The Armour Archive

Anyone taking commisions?

Mike

what does "cap a' peid" mean?

Main Entry: cap–a–pie
Variant(s): or cap–à–pie \ˌka-pə-ˈpē, -ˈpā\
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle French (de) cap a pé from head to foot
Date: 1523
: from head to foot <armed>

cap a pie....head to feet. Basically he wants to commission a full suit of armour. Custom fit....helm, gorget, breast and back,pauldrons, arms, legs, sabatons, and maybe even maille. If you ever have the chance, this is the way to buy armour.

What's your price range?

We can make one for you.

I could do one for you as well.







I am sure that I could do one for you. Drop me a line.
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Check out Anshelm Arms.

Wotcher

If your interested in getting ahold of me please send me a line to mongotzu@sasktel.net. I'm having trouble logging into my private message function.

Mike

And the high end armourers cackled with glee, as visions of cars, boats, and their kids college funds danced in their heads..

Really.. James asking for a price range... made my wallet hide in a corner and pee itself. And I'm not even in the market.

Odd wrote:And the high end armourers cackled with glee, as visions of cars, boats, and their kids college funds danced in their heads.

More like dozens of hours of design and research, then hundreds of hours of hammering, sanding and polishing. Such a harness is months of WORK with their reputation riding on each and every piece of it.

Whoever does take this project on, would -love- to see a photo-journal of the kit's progress.

Odd wrote:And the high end armourers cackled with glee, as visions of cars, boats, and their kids college funds danced in their heads..

Really.. James asking for a price range... made my wallet hide in a corner and pee itself. And I'm not even in the market.

I think it makes perfect sense, why waste hours of dialogue if you sell Cadillacs and he's buying a Hyundai?

It reduces the search to a certain group of individuals that will work within the price range without insulting the sensibilities of either party.

We may also be willing to take this commission on. Please e-mail me at eltz_kempenich@yahoo.com if you haven't decided on anything and we can discuss details.

Otherwise, many excellent armourers have been suggested here. Cheers!

Wilhelm

Mongotzu,

E-mailed you.


alail/scott

The thing is, if someone puts a budget up many of us can tell that person exactly what kind of armor they would get regardless of expectation.

The only variations on that are when they choose to order from someone who everyone knows has a much higher rate and odd delivery schedule (say performance or hammered wombat) than other armorers.

The other factor that plays a role is how much does someone understand what they are ordering? Sure they want cap a pie, but do they understand where creases need to go, or how large the cops actually should be? etc etc.

Expectation is the key. You want Jame's or Ugo's work you have to pay for it. You want to pay less, you are going to get less.

It's that easy.

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Expect to spend $10K on the average.

You end up working with the higher end armourers, expect a higher cost and a longer wait.

You end up working with the lower end armourers, expect a slightly lower cost, long wait and a crap-shoot on quality of the harness. You might get a fantastic suit for cheap (I got VERY blessed...). You might get what you paid for. Or you might never see the armourer again.

I would wait and watch the classified section here and pick up a used jousting harness that can be adapted. Some might be selling their suits to upgrade, or they might be too injured to continue, etc.... Go for a search for jousting on the classified section and look at what happened historically here.

My armet is beautiful and I bought it for a nice price here.

-Aaron

If I could afford it, I'd be tempted to go with James Gillaspie. He knows his german gothic...probably better than anyone.

I'm still in the market life has gotten busy.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I was looking at soem second hand stuff but unless my good twin brother is out there I might have problem getting the right fit.

Michael