The Armour Archive

Amanda M

I am almost through my current queue so I am opening up for new orders. Anything ordered in the next month or so I can guarantee delivery in time for Pennsic. I am currently making 6' and 8' standards, for $90 and $120. The dimensions on them are not exact because the fabric can stretch or shrink a ...

Amanda M

I am going to hit the local scrap place as soon as I have the cash and see if I can put my name and number out there with them just in case. But honestly any big and heavy chunk of steel will do. Japanese sword makers use a square type of anvil and you can always get stakes or hardy tools to fill in...

Amanda M

On the blacksmithing group I am on people seem to find them quite often but I think it varies regionally. I can't even find them for sale where I live at a reasonable price. I'm still looking for one myself.

Amanda M

If you weren't a giant I would sell you mine!

Amanda M

I'm not saying it's a good business practice I am just saying it is a huge deal to make over a small thing. Even huge businesses like Amazon screw up or things get lost.

Amanda M

I have done exactly what this vendor did before. I have said I am sending it X day but then stuff came up and I couldn't make it to the post office til some other day because I have a life and a regular job outside of my business. I have also had packages disappear and then randomly get delivered we...

Amanda M

When everyone in the SCA is held to some kind of authenticity standard then it would be appropriate to bitch about pirates and musketeers but since the SCA is only medievaloid and largely without any rules about that you would be trying to enforce a double standard.

Amanda M

Well, sometimes!

Amanda M

I don't see rattan combat going away or being replaced any time soon. It is cheaper and easier to armor up and more accessible to people than armored rebated steel.

Amanda M

There are several surviving pieces with some fabric still attached that have multiple layers. One has a thin leather inner lining with a red wool velvet outer shell and another has at least a linen lining with some kind of red outer shell.

Amanda M

My old liner was 100% cotton batting for baby blankets in a linen shell and I liked it a lot. I have been debating about what the next one should be though and asking myself also about wool vs cotton vs bamboo vs flax.

Amanda M

I had my klapvisor custom made for me and never had any visibility issues. Gruber is making my new helm. You have to make a cast of your head and send it to him.

Amanda M

People should stop leaving their armor in their cars. I feel for someone who has their stuff stolen but how many times does it have to happen before as a community we stop doing it?

Amanda M

Some of the builds I have seen with the Mold Max 60 product which is a silicone type and not rubber, didn't involve any vacuum stuff which is why I was going to go with it. I just haven't had the chance to try it out yet.

Amanda M

I have been wanting to do it forever because it seems in the long run like the best way to cast more complicated 3d forms and also when I am making a ton of the same thing. Sand casting is time consuming and making molds from soapstone is also labor intensive. I was going to start working with Mold ...

Amanda M

I have a plaque belt for sale. It is currently made and priced for up to a 40" waist with the number of plaques currently, leather belt stained dark brown with a weathered look and diapered texture, and 2" pewter belt plaques. Price including shipping is $115. Total belt length is 57", so it can be ...

Amanda M

Thanks Mac!

Amanda M

Thanks! More gems, the guy in one of the pictures is wearing the helm I am documenting as well. X)

Amanda M

Where's that picture from? The other interesting note is the lace up greaves showing up again. But that it a different topic.

Amanda M

It's just hard to say what exactly is going on 100%. Spikes in blood pressure from exertion, too much heat around your head, cardiovascular fitness....all that stuff can be a factor. I had it happen a lot when I was less in shape both fighting and in my turnouts at work and when I worked on that and...

Amanda M

Do you feel like you are breathing a lot harder and faster than you would be otherwise? Hyperventilation can cause headaches among other things and one of the things that happens when you feel like you can't get enough air is to increase rate and depth of breathing.

Amanda M

A lot of people are breathing just fine in a historical visor but feel like they can't breathe because you're re breathing some of your own stale air. The only thing that can really solve that is more helmet time IMO. It is normal and often makes people feel claustrophobic and short of breath.

Amanda M

I didn't like the upfront fees I would have to pay to list things.

Amanda M

When I was looking through all of them THAT took forever. Can't imagine the actual uploading part!

Amanda M

Cool! I was thinking with all the little rivets it was likely to be but wasn't positive. I am excited for the details like the buckles. I have to make mine with buckle plates and rollers.

Amanda M

There's also a bunch of photos of small bits with buckles on them, very small plates and what looks like faulds, all with a lot of small rivets on them that may belong in this category but I am not positive, no always being sure of what I am looking at. They are around ref # ref_arm_4792_002

Amanda M

Here's the Pinterest board. I have to go back through the photo dump and find all the reference numbers and make sure I didn't miss any pics that should go there when I have time.

http://www.pinterest.com/lionargent/tex ... rotection/

Amanda M

Sure I can do that. I will post the link when it's ready.

Amanda M

Can you do these blackened?

Amanda M

I looked through ALL of the photos the other day and pulled out some stuff of particular interest to me. I wish it were more easily searchable. I grabbed some other pictures of fabric covered breastplate type of armors as well because they are all sort of clumped together in the Pinterest album, but...

Amanda M

I am actually not making the metal parts. I don't have the experience or tools but I have done lots of assembly so I am trading for the pieces I can't make.

Amanda M

Thanks everybody for your thoughts and comments. I feel like I have a lot more to go on now when I try and put my new gear together.

Amanda M

There is also a really ugly looking roll and someone mentioned when I posted them on facebook that it was probably a bad later modification.

Amanda M

I think any one of us could say the same but I am also interested in how things were made.

Amanda M

Looking back a the shoulder piece I was referring to, it looks like the stitching isn't to the shell of the breastplate itself, but on a piece of maybe reinforcing leather where the cool shoulder hinge plate is.

Taking orders for silk banners. Can guarantee for Pennsic.

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14th C plaque belt for sale ready to ship. Up to 57" waist.

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