - SS 15th c. elbows/knees/spaulders/gorget/dagger

Re: Making a knightly scabbard belt/suspension

Recommended Talhoffer/Lichtenauer books?