Shady eBay Armourer.

white mountain armoury · Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:28 pm

"The flat-top style is reminescent of the earliest forms of the bascinet, the plume giving it a stately quality " WFT indeed

Dwarlock · Post by **Dwarlock** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:27 pm

wow,
all I can say is wow,

I'm damn near speechless

a very unique bascinet, and look at the discount on the price!!!!

William Frisbee · Post by **William Frisbee** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:07 am

For that price I can almost get two custom jobbers that are made for me...

Holy cow people really like paying for crap...

Sixtus_Goetz · Post by **Sixtus_Goetz** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 6:17 am

Dont ever remember seeing a barrel shaped basinet before. Hmmm, must be a new find. < ducks runs and hides under a rock >

Cedric · Post by **Cedric** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 9:41 am

Is that the Roman Bascinet that the Norse Spangen GreatHelm was based off of?

I just want to get this all straight before our next demo

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 10:20 am

I think it's from the Sutton Hoo/Crecy dig.

Sheesh.

Xander · Post by **Xander** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:09 pm

LOL ohhh my god that first helm with the aventail really takes the biscuit im still lauging at it, did anyone else notice that on his barbatute it had a bar running across the eyepiece so you wouldnt be able to see anything? LOL. Actually I've seen the swords n the A squared armoury somewhere else another website but can't remember where.

Xander

Airth · Post by **Airth** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:17 pm

Oh I get it, it's another one of those JOKE websites!

RIGHT???

Raibeart Lok De la Haye · Fri Nov 15, 2002 11:46 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Crystoll:
wtf?

http://www.a2armory.com/medbaswitplu.html<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

"Crackled style", looks more like Crack-head style to me.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 12:55 am

I saw that crackled style helm in Pompeii. It was found in a dig near the entrace to the historic site. It was full of soiled paper, bottles and gum wrappers.

Archaeologists were baffled by it because it bore a striking resemblance to something made by Ikea. There was no 20th century retro garbage cans around in 79 AD called a bascinet.

Hey if you cant find it , try ebay, it might just be there.

LMAO

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Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:59 pm

Well, ladies and gentlemen, now we know what a brass-bordered polished steel glans penis looks like -- with a ferrous foreskin attached.

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Danish_socialist · Post by **Danish_socialist** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 11:12 am

http://a2armory.com/oddelfanswor1.html

This is Odins sword. And as they say, he was the god of war.
F no.
He was the god of wisdom, and didn't go around killing ppl. And where did they find an ugly blade and called it odins???

I'm norse, yet still i dont recognice it

Arland · Post by **Arland** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 2:21 pm

Buyer beware. The helmet is very odd to say the least. The statement about it being SCA legal is another one you need to look at closely. It states itâ€™s SCA legal for thickness.

Asher · Post by **Asher** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 3:44 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Danish_socialist:
http://a2armory.com/oddelfanswor1.html

This is Odins sword. And as they say, he was the god of war.
F no.
He was the god of wisdom, and didn't go around killing ppl. And where did they find an ugly blade and called it odins???

I'm norse, yet still i dont recognice it<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm just petrified that someone might see the A Squared and mistake it for MY armory. Really though, if people out there want to pay THAT much money for such utter CRAP, well... it's their money after all. You know, if it was at LEAST half-researched it might not be that bad...

I know there are regulations on certain industries that make them conform to certain standards for product quality and business conduct. Any chance any of that applies to armories? If not, it might just be time for us to start policing our own here. Some kind of watch-dog group for shite armor/armourers.

A Squared and their ilk give the rest of us a bad name, not that we really need their help for that. I don't know... something needs to be done to clean up our industry, folks.

[end frustrated rant]

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hjalmr · Post by **hjalmr** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:51 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Danish_socialist:
http://a2armory.com/oddelfanswor1.html

This is Odins sword. And as they say, he was the god of war.
F no.
He was the god of wisdom, and didn't go around killing ppl. And where did they find an ugly blade and called it odins???

I'm norse, yet still i dont recognice it<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

How can you say that Odin was not a War God? That was his primary function!
He was a Death God (because he killed people as a war god -this is why half of the dead come to valhalla), a God of Wisdom (because he learned the power of ruins), and a Weather God (as his role as the God of the sky) as well. He was also associated with several other aspects.

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anvil guy · Post by **anvil guy** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 12:55 am

I wornded hims helmut dat one time and it made my toof hurts badly kind of but now I is able to talk to the radio and it speaks back

chandos · Post by **chandos** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 12:39 am

well..i have to say a few things here..so ill sum a few things up 1 odin is not a god of war,,or wisdom,,he is the leader of the norse dietys in this age absolute master of magic and power his main diety function is to prevent ragnarok for as long as possiable..and morals arnt really a concern,,,the end justifies the means in this case...thor happen to be the god of war and defender of humans...the norse panethon is a lot diffrently oriented than the classical greek methology ones... but before i start getting on my soapbox fr a long time...ill stop since this isent really a religious discussion.

Christopher Starling · Sun Dec 08, 2002 12:03 pm

That looks more like "LobsterMan"'s sword!

David Blackmane · Post by **David Blackmane** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 12:34 pm

Odin's weapon was not a sword, it was a spear names "Gungnir", the most common weapon of all. In my readings, all Norse gods were gods of war as a secondary sphere, but Odin was the chief and he had influence over wisdom and magic.

BTW, that sword is ass-ugly, and that Roman bascinet looks like a poorly made barrel great-helm, with a crappy paintjob to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

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